Funding expires. Bills on energy and clean air and forced labor. Announced Ruth Bader Ginsburg will lie in state in statuary hall at u. S. Capitol friday. The ceremony will only be open [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc. , in cooperation with the United States house of representatives. Any use of the closedcaptioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u. S. House of representatives. ] the speaker the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by conroy. Plain, father chaplain conroy let us pray. Ord, merciful god, we give you thanks for giving us another day. E give you thanks for the life and work of justice ruth ginsburg. Americans be inspired to be their best selves because of her example. She rest in peace. Bless those throughout our ation who are suffering from the pandemic, fires, hurricanes, and flooding. Needs continue. Our political leaders to tend to those needs with sp
Statements, i want to acknowledge the loss over the weekend of congressman john lewis, a civil rights icon who changed history at great personal sacrifice. In 2015 i was honored to be among those who joined him in selma to commemorate the Fiftieth Anniversary of the blood sunday march which he led. I send my deepest condolences to his family and loved ones. Todays hearing comes at a time when our nation is experiencing the confluence of a health crisis, economic depression and a series of killing is that laid bare the Racial Injustice that still paints the country. Our focus is on covid19s disproportionate impact on black and latino seniors. As well as seniors from other racial and ethnic minority communities, black and latino residents are infected with a virus, nearly twice as likely to die from covid19. The state of maine has the worst Racial Disparity in covid19 cases in the country, also comprise less then 2 of maines population, they account for approximately 23 of all cases, lik
Federal highway administrators giving testimony on the implementation of the Infrastructure Investment and jobs act and other legislation passed by congress. Also spoke about emergency relief efforts to reopen am pleased to call this hearing. Welcome to the witnesses and to the guests and a special thanks to our colagues for being here for this important hearing. We are here to discuss the federal highw administration and implementation of the bipartisan infrastructure law and Inflation Reduction Act. I am enormously proud and i know senator ouppercaseletter is as well, the work the committee did providing the foundation of the bipartisan infrastructure law. People say to mand im sur to you, senator when you travel back toest virginia, whyant you Work Together to gettuff done and as it turns out in the committee thats what we do, the bipartisan infrastructure 20zip and proud to help lay the foundation for whats turned out to be one of the biggest investmentsver and hopefully we will co
Scandal. This is cbs 5 news. Thanks for joining us here at noon. We begin with the race for the white house and the latest on newly discovered emails. The fbi now has a search warrant to email to review emails pastor Hillary Clintons private email. The emails were found by on Anthony Weiners cbs news discovered the emails were discovered earlier this month but director james comey says he didnt find out about them until last thursday. Jessica hayes has the latest on the investigation jeff the gase jeff bigaise has the latest on the investigation. Reporter james comey is under fire for making the disclosure 11 days before the election. How is the public supposed to respond to this . Public to make an informed judgment. Reporter in a letter addressed to the fbi director sunday, senator harry reid accused james comey of partisan action and alleged that he may have broken the law by violating the hatch act. It bans most federal and some other Government Employees from participating in Poli
, he, want to highlight brought the Indian Health care improvement act up and the need services. S we have been coming to the federal government since before i was born, long before, many years and we have asked for increased amount of dollars to protect and help our families become well. Listen to the tribes in the state of washington, the amount of money we received for patient was 1111 per person per year. 1111, that was a horrific reality and that has been a concern for us for a very long time. I wanted to ask you, what does that look like . What does Health Care Improvement look like . What can we do to improve that, because coming to congress for so many years has helped a little bit, and we have taken small steps that many of our reservations dont have Adequate Health care facilities, dental, the issues are worth than three third world countries. It is a great concern and i would love to see the Platform Committee take a big, bold step to correct the injustices. Can you add to t