Cspanstore. Org. Next, a look at efforts to modernize Information Technology across government agencies. The House Oversight subcommittee hearing includes the chief Information Officers from the governmental accountability office, the office of Personnel Management, the white house budget office, and the education department. This is about 2 1 2 hours. Begin in 5, 4, 3, 2, and 1. Welcome, everybody, to the subcommittee on government operations. And our 10th hearing on fitara. Before we begin, pursuant to house rules, most members today will appear by webx remotely. Since some members are appearing in person, or at least this member is, let me remind everyone that pursuant to the latest guidance, all individuals attending this hearing in person must wear a face mask. Im dropping mine only to speak. Members who are not wearing a face mask will not be recognized. Let me also make a few reminders for those members appearing in person. Youll only see witnesses appearing remotely on the moni
Dubai to london. In hongg, and the kong, a Record Number of candidates cast their ballots. Bloomberg spoke to the said Party Founding leader to get her take away from the election. Now the ball is in the governments court, and really have to respond to the five demands with an independent inquiry into recent events. Theres also the demand of universal suffrage. The government at least has to say that they are listening. Alix for more, bloombergs yvonne man. Joins us now. How does this affect what is happening on the streets . Yvonne all eyes will be on chief executive carrie lam as she speaks Tuesday Morning to reporters here in hong kong. She has delivered a lot of these press conferences before under increasing pressure. Before, that pressure has translated into a democratic exercise. 2. 9 Million People showed up to cast their ballots, a record turnout of 71 . It was a landslide victory for the prodemocracy camp. These district elections are pretty low level. These counselors dont h
Formal impeachment proceedings with House Speaker nancy pelosi saying he has violated his oath of office. President struck a hard line at the United Nations with comments about china and iran. Investors are weighing another change of tone. Boris johnson refuses to quit as u. K. s top judges attack his suspension of parliament. They say his advice to the queen was unlawful. Stock market,he take a look at this board where you can see the major market averages down across the board. It was donald trump speaking at the u. N. And bashing china. News came out that pelosi was ready to say, ok, we are going ahead with impeachment proceedings. You can see the s p 500 losing a full point. What hit the nasdaq so hard was the fact that donald trump was beating up on big tech companies. Interesting that we are seeing a little bit of an upturn for the stock futures. The s p 500. This hit bonds. Another thing that hit bonds, a big move down in yields, you can see quite a rally of seven basis points a
Event their and they are not alone. Lets see how the markets have opened this morning. Bit of a mixed bag so far. And well be getting the inside track on the weeks big business stories, including Mario Draghis economic box of tricks with our very own Andrew Walker. Uk Supermarket Chain sainsburys has pledged to halve Plastic Packaging by 2025. Today we want to know what steps, if any you have taken to reduce your Plastic Waste . Let us know just use the hashtag bbcbizlive. Hello and welcome to business live. We start in the finnish capital helsinki, where Climate Change is top of the agenda for eu finance ministers as they meet over the next two days. The European Union wants to be the first major economy to go climate neutral by 2050. One of the big ideas under discussion reforming the tax system to give more incentives to clean energy and penalise fossil fuel use. Researchers are warning that 7 of global gdp will be wiped out by the end of the century if no action is taken to reduce
Lets begin this morning with President Trumps Executive Order temporarily banning immigration from seven countries. Were building that wall. The Justice Department has Just Announced a Special Counsel to lead a new investigation into russian influence in the election and whether there was coordination with members of the Trump Campaign. President putin was extremely strong and powerful in his denial today. President trump becoming the fourth american president to face the prospect of impeachment. It feels as if, culturally, were in a cold civil war. [theme music] [donald] when mexico sends its people, theyre not sending their best. Theyre bringing drugs, theyre bringing crime, theyre rapists, and some, i assume, are good people. When trump announced his candidacy for the presidency, he was not seen as a serious candidate. He, himself, confided to some of his advisors. Essentially, whats the downside . This is a great marketing exercise. I will build a great, great wall on our southern