Secretary wilbur ross on budgetnt trumps 2021 request and he talks about the 2020 census, space commerce and trade relations. Held by a subcommittee, this is two hours. Sen. Moran good morning, everyone. The subcommittee will come to order. Welcome to our first Budget Hearing on commerce, justice, and science and related agencies for this fiscal year 2021. Today, we have the honor of hearing from secretary of commerce wilbur ross about the president s fy 21 Funding Priorities for the department of commerce. Welcome, secretary ross. Thank you for your appearance. We look forward to hearing from you this morning. The department of commerce executes a broad range of activities for our nation, things that are important to every american. Range of critical activities for our issues that we care a lot about. Research and development, cuttingedge technology, predicting the weather, increasing trade and investment, recruiting businesses to our communities. A componentas been of the departments
The subcommittee will come to order. Welcome to our first Budget Hearing of the Senate Appropriations subcommittee on Congress Justice in science, and related agencies for this fiscal year, 2021. We have the honor of hearing from secretary of commerce, wilbur ross about the president s for the department of commerce. Welcome secretary ross for your appearance. We look forward to hearing from you this morning. As we, know the department of commerce executes a broad range of critical activities for our nation, things that are important to every american, things that are important to us as members of the senate, and issues that we care a lot about. Research and development, Cutting Edge Technology for predicting the weather, increasing trade and investment, recruiting businesses to our communities. The census has been an essential component of the departments business for the last several years. The president s request is eight billion dollars, 6. 7 billion below the fy 20 enacted level,
The subcommittee will come to order. Welcome to our first Budget Hearing of the Senate Appropriations subcommittee on Congress Justice in science, and related agencies for this fiscal year, 2021. We have the honor of hearing from secretary of commerce, wilbur ross about the president s for the department of commerce. Welcome secretary ross for your appearance. We look forward to hearing from you this morning. As we, know the department of commerce executes a broad range of critical activities for our nation, things that are important to every american, things that are important to us as members of the senate, and issues that we care a lot about. Research and development, Cutting Edge Technology for predicting the weather, increasing trade and investment, recruiting businesses to our communities. The census has been an essential component of the departments business for the last several years. The president s request is eight billion dollars, 6. 7 billion below the fy 20 enacted level,
[inaudible conversations] without objection the chair is authorized to declare a recess for the committee at any time. With that i will now recognize myself to give an Opening Statement and mr. Gomez will follow me with a minute in the same will be given to the Ranking Member. Good morning, thank you to everyone for being here today to discuss a topic which is vital to our democracy for this census. The 2020 census is imminent and accounting set to begin in alaska in less than two weeks and across the country on april 1. The constitution requires every person to be counted, every Single Person living in the United States of america, not just citizens, not just people of a particular Political Party or race but absolutely everyone. I am gravely concerned that the Census Bureau may not be prepared to meet this high bar and that the 2020 census could leave communities across the country undercounted, underrepresented and underfunded. The Government Accountability office and apartment of c
You are right now and you were preparing for a long awaited phone call between President Trump and president selenski now colonel binman in advance of this phone call did you prepared talking points as you did for the able to 21st call yes i did. What were those talking points based upon they were so this is not in the Public Record and i cant comment too deeply but what is. The areas that weve consistently talked to talked about in public is cooperation on supporting his reform agenda. Anti corruption efforts and helping president zelinsky implement his plans to and russias war against ukraine in other words theyre based on official u. S. Policy correct and is there a process to determine official u. S. Policy yes that is my job is to coordinate u. S. Policy so throughout the preceding. Year that ive been on on staff i had undertaken enough or to make sure we had a cohesive core here and u. S. Policy and as you listen to the call did you observe whether President Trump was following t