Chief of staff. Now, live coverage of the u. S. Senate. Vice president under the previous order, the senate will consider the following nomination. The clerk nomination, general charles q. Brown, jr. , to be chief of staff and general of the United States air force. The Vice President under the previous order, the question occurs on the nomination. Is there a sufficient second . It appears there is a sufficient second. The clerk will call the roll. Vote vote vote the Vice President are there any senators wishing to vote or to change their vote . If not, on this vote, the yeas are 98, the nays are zero. And the historic nomination of general charles q. Brown, jr. As the United States air force chief of staff is confirmed. Under the previous order, the motion to reconsider is considered made and laid upon the table and the president will be immediately notified of the senates action. Mr. Alexander madam president . The presiding officer the senator from tennessee. Mr. Alexander thank you
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This is a different world were facing. The pandemic has taken tens of thousands of americans and infected more than 1. 5 million and infected every single one. It focuses early on the security to the past few months. Including the nominee [inaudible] it is very different than my time in chairman. Those of you that are there in person and we do not we have previously provided guidance to reiterate care. The recommended social distancing. [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] before he turned to the intervention i appreciate [inaudible] in the role with Energy Innovation including nuclear and Energy Efficiency renewable. We help create. That experience with the responsibilities and the decisions. Having full view of the department and everyone during this covert pandemic. [inaudible] non[inaudible] there will be situations that are uniquely situated during this pandemic. We thank you for that thank you, madam chairman and we want to thank you for holding this hearing and mr. Menendez nomin
Good afternoon, everyone. During the briefing last week and it means the other times before, i said the health and safety of missourians is our first priority. This will always be true for me as governor. I also said that we must begin to increase our focus on economic recovery as we move forward. When we developed our show me strong recovery plan, we based this on four essential pillars to give us a benchmark Going Forward. The Health Care System capacity, and Public Health data. Reopening the economy was especially dependent on Health Care System capacity, and we have met that pillar. The other three pillars were also critical to reopening, and we continue to monitor those on a daily basis. As i said yesterday, testing will continue to be a priority as we move forward. We will have we have the teststing capacity and now we mt find ways to use that capacity to test as many people as we can. 7, we have tested over 154,000 missourians that have been tested for covid19. Of these tests, a
Join the discussion. Biden spoke about the coronavirus pandemic in a video message to the api victory fund, which is focused on mobilizing Asian American and Pacific Island voters ahead of the 2020 president ial election. Earlier this year, the organization gave its endorsement to the former vice president. His remarks are just over 10 minutes. Bebiden i wish we could together in person, but im grateful to be able to connect with you virtually. I would like to thank probably the mute button is not working at his introduction. The incredible leadership of you and your felloww Board Members for creating and building this vital organization. Thanks as well to the extraordinary leaders, senator harris, duckworth, representative to, all for being here. We got a chance to talk earlier. For all the work you are doing to help folks who need it, it is a pleasure to be with you and it is a special honor to be conduct to be together during aa pi. I am especially grateful for the victory fund it i