The committee on transportation infrastructure will come to order. I ask unanimous consent that security be authorized to declare basis of the hearing without objection, so ordered. I also ask unanimous consent for the Ranking Member of the full committee to be recognized for ten minutes each i will be making to unanimous requests for documents from the attorneys said. I see nothing that is export sensitive in these documents will be making a unanimous consent request pistol into the export control act and make a unanimous consent request to enter the documents on the list into the hearing record. This list includes the export control documents theyve reviewed all these documents on both lists and with i would ask unanimous consent that they be disclosed pursuant to the code. I want to reserve my right to object. The reason for doing that is we have had at least two that i can remember noting the industries and that includes maritime, transit, you name it and they would love to have th
This discussion. You can see the rest of it on cspan. Org. Going live as maritime administrator mark busby is talking about defense funding, live coverage on cspan2. Retired navy admiral mark busby. I would like to welcome the general officers and the many distinguished guests that are with us this morning. Welcome to our industry partners, leaders of industry and others for your continued support of this event in the navy league as a whole, General Dynamics is pleased to sponsor the special topic breakfast. These events and venues for the Defense Industry to interface with government requirements and acquisition professionals, something that we value. General dynamics thanks you for your participation and we thank General Dynamics for their support. Now back to our special guest. Are you ready, admiral . Admiral mark busby was sworn in as maritime administrator on august 8, 2017. Prior to his appointment he served as president of the National Defense transportation association. A posi
Tea Party Republicans do not like it but because the president is supporting it and Mitch Mcconnell said the president is anxious to sign it, it will pass. David hard to find a deficit hawk in washington. We are watching as they go through the process of enacting the legislation. Lets go to emma chandra in london. Weve heard from the bank of england, from the governor, he does not know what to plan for. Emma that is absolutely right. We heard the governor and his analyst deciding to send back when it comes to Interest Rates. What was interesting was his update of economic forecast, mark carney saying the u. K. Could follow a wide range of paths in the coming years. One of the paths not included was the u. K. Leaving the eu without a deal. It seems mark carney and his team at the bank of england unwilling to comment or prepare for a change in government policy until the u. K. Government has made the change to that policy. Mark carney quoted Boris Johnson saying earlier this week that he
Import bank with chair Kimberly Reed. This is an hour and 20 minutes. [inaudible conversations] the committee will come t the committee will come to order. Today the committee turns its focus to the export import of the United States. Just last month the Senate Confirmed Kimberly Reed to be president and chairman of the Export Import Bank along with board member spencer bach cuss and judith pryor. The nominations of claudia slei Board Members are approved by this committee and pending on the full senate floor. United states exporters are able to compete very effectively in intern International Markets on the basis of price and quality. However, when foreign governments provide subsidies as a matter of policy and general practice to their exporters, u. S. Exporters are placed at a competitive disadvantage purely because of such financing arrangements. According to the 2017 xm bank, competitiveness report, chinese export credit agencies provided more medium and longterm investment suppor
Buildings in the gas sector, as the bbc reports, at least nine people have already become victims, among them seven children, arrivals are also recorded not far from the alel hospital, in addition himself under the rubble, who is still being found dead. On the morning when the tragedy occurred, i noticed how many people were in the courtyard, they came to visit their relatives, i hoped that this was a safe place, these were the people who became victims of the rocket attack, we are still finding bodies, pulling people out, families, the blood of these children is on the hands of every western politician who has declared unconditional support for Israeli Military actions against the palestinian people. Similar attacks on american journalist Seymour Hirsch denounced civilians in his article. His sources claim that the israeli army is going to stage a new hiroshima in gaza. Netanyahu is determined to destroy hamas. One knowledgeable official told me that gaza is in the process of becoming