The conditions for bringing a lawsuit against a foreign state. The Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing is chaired by senator Lindsey Graham of south carolina. Generally speaking, we have a foreign sovereign immunities act , basically shutting off lawsuits against other nations because whatever we do to them, they can do to us. We made exceptions to it. We have amended the act regarding terrorist activities. This is not an issue i take lightly. Ive thought ang lot about. My colleagues have worked to put together legislation, they have reconciled the legislation. Want to have a hearing about what it would mean if we amended the act to allow suits against china. And why would we take this unprecedented step . This is the third pandemic to come out of china. The coronavirus came from hunan province, but it was a mistake in a lab or spread at a wet market, i dont know, but we do know where it came from. We know china failed to inform the world about the nature of the virus that did restrict
Certainly china is to blame and has to be held accountable. View, doesr point of the sovereign immunity act need to be amended at all to allow you to move forward . We are moving forward because we believe that is how we proceeded on our lawsuit which we filed in the United States Federal District court of mississippi. That onportant to note the foreign sovereign immunities act, the commercial activity section is an act based on commercial activity in china that has a direct effect on the United States and they may not be immune. A reference to the nature of the court of conduct and a particular transaction or act. China was engaged in commercial activity, including the production, purchasing, import and export of ppes. Even essentially nationalizing the manufacturing. We believe this exception is workable and that is why i am proceeding with our lawsuit. Now, certainly the amendments of the Foreign Policy immune act would be helpful. Providing additional exceptions provides us broader
[indistinct chatter] chatter]nd chairman graham good morning, everybody. For those watching on television, it is 28 degrees in here. [laughter] is that what it is . Chairman graham i do not know, but let it be said the air conditioning in the senate works. Thank you all. We are going to have a hearing today about all things crossfire, hurricane, and the Robert Mueller investigation. We will have fiveminute rounds. As usual, i will try to make sure you are able to finish your thought in five minutes and not cut you off. I appreciate all of the participation. Mr. Rosenstein, thank you for coming to the committee voluntarily. We appreciate your service to our country and your participation in the hearing today. And i will try to do a pretty short opening statement, then we will get right to the witness. Why are we here . I think we have a clip. I would like to play it now. This is mr. Rosenstein on may 1, 2018. Mr. Rosenstein it really does illustrate chairman graham turn it up. Stop. Mr.
[indiscernible] the committee will come to order. This mornings hearing will be many on the president s fiscal year 2019 Budget Proposal. The Committee Welcomes treasury secretary mnuchin who is here to testify on the budget along with other patterns matters that may arise. The budget includes numerous proposals to deal with the wide array of policy issues. The opioid epidemic, infrastructure, modernizing ,overnment, National Security and lowering drug pricing and payments to mention a few. I think i speak for all members when i say we are all very interested in your thoughts and insights on a number of items proposed. The governments receipts will average 17. 1 of gdp over 10 years with that budget window slightly below the longrun average of 17. 4 over roughly the past four decades. Averagings outlays 10 of gdp over the past years, which is slightly below the longrun average. Also includes tax proposals but they are not as sweeping as those we have seen in prior budget. As you would
Sen. Hatch the committee will come to order. This mornings hearing will be the first in a series of hearings on the president s fiscal year 2019 Budget Proposal. The Committee Welcomes steven mnuchin, who is here to testify. The president s budget includes numerous proposals to deal with a vast array of policy issues, including the opioid epidemic, infrastructure, modernizing government, National Security, and lowering drug pricing and payments, just to mention a few. I think i speak for all members of the committee when i say that we are all very interested in secretary mnuchins thoughts and insights on a number of items proposed in the budget. The budget envisions that governments receipts will average 17. 1 of gdp over the tenyear budget window, slightly below the long run average of 17. 4 over roughly the last four decades. It also has outlays averaging 20 of gdp over 10 years, which is also slightly below the long run average. The budget also includes some tax proposals, but they