The committee on rules and administration well come to order. I thank my colleagues for attending todays hearing, some virtually, some in person. The same for our witnesses. We are going to be welcoming them as well. Congressional commission to study the potential for a National Womens History Museum. Miss c. C. Rojas, chairman of the Latino Coalition, and mr. Danny vargas, chairman of the friends of the National Museum of the american latino. I want to thank all of them for joining us. We will hear from a number of senators who have spent time on this and have been sponsors of this bill. Senator collins, senator cornyn, senator menendez will all be joining us for remarks following the remarks of the three of us. This is secretary bunchs second appearance before the senate rules committee. We are grateful to have him with us today. He was appointed the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution in june of 2019. And what a first year you have had. Obviously, covid forced closure of all 19
For his victory here is our White House Correspondent came to help get. The legal challenges will continue in fact the u. S. President wants to remind it was tweeting today that joe biden will claiming victory is the projected winner by a number of Media Outlets on twitter he said when does the lame stream media as he calls it call who our next president will be so until that vote is official and certified in mid december the Term Campaign believes it has a window of opportunity so it is continuing to receive funds soliciting funds in order to finance these legal challenges that are taking place across many states and more well ages a congratulating biden and come a harris on there when israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of saudi arabia. The u. S. Has seen 4 Straight Days of new Coronavirus Infection records more than 126000 cases and about 1000 deaths were reported on saturday at least 230000 people are known to have died from cove in 19 and the u. S. Is total infection count i
Team is preparing legal challenges to some of the counts Senior Republicans including former president bush and senator mitt romney are expressing concern i think what has to be careful of the choice of words either i think would you say that the election was corrupt or stolen or rigged but thats unfortunately rather rhetoric that gets picked up by authoritarians around the world and i think it also discourages confidence that our democratic process here at home and and with the battle going on right now between authoritarianism and freedom why i think i think its very important that we not use language which which can encourage. A course in history which would be very very unfortunate. Turkey has congratulated us there by johns president for taking control of a key city in the corner. As abrasions president ilham aliyev says his troops are now in control of shusha the city is the 2nd largest in the disputed region where azerbaijan is fighting against armenia armenian officials deny th
Will allow for the elevation of the voices of science to curb the spread of the disease and that this task force will be working with state and local officials to allow for schools and businesses to reopen so this is a clear agenda promise that was made on the campaign trail by joe biden and comma harris they would make this a top priority donald trump is still refusing to concede defeat his team is preparing legal challenges to some of the kind some battleground states that favor joe biden fellow republican and former president s george w. Bush says the fault was fair. A new round of talks on libya is getting underway in june disease capital 75 libyan representatives have been invited symbolizing the 75th anniversary of the United Nations which is leaving discussions the talks are a way to set up the groundwork for possible elections. Turkey has congratulated us or belligerents president says his forces have seized an important city in the disputed nagornokarabakh region shusha is the
For a u. S. District court judge in ohio. It is also the first opportunity for members to speak on the floor sense election day. Watch live Senate Coverage on cspan2 and the house on cspan. Amtrak president and ceo William Flynn was on capitol hill to testify on how the coronavirus affects the Passenger Rail system and what amtrak is doing in response. The Senate Commerce of science and Transportation Committee also heard from representatives of the freight Rail Industry and about the challenges they are facing as a result of the pandemic. This hearing is just over two and half hours. Order. Thank you all for being here, good morning. Today the committee can means to discuss the status of the National Rail network in the country is 140,000 miles of freight rail in class one railroads over 600 freight railroads and thousands of Companies Using braille to ship products and raw materials, we also have an intercity passenger real service amtrak operating on 22000 miles of the same network