New york 1. Good evening, welcome to new yorks 111th Congressional District. Were less than three weeks from election day, the start of early voting starts on october 24th and many voters received their absentee ballots. With Big Decisions on the minds of many voters, we bring you a seat held by both democrats and republicans over the past decade. Its consistently been the most competitive Congressional District in the city. The 11th district encompasses all Staten Island and bay ridge and the heights. The seat is currently held by max rose, a Democrat First elected to office in 2018. Hes being challenged by Nicole Malliotakis who currently serves in the state senate. Both are appearing via skype, were holding this remotely due to the coronavirus pandemic. The rules agreed to, generally the candidates will have one minute to answer questions and well of course allow for exchanges. Well have a cross examination round and a lightning round. The candidates will be by themselves for the du
House democrats held a News Conference where they introduced legislation that would impose new checks on president ial power and toughen enforcement of ethics rules and congressional subpoenas. Speaker nancy pelosi, Intelligence Committee chair adam schiff, along with the chairs of several committees addressed recent actions by President Trump. Good morning, everyone, and thank you for joining us. Im pleased to be joined today by the speaker and my fellow chairs to announce the introduction of the protecting our democracy act. In introducing this landmark bill, the house is taking another vitally important step in our determination to protect our democracy. Since taking office, donald trump has viewed the constraints on his power and the demand for basic transparency and accountability as an inconvenience. He has claimed extraordinary power, bent and broken the law and purposely undermi mined the rule of law. Hes bound only by norms for which he has no interest. Where he has found weak
The governors of new mexico, kansas and guam as well as douglas holtzeakin, former director of the Congressional Budget Office. This virtual hearing is just over four hours. The committee will come to order. Authorized to declare recess of the committee at any time. Before we begin todays hearing, i want to remind you of a few matters including some regulation accompanying House Resolution 965. I would ask all members to keep themselves on me was. This will minimize disturbances not being recognized with background noise they made only again one at a time. If you are participating today please remain with us during the hearing t that she recommends vendors identify themselves and facilitate the chairs recognition. I would also ask members to be patient this hearing is entitled the need for Financial Aid to americas states and territories during the pandemic. I now recognize myself for four minutes to give an Opening Statement of the 189,000 people have lost their lives to the virus las
Enduring and beloved institutions. The United States Postal Service. Entitiese few specifically mentioned by our founders in the constitution. The Postal Service delivers more than 470 million pieces of mail each day to every home and business across the United States. Lifelinees a critical to using critical medicine, supplies, and mail for every american, no matter where you live. Words. I will not mince the Postal Service is under attack. Newspapers from every corner of the country have seen the stories and pictures. Mail is being delayed by day and sometimes even weeks. Sorting equipment is being ripped out of postal facilities and thrown into dumpsters. Are being removed from street corners. Overtime is being denied for our postal carriers, who are some of our most essential workers during the coronavirus crisis. This didnt happen by accident. It was intentional. This happened because President Trump has been blocking critical funding for the Postal Services now four months. Hishe
Purposes without talking about the universal alien ballot scam male in that mail in ballot scam. What thats white house chief of staff mark meadows was on capitol hill during debate on the Postal Service bill. He was meeting with members about a possible second covid pandemic economic aid bill. This is what he told reporters about his efforts. Aid l. Omic this is what he told reporters about his efforts. I met with a few members of the house. They have an important vote for i wantedl service, and to take a message to as many members as i could wreck lead me with. The president is committed to making sure our postal workers have the assets and Financial Resources necessary to make sure that we have on time deliveries, but more importantly, that if we really want to solve this problem, since they are here for a saturday vote, i would encourage a targeted l that may include postal, and hopefully businesses,small maybe augmenting enhanced unemployment issues, things we can agree upon as de