The Senate Committee on finance the subcommittee on International Trade customs and Global Competitiveness will come to order. I know this seems a little strange but an empty room except for three witnesses live in front of me and many of our colleagues are going to be joining us virtually. But i want to welcome all of you nonetheless to this important hearing. This subcommittee continues to do its work in exploring the unfair treatment practices of foreign governments and especially china and russia. The topic of censorship in china is a common one because of its growing of facts on this list in the United States as well as culture. Last fall for example the National Basketball association had its Market Access lock in china because individual american citizens used to media platform not allowed in china to express a political opinion. Now the topic is become much more important to the lack of timely Accurate Information about the spread of covid19 due to chinese censorship has contri
And online censorship by countries such as china. Richard gere chaired the International Campaign for tibet testifies at the Senate Finance subcommittee hearing. The Senate Committee on finance come subcommittee on International Trade cousins and Global Competitiveness will come to order. I know this seems a little strange with an empty room except for three witnesses live in front of me and many of our colleagues are going to be joining us virtually, but i want to welcome all of you nonetheless to this important hearing. This subcommittee continues to do its work in exploring the unfair trade practices of foreign governments, especially china and russia. The topic of censorship in china is a common one because its a growing effect on business in the United States. Last fall, for example, the National Association had its Market Access blocked in china because an individual american citizen using a media platform not even allowed in china expressed a political opinion. Now the topic has
Uncertainty about the virus itself and what the impact could be. In terms of the stimulus package, that is certainly psychological. The fact that President Trump did not offer this plan he said he what is disappointing for the markets because anything can help. It is hard to know if the stimulus will help. We have little more than a thousand cases in the u. S. If that is the case, the stimulus would be very different than if it balloons to a higher number. The impact is hard to know how much stimulus is actually needed. David we had the bank of england and the u. K. Canceler ship the u. K. Chancellorship come out with a plan. To the markets like that better than what is going on in the United States . Abigail to some degree because you had european stocks slightly higher. The fact you have this coordinated effort from the u. K. , europe, italy now that they are under lockdown, really seets to these officials that there needs to be some sort fightrreaching support to off the possible Ec
Witnessed the deadliest mass shooting. We should be passing the dream act who dreamers call this nation home. Timely, instead of wasting taxpayer dollars and our constituents time, this house should be reauthorizing chip, the bipartisanbacked Health Insurance program which expired over the weekend and which is going to leave children who badly need Health Care Insurance twisting in the wind without it. Congressional republicans have chosen to bring this irresponsible and extreme bill to the floor in stunning ignorance of reality. It assumes trumpcare will still pass. How many times must the majority be reminded trumpcare will not become law . How many times will the majority try to cut medicaid by 1 trillion, cut medicare benefits and raise insurance costs on elderly and lowincome americans. Enough is enough. Instead of to pandering the wellconnected, this bill should embody our best values. This does not reflect mr. Yarmuth i yield to the gentlelady 30 seconds. Ms. Wasserman schultz t
But i submit to legalism. What i want to talk about is the world that robert kagan and Bret Stephens once that is undergirded by American Power and i think that is the world we all believe has been vastly beneficial for the United States, for canada but for by and large the whole world. It allowed the transformation i talked about are not in america. The question is what is made that possible . I would argue the image you should think about is Franklin Roosevelt after winning decisively in world war ii. Decides he wants to create the United Nations an institution which all countries would be represented and try to make a systematic and institutionalized effort to produce a new kind of Global Politics in which other countries are respected, their voices heard and that is really what the United States has at its core been trying to do since 1945. Its not really because the United States has gone into lots of third world countries and intervened and beaten up people and killed leaders tha