The committee will come to order. Without objection the chair is authorized to declare a recess at the committee at any time. I want to remind members of a few matters including some required by the regulations accompanying the House Resolution line 65 which established the frameworks were removed committee proceedings. I dont know if we have gone through this already but i would ask all members on the platform to keep themselves muted when they are not being recognized. This will minimize disturbances while members are asking questions of the witnesses. Members on the platform are responsible for muting and on muting themselves. The staff has been instructed not to mute members except where a member is being recognized and theres inadvertent background noise members on the platform are reminded that they may only attend one hearing at a time. If you are participating today, please remain with us during the hearing and members should try to avoid coming in and out of the meeting partic
Will be spending quite a bit of time together starting shortly and i very much support that. But today first i have the privilege of introducing for the first time to this room the 71st secretary of state mr. Tony blinken. Thank you good afternoon. Let me start by saying they first ambition is to be known as the man who brought the price to the state Department Briefing room. That at least is mission accomplished. In all seriousness, thank you everyone for joining me here today, this is my first full day on the job as secretary of state and to restate what i said before it is an honor to be in this job and im gratified the president trust me with his responsibility. Im incredibly excited about the work ahead. Especially working with limited women about the state department. I serve the American People and represent our country to the world. I want to spend a few minutes with all of you today right from the start, how important i see the work that each and every one of you does. Some of
Good evening, every saturday night throughout the summer booktv is putting on several hours of a wellknown author. Kind of our twist on binge watching. Tonights featured author s historian David Mccullough the author of a dozen books including bestselling histories on the american revolution, the invention of manned spaceflight the settlement of the Northwest Territory and the creation of the brooklyn bridge. He is a two time winner both Pulitzer Prize and National Book award and appeared on booktv and cspan over 75 times. Coming up over the next several hours we will show you some of those programs. First up in 1992 he appeared on cspans book not programmed to talk about his biography of president harry truman. The book won the Pulitzer Prize for biography and hope to change the view of the truman presidency. Here is David Mccullough from 1992. David mccullough, and your last chapter called citizen Truman Truman had held to the idea of the mythical roman heroes cincinnatus. Whats that
Sound man is accused of sending a hit squad to canada to try to kill a former top intelligence official and that all suit filed in the u. S. And americas powerful National Rifle Association Gun lobby group is being sued and threatened with disillusion for alleged financial mismanagement. Are new warnings that the sports news is the biggest all star to donald trump the president says he tones off what he sees social justice protest before but says he couldnt care less who hear from him. Now french president emmanuel background has called for a new political order and lebanon while announcing measures to help beirut recover from its massive port explosion has been meeting with lebanese political leaders after surveying damage from that blast on tuesday mccrone said health work as a. It meant an International Aid will all be sent to the country over the coming days now in addition to announcing a global Fund Raising Conference he also said urgent reforms and levanon on needed just. What i
Have learned during the crisis to better prepare for pandemic or other biological events of this scale in the future. Folks of todays hearing is the Strategic National stockpile. First established with a 51,000 appropriation in 1958, the sns was codified in 2002 and obtained its current name with an expanded mission in 2003. Over the years, management responsibility for the sns has changed between different agencies within hhs and dhs. In developing a plan for this committees oversight for the federal governments response to the coronavirus, the role of the Strategic National stockpile was an obvious area of interest, as is the vulnerability of our supply chain and theyre very interrelated. I assume that staff would be able to quickly obtain the list of items that should be held together with required and actual inventory levels of each item. Once again, i learned it is dangerous to assume. We quickly found out that those lists do not exist or certainly are not made available to congre