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Authorizing highway, bridge, aviation, and waterway projects. Members are working on 170 amendments. They plan to complete work on those amendments around midday today. That will be followed by a vote on final passage of the package. Live coverage now here on cspan. The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. Loving god, thank you for giving day. Other we ask your continued protection empowerment of t...

Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for being here. This is a great day for us. Of course it began well in the Supreme Court of the United States when the constitution was upheld and that was a beautiful thing and now we are here to talk about how we go into the future. When we won in 2018, we said to the American People that for the people, we would lower the cost of health care by lowering the cost of prescription drugs and preserving the preexisting condition. Low er health care costs. Bigger...

Airline heavily criticizing the bailout deal the worlds biggest lighting maker has made a product that can degrade the virus and disinfect indoor areas all the applications we are putting into the markets are safe the good news is that it is also good for covid19. South koreas minister agrees to step down after north korea shows footage of it blowing up on the border a warm welcome from street signs. The stoxx 600 is in the green. There have been a few significant positive developments in the la...

Care, potential for vaccine treatments and mitigation of the incredible economic arm, the fourth bill is still lingering with an uncertain future in the senate. And then the murder of george floyd brought a long simmering crisis to a head for our nation. Last week, this house passed the justice in policing act to deal with systemic racism and policing. This bill deals with another crisis. Denied by the president and denied by most in his party. The existential threat of Climate Change to the wor...

Infrastructure bill. A vote on final passage is expected wednesday. May consume. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from oregon is recognized. Our mr. Defazio our nation is conflonted with multiple crises, covid. We passed four bills in this house to deal with covid directly in terms of medical care, potential for vaccine treatments and mitigation of the incredible economic arm, the fourth bill is still lingering with an uncertain future in the senate. And then the murder of george floyd brou...

Good evening everyone, thank you for coming out here tonight. My name is rachel miro, i had to make sure by looking at the sheet of paper. I am the Senior Editor of our silicone valley desk here in san jose. I say here in san jose, but here in Silicon Valley because we are in mountain view. Joining me on the stage is the director of internet ethics, alex stall moos, former chief security officer, and the director of the stanford internet observatory. Director of journalism and media ethics at Ma...

Yesterday. Nasdaq down 2 yesterday dow futures indicated up about 26 points, nasdaq up by 30 and s p up by two. The 10year is yielding 0. 667 andrew we have news out of washington to tell you about democrats unveiling a new 3 trillion spending bill including another round of stimulus checks up to 6,000 per household and extending the weekly Unemployment Benefits that would go through january including 107 trillion to stabilizing rent and mortgages and a cap on state and local tax reductions for ...

I called to order this hearing of the Senate Budget committee. The hearing on Government Accountability offices annual report on the nations Fiscal Health. We will hear from nonpartisan watchdog on the Fiscal Health and importance of confronting our critical fiscal challenges. I welcome back mr. Dodaro who is the most usual and best witness providing information throughout the year that is extremely helpful to heading off some of the future crises that will happen if we do not Pay Attention. Thi...

This here of the Senate Budget committee. The hearing on Government Accountability offices annual report on the nations Fiscal Health. Today the Budget Committee will hear from congress is nonpartisan, watchdog on the nations Fiscal Health and the importance of confronting our critical fiscal challenges. I welcome back mr. Dara who is our most usual and best witness providing information throughout the year that is extremely helpful, hitting off some of the future crises that are going to happen...

We will come to order. Todays hearing will focus on the reauthorization of the fast act, the nations current surface transportation bill that expires on september 30. We will hear the priorities of key Public Transportation stakeholders. A longterm reauthorization bill is critical to providing the certainty of stability that transit agencies, cities andos d to make responsible transportation lighting decisions. Public transportation plays a key role in our nations economy there are over 400 30,0...