The Senate Environment and public works Works Committee held a hearing on how infrastructure legislation can help the economy recover from the coronavirus pandemic. Senators and panelists discuss the best way to fund road and bridge projects. Good morning. I called his hearing to order. Before i discussed todays hearing i want to say a few words about what is happening in communities across the country today. This is a time of great pain and unrest for our nation. Americans are truly outraged by recent killings. Anyone who watched the video the murder of george floyd has to be horrified and heartbroken. The resulting peaceful protests about police abuse against any american citizen are important and necessary. They listen to the voices of africanamericans about police brutality. Some of the peaceful protests were hijacked by filing criminal, distraction, looting and arson stop. Those who commit these crimes dishonor the memory of george floyd and dishonor the cause and the Peaceful Pro
cia, the new warnings to china not to help russia in ukraine. and people are getting a first look at how bad the storms were. and a new decision of abortions today, and the impact could be immediate and nationwide. this is what we are watching this hour. thank you for being here. i m kate bolduan. the concern over china and ukraine tensions are growing every hour. first there was concern that china was going to provide russia with weapons to help with the war in ukraine. but the biden administrator told that they are strongly considering sending drones and ammunitions to russia to defeat ukraine. and so we will start with m.j. lee who is live at the white house. m.j., what is and isn t the white house saying about the latest assessment? well, kate, the administration is openly warning that china is considering providing lethal aid to russia in the war against ukraine, and talking about drones and while china has not made a final decision of whether to go down this path,
Eastern, former president and presumptive nominee donald trump will speak before the delegates. Sunday, the Party Announces its president ial nominee for the president ial election. The Libertarian National Convention Live at cspan, cspan our mobile video app and online at cspan. Org. On this wednesday morning we take you live now to the u. S. Senate where today lawmakers will consider a pair of judicial nominations including a vote on the Biden Administrations 200th confirmation to the court and later senators will vote on nom fee to be the undersecretary of the air force. Live coverage here on cspan2. The presiding officer the senate will come to order. The chaplain dr. Barry black will lead the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Eternal god, this day we give you our lives, for without you we are like dust in the wind. Shield us from disgrace, as you surround us with your protection, mercy, and love. Remind us that disgrace comes to those who seek to deceive others. Lord, su
Commerce, science and transportation committee, topics included critical mineral supply chains, manufacturing of Semiconductor Chips, workforce shortages and Rural Broadband access. The hearing runs two hours and 40 minutes. [inaudible conversations] good afternoon, the Senate Commerce committee will come to order. I think my colleagues who have been in this room for many hours already today doing double duty today on aviation hearing and very important conversation about the chips in science act, which are committee played a big role in, needless to say are committee has been working diligently on a lot of transformational policy but while we are waiting for our colleague here i think i will thank senator wicker again for his work on chips in science act. People may not remember but this committee, dont know how many were processed. It was in the hundreds. Might have been in the 300s but i definitely believe a regular order process is good for the institution, good for the debate abou
Rules. That is when i explain it in a goes through rep. Brooks you have no judgment a you cannot explain it to the committee . Admin mccarthy there is no specific definition i can offer you. A judgment that will be well documented by the science. Rep. Brooks how long has the epa been working on that . Admin mccarthy since we created the Clean Air Act. Rep. Brooks what year . Admin mccarthy 1990 . Rep. Brooks decades later you still do not have the definition. Admin mccarthy it is not apply to that away. Chairman smith thank you. The gentleman from virginia. Rep. Beyer thank you for being so patient and gracious this morning despite rather combative nature of the questioning. Our chair, my good friend and distinguished chair claims the epa has severely damage our economy. How do you reconcile that with 64 straight months of job growth and 12. 8 million private sector jobs and tripling of the stock market. If there is not perhaps better to look at the infrastructure bills we failed to pa