We are live on capitol hill waiting for a house markup to get underway. The Appropriations Committee is working on 2021 spending for state Department Foreign operations, agriculture and military construction. This is live coverage on cspan2. Please be seated. We are ready to begin. My friends, ladies and gentlemen, please be seated. I call the meeting of the Appropriations Committee to order. I would first like to welcome all members to the first full Committee Markup of fiscal year 2021. This will be a markup season unlike any other. Not only are we going to complete our work in record time, but we will be joined by a handful of our colleagues who were unable to be here due to the pandemic. Before we begin i have a number of housekeeping announcements. First, we should all be mindful of our health, and take appropriate actions. Following doctor monahans guidance, everyone, everyone must wear a mask and provide social distancing. Also, this information was previously conveyed to your s
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Be in ministrations forthcoming Strategic Plan that is now required under the package that was just passed and signed into law will that Strategic Plan on testing include specific numeric targets for Testing Capacity supply chain capacity and projection of shortages. Thank you for that question and statement senator murray yes we are as ive stated we continue to have a work in progress as we build the Testing Capacity we have established the targets with the state of over 12000000 tests over the next 4 weeks we think those targets are going to be good in may and june but as dr foushee said we really have to be evidence based we expect those targets to go up as we progress simply oping as communities go through phase one and then into phase 2 and certainly those numbers will need to go up significantly again in the fall when we potentially have influenza circulating with with co that so yes there will be targets the targets will need to change based on the evidence that we see but we ar
A new trade pact to replace nafta. While myanmars leader Aung San Suu Kyi has literally arrived at the International Court of justice where she is beginning her remarks defending her country against allegations of genocide lets listen in the 948 Genocide Convention one of the most fundamental multilateral treaties of all the time invoking that 940 age Genocide Convention its a matter of a most gravity. This is a treaty that we made following this is to match it killing of malls and 6000000 year jews and thats my country wholeheartedly signed as ferdie assertiveness december 949 and ratified on food since march 956. 00 genocide is a crime that the International Criminal tribunal for rwanda applied in response to the mass killing of perhaps 70 percent of the 2 chief in rwanda. It is a crime that is not applied by the tribunal to the former yugoslavia for the displacement of approximately 1000000 residents of course civil in 1909 neither was it applied by that tribe you know no by this co
Of commons when it has been renewed and the question is whether the new chamber will include reclining chairs for the likes of members of the house who need to make themselves comfortable. The question is that this house agrees with the lords in the amendment number one. As many as are of that opinion say aye and to the country no further the ayes have it. With the leave of the ayes have it. With the leave of the house we take lords amendment two to 12 together. Im grateful to the honourable gentleman. As many as are of that opinion say aye. To the country no further up the ayes have it. The ayes have it. I am immensely grateful to the honourable gentleman for the point of order. It has become a fact that the government is seeking to circumvent the release of documents relating to prorogation and operation yellowhammer, can you explain the ways that the government can lay those papers and given that the house has passed us by majority the house has passed us by majority the government