Cox supports cspan is a Public Service along with these her Television Providers giving you a front row seat to democracy. Members of coax talked of religious freedom outside the u. S. At an event commemorating the 25th anniversary of the International Religious freedom act. The discussion included the conflict between israel and hamas advocating against religious persecution and the impact of the legislation. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] good afternoon and welcome. My name is abraham cooper, and im honored to serve as chair of the u. S. Commission on International Religious freedom. Thank you for joining us to mark the 25th anniversary of the International Religious freedom act or irfa. I would like to extend a special thank you to senator chris coons and his staff for reserving this historic room for us. In october 1998, Congress Passed and then president bill clinton signed irfa making the promotion of freedom of religious or beliefs abroad higher priority in
Good morning, everyone. Im poppy harlow with phil mattingly. Erin burnett is live with us on the ground in tel aviv, overnight, President Biden returning to washington after a trip in the war zone in israel. Today hes getting ready to give a prime time address to the nation, as he pushes for wartime aid to israel and ukraine. The congress is paralyzed right now. Passing an aid package is possible at the moment. President biden says he clinched a deal with egypts president to start allowing trucks with desperatelyneeded humanitarian aid into gaza where millions of civilians are stuck inside that war zone and running out of food, water and medicine. We have an opportunity to alleviate the pain, you should do it, period. If you dont, youre going to lose credibility worldwide. And i dont think everyone understands that. The president says u. S. Intelligence backs up israels claim that a malfunctioning rocket fired by militants caused the deadly blast at a hospital in gaza, not an israeli a
Giving you a front row seat to democracy. Getting calling now. More on this story from the hill. Good morning to you. Biden stuns allies with order while bombshell with border wall bombshell. Explain the action the administration is taking and why now . Guest why now is certainly the question at the top of everyones minds. What we have seen is this week the department of Homeland Security filed in the federal register notifying that the government would be waving a few dozen environmental and conservation regulations, allowing the government to move forward with construction of the border wall in texas along the border. This was allowed in 2019 as congress appropriated funds for the border wall when former President Trump was in office. The Biden Administration is moving forward now. They are waving these regulations, which allows them to build a several miles long wall along the border in texas. The question about now comes as President Biden and his administration have faced a lot of
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After brief opening remarks members will receive testimony from our witness today and the hearing will be open to questions. Good morning once again. Welcome to todays hearing receive testimony from the secretary of agriculture. I think my colleagues participating and secretary bill sec for his time we have a lengthy hearing ahead of us. I will be brief and might remarks nearly three years ive traveled across the country to different farmers, ranchers, foresters, Rural Communities and everyday consumers. Many of our colleagues on both sides of the aisle jointly for those travels. The message we have heard from those folks was very clear. They need a government to work for them, not against them. These men and women have struggled with a fractured supply chain, considerable input cost, relentless inflation, natural disasters, volatile markets and labor shortage each consistently worsened by illconceived halfbaked executive action. What seemingly is a daily occurrence taxpayer dollars be