Good morning. I called a meeting on appropriations to order. Before we begin, house rules 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. He has been a great partner from the great lakes and a little geography being social studies teacher, he 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 for all contributions and especially the way in which continue our tradition of nonpartisan work, to Work Together on issues that affect Indian Country. Im also grateful for the leadership
Washington journal, we look at the latest on the federal response to the coronavirus pandemic with virginia ben clinen and thomas suozzi. Good morning. Thursday, may 28, 2020. The house returns at 9 00 a. M. Totern to vote on renew federal surveillance powers. President trump will receive a briefing at the white house on the 2020 Hurricane Season after the first launch on u. S. Soil was delayed due to the weather. On the death in minneapolis monday have an unarmed black man at the hands of police. After some protest turned violent overnight, we open our phones to hear from you about the state of Race Relations in this country. If you think Race Relations are Getting Better, 202 7488000. If you think they are getting worse, 202 7488001. If you think they are staying about the same, 202 7488002. You can send us a text this morning. That number is 202 7488003. If you do include your name and where youre from. Otherwise catch up with us on social media on cspan cspanwj. On facebook, facebo
Wheeler testified before a House Appropriations subcommittee on the agencys 2021 budget request. Several members asked about the epas efforts to regulate what are called forever chemicals. Congresswoman Betty Mccollum opened the hearing. Good morning. This hearing will come to order. Today is the day that were going to do the interior environment subcommittee and examine the president s fiscal year 2021 budget request for the Environmental Protection agency. Joining with us this morning is administrator Andrew Wheeler and david blum. Welcome to both of you. For fiscal year 2021, the president s request of 6. 66 billion for the epa is a 27 cut below fy 2020, an active level of 9. 06 billion. This request from the president seeks to undo all the progress we were able to achieve on a broad bipartisan basis in the fy 2020. For example, request eliminates the 39 million in new funding we provided to the epa to address pfas. Requests Clean Energy Funding grants by 47 . Thats a 409 million cu
Live gaveltogavel of the house. Theyll gavel in next. Up the resolution on the appointment of managers of impeachment. Live coverage on cspan. The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. God, we give you thanks for giving us another day. You helped promise god, you are with us wherever we are and whatever we are doing to heal and to help, give strength and make us whole. On this day, the house and the senate draw our nations attention as the process of impeachment moves forward. Bless all members of congress with wisdom. Give them the courage to honor the constitution as they have promised to do so that all americans can proudly observe their government in action. Opinion and feelings will be on edge, may all members be filled by your holy spirit and engage each other with goodwill and respect. May all that is done this day and in the days to come, be for your gritter honor and glory. Amen.
Oversight subcommittee holds a hearing to look at the Economic Impact of climate change. Watch this live this afternoon at 3 00 p. M. Eastern here on cspan3 or listen live with the free cspan radio app. Lets show you the reaction President Trump had when he learned at last nights rally in battle creek, michigan, that the house had voted to impeach him. I think we have a vote coming in. So we got every single republican voted for us. Whoa. Whoa. So we had 198, 229. We didnt lose one republican vote. And three democrats voted for us. Wow. Thank you, hailey. Great job. Wow. The Republican Party has never been so affronted, but theyve never been so united as they are right now. Ever. Never. The Washington Post reports that there were 10,000 supporters at last nights rally. Heres the speaker of the house nancy pelosi after last nights votes. December 18th. A great day for the constitution of the United States. A sad one for america that the president s reckless activities necessitated us, o