I will be your moderator for todays debate against senator ben sasse and democrat chris janicek. Follow on social media. Find us on facebook and twitter. And at the nesen. We welcome those watching nationwide on cspan tonight. The next hour, the candidates will face questions from nebraska journalists. The rules are fairly simple. Each candidate will have three minutes to respond to the question with 32nd rebuttals if needed. Onwill begin with questions domestic policy and transition to Foreign Policy. Before the debate, we held simple coin tosses to determine the order of different parts of the debate. As a result, the first candidate to present an opening candidate is mr. Janicek. Ready to go. I am going to start off with a personal story. Me, andry personal to it is the reason i am in this race. My father died of a heart attack when he was 54 years old. His father, my grandfather, died of a heart attack when he was 58 years old. My greatgrandfather dropped dead at age 60. When i tur
I will be your moderator for todays debate against senator ben sasse and democrat chris janicek. Follow on social media. Find us on facebook and twitter. And at the nesen. We welcome those watching nationwide on cspan tonight. The next hour, the candidates will face questions from nebraska journalists. The rules are fairly simple. Each candidate will have three minutes to respond to the question with 32nd rebuttals if needed. Onwill begin with questions domestic policy and transition to Foreign Policy. Before the debate, we held simple coin tosses to determine the order of different parts of the debate. As a result, the first candidate to present an opening candidate is mr. Janicek. Ready to go. I am going to start off with a personal story. Me, andry personal to it is the reason i am in this race. My father died of a heart attack when he was 54 years old. His father, my grandfather, died of a heart attack when he was 58 years old. My greatgrandfather dropped dead at age 60. When i tur
Its 2nd typhoon in the no week my 2nd course flooding left thousands without. U. S. President donald trump is threatening to cut funding to cities he says allows anneke and violence hes requested a review of Portland Seattle new york and washington d. C. All with democratic mayors that have been the scenes of major protests over racism and Police Brutality most though have been largely peaceful a trump as described demonstrators that turned violent as domestic terror and his attorney general says theres a false narrative that White Police Officers kill a lot of unarmed black men meanwhile democratic candidate joe biden is expected to meet the family of jacob blake in can osho wisconsin on thursday blake was shot in the back 7 times by police leaving him paralyzed mike hanna has more now from washington d. C. President trump says in the memorandum that he wants to review where these funds are going he says that he does not want taxpayers money going to funding an o. T. As he puts it the
The committee on health education, labor and pensions will please come to order. First, the usual administrative matters like the theater announcements we use to receive, we are getting used to those, we follow the advice of the attending physician and sergeantatarms consulted with all the right people, we are seated 6 feet apart, that means no room for public or the media here but the media is participating and we hope the public is as well. And the videoconference is a real change for the United States senate and a very welcome one because it makes it possible to attract witnesses who have busy schedules on the same day such as today, by video conference, you may remove your masks since were 6 feet apart. The sergeant at arms, press gallery, architect of the capital, capital police, committee staff, Evan Griffiths for their hard work to keep us safe. We will each have an Opening Statement and we turn to our witnesses we thank for being with us today, each witness we ask you summarize
Www. Health. Senate. Gov is our website. I think it makes it possible for us to be table to attract witnesses who have very busy schedules on the same day such as today. Some senators are participating by videoconference. Senators may remove their masks since were 6 feet apart. Im grateful to the rules committee, the sarge want at arms, the press gallery, the capitol police, our Committee Staff for all their hard work to help keep us safe. Senator murray and i will each have an opening statement, and then well turn to our witnesses who we thank very much for being with us today. Each witness we would ask that you summarize your remarks in five minutes, which will allow more time for the large number of senators who we expect to participate to present their testimony. Well have one round of questions for a five minute round. Less than four months ago on march 1st the coronavirus situation was about this. At the end of february there were 79,000 cases around the world, only 14 in the Uni