Subcommittee will reconvene. Hearingthe most clunky ive ever participated in, let alone chaired and that is saying a lot for the United States senate, so i apologize for our way to our witnesses, but to all who are paying attention, how challenging it has been with the series of votes. Senator cantwell is next to question. Cantwell thank you for inviting a witness that is both in kansas ander a Washington State residents to boot. I do want to work with you on the manufacturing workforce workforce issue that you and senator warner introduced keeping the supply chain and aviation manufacturing. I appreciate this hearing and i know we are dealing with an increase in the number of cases and challenges we face. Im very proud our state has kept our rates of infections and hospitalizations down, and appreciate the ongoing efforts but im also impressed by the manufacturing efforts in our state. Everybody working together. Outdoor research converted one of its seattle facilities into making sur
David hawkings is the editor in chief. There are leadership elections. Explain how they go about the two parties electing their leaders and can we see any changes . We will see some so, they meet in caucuses, different causes. No surprise here. The things are happening a little bit differently this year because of the pandemic. The Democratic Caucus which is happening the first of the meetings is happening today. There is a virtual opportunity for members to stay home, stay in their districts and cast the votes in the upcoming leadership elections using a secure app that the democrats have come up with. We wont see any changes at the top. The republican leadership, kevin mccarthy, steve scalise, maybe, maybe not liz cheney, thats staying the same. Were not seeing any changes at the top there either. Remarkably long run of nancy pelosi as the leader and jim clyburn of South Carolina as number three, thats all continuing. Thats continuing for a into a 16th year. Its a remarkably long run
With norah odonnell, reporting from the n brennan good evening, and thank you for joining us. Norah is off tonight. Im Margaret Brennan. There is breaking news tonight on the president ial transition. And we are going to get to that in just a moment. But were going to begin first with the millions of americans ignoring warnings from the c. D. C. Not to travel tonight. A dangerous move that Health Experts are warning will send the deepening crisis into an even faster and deadlier tail spin. Tonight one model used by the white house says americans should expect the death toll to double by the first of march to nearly half a Million People nationwide. With millions already on the road or in the air tonight, part of an estimated 50 million americans expected to travel for thanksgiving, experts say it is guaranteed that cases of coronavirus will soon explode even more than they are right now. More than 3 million americans have been infected since the beginning of the month. That means about
Good morning and good to be with you. Im annemarie green. Were going to start things off this morning with the republicans push to confirm Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett. The Senate Judiciary Committee Reconvenes this morning to hear from outside witnesses. Two days of intense questioning wrapped up yesterday. Barrett managed to sidestep key questions about obamacare and abortion rights. S. Laura podesta is in washington. Laura, whats next in this confirmation process now . Reporter good morning, annemarie. For democrats on the committee its delay, delay, delay. They want to push the Committee Vote to next week or as close to the general election as possible. I cant give a yes or a no. Reporter Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett sidestepped some questions from democrats for the second day in a row on wednesday. You think its wrong to separate children from their parents to deter immigrants from coming to the United States . A matter of hot political debate in which i cant
Week. Earlier today on capitol hill, House Speaker paul ryan and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi spoke with reporters about the government funding and health care bills. As well as the trump administrations tax proposal announced yesterday. Up next here on cspan3, speaker ryan followed by minority leader pelosi. Are you ready, archer . Ready. What sticker . Oh, yeah. I havent had one of those in a long time. Good morning, everybody. First i want to welcome all our special guests today. I think its great to see you here and its great that you get to see the work your parents do, but dont tell them this but theyre actually kind of good at their jobs. One of those your daughters . Yep. So cute. You had one last year with us. This is abbys first time. Very cool. I digress. Sorry. Later today, the president will sign an executive order to improve accountability at the va. Under the Obama Administration, not nearly enough was done to hold bureaucrats accountable for failing veterans at va. Desp