About it. I said what is this about, just a continuation of the witchhunt, did not work out for congress, or meumern mueller. They are sending them to all over i country i guess maybe. It is a terrible thing. Witch hunt has gone on long enough. Could you assure the American People that politics will not interfere with science. Absolutely. Tell me how the vaccine, if there is one, will be different distributed. Wement t want to make people better, get it to mayor areas mt needed. What did you mean by that . Considers she of course describing facts of case of the pandemic. Were doing well, i think that we have done as well as any nation. If you reallyy look. At what is going on with the flareups and nations. Were bigger other than india and china, china is having a massive flareup right now, india has a tremendous problem. Other countries have problems. Emi notice in the news, in eveng news, i never read about it, i dont read about other countries. You are starting to see other countries
I have a brief Opening Statement here before i take your questions. Yesterday, secretary of the treasury, donald regan, sent to the congress a request to raise the debt ceiling to 985 billion. This represents a dramatic jump of 50 billion over the previous debt ceiling. The administration took this action with great regret because it is clear that the massive deficits our government runs is one of the root causes of our profound economic problems. And it, for too many years, this process has come too easily for us. We have lived beyond our means and then financed our extravagance on the backs of the American People. The clear message i received in the Election Campaign is that we must gain control of this inflationary monster. Let me briefly review for the American People what we have already done. Within moments of taking the oath of office, i placed a freeze on the hiring of civilian employees in the federal government. Two days later, i issued an order to cut down on government trav
The Senate Committee on finance the subcommittee on International Trade customs and Global Competitiveness will come to order. I know this seems a little strange but an empty room except for three witnesses live in front of me and many of our colleagues are going to be joining us virtually. But i want to welcome all of you nonetheless to this important hearing. This subcommittee continues to do its work in exploring the unfair treatment practices of foreign governments and especially china and russia. The topic of censorship in china is a common one because of its growing of facts on this list in the United States as well as culture. Last fall for example the National Basketball association had its Market Access lock in china because individual american citizens used to media platform not allowed in china to express a political opinion. Now the topic is become much more important to the lack of timely Accurate Information about the spread of covid19 due to chinese censorship has contri
This is the bus the one business show you cant afford to miss on fairmont in washington coming out Senate Republican unveiled the much awaited counter proposal on another trying to fire a stimulus package but it doesnt come without democratic critics that. Its frustrating because they did their work 3 months for now would steer various very serious cliffs that hurt lots of people. And us and australia officials are holding their annual summit on tuesday but china is expected to be a primary focus for those discussions we have a patch so today so lets go and dive right a. Big stimulus this week as the g. O. P. Rolled out their new one trillion dollar krone virus relief package bill on monday Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell unveiled that plan dubbed the heels act. We manage Senate Republicans ministration have been consulting over the last few weeks to come up with a realistic proposal. With what we think is an appropriate amount of Additional Debt to be good to the economy at thi
The first case that we will argue stay is down from versus the usa. Mr. Chief justice, the subpoenas at issue here are unprecedented in every sense. No court hadcases, ever upheld the use of Congress Passed subpoena power. Had toittee of congress the records of a sitting president with a broad swath of the president s personal papers to the let alone purpose of the a potential legislation. There is a reason this is the first time a set has attempted such a gambit. Because, grist has subpoena power, it is subordinate and when that power is deployed against the president , it must yield absent any longstanding tradition or compelling showing of need. The committees consent is neither condition and that should decide this case. The committees contend the subpoenas satisfy the limits this court has always applied to congressional subpoenas. But the arguments would render those limits meaningless. But the arguments would render those limits meaningless. They claim congress can you subpoenas