capito: this concludes our hearing. acting secretary wolf, i appreciate you and all the men and women in your department. and thank you for representing them so well today. the hearing record will remain open for two weeks from today. senators may submit written questions for the record and we ask the department respond to them within a reasonable amount of time. if you need some help with clarifications on the question, i'm sure either relative senators will provide it or we'd be able to provide it at the chairman's -- in the chairman's office. with that, we stand in rehe is -- in recess. secretary wolf: thank you. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2020] >> house and human services secretary alex azhar tested -- testified by a senate appropriations subcommittee today on the trump administration response to the coronavirus. and the president's 2021 budget request for h

miss capito. miss capito, not guilty. mister cardin. mister cardin, guilty. mister parker, guilty. mistercasey. mister casey, guilty.mister cassidy . mister cassidy, not guilty. miss collins. miss collins, not guilty. mister coons. mister coons, guilty. mister cornyn. mister cornyn, not guilty. mister cortez-masto. not guilty. mister cotton, not guilty. esther kramer. mister cramer, not guilty. mister crapo. mister crapo, not guilty. mister cruz. not guilty. mister dames, not guilty. miss duckworth. miss duckworth, guilty. mister durbin. mister durbin, hilty. mister enzi. mister enzi, not guilty. miss ernst. mister ernst, not guilty. miss feinstein. miss feinstein, guilty. miss fischer. miss fischer, not guilty. mister gardner. mister gardner, not guilty. miss gillibrand, guilty. mister brown. mister graham, not guilty. mister grassley. not guilty. miss harris. miss harris, guilty. miss hassan, guilty. mister hawley, not guilty. mister heinrich. mister heinrich, guilty. miss hirono, guilty. mister hoeven, guilty. mrs. hyde smith, not guilty. mister inhofe, not guilty. mister johnso

miss capito. miss capito, not guilty. mister cardin. mister cardin, guilty. mister parker, guilty. mistercasey. mister casey, guilty.mister cassidy . mister cassidy, not guilty. miss collins. miss collins, not guilty. mister coons. mister coons, guilty. mister cornyn. mister cornyn, not guilty. mister cortez-masto. not guilty. mister cotton, not guilty. esther kramer. mister cramer, not guilty. mister crapo. mister crapo, not guilty. mister cruz. not guilty. mister dames, not guilty. miss duckworth. miss duckworth, guilty. mister durbin. mister durbin, hilty. mister enzi. mister enzi, not guilty. miss ernst. mister ernst, not guilty. miss feinstein. miss feinstein, guilty. miss fischer. miss fischer, not guilty. mister gardner. mister gardner, not guilty. miss gillibrand, guilty. mister brown. mister graham, not guilty. mister grassley. not guilty. miss harris. miss harris, guilty. miss hassan, guilty. mister hawley, not guilty. mister heinrich. mister heinrich, guilty. miss hirono, guilty. mister hoeven, guilty. mrs. hyde smith, not guilty. mister inhofe, not guilty. mister johnso

i said i'm shelly capito. i straightened out the record before i left. >> senator whitehouse. >> welcome, director fleming. as you know i voted for your confirmation and supported you and on occasion i've had some regret about people who i've voted for but in your case i came to say thank you and to express my appreciation for the work you're doing. i want you to know that in rhode island we very often get things done by working together. public, private partnerships, partnerships across municipal, state, federal, all sorts of different parties coming together and as you also know when that's your process things can sometimes take some time. >> sure. >> i think we have been particularly well served by linda cruz cardinal who is your, as you know, your regional director in our area and by the terrific marguerite mckinley who is the area director. we have a port in galilee that has had considerable rebuild thanks was to eda support and that's made it an attraction for other fishing boats that have not come there

chair moran: senator capito. senator capito: thank you, mr. chairman. thank you-all for coming today. it's been a very interesting hearing. the chairman, aim going to diverge a little bit from what the chairman requested we stay strictly on message because i have commissioner bowlsby here and i wanted to ask him a question and dr. girod will probably know what i'm talking about. you recently signed a big 12 deal to do -- stream on espn plus. rural state, west virginia, we are playing kansas tomorrow, i have my mountaineer colors on. you can only view the game in west virginia if you pay the $4.99 monthly streaming fee, and if you have keckivity. -- connectivity. it's been a source of very deep concern to west virginia. i want to give you a chance to respond what a rural state. these teams are our pro teams. we want to see that wvu victory on our tv's on wednesday. then we play baylor, again, number one team in the country, same thing. could you respond to that, please? dr. girod: i would be happy to. senator, i have had the opportunity, not surprisingly

