Here on cspan3, well take you live now to a hearing on amtraks response to the coronavirus pandemic. This hearing is already in process. While possibly only saving amtrak 213 million. Overall, the damage could top 3 billion if amtraks planned nine months of Degraded Service stretches another quarter to a full year. Ill finish. Thank you. The amtrak community was hit especially hard because several airlines say theyll drop service when the c. A. R. E. S. Act expires. Thats 67 cities facing air cutbacks. Nearly half, 31 of them, would all flew the same, sacramento, tampa, these routes touch nearly every corner of our country. On the empire builder on eight states from illinois to washington, those towns face a nearly 400 million blow. The north south city of new orleans between louisiana now produce nearly 134 million in economic benefits. It could wipe out as much as 88 million of that. Simply put, this drastically reduced utility of a nationwide Network Operating three days a week, mak
Of citigroup, although Tobias Levkovich will join us later. On a serious note, things deteriorate in hong kong in the last 24 hours. Francine a lot of the focus is on china. We have the National Peoples congress and the premier talking about targets being abandoned because it is too difficult to predict gdp and they want to create 9 million jobs, less than the 11 million jobs in 2019. We will have to see what happens with hong kong, the lobbying passing through. The u. S. Will weigh in and china is pushing back. I would focus on china all day today. Tom absolutely would. Jon ferro way out front on the tensions of washington and beijing. Here is ritika gupta. Ritika hong kong activists are calling for protests against a new china security role. The National Peoples congress is expected to pass the islation forcing hong kong acts of treason and subversion. President trump well react very strongly. China abandoned its practice of setting a target for Economic Growth and will shift its foc
[applause] good morning Everyone Welcome to scranton pennsylvania my name is rosemary boland. I am a teacher and president of the scranton teachers local. [applause] thank you for that. Thats not usually how i am greeted. [laughter] i would like to say i am a member of the American Federation of teachers perform on the executive board of the American Federation of teachers pennsylvania and Vice President of the aflcio pennsylvania so that tells you who i am. [applause] i am extremely proud and honored i was asked to do this introduction this morning. Im just a teacher from the south side of pennsylvania of south scranton and i am honored that this happened to me. I taught ten and 11 yearolds that these things could happen but i didnt think they would happen to me. [laughter] so the fact we are here and i can speak with you this morning is truly amazing to me. I like to say how much i am appreciative that joe biden entered this race. [applause] not just because he is friendly but becaus
Please welcome rosemary boland. [applause] good morning Everyone Welcome to scranton pennsylvania my name is rosemary boland. I am a teacher and president of the scranton teachers local. [applause] thank you for that. Thats not usually how i am greeted. [laughter] i would like to say i am a member of the American Federation of teachers perform on the executive board of the American Federation of teachers pennsylvania and Vice President of the aflcio pennsylvania so that tells you who i am. [applause] i am extremely proud and honored i was asked to do this introduction this morning. Im just a teacher from the south side of pennsylvania of south scranton and i am honored that this happened to me. I taught ten and 11 yearolds that these things could happen but i didnt think they would happen to me. [laughter] so the fact we are here and i can speak with you this morning is truly amazing to me. I like to say how much i am appreciative that joe biden entered this race. [applause] not just b
Advocacy groups who spoke before the house Judiciary Committee. Theyll talk about ways to improve Police Relations within the community and increase accountability among Law Enforcement. This is three hours and 40 minutes. House committee on the judiciary will come to order. The chair is authorized to declare recesses at any time. Welcome to the oversight hearing on Police Practices. Before we begin, i want to briefly recognize susan jensen whose last day on the committee after more than 20 years of service is tomorrow. Susan is highly respected on both sides of the aisle, as one of the preeminent experts on bankruptly, Administrative Law and the federal court system. It is a testament to her knowledge and fairness she worked as a senior counsel for republican and democratic chairs of this committee. First hired by former chair henry hyde for her expertise in bankruptcy law, susan moved to the democratic staff under john conyers, where she expanded her port follow to include Administra