Long as they are present in the hearings to be counted and members are responsible for your own microphone so please keep your microphones muted unless you are speaking. Finally, if they wish to submit documents for the record, please email them to the Committee Clerk whose email address was circulated prior to the hearing and thank you all for joining us. So good morning everyone and welcome to todays remote hearing on our support healthy air travel, to support healthy air travel in the covid19 era and beyond. I like to welcome our witnesses and thank you all for being here. Marshall air travel is an essential part of the fabric of our society and economy. It employs a Critical Role in business, commerce, education, travel and tourism. We take for granted that we can now easily travel vast distances by air and reach destinations that were once reserved for imagination. And just over a century, air travel moved from our imagination to a reality that has changed the way we interact with
Libya the countrys 1st help center for amputees is under construction after 9 years of war. Good to have you with us welcome to the program u. S. President donald trump has lashed out at the Supreme Court ruled against him for the 2nd time this week the judges blocked trumps bid to end a program that stops hundreds of thousands of immigrants from being deported on monday they rejected the trumpet ministrations argument that gay and transgender workers should be protected under federal law by canon reports from washington d. C. Jubilant crowds gathered outside the u. S. Supreme court many here are socalled dreamers the children of undocumented immigrants who are now assured of the right to residence for the foreseeable future between 7 and 800000 people. By the Supreme Court decision and since i was 3 and 16 years old. To go to college to get a full time job. Stripped away had the court decided that. Different for joining the celebrations was the Senate Minority leader Chuck Schumer thi
It has impacted how we are holding todays hearing. People are putting themselves at risk every day, from doctors and nurses to first responders, postal workers and many others, including poll workers. We know that covid19 has con. Any do not. We can do our work in a safe, secure, online format. The highest levels of the federal government have already decided the circumstances of the covid19 pandemic by Holding Virtual hearings, that includes a house and senate, which of Health Virtual hearings like this one. It includes the Supreme Court, which has modified how it conducts its oral arguments. And it includes executive agencies which have recognize need forimacy and the remote proceedings by participating in those conducted by conference by congress and the Supreme Court. As we begin, i want to remind our members and participants of a few things that will help us navigate this new platform. We are holding this hearing in compliance with the regulations of Committee Meetings pursuant to
Thousands of young immigrants in the u. S. As the Supreme Court rejects president toms plan to end a program that protects them from deportation and we hear from corona virus survivors in the democratic republic of congo who say theyre being ostracized. China has charged 2 canadian men with spying for state secrets more than 18 months after they were 1st detained former diplomat michael called reagan businessman michael spade or have been held since december 28th they were arrested separately just days after while executive mungo was taken into custody in canada shes facing proceedings that could see her extradited to the u. S. On fraud charges katrina is in beijing and has more on the charges against the 2 canadians. The cases of michael covered and michael spade will have now been handed over to chinese prosecutors is in beijing and the northeastern states Northeastern Province of. Respectively now this is the the formal beginning of Legal Proceedings against the 2 more than 550. 00
Awaiting to be reunited a father whos one of thousands of palestinian separated from his family for months as a result of covert 19. And im here the same for the sport as brazil tackles the 2nd worst outbreak of coronavirus in the World Football returned to the pitch just meters away from a Field Hospital for covert 19 patients. So then a former canadian diplomat and a businessman have been charged with spying in canada and a case set to increase diplomatic tensions between the 2 countries michael coverage is being held in beijing and businessmen michael spadeful was charged in a city near the north korean border theyre accused of spying for state secrets for a foreign entity. Were detained in late 2018 soon after the arrests in canada or of main ones whos a Top Executive of the chinese tech giant while away is shes the daughter of woe is founder and is facing extradition to the United States on fraud charges if a trade with iran and those developments come as a strain as Prime Ministe