Withdrawing the amendment. If there is no further debate, the amendment we are back live at the House Appropriations committee. Theyre working on 2021 spending levels for the defense, commerce, justice and transportation department, as well as the department of housing and urban development. The markup is excited to go into the evening. You are watching live coverage on cspan. Chair lowey for what purpose does the member from california rise . The member of california . Thank you. I havent amendment at the desk have an amendment at the desk. Chair lowey the clerk will read the amendment. I ask unanimous consent to dispense of the reading. Chair lowey without objection, the reading of the amendment is dispensed with. Thank you. This amendment is straightforward. It would block a president from starting a war with iran absent expressed authorization from congress. This amendment consists of language that the house is already adopted as part of h. R. 550 in january of this year. Let me be
Chair lowey i will say good morning again. I call this meeting of the committee on 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 Today is consideration of the department of defense appropriations bill for fiscal year 2021. I will not recognize to present the bill. Thank you, madam chairwoman. Before i begin my remarks, i 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. Him saying them as someone who is so compulsive, he saved the congressional record on the day he was appointed to this committee after years of efforts, which makes mr. Rogers, my good friend, the only person
Carrier to ground more than one 3rd of its pilots after an investigation finds their licenses were dubious and a gesture of pace south koreans the 70th anniversary of the war with the north. Australias Largest Airline quantas is cutting 6000. 00 staff to reduce costs as it fights to survive the coronavirus pandemic the airline is grounding 100. 00 planes for at least a year and 15000. 00 workers only 4 months its boss alan joyce says hes hoping to save 10000000000. 00 over 3 years in response to what he says is the biggest crisis the industry has ever faced. This crisis is still hit those ferrety pretty hard and the impact will be felt for a long time particularly im sorry to say the impact on our people it is very clear that International Travel is likely to be stalled for some considerable time on out to the peak body for the Airline Industry says it will take more than tree years for Global Travel to return to 2009 the level. Theyre going to gauge has more from camberwell this reall
With the endracism. The mayor condemned the nooses and allowanced the police would launch a hate Crime Investigation. The mayor said even though there were claims the nooses were used for exercise equipment, that does not excuse them. When officers searched the lake, they found five ropes attached to multiple trees. We spoke to one africanamerican man who shared this video of people using the ropes as swings. He tells us theyve been up for months and the purpose was to have fun, not to instill fear. Maybe that big, just enough to put a harness on it so you can swing yourself. We have to start with the assumption that these are hate crimes. We cannot take these actions lightly. We have to take them seriously. Reporter and the mayor says the findings from opds hate Crime Investigation will be turned over to the fbi. And she was pretty adamant about this, that these symbols of hate crime, regardless of the intention, they will not be tolerated in oakland, especially if a public place. Tha
Look when she says she saw a noose hanging from a tree later posting this photo in a video of what she encountered on social media oakland mayor libby shaft says there were reports of several nooses found on trees around the lake police say they found 5 ropes on tuesday afternoon all of which have been removed one person told police he put them up for exercise months ago the mayor says that does not excuse their torture us in terrorizing effects we have to start with the assumption that these are hate crimes. We cannot take these actions lightly. We have to take them seriously. And again if theyre proven not to be that will then exonerate that person but that does not exonerate the fact that we cannot have symbols in our public spaces that guy. Cole but this robot there. He said it was for a mind you ive never seen a swing set. Resembles a dose. You know it looks like mostly of like most about it was a hoax information came in that this was exercise equipment. Some of it may have but s