Congressman roy blau learned, clark, rankingn member cole, Ranking Member harris, congressman congresswoman butler, congresswoman mullen are, congresswoman gray. The subcommittee members participating remotely are congresswoman lois frankel and congresswoman Bonnie Watson coleman. Before i give an opening to offer ai require brief explanation of how the markup will work. Configuredm has been to maintain the recommended six foot social distancing between members, staff, and the press corps in the room. To usembers have opted secure video teleconferencing which allows them to participate remotely. For those on videoconference, once you start speaking, there will be a slight delay before you are displayed on the main screen. Speaking into the microphone activates the camera. Displaying the speaker on the main screen. Do not stop your remarks if you do not immediately see the screen switchover. If the screen does not change after several seconds, please muted. Re you are not to minimize ba
Cares act, we are going to see if we need to put direct payments. Worked very well. Thank you, everybody. Reporter how about aid for state and local governments . Secretary mnuchin well consider that. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2020] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] this fourth of july weekend, President Trump is at mount rushmore. Tonight at 10 00 p. M. Eastern. In washington, saturday at 6 45 p. M. Eastern for what is billed as a salute to america celebration. Watch live on cspan, online at cspan. Org, or listen live wherever you are on the free cspan radio app. House minority leader Kevin Mccarthy talks and answers questions about policies. Mr. Mccarthy good morning all. On this saturday, we will celebrate americas independence. Make no mistake, america is the greatest country in the world and will never apologize for it. We will always celebrate and champ
Senator blunt the appropriation subcommittee on labor, health and Human Services, education and related agencies will come together. Im glad to be here this morning with my colleagues, some offices or from some other location. This is the first appropriations hearing being held in person and virtually and want to thank chairman shelby and his staff for letting us try this and see how this kind of information gathering works for appropriators. Its not a markup. There will be no voting today, but were going to get some really important information. Yesterday, the new coronavirus cases passed 50,000 for the first time, making it a single day record. This morning, 128,000 americans have died and nearly 2. 7 million have tested positive for covid19. Of course, the thoughts of myself and everyone on this committee are with those individuals and those families whove been affected. I called this hearing really to look at an update on the efforts that the administrations put together and, frank
Chairs this subcommittee. The committee will come to order. Welcome to the fiscal year 2021 labor hhs subcommittee markup. Joined by my dear friend tom cole. I want to welcome mrs. Lowey, Ranking Member granger and the subcommittee members here in person and those by a secure video teleconference. Just to mention we have in person chairwoman lowey, Congress Woman lee, Congress Woman clark, Ranking Member cole, Ranking Member granger, Congress Woman butler, congressman graves. Those participating remotely are Congress Woman frankle and bonnie coleman. Before i give an opening statement, im required to offer a brief explanation how the markup will woman. Todays room has been configured for the six foot distancing between the staff and members and the press corps. And some have used security video teleconferencing to participate remotely. Video teleconferencing, once you start speaking there will be a slight delay. Speaking into the microphone activates the camera. Displaying the main spe
Protected civil rights writ large. So this is going to require a longterm bipartisan commitment. But not just from us in washington but folks in the state capitals, city halls, and Police Departments across the country. Because ultimately its the local officials that have the responsibility to hire and fire the police chief, to make sure that bad Police Officers are removed from the force. And thats where the nearterm responsibility needs to lie, because we dont have that capability here. But we do believe, i do believe there are concrete steps we can take right now to address the racial injustices that were exposed once again with the death of mr. Floyd. So i appreciate senator scott and leader mcconnell for responding to this crisis with the urgency that it deserves, and im proud to be part of this effort in the senate. Mr. President , i yield the floor. The presiding officer the clerk will call the roll. Quorum call the presiding officer the senator from. The presiding officer the s