chairman. >> chairman powell? >> i would now like to focus on how the proposal is set to significantly disincentivize banks from offering clearing services. congressman dated central clearing as a way to reduce risk in the system. the number of banks that cleared derivatives has reduced over time. making it harder for users to find a bank to offer this service. there are some estimates that will increase this by 80%. i'm worried that this will make it harder to find a bank to clear their hedges and when they are friends at the securities exchange commission has just finalized a rule in december that will increase clearing and the cost in those markets. this will have a real impact on market access and liquidity, not just in commodity, but the $26 trillion treasury market that will play a critical role in the world economy. will you work with them to address this problem? >> again, i'll say that we are aware of those concerns and we're prepared to work with other agencies and also to make sure that our capital prop

in the election of the chairman, deputy chairman and other members of the presidium of the all-belarusian people's assembly , a decision is formalized. based on the protocol of the counting commission on the results of the vote to elect the chairman of the all-belarusian people's assembly, it is proposed to make an appropriate decision. a draft decision on the election of alexander grigoryevich lukashenko as chairman of the all-belarus people's assembly is being put to the vote. who. assistant to the president of the republic of belarus alexander nikolaevich kosins. in the vote accepted 1159 delegates, that is, all. total number. thank you, inna viktorovna, dear delegates, based on the protocol of the counting commission on the results of voting on the election of a deputy chairman, a draft decision on the election of alexander nikolaevich kosens as deputy chairman of the all-belarus people's assembly is proposed for adoption, please vote against. thank you, thank you, inna viktorovna, based on the protocol of the counting commission on the results of voting on the election of members of

chairman. all i can say after hearing your opening statement is wow. you guys never miss an opportunity to blame your own incompetence on joe biden. i mean, you blame joe biden for everything. i'm surprised you didn't blame him for the earthquake in your opening remarks. you don't blame iran or any of the bad players but everything is blamed on joe biden. i guess that's the republican talking points. but it's unbelievable to me it's taken this long for this republican majority to do their job. the incompetence and the indifference is stunning. i mean, i really can't believe it. i don't expect much of this republican majority but this is really beyond the pale. the senate found common ground months ago and the world has been watching and our allies have been waiting and waiting and waiting for the g.o.p. to get their act together. well, guess what, our allies are out of time. and the republican party is out of excuses. the ukrainian people have suffered as a result of this g.o.p. majority. ukrai

chairman. i appreciate it. chairman cole -- >> no, he went. >> i'm sorry. i was doctor at the beginning. [inaudible] thank you. [laughing] that's right. i have no questions at this time. ranking member mcgovern? >> i did want to thank all of you for your testimony, and it seems like all of you are in agreement on how we should proceed. i appreciated the tone of all the testimonies. i think it was a contrast of the chair of his opening statement to do appreciate your tone. and i think we need to move this forward. so let's get on with it and i yield back my time. >> thank you. the gentlelady from pennsylvania. [inaudible] >> i want to associate myself with the ranking members remarks. in order to get to the room today we all had to let i call it of our colleagues in the press with the ship and asking what is the republicans plan to pass the national security legislation? does a majority even have the votes to pass this rule out of committee? of your week we seen into convoluted -- to placate the

chairman. it's an honor to serve alongside you. thank you for yielding me time in this evening's special order. i want to talk about passing a farm bill that strengthens the farm safety net, bolsters rural economies and meets the growing food security and affordability difficulties fating american families. agriculture and food-related industries are responsible for $.4 trillion of the gross domestic product. yet farmers specifically, farmers in my district face daunting challenges in providing a stable, affordable food supply to our nation. i've heard farmers' and ranchers' concerned about continued pressures, limited trade markets, animal health and a broad range of other issues. through the house agriculture committee's busy schedule over the past 16 months i have seen the importance of policies that keep the farm safety net strong, incentivize conservation, encourage initiatives, support specialty crop, allow farmers to grow our energy resources and much more. the united states department o

