Charge of the recovery act and it was hard as hell to get the votes for it to begin with. And then it was hard as hell to get the number even we got. But one thing we learned, is we cant do too much here. We could do too little. We could do too little and sputter. Real live people are hurting and we could fix it. And we could fix it. That is has been his message from the beginning. And President Biden is focused on this today. Hes expecting to speak live later this hour and on how ep plans to revised the economy in response to covid. And the latest jobs report came out this morning showing only 49,000 jobs were added last month across country. And still there is more. On capitol hill, republican freshman Marjorie Taylor greene, shes about to hold a News Conference and at the moment im going to use the term News Conference loosely as we will see if she actually takes questions from actual real reporters which she has long avoided. Greene now without any Committee Assignments after the h
Arrival of the Coronavirus Vaccine and im confident our researchers and scientists are equipped to win this race. Right now, quipts in pennsylvania and around our country are making incredible progress in this pursuit as part of operation warp speed. The Trump Administration toll develop a Coronavirus Vaccine. Under the leadership of president trump, the department of defense and the department of health and Human Services together with so many in the private sector are in the midst of what is truly an unprecedented search for a safe and effective vaccine all in record time, with significant amount of vaccine that will be developed for the people of america. This process as the doctors with me tonight have testified that this is driven by science but rooted in safety. And lets be certain, a vaccine will only be approved if it is proven to be both safe and effective. Operation warp speed is taking all of the precautionary steps that are required to develop any vaccine. But heres the dif
That. Ill keep it short because i know wevegot time constraints here but a quick description of what an enormous challenge this is. The secretary of Homeland Security managers 240,000 people in the department. The responsibilities for Homeland Security are vast. Ill start with itthe federal Emergency Management agency that has to deal with do hurricanes and wildfires now covid amongst many other responsibilities , Border Security, a huge issue. Weve not fixed that problem by a long stretch but this administration has done a good job of stopping the outofcontrol illegal entry that we are experiencing over a year ago. Pe this department is concerned about cyber security, Election Security, security of our Critical Infrastructure and as we just witnessed with some of the protests that have sprung to right, also protecting our federal buildings and of course we have to thank David Underwood in open oakland california, a member of the federal Protection Services so the responsibilities are
Committee held a confirmation hearing for chad wolf to formula become head of the Homeland Security department. Mr. Wolf has been serving as acting dhs secretary since november of last year. Answered questions on election interference, domestic terrorism, and Human Trafficking, among other topics. This is just under two hours. Meeting toe are consider the nomination of acting secretary of Homeland Security, chad wolf, to be the confirmed secretary of the department of Homeland Security, which is an enormous task. This in the past, i truly appreciate anybody who was willing to undertake such enormous responsibility. I would ask my written opening remarks be entered into the record, without objection. I will keep it short. I know which got time restraints we have got time restraints. The secretary of Homeland Security manages 240,000 people in the department. The responsibilities for Homeland Security are vast. Starting with the Emergency Management agency, which has to do with deal with
Confirmed secretary of the department of Homeland Security, which is an enormous task. This in the past, i truly appreciate anybody who was willing to undertake such enormous responsibility. I would ask my written opening remarks be entered into the record, without objection. I will keep it short. I know which got time restraints we have got time restraints. The secretary of Homeland Security manages 240,000 people in the department. The responsibilities for Homeland Security are vast. Starting with the Emergency Management agency, which has to do with deal with hurricanes, wild fires, and now covid, amongst many other responsibilities. More security is a huge issue. Hes done a pretty good job of establishing the out of control, illegal entry we are experiencing were experiencing over a year ago. The department is concerned about cybersecurity, election security, the security of our Critical Infrastructure. As we just witnessed, some of the protests have sprung into riots, was a protec