We are live on capitol hill waiting for a house markup to get underway. The Appropriations Committee is working on 2021 spending for state Department Foreign operations, agriculture and military construction. This is live coverage on cspan2. Please be seated. We are ready to begin. My friends, ladies and gentlemen, please be seated. I call the meeting of the Appropriations Committee to order. I would first like to welcome all members to the first full Committee Markup of fiscal year 2021. This will be a markup season unlike any other. Not only are we going to complete our work in record time, but we will be joined by a handful of our colleagues who were unable to be here due to the pandemic. Before we begin i have a number of housekeeping announcements. First, we should all be mindful of our health, and take appropriate actions. Following doctor monahans guidance, everyone, everyone must wear a mask and provide social distancing. Also, this information was previously conveyed to your s
Host front page of the Washington Post has this story. Robert costa reporting along with Philip Rucker and karen tumulty. Mitt romney is moving quickly to assemble the National Political network, calling former aides and donors over the weekend and in a single of his seriousness of the launching a president ial campaign. Romneys message is that he almost certainly will make what would be his third bid for the white house. His aggressive outreach comes as representative paul ryan, romneys 2012 Vice President ial running mate and the newly installed chairman of the house ways and Means Committee announced monday that he would not seek the presidency in 2016. Romneys activity indicates that his exploration of interest friday to a group of donors in new york was more than the release of a trial balloon. Instead, it was the start of a deliberative effort by the 2012 nominee to carve out space for himself in an emerging 2016 field, also likely to include former Florida Governor jeb bush, new
Should be applied uniformly across all employers. Heres, respectfully, why i dont think that that works, which is i think the question whenever there are exemptions in the statute is to ask yourself, do the exemptions undermine the compelling interest that the government asserts. Theres nothing inconsistent with an interest in prohibiting employment discrimination to say were going to focus on the people who actually employ the most people and therefore can engage in the most discrimination. Its quite a different matter, and i dont think anybody would think that congress would pass a title vii that said, hey, as long as you have a preexisting discriminatory policy, youre allowed to keep it. That doesnt seem like it would be consistent. Counsel, your attorney, one of the attorneys below, on behalf of your clients admitted that the grandfathered policies werent going to be around very long because any change to an existing policy and he said these changes happen on a yearly basis. And we
The government has concluded that it is highly likely that russia was responsible for the act against. The script. This russian citizen work for one of the British Intelligence agencies and took place on british territory and therefore it has nothing to do with russia let alone the russian leadership. We must now stand ready to take much more extensive measures. Russia was blamed immediately for this but if you think about it the only side which is now interested in the former russian agents poisoning its a Pretty Simple to feed its russophobia its a source is fully used to squeeze down its interesting but as someone whos been poisoned its very useful why. Should there be no credible response we will conclude that this action amounts to an on rule for use of force by the russian state against the United Kingdom. And i will come back to this house and set out the full range of measures that we will take in response to. A less than an hour after theresa may blame to moscow for poisonings
The implementation rate of development expenses from the state budget stood at 13 per cent at the end of April, slightly higher than the ten-year average of 12 per cent for the same period, according to the state treasury of the Republic of Cyprus. Regarding revenue, indirect taxes increased by…