chairman. good morning, everyone. welcome back, chair powell. while i am pleased with the progress the administration of made to tackle inflation, we are not out of the woods yet. in fact, even though her mother my republican colleagues refuse to acknowledge this fact, housing is still the number one driver of inflation. based on the latest data, housing costs continue to make up nearly 70% of overall price increases, outpacing modest wage gains. we address the underlying housing supply shortage and americans will continue to pay an increasing share of their income on housing. the affordability prices will worsen, and inflation will remain too high. with that said, it's hard to understand why republicans feign concern about the economy. they are unwilling to address the key driver of an elation -- housing. in fact, republicans of only put forward legislation that makes things worse for millions of americans, including moving legislation to slash funding for federal housing programs, including i

chairman. but i went on a trip over a week to jerusalem, poland, estonia, and achieve. i think you have because when we went there, that is how we set it. it is kyiv now. and i was very steep and what they face. it is really important for the entire world to understand mitt. it is not some isolationist who does not want to support our role in the world to prevent a putin democracy. but it is a real and reasoned debate about priorities when, if you look at it during reagan's time and the relative debt to gdp ratio under reagan when we were probably about at a 37% when he did the buildup in the early 80s. today, we are up by $1.10, $1.20, depending on your count on that debt. we are just talking about ramping up to defense industrial base on the back of ukraine. that may be a good thing for our country to get the production level up, but at what cost over there will we win? is there a mission that is achievable here? hmmm ukrainians have to die in the process, which is a very real concern. and th

chairman. >> thank you, chairman. >> mr. secretary, israel, taiwan, our allies and security assistance, they need to come back with threats that you discuss. these are the factors that threaten global peace and security. we have been asking this for a couple of months in light of what the chairman of the full committee said read i would just like to offer to the chairman of the full committee, it is our hope. our site generally hopes that you have an opportunity to vote on this. other extremist pieces of this, aren't part of it. from a speed perspective, we can evade this as quickly as possible. it would be unfortunate if that was held up with other additional votes that were a threat to our national security, and helping our allies. you told authorizer's earlier this week in succession, that the side can't shoot back. if ukraine cannot shoot back, they won't be able to hold the line. vladimir putin, would be able to take more land. the u.s. is obviously the main supplier of defense and artillery shells. mr. secretary, is it

chairman? >> certainly, the war in ukraine, is causing a sharp decline. >> this is another urgent need for us. you are running out of time. we can do everything that is in our power. you can support ukraine. this is so that we can look at other strategic problems that we are going to help with the commodity. that should help lower the cost of some of these commodities. we have things that are going to be surprising to the united dates congress. >> i wouldn't have an opinion on ukrainian funding. >> if we had more grain that was coming through, it was right here. that would help bring the cost down. this is the disruption in the black sea. that would help bring the cost down. that is not necessarily the policy near the united dates. this is what is going on in russia. we need to make sure that we can do something to prevent, if we are serious about bringing inflation down. is that not correct? >> we have isil -- full supply of grain. >> instead of us playing politics with this, and acting like i

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chairman. we did fund 41,500 that. we don't want to speak for anyone else, but we do support the charter air from ice, and i certainly want to ask you about that. and somewhere down the line, certainly want to ask you about what the president is looking up. i've always felt that the president can do an executive order. my understanding is that there is talk about another executive order, because if you get 100 people that ask for a violent, at the end of the day, they go to a judge four, five, six years later, 87 to 90% of them will be rejected. so we got to do something at the very beginning. if they don't qualify for those five reasons, i think we need to look at -- if the president does end up sure, it will be a court case from some folks that don't agree with him. so i say -- i want to say thank you. i hope that it -- i hope that you all look at the polygraph that has been a big problem. whoever that vendor is -- and hopefully they are listening to me a little this we got to do something. a

chairman. welcome back, dr. swagel. there is no debate, none whatsoever. america's economy is a strongest in the world, and in the of other developed nations. no economy on earth has recovered more quickly and more strongly than that of the american economy. here are the facts to back that up. there have been just under 15 million jobs created since president biden took office. in fact, we may very well hit the 15 million mark next month. more jobs created in this presidential term than any other previous term in history. the three-month average job growth is 289,000 jobs a month. the unemployment rate at 3.7% has now been under 4% for the last two years, historic. this economy now has, to those who spread the false claim that we are just regaining the jobs lost during covid, consider this fact. the economy today has 5.4 million more jobs than before covid. in 2023, gdp growth was 2.5% year-over-year. and on inflation, which is ravaged every single economy on earth as we came back from covid, i

