One of the lowest rates in the world. Government forces in mozambique are on the offensive to retake the strategic port held by eisel linked fighters. The belorussian president has told striking workers there wont be new elections until they kill him but i think on the lucas has suggested he may be willing to redistribute power after a week of massive protests he said changes could be made to the constitution but he wouldnt do it under pressure his speech came just hours after Opposition Leader skier said she was willing to help lead the country during a transition period she sent a video message from exile in neighboring lithuania now protesters across the country have made it clear they want out and thousands of workers at state and factories and the state t. V. Channel have joined a National Strike correspondent so vasant joins us live from the state media headquarters in minsk where striking workers have converged and said the state t. V. Is not be broadcasting any pictures today t
Have learned during the crisis to better prepare for pandemic or other biological events of this scale in the future. Folks of todays hearing is the Strategic National stockpile. First established with a 51,000 appropriation in 1958, the sns was codified in 2002 and obtained its current name with an expanded mission in 2003. Over the years, management responsibility for the sns has changed between different agencies within hhs and dhs. In developing a plan for this committees oversight for the federal governments response to the coronavirus, the role of the Strategic National stockpile was an obvious area of interest, as is the vulnerability of our supply chain and theyre very interrelated. I assume that staff would be able to quickly obtain the list of items that should be held together with required and actual inventory levels of each item. Once again, i learned it is dangerous to assume. We quickly found out that those lists do not exist or certainly are not made available to congre
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
Millions of people in latin america could go hungry this year because of cooping 90. And i mean weddings are the sports news as it is a 1500000000. 00 relief fund for World Football and each of its 211. 00 member nations will save a 1000000. 00 grant to kick start the game which is being here in the virus with half a 1000000000 h. Set aside for womens football. Too big to dominant an all too powerful thats whats being levelled at the Biggest Companies in the us right now in a hearing in washington d. C. U. S. President donald trump is also joined in the criticism threatening to quote bring fairness if congress doesnt take any action the chief executives of Facebook Google amazon and apple are all being quest. Into the hearing of accusations of anti competitive behavior together their companies are worth almost 5 trillion dollars theyre making the case that they are operating fairly and within the rooms but speak to him for issues following the hearings on capitol hill so out of this co