This is live coverage of the hearing on cspan3. The country is returning to work here. Many of us here in washington having this hearing while the spearer pelosi and House Democrats continue to stay at home Holding Virtual hearings. We have got to get back to doing the real live work that the people sent us here to do and i would urge my colleagues on the other side of the aisle to come back to washington and do what we have been elected to do. And with that, madam chairwoman, i yield back. Thank you. Thank you so much. Now were introduce our witnesses. First we have rita bigot, an essential worker who died from coronavirus. Next is john costa, the International President of the transit union. Next we have anthony mark perone, who is the unit food and commercial Workers Union and with us Bonnie Castillo who is the executive director of National Nurses united and California Nurses Association and the National Nurses organizing committee. We also have clint odum from policy and advocacy
Brutality. This has built so many of us into the street to stand with our neighbors and communities of color. Entertainingly and systematically abused by the criminal justice system. The committee in the house as a whole, is committed to swiftly enacting profound reforms. To punish police misconduct. Holding Police Department accountable to oversight. In eliminating the financing of police militarization. We hope have more to say in the coming days. And as my friend set us we, my protest is my statement. Even as we prepare our legislative solution. The topic of todays is essential workers pretty since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, and the United States, we are all acutely aware of the threats posed to ours health and safety. But we do not all face of the risk of the crisis equally. Grocery store workers, Food Processing employee, Public Transportation operators. Nurses and doctors and hospital support staff, nursing home employees, First Responders, janitors, mail carriers, de
Land maintenance. And on cspan3, the Senate Homeland security and Governmental Affairs committee holds a hearing on federal buying and distribution strategies in response to covid19. Mondays white house briefing, press secretary touted the may 2020 jobs report released last week. She was asked about the Congressional Democrats Police Reform bill. The ongoing protests around the country, and senator mitt romney joining the margin washington, d. C. An hour. Hello. The transition to gr the jobs in this country, we had more than 2. 5 million added. The prediction was at 7. 5 million jobs will be lost. Towards the Positive Side and the greatest number of jobs created in a single month on record. That is extraordinary. 225,000 manufacturing jobs. 464,000 construction jobs. 1. 2 million leisure and hospitality jobs were added in may. The number of workers reported being on temporary layoff decreased 52. 7 million in may. More than that, this was a great number that was pointed out jobs were c
In the head. It was not even frontpage news. There was nobody demonstrating like this. Children in black six months killed on our streets. No one is demonstrating about that. No one is having discussions about what we can do to combat it. Officerwhite police shoots one black person and we know the name of that person, memorials are developed for them, and they become the cause of a movement to solve the problem. I am just asking for some proportionality. Lets put our time and energy focused on the largest problem we have, and that is those deaths internally. There is nothing white people can do externally to help us. It is a problem internal to us. We must address it. But in order to address that, we have to acknowledge the importance of it. Right now, it does not seem to be important. The only time we get upset is when a white person takes a black persons life. Host we will hear from doreen. Shes in massachusetts. Caller when i watched the video of george floyd, i was totally disguste
Mayor de blasio all right. It is a very Beautiful Day today. It is a Beautiful Day for this city. This is a powerful day. Day 100 of the coronavirus crisis, and it is the day that we start to liberate ourselves from this disease. The day we move forward with phase one of the restart, it against in new york city. Begins in new york city. All new yorkers should be proud that you got us to this day. This was a lot of hard work. Everyone who stayed home, everyone who socially distance and put on face coverings, you got us to this day, a date to celebrate hundreds of thousands of new yorkers coming back to work today. Just the beginning of the restart. Of everyerally because single new yorker worked so hard to get us here. We have been the epicenter of this crisis. This is the place where it was going to be the hardest to make a comeback, yet new york city is so strong and resilient. We are making that come back. We will always remember the heroes of this crisis. The first responders, healt