Colleagues have come to the floor and spoken here or elsewhere about the importance of providing assistance to state and local governments, and that if that doesnt happen that theyre there are going to be police officers, First Responders and people who have essential jobs that we rely on every single day and for whom were so grateful, that wouldnt be able to get paid. I would just point out that already as part of the Coronavirus Relief measures that congress has passed, there was 150 billion sent to state and local governments, much of which has yet to be spent. And, frankly, much of which we dont know what the actual need is out there until we have a better sense for what the revenue loss is to a lot of our state and local governments. Clearly they are sounding the alarm and are justifiably worried about what happens if the downturn in the economy continues and what that might mean to their revenues. And so they are looking to washington, d. C. For assistance, and i think that as i
Cspan2. Former state department and National Security officials testified on the Trump Administrations iran policy before the House Foreign Affairs committee. Secretary of state mike pompeo declined an invitation to testify on the president s decision to kill iranian general Qassem Soleimani. Committee chair representative eliot engel threatened to subpoena secretary pompeo in order to obtain information on the u. S. Drone strike. Subject to limitation in the rules. Before i begin, i want to make the big announcement that todays mr. Mccalls birthday. So happy birthday. Im 35 years once again. Me, too. Pursuant to notice were here today to examine Trump Administration policy towards iran. I welcome our panel of distinguished witnesses. Welcome to members of the public and the press, as well. We had hoped to hear from secretary pompeo today, as well. After we invited him, he announced that he would instead be in california. Thats unfortunate whether you agree with this administrations ap
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Has become over the 10 years of its existence and operation. This was a meeting of the asi Supervisory Board with the participation of Vladimir Putin. Three european states at once spain, ireland and norway today announced that they recognize the state of palestine. Like europeans Varvara Nevskaya will tell you how they responded to this step and how they reacted to it in israel. This Chain Reaction began with a speech by irish Prime Minister harris, 36 years after the declaration of palestinian independence, official dublin finally agreed to recognize it. Last month i stood on the same step as spanish Prime Minister sanchez and we said that the point of recognition of the state of palestine was approaching. This point has now arrived. Today ireland, norway and spain announce that we recognize state. Is simple support from the may participating countries, the stake of the eu states that recognized palestine, in theory should deescalate the israelipalestinian conflict, is recognized in
Because these rails preventing a life saving aid from entering the policy new territory. I dont think this makes any sense. Like this. This is one of the places where i must smell and took the 1st last such a day, entering peoples houses, killing civilians, women, children, entire families inside their homes is very sole, just remove explosives, apparently punted by her boss. And thats how near the cause of boulder passes. They search for possible casualties. The. This has gone 70. Im here in moscow on monday. This is off to international with the latest world news. Thanks for joining us. Were still on this all off in gaza, west thousands of palestinians have been killed to more than 1000000. Ive had to feed their homes, even areas specially designated full refugees on field from the suffering, on least on the region. The di situation has brought people to test the the gardens in refugee comes the face of luck, admits in hospital beds and Health Care Facilities that are on the brink of