Everyone. Im a fellow at the Hoover Institution. I want to welcome you to hoover capital conversations. The Hoover Institution is one of the leading Research Centers with a mission dedicated to producing policy ideas that promote economic prosperity, National Security, and democratic governance. To tell you a bit about our capital conversation series, this is a time when hoover fellows like me get to talk policy with some of our nations leading policy makers. Today we are fortunate to have with us senator marco rubio to talk about americas future after covid19. As part of our discussion, well be taking audience questions from you. We encourage you to submit at the bottom of your screen. With that lets get started. Senator rubio is the United States senator for florida. Hes got a number of committee assignments. Committee on aging. Hes chairing the committee on intelligence as well as the committee on Small Business and entrepreneurship. Hes been a leading voice on a number of different
House hearing on the lessons being learned from the coronavirus and how its affecting critical supply chains. Live coverage here on cspan3. Community safe, 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 theyre going to be later. If we do have votes, it would be my intention not to recess. Members should vote when their group is up and come back immediately. If your turn for questioning comes up while youve stepped away, i will get back t
Good morning, everyone. In anticipation of seeing a proposal finally from the other side of the aisle and other side of pennsylvania avenue, i invited the distinguished leader in the democratic leader in the senate to join us today to have some observation we thought we would have in hand well see. We come together on a day that marks for the 18th straight week the 18th straight week more than 1 Million People have filed for unemployment claims. We come at a time where we predict we will reach 4 million cases in our country. Whats important about that is the steam roller that it is. The akscceleration it has. It doesnt diminish because people filed for Unemployment Insurance so we must have reach the peak. It continues. This is the trump virus acceleration of all of this. Listen to. It took just about 100 days to reach 1 Million People infected. It took 43 days to get to 2 million. It took 27 days to get to 3 million. And 16 days to get to 4 million. That acceleration is an assault on
The subcommittee on Early Childhood elementary and secondary education will come to order. Welcome, everyone. I know that a quorum is present, and i note for the subcommittee ms. Mcbath of georgia, mr. Underwood of illinois, ms. Lee of nevada, ms. Trahan of massachusetts, mr. Walberg of michigan. Mr. Johnson of south dakota and up to murphy, North Carolina. The understanding the questions will come omafter all members of the Early Childhood, elementary and secondary education subcommittee on both sides of the aisle who are present have had an opportunity to question the witnesses. The committee is meeting today for a hearing to hear testimony on underfunded and unprepared examining how to overcome obstacles to safely reopen Public Schools. As this is a hybrid hearing with members participating both here in the hearing room and remotely i ask all microphones for participants remotely be kept muted to eliminate background noise. Members will be responsible for unmuting themselves when th
Im really pleased to be here this afternoon with brian hook and elliott abrams, both from the state department, to talk about two of the most pressing issues that the United States is facing today, iran and venezuela, and the next is the relationship with the evolving relationship between the two countries. Elliott abrams is a special representative for venezuela at the department of state and brian hook is a special representative for iran and a Senior Policy Adviser to secretary of state mike pompeo. He previously served as the director of policy planning in this administration at the state department. So, ive known both Brian Elliott for quite some time, and its always a pleasure to see both of you. I would like to start. I think author start with elliott to tell us a little bit about the evolution of the administrations policy, visavis venezuela, as i recall, elliott, i think it has been about a year and a half since you have been special representative. Why dont you tell us a litt