capito. ms. capito, not guilty. mr. cardin. mr. cardin, guilty. mr. carper. mr. carper guilty. mr. casey. mr. casey, guilty. mr. cassidy. mr. cassidy, not guilty. ms. collins. ms. collins, not guilty. mr. coons. mr. coons, guilty. mr. cornyn. mr. cornyn, not guilty. ms. cortez masto. ms. cortez masmasto, guilty. mr. cotton. mr. cotton, not guilty. mr. kramer. mr. kramer not guilty. mr. crapcrapo. mr. crapo, not guilty. mr. cruz. mr. cruz, not guilty. mr. daines. mr. daines, not guilty. ms. duckworth. ms. duckworth, guilty. mr. durbin. mr. durbin, guilty. mr. enzi. mr. enzi not guilty. ms. ernst. ms. ernst, not guilty. ms. feinstein. mrs. feinstein, guilty. mrs. fisher. mrs. fisher, not guilty. mr. gardener. mr. gardener, not guilty. ms. gillibrand. mrs. gillibrand, guilty. mr. graham. mr. graham, not guilty. mr. grassley. mr. grassley, not guilty. ms. harris. ms. harris, guilty. ms. hassan. ms. hassan, guilty. mr. hawley. mr. hawley, not guilty. mr. hinrich, guilty. ms. hirono, guilty. mr. hoeven, guilty. ms. hide smith, not guilty. mr. inhofe, not guilty. mr. johnson, not guilty.

capito: thank you, mr. president. i rise today to discuss why i will be voting to acquit president trump on both articles of impeachment tomorrow afternoon. our constitution makes clear that only a particularly grave act, treason, bribery, and other high crimes and misdemeanors would justify a senate voting to reverse the will of the people and the voters and remove from office the person they chose to lead this nation. besides making clear just how serious an offense needs to be in order to warrant impeachment, our founding document allows the president to remain in office unless two-thirds of our body, the senate, votes for impeachment. that to me underscores the need for a national consensus that runs across partisan lines for undoing an election. the senate has never in our history removed a president from office following an impeachment trial. and our founding fathers recognized that impeachment should not be used as a blunt partisan instrument. president trump was duly elected by the people of this country presi

what do you think of what senator capito had to say? >> she is my friend. we see this different.e talk about it. we see it different and i think shelly knows. i don't know why the statement was made, who knows. the bottom line is that shelley knows me well enough that no one can pull my chain are tired noose around me. i'm the most conservative democrat in all of congress. my goodness. i've taken some tough votes that are very unpopular with the caucus and i'm sure that schumer and everybody else might not of been happy with it but it's a vote that i can live with. i said if i can come home and explain it, i can vote for it. i can explain this vote. it might not be popular in my state but we will see. history will tell. the bottom line is the evidence was very clear and i was hoping, i truly was hoping that we would see evidence, that we would see new witnesses. maybe he could get some doubt or clarity. what we saw was overwhelming. >> bill: you floated the idea of a censure. that went nowhere. how do you go from censure to guilty on both counts? >> i was looking to see if there

senator moore capito with katherine johnson. when she was 99. a little bit more than a year ago.of ms. johnson. what would you say about her memory and black history month and the role she played? >> it's really interesting to me that she made huge contributions to our space program, also our aeronautics research program in the early days. not only did she do that but she was an incredible role model after she retired from nasa in the '80s and then she had yet again another whole experience as a sort of super role model after the book "hidden figures" and then the movie came out. just a person whose contributions were so many and so varied that anyone of them would have been contributions of a lifetime. she had hundreds of them. >> harris: to put a fine point on it, the senate voted unanimously to pass the resolution honoring katherine johnson and black history month. that happened this week. bill barry, thank you. thank you for watching. >> dana: we begin with the fox news alert. stocks sliding, down 829 points. on track for the worst week since the 2008 financial crisis. as the

