[crowd conversations] jim good morning. Good morning. Jim my name is jim. I am with the comcast corporation. We are pleased to be with you here today at Eastern High School. We have a wonderful guest speaker. Many times, leaders have a very uncommon vision and uncommon commitment to excellence, convictions. I think we will hear all of that this morning. We are in for a very special treat. This program, the students and leaders program, is a wonderful opportunity to bring leaders back to the classroom to show young people the values of public service, the importance of leadership, and to give people an opportunity to become more involved in government and more aware of the issues that face our society. Cspan, our partner at comcast, cspan is one of the very special ways we are able to do that every day. It gives our audiences on cable a chance to see their government firsthand, whether it is from the floor of the house of representatives, the senate, or special debates about public poli
Texas democratic representatives Eddie Bernice johnson and marc veasey. Rep. Veasey hi, everybody. This is marc veasey, congressman for the 33rd Congressional District. I want to thank everybody for being on this digital zoom event today. Dr. Jill biden, thank you so much. We really, really appreciate you joining us. We love you in dallas, texas. We love you in fort worth. We love you all over the state and just really appreciate your , presence here today. Thank you so much. Dr. Biden thank you. Rep. Veasey absolutely. And congresswoman Eddie Bernice johnson. The congresswoman is one of our four committee chairmen. Shes the chairperson of the science and Technology Committee and she represents the 30th , Congressional District in dallas, and i will be introducing her a little bit later, but i want to open up by saying over the past five , months, the lives of working parents have really been turned upside down, especially our working moms. Daycares are closed, summer camps are closed,
The second hour of the future of health care summit. Id like to thank our sponsor for their support of todays great program. We spent the first out on lessons we learn from the coronavirus pandemic. Will expand to look at policymaking breakthroughs and innovation in the face of seen and unseen challenges. Before we get underway a few housekeeping notes. You can tweet as at hashtag the Health Health and taking questions. Ive got a bunch that already come in. Speakers beware. If your experience, with a live stream lees refresh the page. It should be a quick fix. Thats what they say. Lets get started. Im please enter it is my first guest dies Health Official in the land alex faison sect of health and human services. Secretary azar has a a breadthf expense of both public and private sectors. His key areas of focus include healthcare reform, research and innovation come all of which have assumed added significance in the coronavirus era. Well, thanks for joining us today. We had a fantastic
Cspan radio app. Earmarks and what is going on with them this morning. Joining us is tom schatz, president of citizens against government waste and he will talk about the 2020 government pig book. Good morning. Guest good morning. Host can you tell us exactly what citizens against government waste is and where you get your funding . Guest citizens against government waste was created in 1984 following the release of the report under praise that in reagan. President citizens against government waste has been issuing the pig 1991, porkbarrel spending or earmarks, so we are funded by the taxpayers. The paper came about in 1991. We worked with the pork busters coalition and created a seven point criteria for determining what would be an earmark or porkbarrel project in the appropriations bill. This year, we have had 15. 9 billion which is up by almost 4 from the prior year. This is going on, by the way, even what Congress Claims is an earmark moratorium. Before we get into what you found,
7488000. Republicans, 202 7488001. Ndependents, 202 7488002 you can send us a text this morning, if you do its 202 7488003, and we ask that you provide your name and where you are from. You can catch up with us on social media, facebook or twitter. A good Tuesday Morning to you, you can go ahead and start calling in now. The latest focus on Anthony Fauci began last thursday when President Trump gave a interview to sean hannity, saying that faucher had made a lot of mistakes since the outbreak and by saturday the post and other news outlets got a document listing those mistakes from unnamed sources at the white house and by yesterday here were some of the headlines about dr. Fauci from both sides of the political spectrum. From the left, the huffington post, medical schools voice support for how she amid white house attacks. We are concerned and alarmed by the efforts to undercut the top u. S. Infectious disease expert. From the right side of the aisle, from the red state website, sayin