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,
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
Small businesses. The Senate Small Business and entrepreneurship heard from witnesses on the drug supply and what Small Businesses needed to stay afloat throughout the outbreak. This is an hour and a half. The [inaudible conversations] i appreciate the witnesses being here into the hearing will come to order. I am going to go through order quickly because senator young has another related topic event thaeventyesterdayeventthat he hi want to recognize him quickly. He wanted to say a few words and i want to make sure hes able to get on the record. Thank you mr. Chairman for holding this important hearing. I first want to get on the record and think the subject matter experts. If theres anything we tgislative leaders ought toif e doing it more broadly the government leaders as listening to the Public Health experts say thank you so much and the experts and some of these discrete areas that will be impacted by the coronavirus. I do regret that in a minute i have another meeting that also p
[captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2020] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] good morning, everyone. Welcome to the first Budget Hearing of the Senate Appropriations committee of justice, science and related agencies for fiscal year 2021. Today we have the honor of hearing from wilbur ross about the president s Funding Priorities for the department of commergs. Welcome, secretary ross, thank you 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 for every american. Things that are important to us as members of the senate and issues we care a lot about. Research and development, cutting edge technology, predicting the weather, increasing trade and investment, recruiting businesses to our communities. The census has been a signi
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,