National Defense Authorization act, and a measure ealing with the boeing max 737 crashes. Requested votes will take place after 6 00 p. M. Eastern. Live coverage of the house here on cspan. The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by chaplain father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. Loving and gracious lord of mercy, we give you thanks for giving us another day. In this single week, after a Long Campaign season and before breaking once again for thanksgiving, bless the members of the peoples house with focus and purpose on the issues facing them. We ask your blessing as well on those newly elected who will be joining this assembly for the 117th congress. May their transition into office be smooth and marked by the civility of Democratic Change of government which is the rightful pride of the United States of america. Lord, our nation continues to be besieged by the plague of the coronavirus. Send your spirit of peace that our people might be bro
Decide how the e. U. Will distribute 857000000000. 00 in coronavirus bailout money. Another single day rise in virus cases in india with another 14000 detection is being reported. In china sees its worst flooding in decades the Authorities Say 24000000 people have been affected. Developing story for you that much awaited report on the results of the 1st human Clinical Trial of a Coronavirus Vaccine developed by the university of oxford and astra zeneca he is out it has dropped in the past few minutes live now to oxford and our correspondent paul brennan policy reading the report there tell us more. Well struct in the last 20 minutes just been skim reading it and it certainly looks very positive indeed although there are some caveats that the report also has put on it but let me give you the positive aspects to start with 1st of all the vaccine that is being produced by the university of oxford and the general attitude it says is safe and induces in an immune reaction strong antibody an
Tumlin will talk about this, but last week we did have a press event with supervisors peskin and preston announcing that we will be delaying our fare increases. Obviously when we were voting upon that fare increase, we could not have understood the magnitude of what was before us and not to mention we didnt really have a path forward in being able to fund the operations, so i want to thank you supervisors peskin and preston for working with us to come up with solutions which i cannot tell you what they are today. But to look at how we can fill those funding gaps which primarily effect us in year two of the budget cycle, not so much in year one. That will be coming back to us in the future. And also with that we will not be having a Charter Amendment related to sfmta. Thank director tumlin for his work in working with the supervisors, and just say it was a pleasure to be there to represent the board last week at kirkland lard. And with that, i will turn it on to the next item. All right
A complete end to the lockdown. Risk of infection. On the right. Good morning to you thanks for joining us of course this is r. T. International. Well lets begin as is usual now with a quick update on the latest global coronavirus figures the total number of infections that is now above 4200000 287000 lives have been lost and more the 1500000 people have recovered. So lets start in russia where the nonworking periods brought in to fight the rapid spread of covert 19 has officially come to an end the news was announced by Vladimir Putin during a video address but that doesnt mean an immediate return to life as normal the number of new cases reported in russia this morning stands at 10899 more than 43000 people have recovered in total however 2116 have died as more on this now from our correspondent. Just take us through what was announced what exactly is this going to mean for people in the various parts of the country. While in recent days of course weve seen how many european nations
The subcommittee will come to order. Good morning. Good to see this morning. Welcome to the subcommittee. This is our second Budget Hearing of the year. , we are goingknow to examine the department of education budget request for fiscal year 2021. As i was reviewing the budget materials, this much was clear to me. To privatizeng Public Education. I believe it is the wrong direction for our students and for our country. We need to be moving towards earlying policies like childhood education, that we know helps students succeed. We see this in other countries around the globe. They are not shrinking public support but are expanding it. I will get more into the consequences that you are proposing, but i want to start by examining your privatization philosophy. The false premise on which it is built and the research. , theary to your claim Public Education system, which 90 of our children attend, has witnessed significant progress for all groups of students. Scores haveematics improved for