We can and hold these families in our prayers. Thank you. Back live now on capitol hill where the House Appropriations committee is returning from its lunch break. They continue work on 2021 a spending bill. Live coverage here on cspan2. Mistaken at the best of times. They are unconscionable in the midst of a pandemic. I want to remind my colleagues that foodstamp spending is a powerful anti recession tool and has previously been estimated that for each dollar spent from benefits a dollar 70 is generated in economic activity. Let me say thank you again to chairman bishop, Ranking Member and their leadership and other areas of the bill. Their strong investments to ensure the continued availability and safety of the nation food supply as well as language designed to protect the health and safety of workers in our meatpacking plants and our poultry plants as well as the farmworkers who are out in the field every single day. I thank you very, very much that all of the attention youve paid
I have an Opening Statement i would like to submit for the record. Ill do so without objection. And make a few comments. Today, were having a hearing about the foreign sovereign immunities act, coronavirus and addressing chinas culpability. Generally speaking, we have a foreign sovereign immunities act basically shutting off lawsuits against other nations because whatever we do to them, they can do to us. We made exceptions to it. We have amended the act four years ago regarding terrorist activities. This is not an issue i take lightly. This is something i have thought a lot about. My colleagues have worked to put together legislation. They have reconciled the legislation. I think senator blackburn, hawley, and others, and what would it mean if we amend suits to china. And why would we take this unprecedented step . This is the third pandemic to come out of china. The coronavirus came from wuhan province. Whether it was a mistake in the lab or spread at a wet market, i dont know, but w
Were following all those headlines. And this. While democrats are moving forward without republicans to get americans covid relief aid, the white house is ramping up vaccine efforts. The new plan, send Vaccine Doses to community pharmacies. Its an allout push to get ahead of more fastmoving variants. But first, we begin on capitol hill. Lauren fox is tracking the republican rift between trump loyalists, longstanding conservatives. Lauren, where do we stand . You have two politicians fate at stake here. Marjorie taylor greene, but also liz cheneys leadership position. Thats exactly right, jim. Last night, we should note, Kevin Mccarthy, the minority leader in the House Of Representatives sat down for an hourslong meeting with Marjorie Taylor greene to talk about her future. We are told that the minority leader is still undecided about whether or not she will keep her post. But essentially we are learning from that meeting that Marjorie Taylor greene did not apologize for the past statem
Police. Reporter a lucky spokeswoman did not get back to us on the workers job status, and Antioch Police say race didnt appear to be an issue in the case. Both the suspect and worker are white. Lastly, the other layer is will this worker Face Criminal Charges like manslaughter . We talk to the Contra Costa County District Attorneys Office and a legal analyst coming up at 6 00. For now, live in antioch, im da lin, kpix. Now the latest on californias sharp spike in coronavirus cases. 5,340 new cases have been confirmed in just the past 24 hours. While that is down from more than 7,000 cases the day before, its still troubling, and heres why. More people are being tested every day, more than 101,000 yesterday alone. But a higher percentage of tests are coming back positive. 5. 6 in the past seven days, up from an average of 5. 1 over the last 14 days. Kpix 5 reporter andria borba on what it could all mean as we forge ahead with reopening. Reporter well, veronica, at this point, we need t
The regime changes that are out there in our medicine, the pandemic, as with about the american economy. James bullard of st. Louis will join us here in a moment. What we would really like to do is talk about the regime changes that we see right now in the market. To me, it is a very correlated list up off of the navarro uproar of 14 hours ago. Jonathan what a move overnight, whipsawed by Peter Navarro, who set the u. S. China trade agreement is over. The president of the United States, his boss, coming out and correcting him. The confusion on that issue is massive over the last couple of weeks. I think john boltons book over the last week or so has made things a little more interesting as well. It. No question about i know lisa is almost 2 3 of the way through the book. One question which you are an expert on commode is the great distinction between larry kudlow and Peter Navarro . Jonathan Lawrence Kudlow seems to have the president s thoughts very much in mind. He is speaking for th