Good morning this hearing will come to order. Today is the day that we are going to do the interior environment subcommittee and examine the president s fiscaleat year 2021 budget request for the admire Environmental Protection agency. Officer welc administrator andrew wheeler, with him is david bloom. Welcome to both of you. The fiscal year 2021, the president s request of 6. 66 billion dollars for the epa isy a 27 cut below f why 2020 and active level of 9. 06 billion dollars. This request from the president seeks to undo all the progress we were able to achieve on a broad we bipartisan basis in te fy 2020. For example, request eliminates the pro 39 million in new fundg we provided to the epa to address requests regarding climate and Energy Funding grants by 47 , that is a 409 Million Dollar cut below fy 2020. The request also slashes 100 17 million from the 3 billion we invested in fy 2020 to rebuild our nations crumbling Water Infrastructure. I recently held a listening section ses
Wheeler testify before House Appropriations subcommittee on the agencies 21 2021 budget request. Several asked the epas effort to police and regulate what our call forever chemicals. A subcommittee chair opened the hearing. Wi good morning this hearing will come to order. Today is the day that we are going to do the interior environment subcommittee and examine the president s fiscaleat year 2021 budget request for the admire Environmental Protection agency. Officer welc administrator andrew wheeler, with him is david bloom. Welcome to both of you. The fiscal year 2021, the president s request of 6. 66 billion dollars for the epa isy a 27 cut below f why 2020 and active level of 9. 06 billion dollars. This request from the president seeks to undo all the progress we were able to achieve on a broad we bipartisan basis in te fy 2020. For example, request eliminates the pro 39 million in new fundg we provided to the epa to address requests regarding climate and Energy Funding grants by 47
Welcome to hardtalk. I am stephen sackur. There is something distressing about the revelations of sexual explication and gross misconduct inside one of the worlds best known humanitarian aid organisations. Oxfam is at the centre of a storm of investigations. Now the entire aid sector is under scrutiny for safeguarding failures which appear to go back decades. My guess is amira malik miller. She is an experienced aid worker who experienced misconduct first hand and is now prepared to speak out. So what went wrong and why . My guest. Amira malik miller, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. You work for the swedish government. But how expensive is your experience of aid work in the field . I worked in the humanitarian assistance sector for over 15 years. I have been based in liberia and west africa. I have done a lot of work in sudan. I have travelled extensively. I have had a lot of experience and travelled extensively and covered some of the worlds biggest humanitarian crises over the past 1
Im stephen sackur. There is something especially distressing about the revelations of sexual explication and gross misconduct inside one of the worlds best known humanitarian aid organisations. Oxfam is at the centre of a storm of allegations of abusive behaviour, shoddy recruitment, and management cover up. Now the entire aid sector is under scrutiny for safeguarding failures which appear to go back decades. My guest is amira malik miller. Shes an experienced aid worker who experienced misconduct at first hand and is now prepared to speak out. So what went wrong, and why . Amira malik miller, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. You now work for the swedish government youre based in stockholm but how expensive is your experience of aid work in the field . Well, i worked in the humanitarian assistance sector for over 15 years. Ive been based in liberia and west africa. Ive done a lot of work in in sudan. And ive travelled extensively. Ive had a lot of experience from hq but travelled extens
Her term ands in february. Inwhen her term ends february. The committee will come to order. The chair is authorized to declare a recess of the committee at any time. Members will have five legislative days to submit extraneous materials for the record. This is the purpose of receiving the semiannual testimony of the chair of the board of governors of the Federal Reserve system on Monetary Policy on the estate on the state of the economy. Recognize myself for an opening statement. Since we last convened on Monetary Policy, there have been encouraging economic headlines. Onfidence is up unemployment remains low, as does inflation. But it rests too much on incredibly low participation payment high disability participation rights. Both paychecks and savings for working Americans Still have room to grow after eight years of distortionary Economic Policy under the Previous Administration. On the fiscal front, help is on the way. House republicans have passed the American Health care act to l