Emergency management. Confirmation votes on two of the nominees are expected at 11 a. M. Eastern today. And now through live coverage of the u. S. Senate here on cspan2. The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Barry black, will lead the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Almighty god, who is given our lawmakers diversities of talents by the same spirit, use us for your glory. Lord, protect our nation from evil, prevent the weapons formed against america from prospering, for you remain our refuge and fortress. Continue to be the strength of our lives as we remember the many times you have preserved us in the past. Lord, open our eyes to the unfolding of your providence. Open our minds to your truth. Open our lips to speak your wisdom. We pray in your holy name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to our flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for
This is just over two hours and 20 minutes. Let me call this hearing to order. We are here to examine the implementation of the drinking and wastewater portions of the bipartisan infrastructure law, this is helping to deliver clean Drinking Water to millions of households and schools across our country. Before we do that, let me say how grateful i am to both panels for joining us today, including representatives of Drinking Water and large utilities. We are appreciative of the assistant administrator who leads epas office of water. The love our guests. We want to remember this day. Yesterday, the Biden Administration took a major step in addressing the presence of toxic forever chemicals in our Drinking Water. This announcement was some 20 years in the making, and issue we are dealing with in 48 states. I want to commend the administrator, assistant administrator and all of epa for proposing a thoughtful, sciencebased National Drinking standard. Its a critical step to protecting Drinki
No more information about the investigation itself, but still very active. We are expecting police to be here on the scene for a while yet. And this is having an impact on traffic in the area, although i should say there is some improvement now. With more on that, well go to Melissa Mollet. We have been chatting here throughout the morning talking about this situation in suitland. And what we know from the scene from megan, theres silver hill road now open. Suitland road near huron avenue is still shut down. You dont have to go back around the rear of the federal center. Your best alternate is pennsylvania or southern. Take a live look here at a traffic camera, 270 at middlebrook road is looking good at this point this morning. No major issues or problems there. Tom, coming up in the next couple of minutes, a wider look at the beltway. The only real problem on the beltway is near Central Avenue where we have lanes blocked because of the earlier crash. The traffic looks good there and t
EAST PALESTINE, Ohio Days following his ninth trip to East Palestine in the wake of last year’s Norfolk Southern train derailment, U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown