354, h. R. 6395, a bill to authorize appropriations for 2021 for military activities of the department of military d for construction to prescribe military personnel strength for for other year and purposes. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to House Resolution 053, in lieu of the amendment in the nature of a substitute recommended by the committee on the services printed in bill, an amendment in the nature of a substitute consisting of rules committee is adopted and the bill, as amended, is considered as read. Debatable for one hour equally divided and controlled by the chair and the ng minority member of committee on Armed Services. The gentleman from washington, smith, and the gentleman from texas, mr. Thornberry, each minutes. Rol 30 the chair recognizes the gentleman from washington. Mr. Smith mr. Speaker, i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and and to heir remarks include extraneous material on h. R. 6395. The speaker pro tempore witho
Live on capitol hill, the House Appropriations committee working on 2021 spending levels today. One of the measures they are working on his defense spending. 694. 6 billion, an increase of 1. 2 billion from 2020. Congressman a nita lowey chairs the committee. I will say good morning again. I call this meeting of the committee of appropriations to order. Before we begin, house rules require me to remind you that we have set up an email address to which members could send anything they wish to submit in writing. That email address has been provided to your staff. Our first order of business is consideration of the department of defense appropriations bill for fiscal. Ear 2021 thank you madam chairwoman. Remarks, igin my reluctantly have to acknowledge this will be my final Opening Statement before the House Appropriations committee. I have no new revelations to make but for those of you who will remain on this committee, there are a few things i would like to say. He saved the conditiona
Commerce department announced that the United States economy g. D. P. Plunged 32. 9 percent on an annual basis in the april through june quarter this is its worst 2nd quarter period on record for the previous worst quarter contraction was a 10 percent drop during the Eisenhower Administration in 1958 but these records dont date back to the Great Depression while hopes one day old on that v. Shaped recovery is Consumer Spending which actually accounts for about 70 percent of Economic Activity it brought down the g. D. P. On wednesday the Federal Reserve chairman powell warned of the lasting damage to the economy of this expectation. Even with the improve Economic News in may and june overall activity remains well below its level before the pandemic and the contract contraction in real g. D. P. In the 2nd quarter will likely be the largest on record. Now this comes as republicans and democrats are working on the one trillion dollar relief package on a looming friday deadline but it appea
We are going to call the legislative branch of the Committee Fiscal Year 2021, subcommittee mark up to order. Welcome to our subcommittees markup. I very much appreciate the hard work and attitude of all the subCommittee Members and particularly the contributions and cooperation of our Ranking Member, mr. Butler. Thank you for being so great to work with. There are lots of needs and good causes within the jurisdiction of the subcommittee. We have tried to take care of the highest priorities throughout the bill with the amounts available to us. Fundamentally, and the bill provides increases to support staffing and other resources needed by congress to do its job well, to maintain and build analytic capacity in the legislative branch. For example, the bill provides a 25 Million Dollar increase for the members representational allowance, which covers staff, District Office space and other necessities. I also believe this funding is sufficient to address our new normal as members move to h
Preparations committee worked on 2021 spending today, earlier they debated interior and Environmental Department spending which included several amendments, your congresswoman chairs the committee. Good morning. I called a meeting on appropriations to order. And before we begin, they require me to remind you we have set up an email address to which members can send anything they wish to submit in writing at any of our hearings or markups. The email address has been provided to your staff. First, consideration of the interior environment appropriations bill, fiscal year 2021. I will now recognize ms. Mccowan to present the bill. Good morning. I want to thank Ranking Member, for his strong collaboration of partnership throughout this entire process. Been a great partner from the great lakes and a little geography being social studies teacher, it borders with the great state of ohio, lake erie and in minnesota, we border on lake superior. Id like to thank all members of our subcommittee f