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Flags were on the Capitol Building and at the white house are being flown at half staff in members of pearl harbor. Now live coverage of the u. S. Senate here on cspan2. The senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Black, will lead the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Great redeemer, guide our lawmakers along the best path to fulfill your purposes on earth. May they submit to your wisdom and providential leading, believing that you will supply all of their needs. Remind them that ...

International hotel lease at the Old Post Office building in washington, d. C. We will hear from two officials from the General Services administration that oversees government building leases. This is about three hours. [indiscernible] without objection, so ordered. We are now going to proceed with Opening Statements. I wish you all the good morning and welcome to the fourth hearing of the public buildings. One of the purposes of this is to protect taxpayer dollars by ensuring that theyre spend...

We will now proceed with Opening Statements. I wish you all a good morning and welcome to the fourth hearing in the economic Emergency Management subcommittee. One of the purposes of this committee is to protect taxpayer dollars by ensuring they are spent effectively, efficiently and with transparency. That brings us to todays hearing which is entitled landlord and tenant. You can tell from the title that today we will be investigating fairly unprecedented situation. The federal government owns ...

Meeting with japans prime minister. But theres an issue loming over the white house. The Mounting Fallout over bidens handling of classified documents during his post obama years. Thbz has learned one of the classified documents found at the d. C. Office was marked with the highest classification in the u. S. Government. Thats according to a senior u. S. Official and another person familiar. We got that development after attorney general Merrick Garland announced hes appointed a Veteran Prosecut...

Take it power out of washington, d. C. When it comes to your healthcare. House republicans answering the call unveiled a bill to repeal and replace obamacare. Its been 7 years since obamacare was passed into law. Its collapsing. It has hurt more people than it helped. Tonight we deliver on President Trumps promise to repeal and replace. We are not pulling the rug out from under people. We are not going back to the days of people with preexisting conditions cant get coverage or lifetime caps. The...

Committee we rely on is something called nancy which is the National Counselor for local portability and they have made a recommendation for the contract for the entity that will provide that particular service. That is an item that got a lot of press over the last few weeks and that is one of the items on the agenda. You probably guessed i will talk about that as much other than to say we have a recommendation and we will vote on that at the march meeting are there concerns this would go a fore...

Inaccurate information, even though you were going into the office. Correct. Thank you. Miss rivers, thank you for your testimony. I think every member of this committee offers an apology and certainly our commitment well work with the people in the agencies to try and create law create legislation that will prevent this from happening to another american. So, thank you again for your testimony. Youre dismissed. Thank you. Our next witness will be sean bruin. He joins us today from the Social Se...

I would simply say that from personal observation, i was in bud a pest in 1994 when the agreement was signed that the russians have violated, so im very alive to the the possibility that we had then and i think still need to stick up for of independent ukraine able to find its own way politically and economically is the only thing i would say. In the first instance it is terribly important that that occurment and occur. And the other thing i will say is that nobody should mistake that ukraine is...

Im actively working with the chairman and our colleagues on this committee to reintroduce legislation from the last session to tackle the problem of improper payments to dead people. Unfortunately we have more work ahead. Last week the Social Security Inspector General released a report stating that 6. 5 Million People have active Social Security numbers who based on the Social Security own records would be more than 112 years old. I think maybe in our country weve had just a handful of people a...

Well, i hope youll all join me in thanking ambassador cui. [applause] a live picture now from the new America Foundation here in washington. They host a discussion looking at the Obama Administration and the press, more specifically a new report by the committee to protect journalists which investigates press Freedom Conditions during the obama presidency. Leonard downie is the journalism professor at Arizona State university and former executive editor of the Washington Post to other speakers i...