Almost two and a half hours. [inaudible conversations] is a todays committee will come to order and i want to thank everyone for joining us here today and want to welcome the secretary and the administrator and thank you both for being here and all the members for being here. This is the first opportunity to hear from both of you about the enactment of the act in particular as it applies to Small Business. It is a landmark legislation and less than two Weeks Congress passed the largest Economic Relief package. They worked tirelessly to make it possible every single one participated on the leadership of the Ranking Member, senator cardin, senator shaheen and senator Collin Collins isnt a r of the committee that was part of the task force and it was invaluable in helping craft a lot of this and i want the record to reflect dot. We have invited senator collins does it and participate and rightfully so because of the extraordinary contribution. As every member thats been involved, the admi
[inaudible conversations] is a todays committee will come to order and i want to thank everyone for joining us here today and want to welcome the secretary and the administrator and thank you both for being here and all the members for being here. This is the first opportunity to hear from both of you about the enactment of the act in particular as it applies to Small Business. It is a landmark legislation and less than two Weeks Congress passed the largest Economic Relief package. They worked tirelessly to make it possible every single one participated on the leadership of the Ranking Member, senator cardin, senator shaheen and senator Collin Collins isnt a r of the committee that was part of the task force and it was invaluable in helping craft a lot of this and i want the record to reflect dot. We have invited senator collins does it and participate and rightfully so because of the extraordinary contribution. As every member thats been involved, the administrator has an incredible a
Asked about the effectiveness of the Paycheck Protection Program referred to as ppp. [indistinct chatter] a todays committee will come to order and i want to thank everyone for joining us here today and want to welcome the secretary and the administrator and thank you both for being here and all the members for being here. This is the first opportunity to hear from both of you about the enactment of the act in particular as it applies to Small Business. It is a landmark legislation and less than two Weeks Congress passed the largest Economic Relief package. They worked tirelessly to make it possible every single one participated on the leadership of the Ranking Member, senator cardin, senator shaheen and senator Collin Collins isnt a r of the committee that was part of the task force and it was invaluable in helping craft a lot of this and i want the record to reflect dot. We have invited senator collins does it and participate and rightfully so because of the extraordinary contributio
Clean water act authority. When asked this direct question during our subcommittee hearing, the administrations witness stated clearly that the proposed rule, quote, would not assert jurisdiction over any type of waters not previously protected over the past 40 years, closed quote. Under my amendment, if the administration is proven incorrect, the final rule could not be implemented. Similarly, opponents have suggested that the rule is inconsistent with the rulings and jurisdictional tests outlined by the Supreme Court. The administration witness has testified that this rule is consistent with the as it tests outlined by the Supreme Court. If my outline is acosmopolitanned, is adopted, then the final rule could not be implemented. Opponents have claimed that the proposed rule increases the regulation of ditches. The administration has test testified that in fact it would reduce the scope of jurisdiction al ditches that are covered by the jurisdictional ditches that are covered by the g
Room when the president s son expected to receive information that would hurt the Hillary Clinton campaign. That was last year in june. And we know one of the people there was a man whose role and history in washington is somewhat of a puzzle. A former officer in the soviet military, now an american citizenship and a lobbyist who pushes issues of interest to the russian government. The issue is on his mind, he tweeted this this afternoon. Stock market hit another alltime high yesterday despite the russian hoax story. The president is in new jersey this weekend, so is borris sanchez. Tell us what anyone in the administration is saying about these developments today. The white house responds to these latest revelations aside from a brief mention of the russia hoax in that tweet from the president earlier today. There was no official statement. The president also didnt hold any Public Events today where reporters could at least shout out questions to him about the specifics of who was in