Social distancing visitors at one nursing home in belgium forgetting. To bring them face to face again with. Fellow im terry Martin Thanks for joining us the pandemic has laid bare structural shortcomings in Many Health Care systems the world over here in europe the u. K. Is one of the clearest examples of that it has seen more than 21000 people die after contracting copd it 19 years of underfunding and Staff Shortages and now a lack of personal protective equipment have all left the British National Health System and its workers buckling under the strain of the coronavirus. Went on and on sleeve gown that protects him from coronavirus doctor assays munaf almost feels guilty every time he puts one on hes an emergency doctor so he does have access to past not protective equipment or people. But supplies across the u. K. Are very limited in simply arent enough gowns for every doctor i want to go to get treated to. A conscious user to you they call one box of supplies going alas alas alas
Legacy energy source. Senator udall of new mexico and i have an amendment that will close a loophole in federal Energy Policy. I want my colleagues to know, and i think they do, of my long support for renewable and alternative sources of energy and so i agree with the aims of the murkowskimachin murkowskiy bill. The amendment that senator udall and i have introduced is the same as the bipartisan bill we introduced last week. The title of that bill is the fair return for public lands act. Mr. Grassley this bill was introduced 100 years to the date of the mineral leasing act of 1920. This amendment would increase the royalty rates on federal lands from 12. 5 to 18. 75 . Everybody here knows that a royalty is what the oil company will pay to a mineral owner. In this case the mineral owner is the american taxpayer, and that royalty is paid for the right to extract oil and natural gas from the lands of the United States. The legislation modernizes the public lands leasing system and it does
Lets listen back in i dont and mr marson do you have any information as to why the Vice President was unable to participate in the delegation no. Besar volcker you testified during your deposition that it in fact does get held up from time to time for a whole assortment of reasons is that i wrote that is true and sometimes the hold ups are rooted in something you know and being sometimes is it the Defense Department sometimes just at the state department sometimes on the hill correct that is correct. And so when the aide was held up for 55 days. For ukraine it didnt in and of itself strike you as uncommon you know its something that had happened in my career in the past had seen all ups of assistance i just assumed it was part of the Decision Making process somebody had an objection and we had to overcome it and in fact. There were concerns that you know perhaps president selenski wasnt going to be the reformer that he campaigned on that that was a supposition that i made because of th
On American History tv on cspan three. Collect snacks, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee considers the nomination of John Sullivan to the u. S. Ambassador to russia. Who currently serves as deputy secretary of state was asked several questions about trumps communication with the president of ukraine in july and alleged efforts to have ukraine investigate former Vice President joe biden in exchange for military aid. [background sounds] the meeting will come to order. Thank you all for attending today. Today were going to hold the nomination hearing on a very important position. Our nominee today is the honorable john j sullivan, to be the u. S. Investor to the Russian Federation. First we have two distinguished very distinguished, i might add colleagues of ours, was to introduce our nominees and were going to allow them to proceed with introductions. If im going to post on my opening statement. Lets hold that until the nominees had been introduced. Were glad to be joined today by s
Relations Committee Considers the nomination of John Sullivan to the u. S. Ambassador to russia. Mr. Sullivan, who currently serves is deputy secretary of state, was asked several questions about the President Trumps communication with the president of ukraine in july and alleged efforts to have ukraine investigate former Vice President joe biden in exchange for military aid. This confirmation hearing is just on two and a off hours. [background sounds] [background sounds] the meeting will come to order. Thank you all for attending today. Today were going to hold the nomination hearing on a very important position. Our nominee today is the honorable john j sullivan, to be the u. S. Investor to the Russian Federation. First we have two distinguished very distinguished, i might add colleagues of ours, was to introduce our nominees and were going to allow them to proceed with introductions. If im going to post on my opening statement. Lets hold that until the nominees had been introduced.