The committee on health education, labor and pensions will please come to order. First, the usual administrative matters like the theater announcements we use to receive, we are getting used to those, we follow the advice of the attending physician and sergeantatarms consulted with all the right people, we are seated 6 feet apart, that means no room for public or the media here but the media is participating and we hope the public is as well. And the videoconference is a real change for the United States senate and a very welcome one because it makes it possible to attract witnesses who have busy schedules on the same day such as today, by video conference, you may remove your masks since were 6 feet apart. The sergeant at arms, press gallery, architect of the capital, capital police, committee staff, Evan Griffiths for their hard work to keep us safe. We will each have an Opening Statement and we turn to our witnesses we thank for being with us today, each witness we ask you summarize
Evan Griffiths exchanged several text messages in a search to score drugs for his birthday in the minutes before his box truck plowed into stalled traffic on the Pennsylvania Turnpike, killing a 5-yea.
A Pittston man who caused a crash that killed a 5-year-old girl on the Pennsylvania Turnpike’s Northeast Extension pleaded guilty to vehicular homicide and reckless endangerment Monday, authorities said.