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Good morning. So this meeting will now come to order. Today the subcommittee is holding a hearing entitled oversight of doe, during covid19 pandemic. Members will be participating in todays hearing finally in person or remotely via video conferences. And just as a reminder weve had some technical difficulties in making sure that our remote video was operating up to standard. As part of this hearing, the microphones of members participating remotely will be set on mute for the purpose of eliminating inadvertent background noise. Members participating remotely will need to unmute their microphones each time you wish to speak. For members and witnesses participating in person, i encourage you to wear your mask whenever you are not speaking. Dr. Monahan, our physician, stressed in attending physician covid19 guidelines that use of face coverings is meant to protect other people in case someone was unknowingly infected and does not have symptoms. But wearing our mask when we are not speakin
Good afternoon. I call this meeting of the committee on appropriations to order. Before we begin, house rules now we have set up any mileage us to which members can send anything they wish to submit they wish to submit in writing in any of her hearings or markups. Our hearings or markups. Has been provided to staff. The first order of business is consideration of the energy and Water Development appropriations bill. For fiscal year 2021. Captornow recognize this ms. Captor to present the bill. Please let me also add my you for your honorable and dedicated service to our community and nation and for your recognition of the full potential of this bill. You will truly be missed. I am pleased to consider the energy and water bill today. It is a good bill. A bill that captures the spirit of ingenuity and independence of the American People. Are actually able to provide the most important Climate Change bill congress will pass this year. This bill provides the foundation of critical investme
Today is a day of good news. We have one of the lowest hospitalization rates since this lowestnd we have the death rate, down to 35. I have been asking all the experts who will talk to me, what is the lowest that number can go . When it gets this low it is really a question of what they are attributing is the cause of death. In other words you have people who are gravely ill who are going to die of something and if they get covid19, they attribute that to the covid virus. Slow it iss down the really a question of what that hospital certifies as a cause of death. Dieould like to see nobody in the state of new york ever, but this is really, really good news. Were thiso where we is a big sigh of relief. We talked about calibrating the control of the reopening based on the metrics we have seen. We have done this from day one. People knocked me for a lot of things mocked me for a lot of things, but that does not bother me. The reopening of the economy is a valve and you can open it faster o