President ss Trade Agenda, including china, the u. S. Mexicocanada Trade Agreement and the wto. She appear before the house ways and means committee. [gavel] the ways and means committee will come to order. Good morning and welcome. We are holding todays hearing and a Hybrid Format in compliance with the rules and regulations for remote committee proceedings pursuant to Health Resolution A. I want to remind members of a few procedures to keep proceedings running smoothly. First, consistent with regulations, the committee will keep microphones muted to eliminate background noise. Members are responsible for on muting themselves when they seek recognition or when recognized for five minutes. Committee staff will mute members only in the event of inadvertent background noise. Second, when members are present in the proceeding via webex, they must have cameras on. If you need to step away to attend another proceeding, please turn your Camera And Audio off rather than logging out of the pla
Hearing is two hours and 40 minutes. [inaudible conversations] good morning. The Commerce Science and Technology Transportation Committee will come to order. I want to welcome all our witnesses for joining us today. Today is a very important hearing date. We are going to be joined by obviously welcoming back our colleague and former colleagues, Senator Nelson and his position to be nominated as nasa director, and former Colleague Senator Hutchison who i think is going to join us virtually. So, can think of two more active members, ranking member on the committee, so we certainly welcome them. And certainly, we have our former Commerce Secretary who is going to be joining us virtually. So, it is a very big commerce a day for those of us in the Commerce Family and longstanding members of the committee to see our colleagues and people weve worked with on so many policy issues and obviously a lot of enthusiasm by members who want to join in and support the nominations and we will be joined
Colleague and former colleagues both Senator Nelson in his position to be nominated as Nasa Director and our former colleague Senator Hutchinson, who i think is going to join us virtually, i Cant Think of two more active rankings members on the past in this committee so we certainly welcome them and certainly we have our former Commerce Secretary whos going to be joining us virtually. So we its a very big Commerce Day for those of us in the Commerce Family and longstanding members of this committee to see our colleagues and people we worked with on so many policy issues and obviously a lot of enthusiasm by members who want to join in support of these nominations. So well be joined by a variety of senators here, Senator Rubio who is with us already. So i want to say welcome to the families, to grace and ann, to all of those who are here to discuss todays nominees. Were covering everything from the digital and natural to the commercial worlds and into space today. So very broad topic are
we are standing by for a big moment in space. a privately crewed spacecraft will dock with the international space station this hour, it s only the second time that has happened. and for the first time a woman is leading the mission. this is cnn news central. just a few hours from now high stakes talks on the debt crisis between president biden and house speaker kevin mccarthy. they are set to resume in-person one-on-one. this morning it s not clear how close or how far they are from a deal. what is clear, they re almost out of time. in ten days the u.s. could default on its $31 trillion debt. if that takes place it s not exactly clear what happens, but it s definitely very bad. government bills could go unpaid, millions of americans would feel it. social security checks, medicare, veterans benefits and the salaries of thousands of federal and military employees, they are at all risk. republicans are demanding steep budget cuts with no increase in revenue. the president h
she ll be back later this week. we re lucky to have the brilliant and beautiful sarah sidener with us. let s get started. ten days left, that s it. the debt negotiations are deadlocked. the the president and house speaker set to meet soon. the republican 2024 feel is expanding. tim scott is about to announce his bid today. governor ron desantis is about to jump in later this week. and a cnn exclusive. paul whelan, the u.s. says is wrongfully imprisoned in russia, called cnn from behind bars. his message, he s confident the wheels are turning towards his release. a man accused murdering four university of idaho students will appear in court today. efface fours counts of murder and one count of burglary. and we have liftoff. a spacex rocket commanded by a woman is set to dock at the international space station this morning. it s only the second private mission ever. but nasa hopes this is just the beginning. cnn this morning starts right now. all right. here s where w