Good morning. The subcommittee will come to order. Welcome everyone. A quorum is present and i know for the subcommittee and from florida and michigan and texas and tennessee michiga michigan, kentucky, wisconsi michigan, kentucky, wisconsin,. Pennsylvania, mr. Johnson of south dakota and pennsylvania they all have committed to participate in todays hearing that the questions will only come after the subcommittee of workforce protections on both sides of the aisle are present either in person or via remote participation due to House Resolution 965 and the accompanying regulations and had an opportunity to question the witnesses the subcommittee is meeting today for a hearing on examining the federal governments actions to protect workers from covid19 both in the hearing room and for those members participating remotely you will be kept muted as a general rule to avoid any unnecessary background noise members will be responsible for and muting themselves when they are recognized to spea
A quorum is present and i know for the subcommittee and from florida and michigan and texas and tennessee michiga michigan, kentucky, wisconsi michigan, kentucky, wisconsin,. Pennsylvania, mr. Johnson of south dakota and pennsylvania they all have committed to participate in todays hearing that the questions will only come after the subcommittee of workforce protections on both sides of the aisle are present either in person or via remote participation due to House Resolution 965 and the accompanying regulations and had an opportunity to question the witnesses the subcommittee is meeting today for a hearing on examining the federal governments actions to protect workers from covid19 both in the hearing room and for those members participating remotely you will be kept muted as a general rule to avoid any unnecessary background noise members will be responsible for and muting themselves when they are recognized to speak or when they seek recognition a rollcall is not necessary to establ
The speaker the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by the guest chaplain, pastor ethan magness, First Christian church, johnson city, tennessee. The chaplain let us pray. Gracious god. We come to you in need of your sovereign love for your power exceeds our human power. Your authority exceeds all human authority. Your government will stand when all human government have passed into history. We come to you in confession of our weakness and sin. For we have sought too often our own power. We have fought too selfishly for our own glory. We have clung too tightly to our desire and to our faction and our plan. We come to you seeking the strength to repent. Turn us to your wisdom instead of our own. Turn us to honesty instead of falsehood. Turn us to humility and service instead of pride and selfseeking. We come to you for a blessing. Like jacob, we cling to you and will not let go until you have blessed us for you are good and gracious and loving and in you we put our trust.
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An estimated one in every 15 people in the uk tested positive for covid. Its because of the threat from omicron that i announced on wednesday that we will move to plan b in england. You must wear a Face Covering in indoor public spaces and, from tomorrow, work from home if you can. Faced with a huge number of infections, in early December Of 2021 the government had already been forced to introduce what it called its plan b measures, facemasks, Compuslory Covid passes and working from home. And just a few days into the new year, a grim milestone, the uk reached 150,000 covid related deaths. To picture 150,000 people, it helps to start small. So this is one student, but in a classroom they might be around 30 of them. There is between 500 or 2,500 people at small gigs or in a nightclub. But see how 21,000 fans can fill manchester arena. The biggest events hold more than this. More than 73,000 in the principality stadium in cardiff, 90,000 at wembley. And see how 100,000 people turned out