Outbreak of covid19 has led to an unprecedented Public Health crisis and a dire economic crisis. We have lost over 110,000 people to the disease, and 40 million remain unemployed. Back in february as the band that it was worse, we knew we needed to take action to help our Small Businesses survive the economic downturn. We started working with the sba and governors around the country to leverage the sba disaster resources available. Can you please mute . Anyone should be muted. Everyone should be muted. As the virus continues to spread, or state and local governments began imposing stayathome orders and business closures. We quickly realized Congress Needed to do more to meet the full scope of the problem, and that is when we started working on what ultimately became the cares act. To help Small Businesses and eligible nonprofits, congress created a new Paycheck Protection Program, expanded eligibility to the program and provided payment and interest relief for current sba borrowers. I
Loans provided through the c. A. R. E. S. Act during the coronavirus pandemic. The House Small Business Committee held this hearing. I want to thank everyone for joining us this afternoon for our committees First Official remote hearing. I want to make sure to note some important requirements. House regulations require members to be visible through a video connection throughout the proceedings. So please keep your cameras on. Also, if you have to participate in another proceeding, please exit this one and log on later. You are recognized to minimize background noise. Over the last few months, the outbreak of covid19 has led to an unpresented Public Health crisis and dire economic crisis. We have lost over 10,000 people to the disease and 30 million remain unemployed. Back in february as the pandemic was getting worse, we knew we needed to take action to help our Small Businesses survive the economic downturn. We started working with the sba and governors around the country to leverage
How they coped with their losses. This program is part of the friends of the National World ii veterans conference is conference and is over one hour. Good morning and thank you for coming. A great opportunity for all of us to learn to some of the greatest resources to world war ii that we have. Session two, is connected with American World war ii orphans network. I am the morning anchor karen washington d. C. In this is my first exposure to this network, so i am interested in trying to learn with you. I am also an education reporter, too. So i can infuse that in some of my reporting. I learned today by doing research and talking to our panel here that 183,000 children were left fatherless as a result of world war ii. These folks are among them. Joining us on the panel this morning, we will start on the other side. , an is bob meake industrial engineer and serving as a staff member of the congressional person and senator. Next to bob is nancy craig. And i hope i pronounce the rest of t
Something about this during that week of the implementation. Let me finish the fact of the matter is that a mention of a traffic problem would not have registered in a memorable and meaningful way. There are traffic robbins and issues all the time at the bridges and tunnels. That would not be a significant event, memorable event. It is also telling that in , itng that representation is an admission that David Wildenstein has no evidence because he has produced none and his lawyer did not represent such that the governor knew anything about this bridge lane realignment before it was implemented. Because he didnt. Suggesting that the Governors Office appoint an officer responsible for overseeing this. Are you suggesting that the governor would be responsible . The governor is the head of the Governors Office so the governor is being requested his office is being requested but he is ultimately he ultimately runs that office to appoint an ombudsman, senior a soundingo be board, resource an
We want to hear from you on this topic. If you live in the east and central time zone and have an opinion on whether or not College Athletes should unionize. You can also contact us via social media. Should College Athletes be able to unionize . Joining us now on the phone is dave jamison of the huffington post. How did this issue get started . The way this got started was they said they wanted a Union Election. The National Labor relations oversees jobs in the private sector in the u. S. They had a hearing. It was to determine whether or not these players were actually employees and whether they would be eligible to have a union vote. This is basically standard procedure for any officer factor in the u. S. It is very unusual, because these are College Football players, but the regional director at the hearing and issued his determination. He believes that the layers are employees of the university. Host how is it that a regional director of the nlrb can make that decision . That is ho