Provided and into the record to the conclusion of the hearing. I recognize myself for 5 minutes for Opening Statements. Let me find my Opening Statement here. I believe this hearing is long overdue. Suffering terrible inequalities. Unreliable access to the energy grid, little or no broadband connectivity, and reliable funds for the federal government and other systematic problems that created unnecessary hardship and turmoil and covid19 is exacerbating these long existing problems. One third of tribal members are at high risk of serious covid19 complications due to Underlying Health factors and Navajo Nation has seen higher infection rates than those in china at the peak of the pandemic. Despite this stark reality the impact of covid19 on tribal communities, weve seen the struggles of tribal communities and access to personal protective equipment and testing to protect against covid19. Is this pandemic redesign and covid19 cases continue to rise in many areas of the Country Access to p
We take you live to the u. S. Senate where to date lawmakers who will be on a defense programs and policy bill. You are watching live coverage of the senate on cspan2. The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Barry black, will ohm the senate with prayer. The chaplain let us pray. God of grace and mercy, in these divisive and polarized times, remind us that words have consequences. Help us to remember that we are accountable to you for every idle and careless word we speak. Lord, teach our senators to be obedient to your commands, doing your will as your presence fills them with joy. Today, surround our lawmakers with the shield of your favor, as they labor to deep our nation to keep our nation strong. May they be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to anger. Manifest your power through their labors so that this nation will be exalted by righteousness. We pray in your mighty name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in the pledge of alle
Cape canaveral. First time in almost a decade americans are going to be sending americans into space. This is a big moment for elon musk and his spacex company. In fact will use tesla vehicle to bring the two astronauts out to the ganttry here. This is launchpad 39a. That should ring a pell, where all apollo flights took off, including apollo xi, the one that landed on the moon. You will see see key players there. People on cocoa beach. They say better part of valor keeping your distance. Try telling a people not seen a manned launch from Cape Canaveral in a decade. We we have phil keating at Kennedy Space center in Cape Canaveral. Phil . Reporter at this moment all systems are go for the historic launch 4 30 p. M. Eastern time, roughly four hours from now. This is the fires time, a private space company, spacex will launch astronauts from their rocket and capsule, ever. This is big deal. Lives are on the line. This is the only second time the space dragon capsule has gone from either
Its not difficult to be crabby when you are basically living hand to mouth with government stimulus. I thought that encompassed the markets perfectly for a day like today. A lot of earnings coming out. Delta looking at a 50 cut in daily cash burn by the end of june. In terms of their First Quarter loss, they had about a . 51 loss , and revenue was down 18 year on year. As we expected, pretty brutal when it comes to delta. Baker hughes, oil services company, saying the outlook for oil and gas is certain. No kidding. The revenue down by about 4 year on year. 0. 11, acoming in at little bit light. Lets get you some of the headlines here. All of todays market moving news from new york, as will is washington. Brent crude getting sucked into the lowest level since 1999. Bloombergs part two thought to be role bloomberg spoke to thought he be role spoke to fatih birol. Some of the countries are cutting their production earlier than announced. Others joined them. If others do not follow the ste
Order. Last hearing of the year here. Theres a lot going on this morning, so i think we will have people popping in and out, but we do have a pretty hard stop at 11 00 this morning. Weve got a series of votes that are beginning at 11 00, and we are going to observe an actual 10 minute clock, we are told. It will be the first time in senate history, but that is the goal this morning. So we want to be able to hear from everyone this morning and have an opportunity for the very, very, very important conversations regarding this issue. We are here to discuss the impact of wildfires on the reliability of our electric rate and efforts to mitigate wildfire risk and increase great grid resiliency. In recent years, devastating wildfires and electricity blackouts in california have drawn National Attention to the challenge of maintaining grid resiliency in the face of extreme conditions. Tragically, we remember last years camp fire, the deadliest and most destructive fire in california history,