Officers to understand what we expect, we the community, expect them to do. Host will johnson, former police chief of arlington, texas, fromef 2 and fourth Vice President the national assothk you so much for joining us. Guest iq for having me. House Speaker Mike Johnson delivered a tribute to Fallen Police officers during a prayer vigil on capitol hill. Joining the speaker at the podium was the widow of Atlantic City Police Officer Thomas Mcmeekin and retired nypd detective thomas donahue, widower of lieutenant maure donahoe. [inaudible conversations] [inaud conversations] well, we want to thank you all for being here ons a somber evening. Theres a biblical admonition that we are to give honor where honor is and we take that very seriously. And during National Police w and head of peace officers memorial day, we give much lawrved recognition to our enforcement officers and in particular of courseallen in th. The men and women all of o enforcement are l the minimum ad to who pursue just
Radio plus a variety of compelling podcasts. Cspan now is available at the apple store and google play, scan the qr code to download it for free today or visit our website, cspan. Org cspan now. Cspan now, your front row seat to washington anytime anywhere. U. S. Congress secretary Gina Raimondo testified on the president s 2,025 budget request before House Appropriations subcommittee, she also answered questions on Artificial Intelligence regulation, competition with china and inclusion of noncitizens on the us census. This is just under two hours. [inaudible conversations] the subcommittee will be in order. Without objection, the chair declares a recess at any time. I want to welcome everyone to this mornings hearing. Thank you to our subcommittee members who are here. Thank you for being with us as well. The department of commerces fiscal year 25 budget request totals 11. 4 billion which which is 654 million, or 6 increase over fiscal year 24 and acted level. This includes initiativ
Conflict between israel and hamas and the russiaukraine war. Appointing before a Senate Appropriations on the 2025 budget request. Youre watching live coverage on cspan3. I want to call this hearing to order. Good morning. I want to welcome our witnesses, secretary austin and general brown. We appreciate you being with us here today. General brown, this is your first appearance before the subcommittee. Your position today, and i want to thank you for your commitment and Longstanding Service to our nation. Secretary austin, lester, when you testified before this committee, we discussed the default. Thankfully, cooler heads prevailed and we were able to come together with a bipartisan matter to avoid a catastrophic Government Shutdown but we have failed miserably in getting the budget down on time. Here we are, more than halfway through the fiscal year and you just got your budget, albeit six months late. These repeated delays have real impact and i hope you will illustrate for us the im
Helpful to turn to ray smock who served as the historian of the house of representatives for decades. Good morning to you. We possibly could see a second speaker vote in less than 11 months. The houses operating under an interim speaker pro tem and one of americas closest allies is now in a state of war. In historical terms that there some analogy you would point to or what is your thinking about today as we watch this go down . Guest as we know this is unprecedented. We have never had a speaker rejected by a motion to vacate in the history of the country. We have had many occasions where there is been turmoil on the floor of the house and difficulty electing a speaker. Probably the longest and most contentious speaker contest was that the annual banks before the civil war. They took 133 ballots before he was elected and it took two months to get a speaker elected. At that time there were multiple parties. The Republican Party was a new party. There was a lot of tension over the issue
Thousands of wounded who carried with them the shrapnel wounds and the memory of what they endured. These traumas never go away. There are many families waiting to hear the fate of their loved ones not knowing if they are, alive, dead. Holocaust survivors have been , now threatened to execute. The brutality of hamas, its bloodthirstyness brings to mind isis, but sadly, for the irish people israeli people, it is not new. The scars left by a millennium of antisemitism on the jewish people. At this moment, we must be crystal clear. We stand with israel. Host that was yesterday from the white house. Today the secretary of state is expected to arrive in israel sending this tweut his visitosrael yesterday. I am going to discuss ways we can support them in the midst of these terrorist attacks. Our support for israel remains. We went to keep you updated on what is happening on capitol hill today. We could have a speaker by the end of the day today. Joining us to talk about it is Catherine Tull