Campaigns. Floridas secretary of state joined the tampa lawyers chapter of the Federalist Society for this hourlong forum. A piece on the president. Thank you for joining us for our event today, election 2020, securing the vote in the age of cybersecurity, misinformation, and pandemics. We are glad to be joined by our speaker as well as 13 circuit judge, the moderator. Before i turn it over to the judge, a couple housekeeping items. We are looking forward to returning to in person soon as possible but we are still doing these virtual events. Our first event will be october 1, cohosting with the sarasota and polk county chapters, featuring a judge from the sixth Circuit Court of appeals to discuss a new book, the essential scalia. That is october 1 and will be via zoom at 12 00 as well. Just a quick housekeeping item on our event today. If you have any questions at the end, there is a q and a function at the bottom of your screen. We will go to your question and pass along to our speake
Talks about changes to the pandemic and foreign interference. This was hosted by the federalist society. Thank you for joining us today. Election 2020, securing the vote in the age of cybersecurity, misinformation, and pandemics. We are glad to be joined by our speaker as well as 13 circuit judge, the moderator. Before i turn it over to the judge, a couple housekeeping items. We are looking forward to returning to in person soon as possible but we are still doing these virtual events. Our first event will be october 1, cohosting with the sarasota and polk county chapters, featuring a judge from the sixth Circuit Court of appeals to discuss a new book, the essential scalia. Book, the essential scalia. That is october 1 and will be via zoom at 12 00 as well. Just a quick housekeeping item on our event today. If you have any questions at the end, there is a q and a function at the bottom of your screen. We will go to your question and pass along to our speaker. So now i will introduce our
780 points s p also up 3. 4 the nasdaq up by 2. 5 . This morning, you do see some red arrows right now, the dow is down by 111 points the nasdaq down by 65 points jobless claims number that people will be watching so closely. Keeping an eye on trezy yields, it looked like the yell was trading at 3. 7 . Thank you, we have an update now and numbers. Confirmed cases in the United States is now more than 432,000. More than infections in italy, spain and germany combined new york state has 151,000 and 6,200 deaths Trump Administration is saying they are seeing real evidence that the measures being taken are working. A battle is brewing on capitol hill over new outbreak funding demanding 250 billion in new funding. House speaker and Senate Minority leader saying any new package would need to include more for additional money for hospitals, state and local governments. The senate is expected to bring competing measures to the floor today. Neither are expected to pass fed chair jay powell is s
Preparedness response and communications will come to order. The subcommittee is meeting today to receive testimony on the state of First Responder communications. I now recognize myself for an Opening Statement. I want to welcome all witnesses here this morning on an issue that is vital to our Homeland Security. The ability of our First Responders to communicate. As noted in the 2006 national interoperable baseline survey, there is a, quote, direct correlation between effective communications, interoperatedability and First Responders ability to save lives, end quote. In my hometown of new york city we know this all too well. Both the first both the office of Emergency Communications and First Responder Network Authority were established in the wake of the communication failures of 9 11 and later in hurricane katrina. We have made a great deal of progress since those fateful disasters. States and localities have invested billions of dollars in their Communications Networks, including
Greater insight into it. No one expects that respects admiral syring more than i do. He is caught between imaginations of congress were read force them to take Critical Systems to pay for other Critical Systems and i think you would like to try to avoid that. But this is certain mr. Chairman our near adversaries are capable of attacking her critical space assets. This debate is no longer academic and the question now before this committee is what shall we do about it . These adversaries have taken note of the immense multiu. S. Force thomas provides our military and observed our space estimates. If we are to abandon future battlefields without a fight it will be our military who suffers the consequences as they find themselves cut off in fighting in an austere environment far from home. China has clearly demonstrated an operational direct antisatellite missile capability and proven data can reach from zero synchronous orbit to low orbit, earth orbit. Russia has also tested a direct dec