Other Department Officials testified before a House Appropriations subcommittee on the agencys response to the coronavirus pandemic. Secretary wilkie provided an update on the care the v. A. Has provided through the pandemic and talked about some of the challenges moving forward. This is 2. 5 hours. A military briefing for a full year. When my dad was the artillery commander, they asked the second airborne to come visit. He was troubled. So i have touched royalty. Secretary wilkie is here for important testimony. Do i have the mic on . I can officially call the subcommittee on military construction, Veterans Affairs, and related agencies to order. I would like to welcome secretary wilkie, who is our witness this morning, joining us. Since this is our first hearing with some numbers participating remotely, i would like to begin by offering a brief explanation of how it will work, in order to benefit both members and the public. First, this hearing room has been configured to maintain th
Sen. Graham good morning everybody. We are making progress, we are somewhat closer together now. Hello senator grassley. A little brief update and we will take up the business, next week we are having a hearing about policing, community policing, use of force, we will have two panels, it will be a long day and hopefully an important day. Last time we talked about witnesses regarding the inquiry to the Mueller Investigation to senator feinstein and her friends on the other side, i promise you if you want to call mr. Mueller or his designee, thats fine with me. Over, whenynn cases that ever happens, i want the doj to tell us why they decided to drop it and if you want to call mr. Gleason or judge , we willr anybody else do that. I think theyll be a good topic for this committee. Having said that, the business before the committee was senator feinsteins amendment. Would you like to vote or talk or what would you want to do . Like to maken id Opening Statements. Sen. Graham yes maam. Its y
And lane college. They talked about Financial Assistance provided by the cares act and the important of addressing the hardships of minority students and those of lower socioeconomic status are facing. [inaudible conversations] good morning. The hearing of the senate health, education, labor and Pensions Committee will come to order. We want to thank our staff for working through some technical difficulties this morning and thank the senators that are witnesses who are joining us from around the country in various offices. We are all following the attending physicians protocol for safe distancing and those of us who are here are Wearing Masks on our way in and sitting at least six feet apart while we are here. Senator murray and i will each have an Opening Statement, then we will turn to our witnesses for their statement of about five minutes each, if they could summarize. There it is. Senators will each have five minute round of questions. We have a vote at 11 40 so we will need to fi
[general chatter] good morning, everybody. We are making progress. We are somewhat closer together now. Hello, senator grassley. A little brief update. Update, and then we will take of the business of the committee where we left off. Next week, we will have a hearing about policing, Community Policing and the use of force. We will have two panels. It will be a long day. I hope it will be an informative day and i hope good will come out of it. Last time that we talked, we talked about witnesses regarding the inquiry into the Robert Mueller investigation. Ourenator feinstein, and friends on the other side, i promise that if you want to call Robert Mueller or his designee, that is fine with me, at the appropriate time. When the Michael Flynn cases over, when it happens i want the doj to tell us why they decided to drop it, and if you want to call mr. Gleason or judge gleason, or anybody else as to why it should not have been dismissed, we will do that. That would be a good topic for this
Inspector generals hearing on the administrations response to the coronavirus. You are watching live coverage on cspan. Who has served under four president ial administrations, both democratic and republican. It issued a the hhs ofort covering the gravity challenges hospitals have faced during the Coronavirus Crisis from caring for patients to obtaining protective gear for staff and stocking basic medical supplies. This report was intended to help policymakers understand these challenges and to help hospitals overcome them, which benefits us all. Unfortunately, President Trump personally attacked this grant for no valid reason. Andcriticisms were baseless it seems clear that he just wanted everyone to pretend that there were no challenges in our Health Care System. Of course, we all know that was wrong. Grimmm should not have had to endure these personal, senseless attacks. Nevertheless, we thank her for tolerating them with dignity washing continued serving the American People. Hsit o