We are live on capitol hill waiting for a house markup to get underway. The Appropriations Committee is working on 2021 spending for state Department Foreign operations, agriculture and military construction. This is live coverage on cspan2. Please be seated. We are ready to begin. My friends, ladies and gentlemen, please be seated. I call the meeting of the Appropriations Committee to order. I would first like to welcome all members to the first full Committee Markup of fiscal year 2021. This will be a markup season unlike any other. Not only are we going to complete our work in record time, but we will be joined by a handful of our colleagues who were unable to be here due to the pandemic. Before we begin i have a number of housekeeping announcements. First, we should all be mindful of our health, and take appropriate actions. Following doctor monahans guidance, everyone, everyone must wear a mask and provide social distancing. Also, this information was previously conveyed to your s
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Legal trouble. All of these, though, are so important to americans who are sitting at home looking for some help and for some answers. Yes. They find themselves in a situation hes sending a message. Beyond their control. Hes sending a message that im going to help you on the bills that are happening right now. Right . The issue here, for me, thats so interesting is that the democrats already passed a whole bunch of this, except for the payroll tax holiday, back in may, 3. 5 trillion worth of economic stimulus for the economy heading into the election and republicans have a much smaller deal and theyre not on the same page at all. So, the president is sort of stepping in here in the breach. I think the optics are to tell main street, real, working americans and out of work americans that help is coming on your bills right now. We know theyve faced this brick wall, weve just run into this brick wall. We have 13 Million People who have lost their jobs and are still out of work but the ext
Unprecedented step further in what critics call an effort to is distract the white house now threatening to revoke security clearance from six former Top National Security officials, all of whom are fierce critics of trumps actions or inactions. These officials have served both democrats and republicans and have decades of experience in intelligence, law or diplomacy. For context, the heads of the Intelligence Agencies usually keep the Security Clearances unless theres reason to revoke them. It allows them mpay attentio to this it allows them to speak openly about matter the. They keep the clearance so if the Current Administration needs some advice or help, they can talk to them. I want to point out something. Sarah sanders was very proud to get up and change the topic because she didnt want to talk about the president s walkback, disaster in helsinki, all the
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Are you kidding me . At this in this moment where we are in history with women, you are going to tell us to just look at her . Are you out of your mind . You know what . Thats your only excuse. And i feel really sorry for you. I obviously with my know your value platform feel really strongly about these comments and they made my blood boil. I was shaking when i heard them. I agree with what you said, 100 . The time has come for women to speak out. And let me say this. If Rudy Giuliani is not fired immediately by this president , it is an outrage. Its a bad day for humanity. Imagine if you imagine if the three of us sat here and said look at those crazy old men. Look at those crazy old cigar smoking whacky men spouting their mouths, spouting lies. I mean, they would say that were inappropriate. Were ageist. How is it in 2018 Rudy Giuliani can say this and you dont have an immediate apology from the white house . They are a group of 13 democrats that make up the mueller team, excludeing