Our headlines today what went wrong with the National Grid after a huge power blackout in england and wales . Millions were left without elelctricity, and hundreds of travellers were stuck on trains into the early hours. The mother of a teenager who went missing on holiday in malaysia has thanked the Emergency Services and has made a fresh appeal for information. Liverpool kick off the premier League Season in style, as last years runners up thrash newly promoted norwich 4 1 at anfield. A number of Outdoor Events have already been cancelled because of bad weather well be on the Isle Of Wight where the annual sailing regatta has been suspended. Strong winds will be the main weather story today, particularly gcioss weather story today, particularly across england and wales, thus of 60 mph causing disruption, thundery downpours elsewhere, join me for the full forecast here on breakfast. Its saturday the 10th of august. Our top story the Energy Watchdog has demanded an urgent report from t
Live coverage here on cspan. Needless to say, our committee has been working very diligently on a lot of transformational policy. While were waiting for our colleague here, i think ill thank senator wicker again for his work on the chips and p science act. I think people may not remember but this committee i dont know how many amendments we processed. Sen. Cantwell ity know it was in the hundreds. It might have been in the 300s. But i definitely believe that that kind of regular order process was good for the institutioned good for institution, good for the debate about science, and hopefully people will continue in todays hearing to understand that and understand much of the debate that maybe wasnt as clear in a big public perspective as it was to all of us who were working behind the scenes daily to try to figure this policy out. Ok, well go ahead and get started and when my colleague gets here, hopefully hell be here soon, we will let him make his opening statement. But welcome, sec
Hill as this historic election unfolds. Watch on cspan, cspan now, or online at cspan. Org. Cspan, your unfiltered view of government. A look at u. S. Investments abroad and oversight of the International Development corporation with its ceo, scot nathan. He talks about the dfcs focus on Food Security, and strengthening supply chains. This runs an hour and a half. This hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will come to order. Let me start by making something crystalclear to the international community. To the u. S. Foreignpolicy community. Two our nations allies and adversaries. As this Committee Moves forward, we will continue our work on behalf of the american people, as we have done for more than two centuries. The world faces challenges as well as opportunities. This committee of Senate Foreign relations, its members and staff, play a Critical Role in meeting the challenges america faces in National Security. As i accept the chairmanship with great humility, thanks to t
Live coverage here on cspan. Needless to say, our committee has been working very diligently on a lot of transformational policy. While were waiting for our colleague here, i think ill thank senator wicker again for his work on the chips and p science act. I think people may not remember but this committee i dont know how many amendments we processed. Sen. Cantwell ity know it was in the hundreds. It might have been in the 300s. But i definitely believe that that kind of regular order process was good for the institutioned good for institution, good for the debate about science, and hopefully people will continue in todays hearing to understand that and understand much of the debate that maybe wasnt as clear in a big public perspective as it was to all of us who were working behind the scenes daily to try to figure this policy out. Ok, well go ahead and get started and when my colleague gets here, hopefully hell be here soon, we will let him make his opening statement. But welcome, sec
Broadband access. The hearing runs two hours. Two hours and 40 minutes. [bangs gavel] good afternoon. The Senate Commerce committee will come to order. I thank my colleagues, many have been in this room for many hours already today doing double duty on both an aviation hearing, and now, a very important conversation about the implementation of the chips and science act which we are committing a pretty big role in. Less to say, our community has been very diligently working on a lot of transformational policy. While were waiting for our colleague here, i think i will thank senator wicker again for his work on chips and science act. I think people may not remember, but this committee, i dont know how many amendments we processed. It was in the hundreds, it might have been in the 300s, but i definitely believe that the regular process was good for the institution, good for the debate about science, and hopefully people will continue in todays hearing to understand that, to understand much