[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] the committee will come to order. Without objection, the chairs declared a recess of the committee at any time. As a reminder to all members, have a stop at 1 30 p. M. Members able to ask questions at Todays Hearing will be given priority in our next hearing with the secretary. PursuanT To house rules, the committee will continue to provide accommodations for the members who requesT To participate in hearings virtually but i am happy to have the vast majority of our members and when is participating in person here today. As a reminder, those not fully vaccinated continue to wear a mask in the Hearing Room and practice social distancing but i would also like to encourage our members to continue wearing masks if they feel more comfortable doing so. Members, we have a little bit of a problem with our timing apparatus this morning. We can see the timing here when youre five minutes are up. Our witness can for five minutes and of course it
Repairing our Nations Infrastructure is clear. Its no surprise, again that these president s, through the modern times including donald trump, have suggested it. Frankly, i believe donald trumps advocacy on the infrastructure helped change the way many in the republican Party View these kinds of investments. This investment in repairing and upgrading our infrastructure will also have a real and lasting impact on our economy long term. There is a lot of discussion about inflation right now. Again, making the economy more efficient, more productive, growing the economy. Thats what economists would call by investing in hard assets and jobs the supplyside. These are supplyside investments. This is why economists have said including Michael Strain of the conservative american enterprise institute, this will be counterinflationary. Thats important to note, too. By the way this money is not going to be spent next year. Its not going to be spent hardly at all the next year. Its going to be spe
Medicare and other programs. Progressive congresswoman saying this. It does look like all five of the priorities we laid out as a Progressive Caucus will be included in some way in this package. I think this will be a significant Down Payment On A real investment into our people. But it is not The End. Harris its not The End. Did you catch it . Republicans are ripping that proposal apart. We already spent 1. 9 trillion we dont have earlier this year. So if you are the economic advisor to the president you wouldnt say lets spend 3 1 2 Trillion and raise taxes. It is a lurch toward socialism. They will need every democrat to pass. There is not a single republican in the House Or Senate who will support this level of taxing and spending and regulations. Harris a lurch toward socialism or is this actually it . The top republican in the senate, Senate Minority Leader Mitch Mcconnell is in focus. Lets start here with Jackie Heinrich on Capitol Hill to get the latest there. Good morning, harr
He is a real leader that listens and knows how to bring people together. Brought this department together like never before. I am so excited to be swearing in the next chief of the San Francisco Fire Department, ladies and gentlemen, lets welcome, Jeanine Nicholson. applause . I grew up total tomboy, athlete. I loved a good crisis, a good challenge. I grew up across the street from the Fire Station. My dad used to take me there to vote. I never saw any female firefighters because there werent any in the 1970s. I didnt know i could be a fire fighter. When i moved to San Francisco in 1990, some things opened up. I saw women doing things they hadnt been doing when i was growing up. One thing was firefighting. A woman recruited me at the Gaypride Parade in 1991. It was a perfect fit. I liked using my brain, body, working as a team, figuring things out, troubleshooting and coming up with different ways to solve a problem. In terms of coming in after another female chief, i dont think anybod
Rising cases of the Delta Variant including among the vaccinated. Countries like austral are posing new restrictions. Welcome to monday, it is Meet The Press Daily. We have quite a few developments here in washington, but we begin with the latest out of surfside, florida, the Death Toll from that tragic Condo Collapse is now up to ten. They have recovered another body and that 151 people remain unaccountanted for. Not a single survivor has been pulled from the rubble since Thursday Morning when the Tower First collapsed. Still in the last hour the mayor said the search for survivors will not stop. Were exploring all possible avenues that they identify. And were going to continue and work ceaselessly to use every possible option in our search. I repeat the Search And Rescue operation continues. There will be a thorough and full investigation of what lead to this tragic event. We are going to get to the bottom of what happened here. Investigators are beginning a full investigation of the