We are holding this hearing virtually in compliance with the regulations for Remote Committee proceedings pursuant to House Resolution 965. This is the third virtual subCommittee Hearing and the ways and Means Committee. As with our previous hearings i want members to know that i plan to continue this committees long tradition of collegiality and substantial debate, substantive debate, even as we conduct our business from afar. I will continue to work with the Ranking Member, mr. Smith, and his staff to ensure that the rights of all members are resected in these new virtual formats. Before i turn to todays important topic i want to remind members of a few procedural to help you navigate this new platform. First, consistent with regulations the committee willfi keep microphones needed to limit background noise. Members are responsible for on meeting themselves when they seek recognition or when recognized for a fiveminute statement. Second, members and witnesses must have their cameras
Week at trout tower in new york. Catherine heenan they want to introduce legislation to expand this section it will include in the national banking. Reporter for consular employees have been sent back to russia today. Dan kerman women keeping an eye on the russian consulate people are use to the Russian Council led taken by the outgoing u. S. And administration and called the suggestion that the four diplomats are intelligence operatives bazaar and ridiculous one of the persons who was expelled has been the chef of the consulate ahead. Vicki liviakis theyre born to enjoy the sights and hes joining us live from San Francisco with more on how the corporation borrowing. Reporter theyre preparing for that show over there and their two largest dog and right now theyre loading howe about 5000 individual fireworks onto rose two barges. Reporter continuing a San Francisco theyre taking extra precautions to keep people safe and additional of serb officers in uniform to keep people safe theyre a
More about this indictment, what it means and what happens next. Well, the government lays out what it says is a fraudulent scheme, and thats what the charges are here. These are garden variety fraud charges against four people, brian kilfage, the man who actually came up with the idea of this we build the wall program, he is said to be the ring leader here, and it was a crowd source funding website, and it said it was raising money to give millions of dollars to the federal government to help build the wall. After a time, it changed that to say well, actually were going to give this to a private concern that will help build the wall, and it asked all the people who had given originally if they wanted to give again and most did. It raised, according to the government 25 million and it started out as a rousing success within its first month after being formed in december of 2018, it had already raised 17 million, but it had a troubled history almost from the beginning, because the crowd
Who are losing their jobs and hours. Now, as lawmakers keep squabbling about the economic response, the World Health Organization says the pandemic is accelerating and the certainly had this stark warning during an appearance on the today show this morning. I want america to understand, this week, its going to get bad. And we really need to come together as a nation and every single day counts. Every single second counts. And right now, there are not enough people out there who are taking this seriously. And you just see it looking in california, people on the beaches. You see it in washington, d. C. , the people out looking at the cherry blossoms. We need to take this seriously. The number of reported cases in the United States has now passed the 40,000 mark. And there have been more than 440 deaths. In michigan and indiana and delaware, they have joined the growing list of states that are implementing stayathome orders in an effort to stop the virus from spreading. These orders now a
Websites selling protective equipment that they cant provide. Urs camera, though, arent you . Youre trying to rip people off, people in need. Good afternoon. There have been more than 900 for the deaths of people with coronavirus across the uk. We expect more detail on those figures shortly. The government has launched a Publicity Campaign with the message stay home and have a safe easter. Borisjohnson is out of intensive care and is said to be in extremely good spirits at St Thomas Hospital in london. Police in scotland have handed out more than 500 fines to people who have flouted lockdown rules. New york state now has more coronavirus cases than any other country outside the us, with almost 160,000 people infected. And, European Union finance ministers have agreed an Emergency Rescue package worth half a trillion euros for the economies worst hit by the pandemic. More on all those developments later but first heres later, but first heres Richard Galpin with the latest. The bank holi