A more equitable in a more sustainable manner just as an e. U. Summit bargains over the Recovery Plan the United Nations is staging a conference thats talking about Building Back better our title a green and better recovery for a hollow france 24 and d w t v join up for the debate welcome and it is a pleasure to introduce our guests starting with the finance minister of ghana ken for a atta also shipmen is the lead all sir for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change at the United Nations lecture at the french Political Science is judes youll spoil your books include the anthropocene and the Global Environmental crisis thanks for joining us and its a pleasure to welcome sinitta not i and she is an environmental activist and director of the center for science and environment in delhi india before we take a closer look at the pandemics total in the global south wed like to ask the 3 of you to tell us and really into one sentence if you would is green recover even still an option in
Chair lowey i will say good morning again. I call this meeting of the committee on appropriations to order. Before we begin, house rules require me to remind you that we have set up an email address to which members could send anything they wish to submit in writing. That email address has been provided to your staff. Our first order of Business Today is consideration of the department of defense appropriations bill for fiscal year 2021. I will not recognize to present the bill. Thank you, madam chairwoman. Before i begin my remarks, i reluctantly have to acknowledge this will be my final Opening Statement before the House Appropriations committee. I have no new revelations to make but for those of you who will remain on this committee, there are a few things i would like to say. Him saying them as someone who is so compulsive, he saved the congressional record on the day he was appointed to this committee after years of efforts, which makes mr. Rogers, my good friend, the only person
The subcommittee will come to order. This is a bittersweet moment to me. It is my last subcommittee, markup of the state. Going to get emotional. I will start again. Good afternoon, everyone. The subcommittee will come to order. This is a bittersweet moment for me, as it is my last subcommittee markup of the state bill,reign operations contemplate my retirement at the i ask you toear indulge me in a few reflections. First. The important work of this committee. Since world war ii come up aid has been a key component of the United States Foreign Policy. Allocate to the state department, the u. S. Agency for international development, and other federal agencies tasked with carrying out american interests and promoting freedom and democracy throughout the world account for only roughly 1 of our federal budget. Yet we have made the world healthierfer, and while improving the security of generations here at home. The dearupported eradication of polio. Stemmed the surge of hivaids. We have in
And thats sort of roughly the same i think throughout whether shipping it across country or across townbut what if automation drops like another 90 percent . And its as easy and cheap to send a box of something across town as it is to send a text message. What does the world start to look like then and what kinds of things do people start to do with that . And around the time i was thinking of that i started thinking of what was going on in china with delivery and china basically went through the us 20th century experience with this decline in shipping costs and the increased speedand shipping in like 10 years. So when ali baba started it took three weeks to ship something from their headquarters which i think is in outside shanghai to wuhan or another big city on the other outside of china. And 10 years later that was a 24 hour thing and ali baba has 5 million, or sorry, gd has 2 million. You can do anything in any chinese city and under 24 hours. And on Something Like singles day whi
Housing market the Housing Market has been a strong part of the economy and also boeings 737 max test flight looked like it went pretty well. That stock is up nearly 10 . 59 minutes left if trade. Yeah, helping the dow outperform today coming up on todays show, etsy is major winner at stay at home trade. Shares doubling this year. Well ask Josh Silverman, sooce how theyre using the platform and well talk to larry kudlow about the rise of cases in the United States and the Economic Impact some states including just moments ago new jersey pausing their reopening measures as we stand, the s p 500 is up 1 lets focus on the big stories mike santoli is tracking to days market rally we have the details on gilead which Just Announced pricing for the coronavirus treatment. And julia has the latest on facebooks growing advertising boycotts mike, lets start with you and the broader markets. A tidy little bounce today. Getting back a portion of last weeks losses. Really concentrated on the smaller