Of direct payments for Contact Tracing. House democrats move forward after negotiations with the white house failed to produce a compromise. Floor debate before the final vote. Lowey, is recognized. Mrs. Lowey im pleased to yield five minutes to the distinguished gentleman from massachusetts, from my class, the chair of the committee on ways and means, mr. Neal. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from massachusetts, chairman neal is recognized. Ms. Neal thank you, madam chairwoman. I stand in support of the updated heroes act. The previous gentleman was dismissive of the idea that there is some import to this moment in terms of getting a package done. So that means expanding Unemployment Insurance, thats not important . Unemployment insurance that we might consider now which is part of the need of the American Family . A reminder, there are 26 million americans right now collecting Unemployment Insurance. Let me put this in terms of what an economist might say. If we dont expand Une
This includes the National Fish Habitat Conservation through partnerships provision, a bill i championed. This title establishes a National Fish habitat board that supports a successful Publicprivate Partnership to restore fish habitat. I would like to thank the Ranking Member of the Natural Resources committee, rob bishop, and the Ranking Member of the subcommittee on water, oceans and wildlife, tom mcclintock. I would also like to to thank my colleagues on the other side of the aisle for their ceaseless effort and commitment to making sure we do everything we can to conserve prork tect and enhance the resources that we are in charge of taking care of. I look forward to continuing to advance other important provisions, but this bill hopefully will be on its way to the president s desk. As cochair of the Chesapeake Bay watershed task force i would specifically like to act modge my friends an colleagues in the bay delegation who labored so hard for so long to help clean up our great Che
They say the proposed rules wont allow any new testimony or evidence while we have 2 reporters covering this historic day in washington d. C. Can be how could our White House Correspondent is standing by to tell us about the president s legal strategy and who his defense team is and well be speaking to her in just a moment but 1st we go to heidi. On capitol hill heidi all right so talk us through what is going to be happening in this next hour we heard the Senate Majority leader there lay the groundwork basically tell us whats going to be happening break it down for us. Thats right and you know were actually going to be hearing likely more of the same but the official version in a few minutes time thats because what we heard just now was their regular call the order for Senate Business at exactly 800. 00 g. M. T. Is when we expect the Supreme Court chief Justice John Roberts to then call the Impeachment Court which is the other persona the senate will be adopting throughout this trial
State department forced to release documents showing Donald Trumps lawyer was in close contact with secretary of state over the ukraine a fat. And climate pressure in the pacific well take you to the tiny island nation of pullout to find out whats at risk. So hong kong the polls for local elections are now open in a vote seen as a test for the pro beijing government following months of demonstrations of origins of threatens to suspend voting if there is any serious disruption a record 4100000 people have registered to vote on kongs biggest turn up since the territory was returned to china from britain in 997 well hong kong prodemocracy activist Joshua Wallace urged protesters to continue to oppose beijing he was actually disqualified from running in these local elections says i will protest movement stop recruiting i urge more people around the world just have a pom pom pom pom should come out about this for Council Action is that your action in ma committed based on the strength. That
Released documents show trumps lawyer was in close contact with the secretary of state over ukraine. Climate pressure in the pacific we travel to the tiny island nation of find out whats at risk. Always begin in hong kong where pauls fellow collections are now open the policy as a test for the pro beijing government following months of demonstrations chief executive kerry has cast her vote a record 4100000 people have registered to vote hong kongs biggest turnout since the territory was returned to china from britain in 1997 speaking to the media kerry lamb appealed for a peaceful vote. We are facing an extremely challenging situation in all the nice in this years elections but im pleased to say that with the concerted efforts of all parties including of course over 30000 Civil Servants in many departments working today we should have a relatively peaceful and calm and vironment to conduct these elections successfully hongkong pro democracy activists joshua wall is urging protesters to