This hearing will come to order. First of all, thank you for that wonderful welcome which i know was for Maria Shriver, but we senators will pretend that it was also for us. [applause] good afternoon to all of you. I am delighted to convene this annual hearing to assess the art of alzheimers from venting cognitive decline to assuring quality care for those living with dementia. It is also it is always inspiring to sit here and look , butt that sea of purple it is also a reminder that this terrible disease has affected each and every one of you in a personal way. Years, i have met family members who have sacrificed so much to care for their loved ones living with this disease. I have met americans living with alzheimers with determination. Many of you are here today and we welcome you. Okeefes ago, i met bob. Alzheimers ran in his family. His father and older brother both had it. Ob decided to get tested early he received his diagnosis in 2009 and immediately he became a fighter. He wal
Getting images. We work back and forth on a list together. They suggest some things, i suggest some things, we come to an agreement and it is later refined. It is a process that is ongoing but it really started when i sat down with some members of my family, including a very smart young boy. I asked him, what do you think about the 100 most Important Documents in history . He is only 13 years old. He is a nephew. And i thanked him. And his parents for their contribution. How did he know 75 of these . He is a omnivorous reader of history. He has a very wide range of interests in history. An encyclopedic knowledge of history. It was with his good graces that i came up with this list. If you had to pick one in this book that is in your mind the most important, which one would it need . I have a preference for the gutenberg bible. The gutenberg bible, which Everybody Knows the term but they dont understand the significance of it, was created in the 14 50s by a printer blacksmith in germany
Have benefited from this kind of rich support, not just in terms of the law and the ability to arrive and be eligible for the green card a year into your arrival, and five years later citizenship, but all the support, right, support to help you pick up yourself and figure out the way that this country works. I dont think thats extended to other groups unless of course they are designated as refugees. Correct me if i am wrong. Right . And then in terms of people, you know, leaving their countries to emigrate, no matter where they are going, no matter where theyre headed. I want to remind us that no one takes this kind of decision lightly. Youre not going on a cruise when you jump into a raft and decide youre going to come to the United States. Its not a cruise. Right . The ship is barely seaworthy, i call it a ship, maybe my vocabulary is escaping me for a minute, but the thing that they travel in is not seaworthy generally. We do not know the number of people who have drowned at sea. W
Gained at the expense of Care Provision to the veterans we serve. For example, i had the honor of meeting an 88yearold world war ii veteran several weeks ago. He aryedrived in an electric wheelchair as he was unable to walk. Same for the loss of his left arm and hand and right shoulder. He was unable to see to his right eye due to glaucoma. He was living at the ymca. Thats all he could afford 500 a month special security. He was sent to the y as an answer to homelessness. Years ago he could have called our facilities extended care section his home. But due to yearly mandates reducing the beds earmarked for extended air if favor of more rapid turnover and hence more billables and collections this 88yearold warld war two veteran was sent to live in the ymca ymca. Who is community is the Community Living center and what type of living is being provided. True to world war ii vet generation he believed a bed must be needed for someone in worse shape than he. He had no what do we look at whe
Children, their families and their teachers at risk. The economic pitch, joe biden hopes will unify his party. Donald trump has been singularly focused on the stock market. Ill be laser focused on working families. Welcome to inside politics. Im phil mattingly. John king is off today. A crisis situation this morning in states all across the south and west. The coronavirus is burning through that part of the country. Infecting tens of thousands of people every day. The death count here in the United States stands at nearly 135,000 as of this morning. The cdc says we could bury 25,000 more of our fellow americans by the end of the month. Heres the math. 33 states seeing their daily case counts up from a week ago. The number of cases serious enough to require hospitalizations has nearly doubled in just the past three weeks. States like arizona, texas, florida, are running low on hospital beds and yet here is the president. Were on track to produce a vaccine in record time and very, very s