>> thank you, chair, chairwoman capito. i first want to talk about the wall budget for a second, $2 million in additional money for construction. quite frankly, the last border security improvement plan we had was two years ago. it was criticized by some of us. we keep hearing another plan is coming. >> it is. >> when? >> i would say in the next several months. it's currently in review at the department and it is being finalized. >> so, can you give me -- if it isn't here by the 1st of june, should we be calling you in front of the committee and raking you over the coals, the 1st of may? >> i think that's fair, a june deadline. i will push personally to get it before that. >> okay. >> we have it. it's been finalized or is being finalized. >> if you can get it quicker than that. we're talking -- i misspoke. it's only $15.185 billion for the wall. >> yeah. >> that's a huge amount of money. >> sure. >> we need to have a plan. it needs to be a good one. better than the last one. last week you announced a plan by waiving ten pro

madam chair. >> thank you senator capito. senator thune. >> thank you, chairman fisher an thanks for having this fisher. these are subjects that are very important to rural states like south dakota, and several panelists have mentioned the potential benefits of new technologies to truck safety. the efficiency of motor carrier inspections and improved quality of life for drivers. sergeant samis, could you provide some examples of how new technologies can help improve the inspection process for both drivers and the law enforcement community. >> yes, sir. it's important to remember that we are tasked with enforcing the regulations and insuring compliance by the motor carrier industry. but there will never be enough resources for law enforcement to touch all the people out there on the roadways. there is a vast number of truck and trucking companies out there. so one of the things that we're looking to do is introduce the universal electronic identifier, which would help us identify trucks and focus in on possibly the bad actor,

especially in economically distressed or moribund communities like my native west virginia, senator capito knows what i'm talking about, she sees this every day. i've seen firsthand how these investments including those by eda support projects and create jobs in all of our states, all of our own states including my home state of delaware. this past september a couple of months ago, dr. fleming, you were good enough to come to open what we call the delaware innovation space in wilmington. dupont forever, for hundreds of years, was like the economic linchpin in delaware. tens of thousands of jobs. the governor of delaware in january of '93, 27,000 people went to work that day in dupont. today, 4,000. so the question is what do you do about that, how do we deal with that. and we had a lot of dupont employees who were let go. a lot of them had ph.d.s at the end of their name and all of a sudden they were out of a job. we created a space on the campus of the experimental station of dupont, it's a whole new creation of jobs. and we're excited about that. eda has played a very significant role in

capito, not guilty. mr. carden. guilty. mr. carper. mr. carper, guilty. mr. casey. mr. casey, guilty. mr. cassidy. mr. cassidy, not guilty. ms. collins? ms. collins not guilty. mr. chris coons, guilty. mr. cornyn, not guilty. mr. cortez-masto, guilty. mr. cotton. mr. cotton, not guilty. mr. cramer? mr. cramer, not guilty. mr. crapo. mr. krapy, not guilty. mr. cruz. mr. cruz, not guilty. mr. dames, not guilty. ms. duckworth? ms. duckworth, guilty. mr. durbin? guilty. mr. insey? not guilty. mr. ernst? ms. ernst, not guilty. mrs. feinstein, guilty. mrs. fisher? mrs. fisher, not guilty. mr. gardner? mr. gardner, not guilty. mrs. gillibrand, guilty. mr. graham? mr. graham, not guilty. mr. grassley? not guilty. ms. harris? ms. harris, guilty. ms. housen, guilty. mr. holly. mr. holly not guilty. mr. hinrich? guilty. mr. roano? ms. hirono, guilty. mr. hoven, not guilty. mrs. hidesmith? ms. hydesmith, not guilty. mr. inhofe, not guilty. mr. johnson? mr. johnson not guilty. mr. jones? mr. jones guilty. mr. king? mr. king guilty. mr. kennedy? mr. kennedy, not guilty. mr. king? mr.

