[inaudible conversations] good morning this hearing will come to order. Its the day to do the environment subcommittee with fiscal year 2021 budget request for the Environmental Protection agency. And acting chief Financial Officer welcome to both of you. The president s request 2021 to 66 billion to the epa and 27 percent cut hello fy 2020. This seeks to undo all the progress we were able to achieve in a broad bipartisan basis fy 2024 example to request to eliminate 30 mine Million Dollars of new funding we provided to the epa and requests with Clean Energy Funding grants by 47 percent and 9 milliondollar cuts fy 2020 also 870 million from the 3 billion we invested to rebuild our crumbling Water Infrastructure. I held a listening section in st. Paul they would lose 56 percent of federal funding and approximately 75 percent of the cats were to go through the minnesota pollution control that air pollution monitoring for the communities back home and clean water action said it would be a
[inaudible conversations] good morning. Today is the day we will examine the president s fiscal year for the epa joining with morning is administrator wheeler and acting chief Financial Officer. Welcome to both of you. Fiscal year 2021 the president s 66 billion to the epa but this request the presidency of what you were able to achieve on the fy 2020. And then to eliminate the new funding we provided to address pfas and the Clean Energy Funding grants c by 47 percent at 409 million fy 2020 also has money from the 3 billion we invested with our nations crumbling Water Infrastructure. Recently held a listening session and they would lose and what at what happened of these cuts were to go through the pollution control also proposed cuts to the clean water grant act air pollution and monitoring to have our communities back home included it would be an absolute catastrophe for clean water. And i directly heard about concerns with the budget with the pfas pollution it could be truly devasta
For several hours, there are reports that the stimulus package now being prepared maybe the first of many, in other words, congressman Congress Rather and the administration will throw whatever they have at the virus problem. The fed is pumping a trillion dollars into the economy and that appears to be helping market sentiment. Green across the board there. All of them up limit, 5 up. Lets see how we open at the market this morning. Now, again, when we open this morning prices will be freed up so we can move up from the 5 gain and looking at etfs, here is anxiety indicater. Do you realize it was 1. 3 a few days ago . Gold this morning i believe is down a little bit more. Okay, we will find it. Look at the average price of gasoline. 2. 30. Ten cents lower than a week ago. Gas is falling really fast. I call that good news. The whole country maybe slowing down as we separate out but the virus news coming quick and fast. The wife of canadas Prime Minister Trudeau Sophie tested positive. Pr
The state dumas consent to make official appointments the president appoints the cabinet. And all the ministers i propose shifting this power to the state duma and also the approval of the russian governments chairman. A lot more to come on and now the news were covering today after washingtons assassination of irans top general americas top diplomat says its all part of a new to terrorists strategy with warnings for russia and china to. Either live for the r. T. World view Center Wednesday the 15th of january just turned 6 pm well welcome to the program this update with me kevin i mean you can see on the screens are breaking news as just mentioned russias Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has announced that the government has resigned that comes after president Vladimir Putin earlier suggested changes to the constitution which will give parliament greater powers for point a Prime Minister so its all wills emotional ready very quickly more if not in the studio here it was a surprise annou
Acknowledge forgiveness. Weir imperfection as human beings. The law is imperfect. At 10 00 p. M. Eastern, former Ambassador Nikki Haley with her book, with all due respect. Watch on cspan2. U. S. Senators wanted to know if the 2018 farm bill is being implemented properly. Agriculture, nutrition and Forestry Committee members talk to farmers. Rural Utility Service officials and Healthcare Industry leaders about issues impacting Rural Communities including access to Rural Broadband, Water Infrastructure and Health Care Services and agricultural production. Good morning. I call this on committee to forestry to order and its continued eversight of the department of agricultures implementation of the 2018 farm bill. A principle duty of this committee is to ensure that the department had the authority and resources to provide the agriculture producers with the necessary tools to feed a troubled and hungry world as well as this country. But the responsibility of the committee and the usda doe