Good morning, i call the meeting of the committee on appropriations to order. Before we begin now house rules require me to remind you that we have set up an email address to which members can send anything they wish to submit in writing at any of our hearings or markups. That email address has been provided to your staff. Our first order of Business Today is consideration of the interior and environment and appropriations bill for fiscal year 2021. I will now recognize miss mccullum to present the bill. Good morning, and thank you, madam chair. I want to thank Ranking Member joyce for his strong collaboration and partnership throughout this entire process. Hes been a great partner from the great lakes and a little geography, being a social studies teacher he borers with the great state of ohio on lake erie and in minnesota we border on lake superior. Id like to thank the subcommittee for all contributions and especially the way in which weve continued our tradition of nonpartisan work
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This webinar will have a straightforward format after my introduction he will offer 10 minutes or so of remarks, then i will have questions for the senator and we will have a discussion about the economic challenges facing our nation and what congress should do to address them. We will take a couple of questions at the end. Thank you for joining us. If you have a question for senator rubio, submit it by email. Econtalk on aei twitter. Those are listed on the events web page. I am honored to be joined by senator rubio, thank you for being here. Senator marco rubio is the senator from florida, served in local state government, including as speaker of the Florida House before being elected to the senate in 2010 and reelected in 2016. He serves on the Senate Committee of appropriations, the Foreign Relations committee, the special committee on aging as acting chair of the select committee on intelligence, and most important to our discussion is chairman of the Senate Committee on Small Bus
This is just under an hour. Could afternoon, welcome to our virtual webinar. Im the director of Economic Policy studies here today and ill be hosting on the current economic crisis facing our rubio,with senator marco one of the congressional leaders who has an working the hardest to address the crisis. This virtual webinar will have a straightforward format and after my brief introduction the senator will offer remarks and i will have a few questions for the senator and he and i will have discussion about the economic problems facing the nation. We will take a couple of questions from you all at the end. Thank you for joining us. If you have a question for the senator, you can submit it i. E. Tag or by using the [indiscernible] on twitter. Those coordinates are listed on the event webpage. Be joined byo senator rubio. Senator, thank you so much for being here. My introduction will be very short. Senator marco rubio is the senator from florida, speaker of the Florida House before being
A Police Officer has been charged with the murder of the former footballer Dalian Atkinson, who died after being tasered. The ex aston villa striker was restrained by officers at his Fathers House in telford, in 2016. A second officer, also from west Mercia Police force, has been charged with assault causing actual bodily harm. Both appeared in court on thursday, as our correspondent sian lloyd reports. Dalian atkinsons talents brought him some memorable goals. This strike clinched him goal of the season in 1993. His career spanned 15 years, including four seasons with aston villa in the 1990s. But three years ago, police were called to his fathers home near telford. A taser was discharged and Dalian Atkinson was restrained. He died shortly afterwards following a cardiac arrest. What happened there was investigated by the police watchdog. Following that independent inquiry, two west mercia Police Officers, whose identities are being protected, appeared in court today. Both were charged