Montana recount. Live from moscow to the wild this is all its international very well welcome to the program my names. Well its got us started off very tense an often are a swathe joe biden is on course to become the 46th president of the United States but donald trump appears adamant that the election was rigged retching lawsuits in the coming week. Spence one breaks down how it all came to be. Joe biden has officially become the president elect for the United States it was saturday when that announcement was made by a number of media organizations after biden secured more than 270 electoral votes enough to put him over the top he spoke in wilmington delaware tonight alongside the 1st Vice President of the United States come all the harris 1st woman ever to ascend to the position of Vice President heres what harry had to say in introducing the new president baby have elected a president who represents the best and. A leader the world will respect and our children will look up to a com
Cairncross whos the ceo and president of the millennium challenge corporation. After a long wait, we have a fully installed that something of applause. Why do we give our friend a round of applause. [applause] congratulations. I think you get the prize for sort of saintly patience and diplomacy, and i think really, really glad you were in this job. I think its really important that Government Agencies have Senate Confirmed leaders so its really important you have, youve you been entrusted with this role. So i wanted to give you a chance to share some of your reviews with our friends here about how you see the future of the mcc. But before we do that, maybe not to just give this group, i think everyone probably in this audience if theyre here in mid august knows all about the mcc, but maybe just so were all on the same page if you might just do sort of the mcc 101 from your perspective. What is the mcc . How does it work . Then i have a couple of softball question for you we can take fr
Today is a timely hearing with children out of school. To see what needs to be done to keep them safe. Im interested in keeping them safe not only as a get on and off school buses but in keeping them safe in the streets as they go to school. It is true that school buses have a relatively safe safety record. It is also true that children are injured every day or every year in bus related crashes. More than, i believe, and most accidents, we owe it to our children, to these students to examine why these fatalities occur and what can be done to prevent them. There are school buses in my own district. Most take other modes of transportation, including walking, biking or riding in a car, going on public transportation. Children are often at greater risk outside the school bus than inside it. 264ave figures showing students who died in School Transportation related accidents in the last 10 years. 97 were struck by a vehicle while walking near the bus. We are going to hear today from what con
If you dont have an environment thats attracting that, i dont know how you define it as sustainable. And so we have, mccs leveraged, i think, 5. 6 billion in private sector dollars into our projects over the course of our history, weve been in 37 countries with about 29 contracts, about 14 billion of development assistance, benefiting about 200 million beneficiaries. And the private sectors a huge piece of that. For example, in malawi, the state utility just entered a 20year power purchasing agreement with jcm capital to develop a commercialscale solar power plant, which is a great thing because 95 theres a lot of sun. Theres a lot of sun, and 95 of malawis power is hydro, and that has its own issues. Yeah, you can have a drought. Yeah. And then in terms of water, we signed an agreement with bechtel to do a National Master infrastructure plan. And so here were going to have a plan that prioritizes infrastructure projects, its going to have the stamp of priewfl of the government, and th
[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaud Center Fisher i are dealing with votes going on but i called the hearing to order and good afternoon. I would like to thank Ranking Member fisher and her colleagues for joining us. Our witnesses who i will introduce shortly for secr of state issac cramer executive carolina support of Voter Registrations and elections Jimmy Nilsson present director of the Naacp Legal Defense Fund and well hear from her other witnesses because senator fisher will be introducing them including alabama secretary of state wes allen and brian kruse commissioner for the depth county election commission. More americans than ever have cast a ballot in recent elections in large part because of the work of state and local officials in these elections have run smoothly and top Security Officials in both republican and democratic administrations alike have elections including last weeks primaryec elections. 18 states have a ready h