Colleagues have come to the floor and spoken here or elsewhere about the importance of providing assistance to state and local governments, and that if that doesnt happen that theyre there are going to be police officers, First Responders and people who have essential jobs that we rely on every single day and for whom were so grateful, that wouldnt be able to get paid. I would just point out that already as part of the Coronavirus Relief measures that congress has passed, there was 150 billion sent to state and local governments, much of which has yet to be spent. And, frankly, much of which we dont know what the actual need is out there until we have a better sense for what the revenue loss is to a lot of our state and local governments. Clearly they are sounding the alarm and are justifiably worried about what happens if the downturn in the economy continues and what that might mean to their revenues. And so they are looking to washington, d. C. For assistance, and i think that as i
Cspan2. Former state department and National Security officials testified on the Trump Administrations iran policy before the House Foreign Affairs committee. Secretary of state mike pompeo declined an invitation to testify on the president s decision to kill iranian general Qassem Soleimani. Committee chair representative eliot engel threatened to subpoena secretary pompeo in order to obtain information on the u. S. Drone strike. Subject to limitation in the rules. Before i begin, i want to make the big announcement that todays mr. Mccalls birthday. So happy birthday. Im 35 years once again. Me, too. Pursuant to notice were here today to examine Trump Administration policy towards iran. I welcome our panel of distinguished witnesses. Welcome to members of the public and the press, as well. We had hoped to hear from secretary pompeo today, as well. After we invited him, he announced that he would instead be in california. Thats unfortunate whether you agree with this administrations ap
The final summit for 2023. And it certainly does provide an opportunity to reflect on what the group has or has noticed achieved during 2023. Of course, the t issue is the crisis in me and ma, the escalation in violence. The increase in attacks on civilians, more than 4000. 00 killed in violence that the government says that it has no comment on us reports that north koreas leader will travel to russia later this month. Us diplomats suspect that kim jong done is planning to send wessons to russia for the war, and ukraine versus defense minister says funds for joint military exercises have already been discussed. How did you construct a small from washington dc . The meeting between conjunction and Vladimir Putin may occur this month with the north Korean Leader traveling by armor, train it to the russian coastal city of flat eva stalk and potentially from there onto moscow. The white house said last week that high level talks between russia and north korea. Were actively advancing with
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But the story of two crews, vitebsk Search Engines recovered fragments of a p2 bomber shot down in 1941, the remains of the pilots established their names. Sergey savin from belarus. Hello you are greeted by the Information Service of tv component tv, this is the program today in the elmira ifendeev studio. Achieve Ambitious Goals that are set before you russia, it is possible to ensure the growth of the countrys economy only with coordinated actions of the authorities of the entire society. Vladimir putin announced this today at a meeting of the Supervisory Board of the agency for Strategic Initiatives. The president also spoke about the possibility of developing International Partnerships with friendly states. For creating incentives for companies that work to strengthen russias technological sovereignty and support svo participants. We were talking about the rating of peoples quality of life, which regions are showing good dynamics, he knows roman sobol. One of the tasks of the agen