Good afternoon. I call this meeting of the committee on appropriations to order. Before we begin, house rules now we have set up any mileage us to which members can send anything they wish to submit they wish to submit in writing in any of her hearings or markups. Our hearings or markups. Has been provided to staff. The first order of business is consideration of the energy and Water Development appropriations bill. For fiscal year 2021. Captornow recognize this ms. Captor to present the bill. Please let me also add my you for your honorable and dedicated service to our community and nation and for your recognition of the full potential of this bill. You will truly be missed. I am pleased to consider the energy and water bill today. It is a good bill. A bill that captures the spirit of ingenuity and independence of the American People. Are actually able to provide the most important Climate Change bill congress will pass this year. This bill provides the foundation of critical investme
We are down across the board these would be losses for the week that will end four weeks of gain weve seen up to this point. Does this count as the first week of 2020, even though it is only two days . We could look at the fiveday thing and if it is up, we could say that is the first week this is up as we see crude oil prices jumping we see that wti is up 4. 1 the gain to 63. 72 a barrel ice brent up by 4. 3 Natural Gas Prices up. Crude is the real focus as tensions are on the rise in the middle east. The market is up 30 from last year that is a place for people to look this year as for gains. We are moving crude from 60. We are not moving from 62 but based on the tensions rising you think about the heighten tensions and what this will mean for the potential repercussions in the middle east the idea of additional strikes of any ships going through the straits of hormuz, people will be watching that closely theyve been blessing with the Oil Production for months. We always look forward
Of testimony on us military strategy in the asiapacific region focusing on north korea, that is at 9 30. Follow live coverage from the Senate Armed Services committee on cspan3, online at cspan. Org and streaming on the cspan radio apps. Now a look at the Trump Presidency and how it compares to previous administrations your presence here is true of every hour of every day of your life for other people who are in your presence conjures up the specter or the memory or the muscle memory and some of us of the experiences for decades ago with watergate. As we sit here in the tent tentk or the beginning of the 11th week of the Trump Presidency, obviously one of your themes over the last 70 days has been this question of whether the Trump Presidency is an unprecedented event, or whether it evokes, uncomfortably, evokes the period in which you were a major actor. Do you think that we are in uncharted territory, or is the territory all too charted, shall we say . Well, we are not at watergate 2
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Narrator on the second of june, Prime Minister wilson of Great Britain was welcomed to the United States. Thater, a crisis, one developed with dramatic and stunning suddenness would be given priority. The explosive middle east situation. Anotherme here today in time of trouble when peace and justice are again in the balance, and it is on occasions like this that the council of an old and trusted friend is most welcome. Narrator israel with another climactic point in her struggle for survival sought not only the threat of a maritime blockade, but the threat of extinction. With the United Nations ,eacekeeping force withdrawn solutions through diplomacy and United Nations intervention seemed increasingly remote. The time for talk was over. Together, Great Britain and the United States drafted a declaration to be distributed among the worlds seagoing nations. Internationaln waterway. All nations have the right of free passage. The hoped to challenge egyptian blockade of these of the strait