The nomination of the white house budget director. A vote on that is exacted at 5 30 p. M. Eastern today. This week Senate Lawmakers are expected to continue work on the Defense Authorization for 2021. This is live coverage of the senate here on cspan2. The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Black, will open the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. O lord, as our lips are open in prayer, so may our hearts be open to receive your holy spirit. Help us to bow to your will and live lives devoted to your providential leading. Lord, we thank you for your providence that brought us the gift of representative john lewis. Were grateful he was a drum major for justice, truth, and righteousness. May his exemplary life and legacy remind us of the Transformative Impact one dedicated person can make on our nation and world. Today, please our senators in their work. Let faith, hope, and love abound in their lives. May they seek to heal the hurt in our world
Washington journal program. Cspan, created by americas Cable Television companies as a Public Service and brought to you today by your television provider. Secretary of state mike pompeo appeared today before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to testify about his 2021 budget requested. He was asked about President Trumps tweet about delaying the president ial election. From earlier today, this is just shy of three hours. The committee will come to order. Good morning, everyone. Today we have with us secretary of state mike pompeo to discuss the state departments fiscal year 2021 budget request. Though, if history is any judge, secretary pompeo, you will face a wide variety of questions which i know you can handle. The United States and our allies and partners continue to face serious foreign challenges that will test us for decades to come. China is our chief competitor. Russia too remains a key advair. The efforts of these nations to sow discord and undue the free and open Intern
Texas sees record daily infections. Walmart demand shoppers wear masks. Some of the most prominent have beenn america hacked. We will have the latest. Lets take a look at how we are shaping up when it comes to the futures session going into the start of trading this thursday in asia. Take a look at u. S. Futures pointed a little bit to the negative, flat at the moment for futures contracts after u. S. Stocks climbed to her than a one month high. We had renewed optimism that we are getting closer incrementally on this Virus Vaccine Development front, not just with the news on moderna, but also a rival set of trials being conducted in the u. K. , reporting some progress. We saw the s p gaining just shy of 1 and actually manage a drift back into positive territory for the year, albeit brief. Chicago looking modestly higher after the bank of japan governor , kuroda, provided some clarity albeit still a very dire outlook when it comes to the japanese economy but saying it was now past the w
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Deforestation is surging. China has approved tests on humans for 2 experimental coronavirus vaccines as it fights to prevent a 2nd wave of infections state media announced one vaccine is being developed by a biotech firm the other by the China National pharmaceutical Group Countries trying to contain imported cases especially from neighboring russia sarah clarke joins us now live from hong kong so what do we know sara about these vaccine trials. Well certainly this announcement been made by the sheen how our news agency this is a government controlled media operation based in china and as you mentioned they were proved to experimental coronavirus vaccines to enter Clinical Trials and the vaccine we developed in partnership with number one a beijing a based Biotech Group and the other would be a will hand based pharmaceutical group and it was as i mentioned announced by the media in china but china has already given approval for another Clinical Trial and that was actually approval give