. >> senator capito, thank you very much. senator young. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i appreciate you holding this hearing. it's big of you seeing you lost the headquarters of the ncaa a number of years ago. but just responding to your earlier commentary. we are grateful to have the ncaa in indianapolis. i think your entire panel. that comes down to a question of fairness and equity. and -- and we need to tackle it intelligently. we are trying to strike a balance here. we want to maintain the fundamental notion of -- of college sports and -- if at all possible. while addressing this issue of name, likeness, and image, that a number of states have already gone out and -- and proactively addressed in different ways. i think about who's your teenager? maybe the first one to attend college? and they go out on to the court or the field and are able to make a real impact. and create some value for the institution, for their conference, for the -- for the ncaa. dr. emmert, how can we create opportunity for kids to bring this value to an institution to -- to the broader const

. >> o'donnell: margaret and i were up on capito capitol hill r today, meeting with speaker nancy pelosio was already charged up about making the democratic rebuttal to the president of the united states, and saying the president is going to offer lots of fabulous things in the state of the union address. watch for the budget on monday. look at the president's record. see what he actually does. which is true in every administration. it's easy to say what you're for, what you're going to give everybody. a budget tells the truth, and certainly what you can get through congress. but she also said this, pelosi, she said, "the higher the market goes, the more tolerance people have for the pain of others." the suggestion that while the stock market is soaring and there are some people who are making a lot of money, there are many americans who are left behind. >> reporter: well, a slight majority of americans-- it's over 50% of americans-- do own stock in some form or the other. her emphasis is on the working class and saying, "yes, are you at these record employment levels, but the wages aren

senator capito was, and told manchin was a puppet for schumer and pelosi and that's he is. for his part, mr. manchin is talking about that, he was on with bill hemmer. >> i can explain this vote and may not be popular in my state, but history will tell. the evidence was very clear and i hoping, truly hoping that we would see evidence and we would see new witnesses that maybe could give some doubt or charity to it, but what we saw was overwhelming. >> that was on friday as he had that conversation with our bill hemmer. clearly, he is going to face a bit of pressure, it is fair to say, heather, as he takes his message back home to people, west virginia overwhelmingly supporting president trump in the 2016 election. by the way, no public events for the president today, but if that changes, you know i'm here for you. back to you. >> always there for us. sondland was being recalled and colonel vindman reassigned. >> correct, a nice way to say you're out of here, we can shuffle you off. >> i'm glad you made the clarification. in washington speak that means we can find a nice othe

. >> i was speaking with senator capito for preparedness in united states when it comes to federal reserveould also loosen up activity i mean perhaps something around the balance sheet or other moves, you know when chairman bernanke was faced with the crisis, that he was, in 2007 came up with real innovative ways to stimulate. >> dependent how this unfolds, there are we don't have the tool the robust tool kit we might have had prefinancial crisis because rates are much lower, but that doesn't i mean we don't have substantial tools including our balance sheet, but i think it is he it is too soon for me to comment on what we might or might not do. right now i think it is wiser to be trying to understand how this is likely to unfold, and be prepared and we will be prepared. >> radio you are watching availability of credit and credit spreads how closely are you watching the markets in terms of the wealth effect and what it is doing in terms of the nervousness perception of people. >> so i -- obviously, i come from markets background watching all those things, and we will continue to monitor al

capito: thank you, mr. president. i rise today to discuss why i will be voting to acquit president trump on both articles of impeachment tomorrow afternoon. our constitution makes clear that only a particularly grave act, treason, bribery, and other high crimes and misdemeanors would justify a senate voting to reverse the will of the people and the voters and remove from office the person they chose to lead this nation. besides making clear just how serious an offense needs to be in order to warrant impeachment, our founding document allows the president to remain in office unless two-thirds of our body, the senate, votes for impeachment. that to me underscores the need for a national consensus that runs across partisan lines for undoing an election. the senate has never in our history removed a president from office following an impeachment trial. and our founding fathers recognized that impeachment should not be used as a blunt partisan instrument. president trump was duly elected by the people of this country presi

capito: thank you, mr. president. i rise today to discuss why i will be voting to acquit president trump

bipartisan bill with fellow leersdz of the committee -- leaders of the committee, senator cardin, senator capito. the legislation will make an historic investment in our roads. america's transportation infrastructure act authorizes $287 billion over five years from the highway trust fund. the largest investment in america's roads included in any highway bill ever passed by congress. our bill is going to help the entire economy, the entire country. senators from our committee represent rural areas like wyoming, iowa, and alaska; and urban areas like new york, chicago and baltimore. america's transportation infrastructure act is a win for them all. over 90% of the money in our legislation will go to states through the highway formula funding. formula funding gives each state the flexibility to address their specific surface transportation needs. the formula-based approach has been very successful in the past. it effectively and efficiently delivering infrastructure money to states where they can make decisions as to which projects to pursue. america's transportation infrastructure act maintains th