For the Government Accountability office. Guest thank you for having me. Host tell us why the gao did this report. Guest the cares act passed in verch required us to ha oversight of the funding and activities of the federal government, specifically it requires us to provide oversight of the governments efforts to respond to and recover from covid19. And it includes us assessing the impact of covid19 on Public Health, as well as at the economy, as well as track the funding and use of the funding. The act requires us to report everything, starting 90 days after an accident, so the june report was our first report, and we will be issuing additional reports every other month. Host as soon as the legislation assigned, enacted and signed, the gao is monitoring . Guest absolutely, we are providing realtime oversight. We have experience doing this. Going back over a decade ago, for example, under the Lease Program that provided assistance to the Financial Sectors after the global crisis, we we
Asset Relief Program that provided assistance to the Financial Sector after the Global Financial crisis, we were required to provide ongoing oversight and issue a report every 60 days. We have experience and we have built on that experience to hit the ground running to provide immediate oversight and help ensure accountability and transparency how the funds are being used. Host lets look at the overall numbers, 2. 57 trillion in spending and the measures passed by Congress Come here are the figures on each of those packages. The ppe, Paycheck Protection Program, 670 billion, the treasured the treasure economic0 Stabilization Fund 500 billion, expand Unemployment Insurance 375 billion, the Economic Impact payments, 282 billion, Public Health emergency funding to 132 billion, and 150 billion from the cares act, the relief for state and local governments. Ofof that, 2. 57 trillion, Nicole Clowers, how much hasot been spt already . Guest about 677 billion. Thats what we found in our collec
Officials, discusses the rising number of cases in several states. Nicole clowers discusses her ys reports of how relief funds from congress are being spent. The u. S. Supreme court is wrapping up its term this week, issuing decisions in cases heard earlier in the term. One of those decisions upholds the Electoral College, by saying electorsfaithless defy the will of the voters. Welcome to the washington journal. It is four months until election day. We will start asking you about the Electoral College. Should the Electoral College be abolished . Isyou think so, that line 202 7488000. If that answer is no, the line is 202 7488001. We welcome your comments on text. The line 202 7488003. We are on twitter. Facebook. Com cspan. Is expected to issue more decisions this week, wrapping up its term. A little Electoral College oneonone from the national archives. A little Electoral College 101 from the national archives. The number of electors is equal to the number of members in the congressi
Government, specifically it requires us to provide oversight of the specifically, it requires us to of the ongoing oversight governments efforts to recover covid19. The act requires us to report every 60 days, starting 90 days after an announcement, so our june report was our first report, and we will be issuing additional reports on the other months. Host basically s s this is signed, the gao is monitoring its spending . Guest absolutely. We are providing realtime oversight of the fund and we have experienced during this, going back over a decade, for example, under the troubled Asset Relief Program that provided assistance to the financial sectors after the financial crisis. We were required to provide ongoing oversight and issue a report every 60 days. We have experience and build on that experience to hit the ground running to provide immediate oversight and help ensure accountability and transparency of how the funds are being used. St lets take a look at the numbers. 2. 57 host l
With consideration for fiscal year 2018 concurrent resolution of the budget. I want to thank the Ranking Member for working with me to develop a structure for this markup that closely resembles and follows what has been done in the past. Openoal is to have it and markup. Besides will have the debate. Ity to we have a long day ahead of us and i think everyone for their cooperation. We will come lead our work i midnight and hopefully well before then. If we can all Work Together that might be possible. I would like to recognize the distinguished member from indiana. Good morning. Latereveral expected today i would ask unanimous consent that consistent with caused floor four of rule 16 the chairman will be authorized to declare recess at any time today. Without objection so ordered. I ask unanimous consent that thats each side b advocated 40 minutes. The Ranking Member will make an Opening Statement out of that a lot of time. Each side then makes presentations out of the remaining 10. Mem