Good morning. The committee will come to order. Not too many of us here this morning and the energy and Natural Resources committee. Its kind of a foul day. E department of energy because we would be moving forward with a package of Energy Related bills that we have been working on for well over a year. In many cases four years. Equities from some 70 different members of the senate. And we are stalled out right now. We are not not because of the concern of the people in this community, that they have not participated in but because of a matter completely unrelated to the jurisdiction of this committee, completely unrelated to anything weve been working onee prior to it so its stalled out right now. It makes me wonder why we work so hard around here to try to incorporate the good work around here. Too just take Good Committee work. My mood shouldnt have anything to do with your responsibility as a secretary and department of tear and all you are seeking to do but i do know the work of t
To address this public crisis and inflicting pain on the stock market. One word could describe thus far the administrations response, incompetence. The best way we would tell the president , the best way to ensure Economic Security right now for the American People is to focus on fighting the illness and the spread of the illness. Ask any c. E. O. Today what they want most. Ill bet they tell you they want the coronavirus to be contained. And you know what doesnt help the spread sorry, you know what doesnt help stop the spread of the coronavirus, more Corporate Tax cuts. Heres what we are worried about. The president will Pay Attention to the special interests instead of the people. Heres a headline from the Washington Post just came out 1 28. White house likely to pursue federal aid for Shale Companies hit by oil stock. Coronavirus. We dont have enough tests. People cant determine if they are ill or no. They have to wait days. And they are concerned about the Oil Companies that pierce
Im going to be blunt. We are very worried about the president s incompetence and lack of focus on fighting the spread of coronavirus. We believe that his lack of focus, his hamstringing efforts to address this public crisis and inflicting pain on the stock market. One word could describe thus far the administrations response, incompetence. The best way we would tell the president , the best way to ensure Economic Security right now for the American People is to focus on fighting the illness and the spread of the illness. Ask any c. E. O. Today what they want most. Ill bet they tell you they want the coronavirus to be contained. And you know what doesnt help the spread sorry, you know what doesnt help stop the spread of the coronavirus, more Corporate Tax cuts. Heres what we are worried about. The president will Pay Attention to the special interests instead of the people. Heres a headline from the Washington Post just came out 28. White house likely to pursue federal aid for Shale Comp
Educe the national debt. As always, well take your calls and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter as well. Washington journal is next. Host good morning. It is 7 00 eastern time here in washington. The start of a holiday week. Congress returning in two weeks. President trump spending christmas with his family in florida. It is monday, december 23. We begin our first hour with Foreign Policy. The leaders of china, south korea and japan meeting today in beijing it. Comes as the pentagon and u. S. Officials are on, quote, high alert, after new threats over the weekend by north korea. In the past President Trump has said that he and president kim jong un fell in love. But since that comment back in february, talks have broken down. We want to get your reaction to these developments in north korea, what it means for the u. S. And for the region. 2027488001, thats our line for republicans. 2027488922 for democrats. 2027488002 if oure democrats. Or on twit or facebook. Good m
Live, unfiltered coverage on cspan. Listen on the radio app. We want to welcome back terry jeffrey. Morning thank you for being with us. This from the editorial page this morning. The Bipartisan Spending Party. Congress has left town for the year. Anotherbefore Bipartisan Spending Party that has typified the trump residency. The numbers deserve noticed because they are likely to have long term impact. Exceeding 1ebt trillion. Guest they are exactly right. On theartisan agreement hill is an old one. It has been going on for decades. They are allowing the government to get out of control. You have the baby boom generation continuing to retire. Increasing the amount of money spent on those programs. Social security costs more than a trillion dollars last year. As the wall street journal points out, you have massive Discretionary Spending. Both parties in congress are doing nothing to try to roll that back. This number courtesy of the debt clock. The nations debt is 23 trillion. How much m