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[gavel sounds] sen. Wicker this full Committee Nomination will come to order. Order. This morning the committee will consider four nominations to key transportation positions. The nominees before us today are eric soskin, nominee for Inspector General for dp of transportation. Robert pmbing rimus, nominated to be a member of the Surface Transportation Board. Sara feinberg, nominated to be a director of the amtrak board of directors. And chris coose, nominated to be a director on the amtrak board...

Housekeeping to let you know that the lab captioning for todays event is available at american progress. Org live captioning. We have a tremendous conversation ahead of us with the california governor, gavin newsom. A fantastic discussion with our panel. I well get into the introductions a bit later, but i really want to provide some words of context to the conversation. On the final day of the Democratic National convention, it is only fitting to look forward and consider how we can correct the...

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Election. The people get it. The democrats are playing for november 3rd. And were playing for the good of the people. Lou President Trump doing exactly what he should do, calling out exactly what he and the American People have witnessed and experienced over the past four years at the hands of the party of hate. No president has achieved more in his first term in office than has president donald trump. No prime president has been attd as viciously, nor had to contend with the massive effort to s...

Affairs will come to order. Without objection the chair is authorized to declare, a recess at any point in all member and s will have five days to submit statements. Extraneous materials and questions for the record the subject to the limitation. To insert something into the record, please have your staff email previously circulated address or contact the committee staff. As a reminder to the members, staff and others, physically present in this room for guidance on the office of attending physi...

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The committee on Foreign Affairs will come to order. Without objection, the chair is authorized to call her recess at any point and all members will have five days to submit statements. Extraneous material and westerns for the record subject to length limitations and the rules. To insert something into the record, please have your staff emailed vesely circulated address. , physicallyr present in this room for guidance of the office of attending physician, masks must be worn at all times except w...

Made history. This is the cbs evening news with Norah Odonnell. Reporting from the nations capitol. Odonnell good evening. And thank you for joining us. We want to begin tonight with a huge leap forward in the development of a vaccine against coronavirus. Volunteers all across the country including a member of our own cbs news family began getting shots today as part of the final phase of testing for an experimental vaccine being developed by the nih and the drug company moderna. Tens of thousan...

This full Committee Nomination will come to order. This morning the committee will consider four nominations to key transportation positions. The nominees before us today are eric soskin, nominee for Inspector General for dp of transportation. Robert pmbing rimus, nominated to be a member of the Surface Transportation Board. Sara feinberg, nominated to be a director of the amtrak board of directors. And chris coose, nominated to be a director on the amtrak board of directors. The Inspector Gener...

Positive. Covid hits the west wing. The president S National Security advisor is now the highest ranking u. S. Official to test positive. Was President Trump exposed . Hanna hammers texas. Tonight southern texas still reeling from the effects of hurricane hanna, as thousands are without power. Breaking news, cbs news has learned at least 100 more federal agents are standing by to be deployed to portland, oregon, amid unrest there. Honoring john lewis, tonight the first africanamerican lawmaker t...