Compliance regulations of a mocon City Committee hearings with House Resolution 965 and believe the committee will keep microphones muted, limit background noise, members will need to unmute themselves when seeking recognition for five minutes. Witnesses will need to unmute themselves when recognized for their five minutes or when recognized for questions. Members and witnesses, please keep your camera on at all time, even if you have to step away for a moment during the meeting. Do not leave the meeting. As we begin, we should take a moment to honor an important anniversary in our nations history. Today, hundreds of thousands of americans went to our Nations Capital for the march on washington for jobs and freedoms. Our beloved culligan hearing hero, the late representative john lewis, went to the Lincoln Memorial that day. The lessly challenged our countrys denial to freedom of black rights americans, including the right to vote. 70 years earlier called preservative of all rights. To
I think we need to start listening to each other and talking to each other more and we will go live now to a discussion with steve scalise, political reporter robert costa will ask about Convention Coverage and president ial politics. Robert good afternoon. I am a national reppo knuckle a National Political reporter. Afternoon iss representative steve scalise, House Minority whip, part of the Republican Leadership, republican from louisiana. Good to be with you. Rep. Scalise good to be with you. Is a lot going on in your state, some tough news with hurricane laura. What is the latest in your district and how is Congress Going to respond . Rep. Scalise we saw two storms last week, what ended up being Tropical Storm arco which was projected to hit the west end of my district, then you had hurricane laura, which was projected to hit the east side of my district. Storms change over the days and laurafizzled out but now is a category three, potentially category for when it hits ground. It i
Watch quote washington journal 7 00 eastern tuesday morning. Join the discussion with your phone calls, facebook comments, Text Messages and tweets. Continues. Host we are joined next by former federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator craig fugate. Thank you for being with us on washington journal this morning. Guest thanks for having me. Host a number of items on our plate including the covid19 response. First, to the response to hurricane laura. The hurricane coming effectively the same week marking 15 years since hurricane katrina. What lessons do think fema and the federal government learned in terms of response to hurricanes in particular . Guest i think the biggest lesson was that we dont wait until we are asked to start getting ready. To be ana, there seem lot of confusion about the governor having to make requests and what femas role was going to be. Congress, after katrina launched substantial legislation. Governors are going to be is he dealing with this. The federal
Five minutes. When is his need to unmute themselves when recognized for their five minutes or ask a question. Please keep your camera on at all times even if you need to step away for a moment during proceedings. Do not leave the meeting. As we begin, we should take a moment to honor an important anniversary in our nations history. Fiftyseven years ago today, hundreds of self thousands of americans came to our Nations Capital for the march on washington, the job and freedom. Our hero, late representative, john lewis from the Lincoln Memorial that day. He fearlessly challenged our countrys denial of freedom and civil rights to black americans including the right to vote. Within 70 years earlier called preservative of all rights. Today, many people are gathering at the Lincoln Memorial to commemorate the march and continue demands for Voting Rights, racial equality, Police Accountability and criminal justice reform. On income it access to voting, the bedrock of our democracy. Today, the
Boston anchor latoya edwards. Welcome, everyone, to this primary debate. Were at the nbcu Boston Media Center home of nbc 10, telemundo and nbc boston. Well d wed like to thank you for taking part of tonights event. Lets go to ed marky. He served in 2013 in the senate. Before that he served massachusettss seventh district in the house of representatives since 1976. We welcome congressman joe kennedy he served massachusettss Fourth District since 2013. Before that he served as an assistant District Attorney. We are following social distancing guidelines. Everyone is spread out more than six feet apart. And our panelists are not in 2 studio with us. Theyre in different locations. Grace gomez, news anchor for lemundo boston, tim kaputo news anchor for nbcn. Here are the rules for tonights debate. Both candidates will get one minute for questions directed to the both of them and that will be at my discretion. They will get 40 seconds with a 30second rebuttal. At the end of the evening and