Peters, and delivering the opening statement, a minute to acknowledge the United States passed another milestone that we have lost 200,000 americans to covid19. Our hearts go out to their families, husbands and wives, mothers and fathers, children, grandchildren and grandparents. Americans everywhere must fight to stop the virus from spreading, to protect millions more from experiencing this loss. As members of congress we will go to republicans, all united to be our part. We turn to opening statement, unlike every hearing, in the u. S. Congress economic committee, simply explore economic issues. We will focus on Public Health. With the closing of coronavirus is in march causing unemployment in april, democrats reset some of those Public Health experts in the country. Two all two nobel prize laureates, 5 former chairs of the president s council of economic advisers and 3 were president of the National Economic association over 2 dozen in all. Every one of them have the same urgent mess
Substance, feeble in fact. That the court notwithstanding that strict scrutiny virtually always ruled for the government. Were going to leave this recorded program at this point. You can watch it online at cspan. Org. We go live now to a joint Economic Committee meeting looking at the impact of covid19. Watching live coverage on cspan3. Senator peters from michigan and many others who will be joining us from the house and the senate. Before i deliver my opening statement, i would like to acknowledge that today the United States passed another sad milestone that weve lost more than 200,000 americans to covid19. Our hearts go out to their families, to the husbands and wives, mothers and fathers, children, grandchildren, even grandparents. Americans everywhere must fight harder to stop the virus from spreading so we can protect millions more from experiencing this loss. Members of congress and members of this committee, were all united to do our part. With that, let me turn it over to our
Magnuson talks and well talk your call and you can join the conversation. Washington journal is next on this veterans day. Good morning on this november 11, 2019, veterans day. We are at Arlington National cemetery today for ceremonies honoring those who have served and their families in the u. S. Military. You are looking at the tomb of the unknown soldier in arlington. Vice president pence will be there this morning, 11 00 a. M. , for a wreathlaying ceremony. Innwhile, President Trump is new york city this morning for a veterans day parade. Go to cspan. Org for details. We begin this morning in the first hour with the public hearings this week on the impeachment inquiry. Republicans demanding that the whistleblower at the center of the impeachment testify at those hearings. We want to get your reaction to that. Should the whistleblower testify . Democrats, 202 7488000. Republicans, 202 7488001. N independents, 202 7488002 text us at 202 7480003. Or go to twitter, cspanwj, or journal
On. I have been hearing from veterans about the number of cancer clusters they have experienced, people they have served with, family members. We look at the data behind those personal stories to see if what they were experiencing personally was reflected in the data. Through a freedom of information request, we looked at every cancer billing through the v. A. System over a stretch of time and we found increases. 23 , liverncer is up cancers is up 96 . Once we have this data, we went back to the veterans communities and asked, did you think happened . Host what happened . Guest a lot of these veterans think it is toxic exposure. Talkedvious a guest about the burn pits. Iraq and across afghanistan, things were burned from human waste to ammunition and soldiers breathe this in day and night. It could be water contamination on bases. It could be radiation in cockpits, pilots have come forward and thought the Radar Systems they have been exposed to over thousands of hours of flying could b
Amazon, disney and the bbc. More choice, but at what cost . Good morning from Swindon Village near aaron dole. We are getting into the holiday mood. The weather, cloudy with rain at times but for the rest of us, dry with a cold start and some sunny spells. Arundel. More in 15 minutes. Its thursday 31st october. Our top story. Campaigning has begun for the next general election which will be held in six weeks on december 12. The labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, will launch his partys Election Campaign this morning, promising a transformation of britain. The conservatives will blame labour for the failure to leave the eu today as planned. But some mps who are standing down have warned about a growing bitterness in politics. Nick eardley has more. They are used to scenes like this. Jeremy corbyn at a Campaign Rally last night. The first day of six weeks of campaigning to try and persuade you he is ready for power. Today, he will promise to tackle what he calls a corrupt system, pledging to g