A virtual discussion. Florida senator marco rubio on americas response to the coronavirus. The cold war ends, and obviously these countries are no longer developed and so forth. Imagine, beginning in about the mid to late 1980s, china decides and will want to come out and build its own capacity. China has used the last hundred and 50 years and that is a rightful role in the world to be a great power. The u. S. Makes a similar deal, and that is that we are going to help you work your way out of poverty and build your industrial capability because we think once you do, we set this to ourselves, once we do, this once they get rich and powerful, they are going to be described for global rules, trade and power. They will probably not be communists anymore, they will walk away for that and they will become like us. As it turned out, with the chinese have figured out is they have certainly availed themselves of the benefits of these policies through a combination of protectionism and anti cap
Chairman shelby and his staff for letting us try this and see how this kind of information gathering works for appropriators. Its not a markup. There will be no voting today, but were going to get some really important information. Yesterday, the new coronavirus cases passed 50,000 for the first time, making it a single day record. This morning, 128,000 americans have died and nearly 2. 7 million have tested positive for covid19. Of course, the thoughts of myself and everyone on this committee are with those individuals and those families whove been affected. I called this hearing really to look at an update on the efforts that the administrations put together and, frankly members of this committee were very involved in to see if we couldnt establish a new way to look at responding to pandemics. I think we have the chance to actually write a new important chapter in what that response looks like. Developing the right vaccine, the right therapeutics, the right testing is important. And
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The House Oversight and the m subcommittee on Coronavirus Crisis held a hearing on the strategic hear from ockpile to the person in charge of keeping it filled. From estifying, officials the Defense Department and health and Human Services. Good morning. Welcome, everybody. Mr. Clyburn today, our select holding a hybrid hearing where some members will appear in person and others will webex. Remotely via since members are appearing in person, let me first remind veryone that pursuant to the latest guidance from the house attending physician, all ndividuals attending this hearing in person must wear a Face Covering. Remove themw you to s you see me doing in order to speak. I know a bit about how your and then t fogged up you dont see where youre going. Wearing a Face Covering are not permitted to remain in the hearing room and recognized to speak. So when youre not speaking, we you to have the facemask orwell not recognize you. Or we will not recognize you. Make a few reminders about hyb
Historically black institution the state capital of dover. Fmr. Vp. Biden good afternoon everyone. Thanking dr. By allen, the president of delaware state university, one of the great hbcus in the country for accommodating us. It is great to be back on campus but i wish it was a more celebratory occasion. Before i speak to the Economic Situation i have to take a moment to address something that the president said this morning. Toward the end of his remarks, President Trump said he hopes that quote george floyd is this isdown and seeing a great day for our country. Wasre speaking of a man who brutally killed by an act of needless violence and by a larger tide of injustice that has metastasized on this president s watch as he has moved to split us based on race, religion ethnicity. , George Floyds last words, i cant breathe, i cant breathe, have echoed across this nation and around the world. For the president to try to put any other words in the mouth of george floyd, i think is despicab