Me up white ministers that we know, and start talking. Makes us start praying. I dont know who to talk to about but i feel pain. Something i think, the potential for making change about the issues that predate this administration. You have the responsibility to address, and i think we are going to do a great job. Thank you. With we are here youink you for thank you for bringing these leaders together. The president spoke on his commitment to equality, equality of opportunity for every american. You know the president s record on Opportunity Zones and criminal Justice Reform and educational choice. We really believe this is the moment. Tragedy, that the we listen, we learn can we respond. I really thank you for creating this forum to do that. Bishop jackson thank you. Vp pence my prayer is that we hear,ation have ears to to listen to one another and open hearts. I would be grateful if you started us with a devotion. Bishop jackson thank you. Heavenly father, we ask that you lead us and
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Today address as number of important issues related to ovid19 testing. One issue we examined in this work, i hope we talk about today, is how we can make sure that we are best prepared for potential overlap of covid19 and influenza cases in the fall. Im looking forward to the conversation we are going to have today. I greatly appreciate all three of our witnesses and governors for taking time from their extremely busy schedules to be here. Made a lot of improvement over the last few months, our work is not done and as we continue to work on drafting more legislation responding to covid19 pandemic, it is especially important to hear state perspectives. I thank you. Yield back. Ms. Degette i thank the gentleman for yielding back. I would advise members in case you are unaware of this, there is a window on your screen that says one, two, three clock. This will count down from five minutes for each other statements or questioning. And then it will start going over. If thats not working for
Face masks in public if you are able to, wisconsin was in a pretty good place in the battle against covid19. We have reached most all of our criteria. On monday, we opened up 14,000 Small Businesses across the state, putting potentially 90,000 folks back to work. But despite that good work across the state, banding together and stayed safe, republican legislatures have convinced four that are Supreme Court justices to throw our state into chaos. When the last night Tavern League of wisconsin urged its members to open back up, and people flooded to bars across the state. Instead of a comprehensive statewide approach to keep people safe, we are seeing new disabilities we are seeing municipalities across the state chart their own course. If you owned businesses in multiple locations or have employees who live in a Different Community than the one they work in, things are going to get very confusing very fast. Even with all of this chaos, we cannot let the court ruling undo all of the work