Good morning. So this meeting will now come to order. Today the subcommittee is holding a hearing entitled oversight of doe, during covid19 pandemic. Members will be participating in todays hearing finally in person or remotely via video conferences. And just as a reminder weve had some technical difficulties in making sure that our remote video was operating up to standard. As part of this hearing, the microphones of members participating remotely will be set on mute for the purpose of eliminating inadvertent background noise. Members participating remotely will need to unmute their microphones each time you wish to speak. For members and witnesses participating in person, i encourage you to wear your mask whenever you are not speaking. Dr. Monahan, our physician, stressed in attending physician covid19 guidelines that use of face coverings is meant to protect other people in case someone was unknowingly infected and does not have symptoms. But wearing our mask when we are not speakin
It is still on. President trump insists a phase one trade agreement with china is fully intact. Peter navarro claims his earlier comments were taken out of context after suggesting the deal was over. The European Commission is more confrontational. E. U. Lash out at beijing over hong kongs autonomy, disinformation, and foreign investor meant foreign investment. We are in brussels. Hard times for softbank. The Company Sells part of its tmobile stake, creating 21 billion dollars to help offset record losses in its investment business. We will have the details for you briefly. Just under one hour away from the start of cash equity trading in europe. Lets take a look at futures this morning after we closed down yesterday in the u. S. And the u. S. Managed to eek out some gains. They are trading solidly higher. Dax futures are up. 6 percent. Ftse futures up about. 25 . What do you see on the gmm . Anna we have certainly been whipsawed by those comments by Peter Navarro on trade and the abil
Structure projects, including road repairs, port repairs, and Drinking Water systems. It was joined by several other Democratic Senators during this 25 minute briefing. Thank you everybody. We have many more my colleagues coming. As you know we have a lot of hearings so theyre going to come in as they come. We myself, senator senators and others all speaking. Will each speak briefly on this a very important issue. When President Trump was candidate trump, at almost every stop at the campaign trail he talked about a big, big bold, 1,000,000,000,000 dollar trillion dollar infrastructure bill that would put millions of americans back to work. Rebuilding our roads and bridges. That is something that Congressional Democrats have sought for years by Congressional Republicans have stymied a set of return. Today, we, Senate Democrats are unveiling a blueprint to rebuild americas infrastructure and create 15 million jobs. We are challenging President Trump to support our plan. He campaigned on
Structure projects, including road repairs, port repairs, and Drinking Water systems. It was joined by several other Democratic Senators during this 25 minute briefing. Thank you everybody. We have many more my colleagues coming. As you know we have a lot of hearings so theyre going to come in as they come. We myself, senator senators and others all speaking. Will each speak briefly on this a very important issue. When President Trump was candidate trump, at almost every stop at the campaign trail he talked about a big, big bold, 1,000,000,000,000 dollar trillion dollar infrastructure bill that would put millions of americans back to work. Rebuilding our roads and bridges. That is something that Congressional Democrats have sought for years by Congressional Republicans have stymied a set of return. Today, we, Senate Democrats are unveiling a blueprint to rebuild americas infrastructure and create 15 million jobs. We are challenging President Trump to support our plan. He campaigned on
Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer called on President Trump to follow through on his Campaign Promise to spend 1,000,000,000,000 dollars on infrastructure. Trimmed by fellow democrats that he unveiled the Infrastructure Spending proposal. For a good. Thank you everybody. We have many more of my colleagues coming. As you know we have a lot of hearings so theyre going to come in as they come. We have myself, senators sanders, and others all speaking. Well each speak briefly on this very important issue. When President Trump was candidate trump, at almost every stop on the campaign trail he talked about a big, bold 1,000,000,000,000 dollar 1 trilliondollar infrastructure bill that would put millions of americans back to work rebuilding roads and bridges. That is something that Congressional Democrats have sought for years but Congressional Republicans have stymied us at every turn. Today, we, Senate Democrats are unveiling a blueprint blueprint to rebuild the infrastructure and create