[inaudible conversations] the cdc before the subcommittee this morning and has been several years march of 2016 since our last hearing on the budget of the nations leading Public Health agency. Before i do a formal welcome, i was made aware of this issue which is very troubling. And that is, that the administration is ordered the immigration courts to immediately remove coronavirus posters and it just says the immigration courts have been ordered nationwide by the administration to takedm down coronavirus posters from courtrooms and waiting areas. The executive office for immigration review under the department of justice mandated allex posters which explain in english and spanish how to prevent catching and spreading the virus had to be removed immediately. I just want to say that whatever your point of view on any issue that we face in this nation whatever your personal views are or your ideology , that we canno cannot, we cannot in this Public Health crisis play fast and loose with
Subcommittee on health in Human Services, education and related agencies will come to order. Thank you sec. A desire for being here. It has turned out to be a more eventful week than we anticipated but we are grateful you have shown up as we asked to at the time we asked you to. The budget you suggested, the request, many of the same kinds of cuts that occurred in 2020, and i am sure we will have questions about that. It is not unexpected. You will recall when i called you with the final budget numbers from the 2020 budget, my first comment was, the good news is you didnt get what you asked for. Hopefully that will be the case again this time. You propose a 10 cut, similar cut you proposed in the past in programs that we would be very reluctant in the health care workforces and preparedness programs and research programs, all have been about earlier today at the members reading on the current virus. Rural programs we would be reluctant to discuss. We will need more money this year in m
Them have generated some degree of a bipartisan controversy in the past and the attorney general just wanted to underscore again the importance of these provisions that were enacted in the wake of the 911 attacks and they are still relevant to our effort to go after terrorists today just like they were after 911. There is a tendency with the passage of time for these measures to lose support because you have been so successful. We have had animal attacks here at home from foreigners and these tools have been overwhelmingly useful and according to our intelligence advisors and i hope that when the senate deals with these expiring provisions in a couple of weeks we will be able to continue to have them in law which will, of course, provide maximum protection for the american people. This afternoon the senate will have an opportunity to vote on two very common sense measures to defend the lives of the unborn. This should not be controversial measures. The first one deals with ensuring the
Good afternoon everyone. We were with the attorney general, let me just make a couple of points, first he enjoys overwhelming support under conference and will think he is doing an outstanding job. Barr is. We have the expiring intelligence and provisions, some of them have generated some degree of bipartisan controversy in the past and the attorney general is willing to underscore the importance of these provisions in the wake of the 911 attacks. They are still relevant. To go after terrorists today is like they were after 911. Its intense he was for these measures, to lose support. They been so successful. We had minimal attacks here at home from foreigners. These tools have been overwhelmingly useful according to our intelligence advisors. Then i hope that when the senate deals with these expiring provisions of the couple of weeks, we will be able to continue to have them in law, which will then of course provide maximum protection of the american people. This afternoon that it in o
Appropriations Committee Held a hearing on emerging threats and at that point we were experiencing the secondlargest outbreak of ebola in the democratic republic of congo. It was a global danger there was a flu outbreak bigger than we had seen in a long time. One year later we are still fighting the Ebola Outbreak in the drc antibiotic Resistance Continues to be a global problem and according to doctor Fauci National institute of allergy and flu isous disease the one of the worst in decades. Several thousand americans die every year from the flu at least 35000 sometimes as high as 75000 about 350,000 have died over the last decade now facing a new danger with the new coronavirus we have not seen before patient zero who does not know they have this yet on the plane or a cruise ship event on another country or continent in a matter of hours and once again to be reinforced like all other diseases, it doesnt know any boundaries. We are no longer living in a world where we can be separated