Asked about the effectiveness of the Paycheck Protection Program referred to as ppp. [indistinct chatter] a todays committee will come to order and i want to thank everyone for joining us here today and want to welcome the secretary and the administrator and thank you both for being here and all the members for being here. This is the first opportunity to hear from both of you about the enactment of the act in particular as it applies to Small Business. It is a landmark legislation and less than two Weeks Congress passed the largest Economic Relief package. They worked tirelessly to make it possible every single one participated on the leadership of the Ranking Member, senator cardin, senator shaheen and senator Collin Collins isnt a r of the committee that was part of the task force and it was invaluable in helping craft a lot of this and i want the record to reflect dot. We have invited senator collins does it and participate and rightfully so because of the extraordinary contributio
[roll call] [roll call] pursuant to Committee Rule Opening Statements is limited to the chair and Ranking Member and this allows to hear from our witnesses sooner and provides members and adequate time to answer questions. I now trigger myself for an opening statement. Before i deliver the opening remarks i must first acknowledge the recent protests against Police Misconduct in in favor of Racial Equity and justice across the nation. Times are demanding and we address this countrys centuryold challenges and with todays hearing we can be prepared to answer the call to Racial Equity and justice in education. I want to note this hearing marks the committees first fully remote hearing pursuant to House Resolution 965 and accompanying regulations. To date we will examine how covid19 pandemic has directly impacted his state and local government revenue and how projected state and local government shortfalls to further exacerbate educational inequities rooted in a with the inequities rooted a
Todays hearing on had committee of Small Business and entrepreneurship will come to order, and i want to thank everyone for joining us here today. I want to thank you both for being here though far away. And all the members for being here today. This is our first opportunity to hear from both of you about the enactment of the cares act in particular as it applies to Small Business. The cares act is landmark legislation. In less than 2 Weeks Congress passed the largest Economic Relief package in our nations history. And now after the passage of two further reforms the Paycheck Protection Program is the largest component of the Economic Relief enact by the cares act. Opthat point i just want to say a couple of things. First of all, it was the extraordinary work of many people, staff, of course worked tirelessly to make this possible. The partnership we had from both the sba and the treasury was extraordinary. Members on this committee, every single one participated. Obviously the leaders
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
Bemembers and witnesses will responsible for on muting themselves when they are recognized to speak or when they seek recognition. Tesch pursuant to host regulation 95, members are required to leave their cameras on the entire time they are in an official proceeding, even if they step away from the camera. Remote an entirely hearing, as a result the hearing room is closed. Withs who choose to sit their individual devices in the hearing room must use headphones to avoid feedback or distortion resulting for more than one person on the floor speaking. They are expected to adhere to social distancing and health care guidelines, including the ,se of masks, gowns gloves and wiping down areas. Not ollcall is whenever there is an official proceeding with low participation, a clerk will call the roll to make clear who is present at the start of the proceeding. At this time, i ask the clerk to call the roll. Chairman . Present. Misses david . Present. Mr. . Mr. Courtney . Present. Miss fudge . P