Activity and turmoil going on around us. Many of us are back in washington today. Were holding this committee virtually in compliance with the regulations for Remote Committee proceedings pursuant to House Resolution 965. This authority has allowed us to continue to do our work on behalf of the American People, while keeping our staff, families, and the Broader Community safe. We have all started to become familiar with navigating this technology, i do want to remind members of a few procedures. First, consistent with the regulations, the committee will keep microphones muted to limit background noise. Members are responsible for unmuting themselves when they seek recognition or when recognized for their five minutes. Members and witnesses must have their cameras on at all times. Weve got to keep track of you even if you step away from the proceedings. Please leave your camera on rather than logging out. Finally, as you know, we may have votes during todays hearing. It looks like theyr
All sides in the negotiations on an additional coronavirus release package spoke with reporters on the current state of the talks. First up, Senate Republican leaders. [indistinct chatter] senator mcconnell good afternoon. It will not surprise any of you to know that we spent the lunch with secretary mnuchin and mark meadows discussing their discussions with the speaker and the democratic leader, which will resume this afternoon. As all of you have already written, the pattern is they meet and then mnuchin and meadows come by my office and they talk about what transpired. I think they have said theres not a lot of movement yet. But a feeling that seems to have been expressed that we would like to get an outcome. I certainly hope we can. The coronavirus is certainly not over. It is still an enormous problem still affecting communities all across the country. And i think the American People would like to see us working together and getting an outcome, like we did in march and april. Than
First. It was too aggressive, it was too soon, and were paying for it not just in georgia, but were paying for it across the country x people are paying for it with their lives. But in georgia and nationwide, daily covid fatalities are nowhere near the spring pace. When it comes to closing schools, the doctors most responsible for saving the lyes of young people lives of young people represented by the American Academy of pediatrics are not for reimposing the lockdown. The docs understand that risks are relatively low, kids need education and also there are other Health Threats beyond covid. Economic shutdowns, high joblessness and personal isolation are not good for our health. Here in new york city where more than 60 people were hot over the july 4th holiday, even our leftist mayor bill de blasio seems to acknowledge the negative impact of our shuttered society. But we also saw too much violence this weekend, and its directly related to all that this location thats happened over thes
First. It was too aggressive, it was too soon, and were paying for it not just in georgia, but were paying for it across the country x people are paying for it with their lives. But in georgia and nationwide, daily covid fatalities are nowhere near the spring pace. When it comes to closing schools, the doctors most responsible for saving the lyes of young people lives of young people represented by the American Academy of pediatrics are not for reimposing the lockdown. The docs understand that risks are relatively low, kids need education and also there are other Health Threats beyond covid. Economic shutdowns, high joblessness and personal isolation are not good for our health. Here in new york city where more than 60 people were hot over the july 4th holiday, even our leftist mayor bill de blasio seems to acknowledge the negative impact of our shuttered society. But we also saw too much violence this weekend, and its directly related to all that this location thats happened over thes
[applause] i know i said that my speech earlier that i didnt have a speech, this time i dont have a speech. I have something i want to talk about. The fact that right now, in order for us to be able to start winning big elections, for us to get elected to the white house, breast to win congressional and senate races and many more down ballot races as well, we have to change the cultural conversation in this country. We see it every single day. The political conversation that happens in dining room tables and in restaurants and places around the country is usually arguments between two groups of people over how much bigger government should be, how much more control it should have in our lives, how much more power it should have, how much less we should have. I want to move it towards a conversation about how much Smaller Government should be, how much more power we should have, how we would be able to thrive if we didnt have to worry about the boot on the neck of the people that we hav