Good morning, i call the meeting of the committee on appropriations to order. Before we begin now house rules require me to remind you that we have set up an email address to which members can send anything they wish to submit in writing at any of our hearings or markups. That email address has been provided to your staff. Our first order of Business Today is consideration of the interior and environment and appropriations bill for fiscal year 2021. I will now recognize miss mccullum to present the bill. Good morning, and thank you, madam chair. I want to thank Ranking Member joyce for his strong collaboration and partnership throughout this entire process. Hes been a great partner from the great lakes and a little geography, being a social studies teacher he borers with the great state of ohio on lake erie and in minnesota we border on lake superior. Id like to thank the subcommittee for all contributions and especially the way in which weve continued our tradition of nonpartisan work
Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie is testifying. How are we expanding that . As i am sure you are aware so 6 is a constant constellation of syndromes. There have been several definitions over the past 20 years and it takes recognizing what we call gestalt, looking at the numbers of the patient, identifying this early so you can hydrate the person and get them the antibiotics they need. Several facilities are exploring an automated way to synchronize that data that this might be a substance than for them to make a more immediate clinical decision to engage that patient. We have extensive and consistent protocols across the system for this and excellent data to show that we are effective in managing this but these advancements in Technology May take a step further and that will be important in the setting of covid19 where we know this is a complication of the illness. I would like to recognize this cart right forgive me. I take it back. I recognize mister case for 5 minutes. Thank
[inaudible conversations] the committee will come to order. [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] members who are virtually are responsible for [inaudible] i notice and may say something [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] this year s budget request for the air force is making large bets on future technology and capabilities coupled with a bold plan to do best, a bold plan to divest legacy aircraft systems over the next five years, and that is a bold plan and i m with you on that. and then there is about wave of nuclear modernization which is putting pressure on modernizing the conventional forces. this pressure will continue throughout the current five-year plan and beyond. this result is that the air forceha is trading near term capacity for what hopefully will be successful investments and capabilities needed to meet the growing challenge from china here and as president biden stated this week, this administration is tackling inflati
Factor, tax cuts. A deal in the senate looks very likely. Yes, there is lastminute bargaining but all 52 republican senators including john mccain voted to get on with the debate. That is a positive signal. President trump in full Campaign Mode in missouri yesterday pushing a tax deal hard. He says tax cuts pour rocket fuel on the economy. Oh, the crowd loved it. Thats our show today. 24,000 on the dow, tax cuts and a liveaction presidency. Varney company is about to begin. Senator claire mccaskall, is doing a tremendous disservice, she wants taxes to go up, shes weak on crime, shes weak on borders, shes weak on illegal immigration and shes weak on the military, other than that, i think shes doing a fantastic job. [laughter] stuart that the way you get a democrat senator to vote with you as a republican . He took you could te he took a shot right at missouri senator claire mccaskall, shes a democrat. The debate on tax bill is under way. A number of senators still have concern but surel
The deregulation, just that i think that has more to do with the market going up than anticipation of the tax cuts. 22 regulations go away for every new regulation coming on. That has, that has really greased the skids for a lot of businesses in this country. No, youre absolutely right. And the momentum has been building before the tax cuts even went through, david and mary. So, and americans are watching. You mentioned the media earlier as well and how theyre not really reporting on the president s accomplishments. If you are one of those workers who got a yearend bonus of 1,000 david right. Of a number of companies that have provided bonuses, whether youre a republican or a democrat youre going to be taking a second look at what your representative is doing or not doing in terms of whats bestc for americans and whats best for the country. David by the way, one thing else that has been overlooked by the Mainstream Media is the importance of not only neil gore such on the neil gorsuch