Want to welcome everyone. We have three items on our agenda today and id like to quickly address 2 of them, Committee Rules and subcommittees before focusing our remarks on judge garlands nomination to serve as indications next attorney general. We are voting today to adopt Committee Rules for the hundred 17 congress and we made very few limited modifications on a bipartisan basis and my hope is we can adopt these rules by voice vote. We will be voting to formalize our subcommittees including jurisdiction and membership of each. We have 2 reconstituted subcommittees this congress, subcommittee on Privacy Technology and the subcommittee on human rights and the law which was previously chaired. I know our subcommittee chairs are eager to hold important hearings on legislation and oversight and i look forward to an active subcommittees schedule this year and i hope we will be able to approve these subcommittees by voice vote as well. Let me turn to the Major Business at hand. Judge garlan
Agreement. A day after the inauguration, senator mcconnell talked about the negotiations. Mcconnell for this 117th congress, the American People chose an evenly split senate. 60 republicans and 50 democrats. With the election of Vice President harris, that means the democratic leader will act as majority leader. So i want to congratulate my colleague from new york. His pride and emotion were palpable yesterday as this selfdescribed kid from brooklyn and son of an exterminator and a housewife became the first jewish member of congress to lead either chamber. An historic milestone. Now, the senates handled an even split before. 20 years ago, faced with the same scenario, the two leaders brokered a powersharing agreement so the institution could function smoothly. The democratic leader and i are discussing a similar agreement now. I have been heartened to hear my colleague say he wants the same rules from the 2000s to apply today. Because certainly 20 years ago, there was no talk, none wh
Thank you. Sure. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2019] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] thank you for being here and the person some of us, and some of us remotely. Today, we are considering the nomination of Governor Gina Raimondo to be the next secretary of commerce. I want to thank senator cantwell for joining me and hold this important conference hearing. And i want to take a moment to thank former secretary ross for his service and for working with me and my staff for over the past four years. To move out of this pandemic. I look forward to hearing from governor raimondo today on her and President Bidens goals for in the department of commerce. If she is confirmed a secretary, which i expect will certainly occur. This confirmation hearing is a starting point for our vital policy matters including responding to the economic damage caused by the pandemic, inves
All of the powers and resources of the federal government, working closely with state, local leaders, tribal leaders, and those on the front lines in communities across the country. Central to the strategy is getting all americans vaccinated as quickly and as equitably as possible, increasing vaccine supply, increasing the number of vaccinators, providing more places for people to get vaccinated, including supporting local and state partners in their efforts to get needles in arms. All three are critical. Today, we are taking new actions on vaccine supply and the number of places for people to get vaccinated. I will start with our efforts on vaccine supply. When we came into office three weeks ago, the weekly delivery was 8. 6 million doses. Today, we are announcing we will increase weekly vaccine doses going to states, tribes, and territories to 11 million. That is a total of a 28 increase in vaccine supply across the first three weeks. I know americans are eager to get vaccinated, an
We examine the contrast between w enforcements handling of the violent mob ison compato the heavy acted tactics so often employed against peaceful protests for Racial Justice. And, the world reacts. The assault on the capital by trumpsupportingre ests gets widespread condemnation from across the globe. All that into more on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbsws ur has been provided by consumer cellular, johnson johnson, Financial Services firm raymond james, bnsf railway, e candid fund, restoring justice and meaningful work in transformative leaders and ideas. Carnegie corporation of new york, supporting innovations in education, democratic engagement and the advancement of International Peace and security at carnegie. Org. And ongoing support of these individuals a institutions this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Stephae good evening, i am stephanie syt newshou