During the hearing, she discussed infrastructure projects, highway and rail safety, investment into the theons ports, and discretionary Grant Programs that address the needs of rural and urban areas. Rep. Price the subcommittee will come to order. Good morning. Im pleased to kick off our subcommittee hearing season for this and other subcommittees by examining the fiscal year 2021 budget request for the department of transportation. Secretary chao, welcome back and thank you for joining us. Glad to have you here. Infrastructure serves as the foundation for our economy and our quality of life. It facilitates the flow of goods and services, connects people to employment and educational opportunities, and plays a significant role in our nations overall welfare. Theres no question our country requires a massive infusion of investment to repair deficient bridges, restore transit systems to a state of good repair, improve our ports, and build new runways for our airports. We must also make f
Peter but not with the americans who came back. Pres. Trump at the time, it was. Now they have studied it. Live this morning, we will be hearing testimony from the secretary of health and Human Services, alex azar, who is hearing appearing before a subcommittee on the budget request. He is also expected to get questions about the response to the coronavirus outbreak. The white house is asking for money in new funding and would take it from ebola preparedness and other programs to deal with the coronavirus. There is a cross briefing on the u. S. Response in several spoke to reporters after including the chair and Ranking Member who oversees the committee. Thoughtsu give us your on the briefing . This is a very aggressive virus. The number of cases in china is up. We see cases in italy, iran, other places. We need to redouble efforts we have made which have been the unusual quarantine of american citizens and the Public Health efforts we are making and congress will be considering additi
Acting office of management and budget are Russell Vought on trumps 4. 8 million Budget Proposal for 2021 before the house Budget Committee. This runs three hours. I certainly welcome the acting director phoned the Russell Vought. Thank you for being here to testify on the president s 2021 Budget Proposal and i hope todays hearing will provide an open and amistad examination of the party set forth by the Trump Administration so they can get back to passing legislation Appropriations Bills that reflect the needs and priorities of the American People. I will now yield myself five minutes for an Opening Statement just six short months ago the president signed a bipartisan just, can everybody hear me . A just six months ago the president signed it twoyear budget deal into law. It does everything the president s proposal failed to do set rational discretionary lines allowing strong investments in our national and Economic Security and has bipartisan support including the bank member and mys
chance to speak on this soon. as i said earlier this week, my corvette is in a locked garage and they aren t sitting in the street. in a locked garage. president biden: as well as my corvette. people know i take classified documents and material seriously. i also said we re cooperating fully and completely with the justice department s revuchlt as part of that process my lawyers reviewed other places where documents from my time as vice president were stored and they finished the review last night. they discovered a small number of documents with classified markings in storage areas and file cabinets in my home in my personal library. harris: he is reading that. that statement was being read talking about the economy. he to go lid after he opened himself up to a couple shouted questions. this all comes after we learned about the first batch on monday of classified documents. some of which were top secret. marked top secret. those discovered were at the penn biden center
So i certainly hope they would be but i have no confidence as i sit here right now that they will. Senator nelson when, mr. Secretary, when you look at a map like this, a map of syria that i assume you handed out, somebody did thats a mess. And maybe it is the only solution is the solution of a political exit for assad so that we can go after these extremist elements. By the way, i had to leave the committee to do an interview on cnn, and the whole focus that they wanted to jump on was your statement earlier in the hearing that we had only trained up 60. But i pointed out to them what you said was the vetting is very difficult and in fact we are vetting some several thousands additional and the vet is a lot more tore tuesdayous because you certainly dont want to have a guy trained up and then you ends up aiming his gun back at us. In iraq, do you think that this new Prime Minister has the capability of getting out of his shiite mold and does he have the capability of bringing all the s