Of our native communities. As part of our hearing, microphones will be set on mute. Members and witnesses, you will need to unmute your microphone each time you wish to speak. Documents can be sent to rebecca at the email address weve provided. And all documents will be entered into the record at the conclusion of the hearing. I recognize myself for five minutes for an opening statement. Let me find that, now that ive said that. I believe that todays hearing is long overdue. Day after day, our nations tribal communities are suffering inequality, unequal access to Drinking Water, energy grid, broadband, and other problems that have created unnecessary hardship and turmoil. And covid19 is exacerbating the existing problems now. And the Navajo Nation has seen rates higher than wuhan, china, during the height of the pandemic. And weve heard repeatedly about the struggles of the native communities to protect against covid19. As the pandemic rages on, access to ppe and testing and proper san
Good afternoon. I call this meeting of the committee on appropriations to order. Before we begin, house rules now we have set up any mileage us to which members can send anything they wish to submit they wish to submit in writing in any of her hearings or markups. Our hearings or markups. Has been provided to staff. The first order of business is consideration of the energy and Water Development appropriations bill. For fiscal year 2021. Captornow recognize this ms. Captor to present the bill. Please let me also add my you for your honorable and dedicated service to our community and nation and for your recognition of the full potential of this bill. You will truly be missed. I am pleased to consider the energy and water bill today. It is a good bill. A bill that captures the spirit of ingenuity and independence of the American People. Are actually able to provide the most important Climate Change bill congress will pass this year. This bill provides the foundation of critical investme
Going through chemo and is immuno suppressed. On friday, he took his middle son, jack, up to the backroads outside downieville and were stopped at a fork in the road looking at a map when a gunman came up behind them. They asked for directions and a guy pulls out a gun and starts shooting at the jeep. Ari put it in drive and gunned it out of there. He was hit. Grabs his chest. He stopped the jeep. Put it in park. Jack ran and ari died outside of the jeep. 15yearold jack told his mom paige he ran through the woods for an hour trying to get away from the gunman and to reach cell phone service. Jack is sending texts to paige, i need you to fight cancer. I need you to be okay. I love you. I dont think im going to make it out of here. Jack was lost in the woods shtrk his cell phone signal. Cu the family is now home in danville asking themselves the unimaginable question of why. I think this was a horrible tragedy that doesnt make sense and its senseless. According to his family, ari was an
Good morning im dominic chu in for Brian Sullivan heres how your money and the Global Markets are setting their day up with stock futures relatively muted you can see at the opening bell we could be up 35 points for the dow. S p 500 up roughly 8 points implied and the nasdaq up by about 52 thats if the futures moves hold before the opening bell for regular cash equities trading. This after the dow fell nearly 400 points yesterday the s p 500 shedding just over 1 there as well snapping its fiveday winning streak. You can see the movement throughout the course of the day. Falling off towards the closing bell. Turning now to the bond market the yield on the benchmark 10year note yield is slightly higher you can see 65 basis points or. 65 . 2year note,. 16 . 30year 1. 38 lets go worldwide karen cho is live on the Worldwide Market losses yesterday, losses on wall street. Roughly down. 2 of a percent the ftse has minimized the losses as you threw it over to me, we popped into the green brief
Of us are sheltering in place from home, im doing the same. If you are watching us from facebook, twitter, one of the axios websites, thank you for being with us. We have an Incredible Program honoring juneteenth. Incrediblem honoring juneteenth. I want to say thank you to our sponsor, bank of i want to say thank you to our sponsor, bank of america, for this event. If you are on twitter or or on r axios account. Check news on axios. Com. Joining us right now, i want to get right to it, the man who i am very excited to talk to and i hope you are excited to hear from, coming to us from ofhesda, maine, founder like in a timid television, Robert Johnsonblack entertainment television, Robert Johnson. How are you . Robert im doing well. How are you . Dion im also doing well. Thank you so much for being with us. Robert my pleasure. Dion juneteenth is a particularly apt holiday for africanamericans because it is not come with the signing of a resolution or speech. It celebrates the day in 1865