chairman. the necessity for guarantee of a free press is one of the fundamental pillars of our democratic republic pre-dating and inspiring our constitution and the first amendment. we all know that a democracy truly works when its citizens are properly informed and a free press contributes to this goal by assuring truth and accountability by those in power and a free press informs on policy issues and impacting their lives and crucially revealing incompetence, corruption, deceit, fraud or bad states by political candidates and government officials. thus, attempts by government actors and leader to undermine the press whether by promoting conspiracy series and lies, attacking members of the press with whom they disagree or undermining the ability to obtain vital information are an assault on the pillars of our democratic foundation. one particularly pernicious way this occurs is when the government to disclose confidential sources. it's important to talk about the different ways where the gover

deputy chairman of the all-belarusian people's assembly.gan back in 1995, when i, a young graduate student, approached the still young, but already very well-known in our country, professor kosinets, with a question about planning my future scientific research. and for these many 30 years already. we discussed various issues, solved various problems related not only to the planning of scientific research, improving the activities of the medical industry, but taking into account the wide- ranging, extensive life experience of alexander nikolaevich devoted to various issues, during this time i was convinced not only that ... that alexander nikolaevich is a real professional, a highly educated, extremely principled person, but also a person who devoted his entire life to serving his homeland, his favorite cause, no matter what position alexander nikolaevich worked in, starting from doctor, assistant department of the medical university, ending with the position of senior official. the head of the administration, the president of the republic o

years later i became chairman of the leningrad regional court, and i cannot help but note this stageis the eighteenth to twentieth year, it seems like only 2 years, because in the twentieth year i was already appointed to the position of deputy chairman supreme court, chairman of the judicial collegium for economic disputes, but these 2 years from the eighteenth to the twentieth were the years of the creation of the courts of appeal and cassation, and of course, when this the work is not only the management of the court, when you start from the fact that you have neither a table nor a chair, that is, it is when you organize a court from scratch, gather a team, also, when you are alone and there is no one else, you had to gather a court team, then it was necessary to provide conditions for... a lot of things can be confused, but you can’t go wrong with the choice of thermal insulation, pinople slabs. on friday, april 26 , we are giving 30% cashback on fuel in our in-app refueling service. order a free alpha card and receive a superkick. not easy profitable. alpha is profitable. this i

chairman. i want to echo your comments that are veterans there service was not in vain they protected this nation for 20 years from a major terrorist attack like 911. we thank them for that we also do think the parents of the marine corps corporal hunter lopez and marine corps sgt nicole who are here today. to the lopez family and thus the goldstar famines be honor your sacrifice and it november and you testified before this committee and transcribed interview you presented to the biden administration and to the president basically three options on the doha agreement. one to basically ignore and unconditionally withdraw up to, tear it up in three to enforce its conditions against the taliban. you also testified you and secretary blinken both recommended to president biden that he enforced doha's condition. but instead the president ignored were advised or disagreed and chose to ignore the doha conditions and unconditionally withdrawal is that correct? rex i think the opportunity for me too brie

podnosov's candidacy for the post of chairman of the supreme court of russia. position of deputy chairman of the supreme court and heads the judicial panel for economic disputes. our correspondent egor grigoriev worked at the supreme court building. he'll tell you everything. the high qualification board of judges opened a vacancy for the post of chairman of the supreme court on march 1. today a month later , irina podnosova’s candidacy was considered for this position. she holds the post of deputy chairman of the supreme court. of the russian federation and heads the judicial panel for economic disputes, she is also co-chairman of the scientific advisory council at the supreme court of the russian federation. experts call urina podnosova the initiator of the development of a number of bills aimed at easing the system of punishment for entrepreneurs and decriminalizing crimes of an economic nature. her total legal experience is almost 50 years, and judicial experience - 35. podnosova began working in the supreme court as deputy chairman in 2020, before that she

