I hope my colleagues, witnesses, and viewers are staying healthy and safe. I want to thank chairman pain and Ranking Member kane at the Emergency Preparedness respond and Recovery Committee for coming together with the Ranking Member and me to hold this hearing. We are here to discuss federal and state efforts to procure critical supplies in response to the coronavirus pandemic. I want to acknowledge the federal Emergency Management agency, which was put in charge of the federal governments response, was asked to testify today. Fema is not here today, but i understand there is an administrator to appear before the full Committee Later this month. Im pleased to hear this, because its vital we Work Together to address this challenge. I look forward to meeting with administrator gaynor soon and hearing what administrators have to say to form the discussion. Theres no denying the coronavirus pandemic has presented unparalleled challenges. One of the greatest challenges has been procuring a
This fall and has gone so far to say last week he will cut off federal funding for schools that do not reopen. Can he do that . Guest my understanding of that is no or it would be difficult for them to do that. Mostiggest thing is that federal funding has already been sent out for the school year. The second thing is that congress controls the purse strings. They have created rules around exactly when money gets sent out, how much, and exactly what School Districts need to do to receive that money. The last thing is that if congress decides to provide more bailout money for School Districts, they would have to agree to give the strings to betsy devos to decide when and how to dole out money. One of the things i want to point out is federal money is targeted toward low income schools. What betsy divorce is saying is devos. Y divorce host we talk about what is being proposed in the heroes act that are being pushed right now for future additional aid. Act, theder the cares School District
Point. Eded rand pauls did you see the numbers in florida where the state of florida is reporting that dozens of testing we are going to have to take you to an event with senator Elizabeth Warren campaigning for president ial candidate joe biden. This is live coverage on cspan. And i was on sasha congresswoman gabbards campaign before she endorsed the Vice President. Issuesnce on numerous including climate change, education reform enough a few bq rights. I believe we can truly return the title of bringing opportunity to america get. Im a member of the california students for biden and a former bernie supporter. We need a leader in the middle of this National Crisis that is going to be with us come november and joe can deliver that. My name is michael. I joined team joe because we do leader who is already listening to progressive voices, who is not unwilling to look at mistakes and push through democratic legislation. Thank you for joining this biden for president event. Presents 46 110
Update on immigration policy negotiations. At 8 30 eastern, holly harris of the Justice Action Network on prison sentencing and reform. And at 9 00, Darrell Burnett of Education Week on the failing infrastructure in u. S. Schools. Host good morning, this is friday, january 12, and welcome to washington journal. As you can imagine, reaction is pouring in from congress and elsewhere to the president s comments on immigrants from certain countries, something we heard about yesterday afternoon. We want to get to the president s comments on immigration, talk about daca and the immigration issue. If you are a democrat, please. All 202 7488000 republicans, 202 7488001. Independents, 202 7488002. And we have a special fourth line to recent immigrants to the u. S. 202 7488003 202 7488002 202 7488003 202 7488003. Front page of the Washington Post. This first reported on the president s comments late yesterday afternoon. The headline todays piece said immigration offer on socalled dreamers fails,
That britains voted and decided they did not like theresa may as much as she hoped they would. Ed they voted in large numbers and they decided that her campaign for a new mandate three years early was not something they wanted to give her. They also for the large part a lot of young people turned outmi for Jeremy Corbin, man of the left who ran an optimistic campaign, criticize thehe criti conservatives on questions and on productions and policeman and social welfare, to not really po explain how things were going to get paid for. But in general the problem foree tresa me is the more people heard her the less they seem to like her. Part of this based on the election was called an expectation among the conservative party that Jeremy Corbin was weak and labor wasd t preparing to get rid of him . Not so much they would get rid of him but he was weak and vulnerable and she would be s strong and stable. He turned out to be quite a good campaigner. As she turned out to be a terrible campaign