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Remote hearings certainly arent the same as sitting together in our Committee Room but this new authority has allowed us to continue to do our work on behalf of the American Peoples while keeping our staff, family and broader communities safe. This is the second official virtual subcommittee hearing in the ways and means committee. As with our previous hearing i want members to know i plan to continue this committees long tradition of collegiality and substantive debates. Even as we conduct our ...

[distant sirens] ladies and gentlemen, the president of the United States and mrs. Trump, accompanied by judge Amy Coney Barrett and family. [hail to the chief playing] [applause] pres. Trump thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. I stand before you today to fulfill one of my highest and most important duties under the United States constitution, the nomination of a Supreme Court justice. [applause] this is my third such nomination after Justice Gorsuch and Justice Kavanaugh and it is a very...

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Howe. Mr. Howe and good evening, senator kennedy. Mr. Kennedy good evening, mr. Howe. Mr. Howe now let me read the rules and conditions under which the candidates themselves have agreed to proceed. As they did in their first meeting, both men will make Opening Statements of about eight minutes each and closing statements of equal time running three to five minutes each. During the half hour between the opening and closing statements, the candidates will answer and comment upon questions from a p...

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Joe was going to focus on that and donald trump is going to try and distract us. Are you concerned about just disparate voting to overturn roe v. Wade . Right now what is on the table is a court case that the. Licans have overturned that is the case on the table in the supreme court. That is where our concern is. Let me also say, the election is what, 37 days from now . The next election and senators have to remember this is 38 days election from now. Senators made not be worried what thisat boa...

Chair peskin welcome to the land use and Transportation Committee today, september 21, 2020. I am chair aaron peskin, joined by supervisor ahsha safai and supervisor dean preston. Our clerk is miss erica major. Miss major, could you please make any announcements. Clerk yes. Due to the covid19 pandemic, city hall and board rooms are closed. Committee members will attend through Video Conference and participate in the meeting to the same extent as if they are physically present. Public comment wil...

Have been trying to do over in, they overturn that they overturned the Affordable Care act, they will be seeing elections that look exactly like 2018, over and over again. The dates for judge Amy Coney Barretts confirmation hearings have been announced. Says the hearings 12l begin on monday, october with Opening Statements and questions for the nominee on tuesday the 13th. Senator graham asks that he expects the hearings will last three or four days. You can watch live coverage of every minute o...

Senate committee on finance, subcommittee on International Trade customs and Global Competitiveness will come to order. I know this seems a little strange, with 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 trade practices, a foreign governments especially china and russia. The ...

A host will spare no efforts to support the initiative along with help from the International Community. So historic talks aimed at ending decades of war and misery in afghanistan are finally taking place here in qatar this saturday negotiators from the Afghan Government and the taliban amazing along with the u. S. Secretary of state mike pompei oh and the Qatari Foreign minister more than 6 months it is now since the u. S. Brokered its own deal aimed at ending americas longest war that agreemen...