leger fernandez, aye. >> chairman? >> the chair votes aye. >> recorded. >> vote no. >> massey, no. >> mr. norman, you are recorded as aye. >> mr. norman, no. >> the clerk, please report the total. >> nine yeas, three nays. >> i will be managing for the majority. >> i will be managing for the democrats. >>>> thank you everyone for the participation tonight, the committee is adjourned. >> the house rules committee has adjourned after approving the rules for debate on legislation that would provide aid to israel, ukraine and taiwan we expect lawmakers to begin work on these bills when the house returns for legislation. final passage could possibly stretch into the weekend. as always, you will be able to follow the house live when members return here on his van. now back to our programming item schedule. rejoin join it in progress. -- we rejoin it in progress. to this delay in processing and can you commit to working with me on trying to reduce the times and let us know what resources you need so we can provide them? >> se

the place of the chairman of the supreme court of russia will most likely be taken by irina podnosovad by the supreme court and the council of judges. the opening of a vacant position was announced after the death of vyacheslav lebedev, who had held his post since ten years. what is known? egor grigoriev has all the details. the vacancy for the post of chairman of the supreme court, the highest qualification board of judges, opened on march 1. today, a month later , irina podnosova’s candidacy was considered for this position. she holds the post of deputy chairman of the supreme court of the russian federation and heads the judicial panel for economic disputes. she is also co-chair of the scientific advisory council at the supreme court of the russian federation. experts call. podnosova initiated the development of a number of bills aimed at mitigating the system of punishment for entrepreneurs, decriminalizing crimes of an economic nature, her total legal experience is almost 50 years, and her judicial experience is 35. in the supreme court , podnosova began as deputy chairman to wor

chairman. the necessity for guarantee of a free press is one of the fundamental pillars of her democratic republic. pre-dating and inspiring both anour constitution and the first amendment. we all know a democracy only truly works when it's citizens are properly stock formed. free press contributes to this theschool by ensuring truth and accountability for those in power but free press informs the american people the important policy issues government actions that may impact their lives and crucially reveal confidence, corruption, fraud or bad state by political candidates and government officials. attempts byy government actors and would-be leaders to undermine the press promoting conspiracy theories and lies before attacking members of the press which whom they disagree undermine the press' ability to obtain vital information are an assault on the pillars of our democratic foundation. the way this occurs the government seeks to compel journalist to disclose the identity of confidential source

chairman. joined chairman rogers in thanking our overall appropriations chair, kay granger, for her years of dedication and service to this appropriations committee. and congratulate chairman cole as he takes over that very important role. and i also joined chairman rogers in welcoming director christopher wray to testify today. as we all know, the fbi does an enormous amount of work to help protect the american people as a primary law enforcement agency for the u.s. government, the fbi employs roughly 36,000 people in 56 field offices, 350 resident agencies, and several specialized facilities and analytical centers across the country, as well as in over 60 legal attachi offices in 80 countries around the world. the fbi works to investigate and disrupt crime including everything from violent gang networks, cyber criminals, white-collar crime, human trafficking, and domestic and international terrorism. i could not agree more with chairman rogers as he talks about fbi's mission including combati

chairman. and i'll just begin by echoing many of your concerns. this is obviously a time when missile defense is in use all around the globe, including by the united states, in great quantity. this is not a technology that seems to be fading away and i think my biggest concern is that i just don't understand the rational behind many of these cuts. now, i've asked a lot of tough questions of leaders like yourself, mr. hill in particular, about the purpose of hyper sonics. it's in that same vein, we don't understand what exactly the operational concept is to use hypersonics, that makes it hard to understand the money we're spending on it. likewise, as the chairman said if we don't understand why, don't understand the rationale behind the cuts, it becomes hard to support them especially in this environment. i want to welcome both lieutenant general james and collins as it's the first opportunity to testify in front of congress in your new roles. and in space command increasing in importance and co

chairman? >> i thank the gentleman from virginia. >> thank you, thank you, mr. chairman. as appropriator i'm keenly aware of your great work on this side of congress and admire your efforts and your commit met to our nation. you seen an effort to weponized immigration once again as it happens every four years when we peddle some narrative to try to get votes to get reelected yet this is the budget committee but i will share with you some statements that we may have gotten but that i think we will all remember. i believe in the idea of amnesty for those who have put roots here in 1984, ronald reagan, we must bring undocumented workers already in the country out to have shadows. george w. bush, and rather george bush and george w. bush proposed to sign into law a guest worker program in efforts to address immigration so immigration is not a new thing. it's been dragging a long for decades. and this house has failed in its duties to address comprehensive immigration reform. to try to say that is something that happened now under the biden administration is an effort to wepon

