The committee on rules and administration will come to order. Good morning to i want to thank amy colleagues for joinin us today. Id like to welcome our nominees to todays hearing. Shawna bashard, sean cooksy and alan dixon are the president s nominees to be members of the federal elections committee. As our witnesses are joining us remotely i also understand that their families and friends are watching today and so i welcome them as well. This is a big responsibility, its a significant president ial nomination, and significant to the work of this committee. And i know youre proud of your Family Member as they have moved forward to this opportunity. Let me say a little bit about a couple of nominees and then im going to turn to another committee member, senator cruz to talk about the third nominee. Allen dickerson is the nominee to be a member of the federal Elections Commission for a term, expiring on april the 30th, 2025. Mr. Dickersons been practicing law for 20 years, primarily in
To fight covid so we can open our businesses safely resume our lives and put this pandemic behind us biden and Vice President elect Kamala Harris met virtually with ceos and president s of Top Companies like gm microsoft target and various labor unions biden said those Business Leaders agree we need a National Covid strategy to help the economy recover biden and harris also laid out the incoming administrations broader Economic Strategy were going to buy american. No government contract will be given to companies that dont make their products here in america bidens plans include raising the federal minimum wage to 15 an hour and creating jobs by investing in Clean Energy Infrastructure and high Speed Broadband access. The Biden Administration also wants to invest in historically black colleges and universities and communities of color hit especially hard by the pandemic now is when the real work begins. The necessary work. The good work. Of getting this virus under control biden said o
In the midst of some frost advisories and that light blue that youre seeing on the screen for portions of marine sonoma and napa counties these will remain through 09 00am this morning with temperatures falling as low as the upper 20s to low 30s below freezing in the darker purple issue well thats up in lake in northern Solano County some freeze warnings are in effect as for current temperatures, this is the all important numbers this morning 30s 40s for most of our bayside inland east bay and south bay areas but look at the north bay and thats where youre below freezing petaluma at right at freezing at 32 santa rose at 31 degrees and i do anticipate to the course of this morning to see a few upper 20s in the mix, im going to keep you updated with these temperatures as we make our way through the day. Robin. Thank you john all right, lets check in on the traffic i was saying earlier when i left home had to sit in the car little bit. Take a little bit of extra time to warm the car up be
For a u. S. District court judge in ohio. It is also the first opportunity for members to speak on the floor sense election day. Watch live Senate Coverage on cspan2 and the house on cspan. Amtrak president and ceo William Flynn was on capitol hill to testify on how the coronavirus affects the Passenger Rail system and what amtrak is doing in response. The Senate Commerce of science and Transportation Committee also heard from representatives of the freight Rail Industry and about the challenges they are facing as a result of the pandemic. This hearing is just over two and half hours. Order. Thank you all for being here, good morning. Today the committee can means to discuss the status of the National Rail network in the country is 140,000 miles of freight rail in class one railroads over 600 freight railroads and thousands of Companies Using braille to ship products and raw materials, we also have an intercity passenger real service amtrak operating on 22000 miles of the same network
Croft rock shelter has been the site of extensive arcology work since 1973, after university of pittsburgh students removed layer of layer of sediment, evidence of human activity as long as 19,000 years ago was revealed. We visit to learn the story from james adovasio, who has been leading Archeology Research there for almost 50 years. We are currently 46 kilometers southwest of pittsburgh, pennsylvania, in washington county, on the north bank of cross creek, which is a small tributary of the ohio river. In 1972 there was a vacancy in the Anthropology Department at the university of pittsburgh. I joined the faculty there. One of the parameters of which job was to set up an archeological Training Program that would train not only graduate and undergraduate students in the protocols of modern excavation, but also to train people in ancillary fields, geeolojists. Because i didnt have the opportunity to search for a location for the Field Operation due to research commitments in the easter