chairman. good morning. i want to begin by thanking the secretary for being here today. your testimony before the committee despite the unfounded extreme attacks against you speaks to the character, integrity and commitment to the department of homeland security, its mission and its people. what seems like a split screen, this morning the committee is upholding its annual hearing on the department of homeland security's budget request. this afternoon, republican members will deliver to the senate their baseless articles of impeachment, and perhaps the most politicized partisan stunned this committee has ever engaged in. from the moment the secretary took office in february, 2021, members of the oversight unfairly targeted them for their own political gain. he would bring an end impeachment case against the secretary mayorkas and he told his contributors to get the popcorn and promised it's going to be fine. according to an internal republican memo, republicans had already scheduled the vote to

chairman. we did fund 41,500 beds. i do support 41,500 beds. i do support the charter and certainly want to ask about that and somewhere down the line i the president is looking at. i always felt the president could do an executive order. my understanding is that. there is talk about another executive order because if you get 100 people that ask for asylum, at the end of the day they go four, five, six years later. edie seven to 97% so we've got to do something at the very beginning. if the president does that i am sure there will be a case by some folks who don't agree but we certainly have to look at them and i want to say thank you. i hope that on the 22,000 border patrol agents we had i hope you all look at the polygraph that has been a big problem. i talked to the border patrol. whoever the vendor is, hopefully they are listening to me, we've gotth to do something about that and certainly because we don't hire people. i know at one time even under the trump administration we were losing mo

today they will elect the chairman, deputy and presidium of the all-belarusian people's assembly, andpprove the rules of work. our correspondent svetlana lukinyuk is in touch with the studio straight from the palace. meeting to communicate with your colleagues from other areas, some even have a cup of coffee and of course discuss upcoming documents, the upcoming agenda, today there is a lot of work here in the hall near the main hall there are booths for voting, the delegates will have to choose the chairman of the all-belarus people's assembly, deputies and the presidium of the supreme people's assembly. we will communicate with guests today; we are expecting many of them in our on-site studio, which operates here, and the first guest is deputy prime minister igor. from the point of view of the binding nature of the decisions made, the corresponding institutionally built structure that you said, both the chairman and the presidium, the deputy chairman, and the relevant areas of work, so this is very important for us, significantly, all the delegates are arriving today with great enth

chairman. you've acknowledged the fed likely waited too long to raise rates when prices shot up in 2021. we can't make that mistake again, mr. chair, at the expense of workers. if the fed waits until unemployment starts increasing, it may be too late to cut rates in time to save american jobs. why shouldn't the fed act now to prevent workers from losing their jobs rather than, rather than reacting after the fact? >> so we're well aware of that risk, of course, and very conscious of avoiding it. and what we said is if, what we expect and what we're seeing is continued strong growth, strong labor market, and continuing progress and bringing inflation down, if that happens, if the economy evolves over that, that path, then we do think that the process of carefully removing the restricted stance of policy will, well, can, and will begin over the course of this year. >> and i know we've had this conversation publicly here or privately also that you know working people are hit the hardest, inflation,

i followed in his footsteps chairman of the council.ouse of parliament has formed the composition of the standing commissions, this week they have already announced the curators for each, and today their deputies and composition have been chosen. there are 14 standing commissions in the deputy corps, they include an average of 7-9 people, each is responsible for its own specific direction, from the national economy. in the meantime, the elections of delegates to the supreme council continue; today at the extraordinary congress of the federation of trade unions, 80 people were elected, they will be part of the meeting, become the voice of the people and will represent the interests of different layers of the population. nominees, leaders of trade union organizations at all levels, activists, honored workers of labor collectives from healthcare, education to industry and agriculture. the elections of delegates to the supreme council will last until april 10. were fixed in their jobs, both in private organizations and in conditions for you