Director of national intelligence. Watch online on seesmic the oracle or listen on the free cspan radio app. Minnesota Governor Tim Walz announced monday the state legislature will debate a bipartisan proposal to help Small Businesses during the pandemic. The governor was joined by state officials who announced a new app to help with state covid19 Contract Tracing efforts and to provide an update on covid cases, deaths and hospitalizations. This runs 40 minutes. Good afternoon, minnesota and good afternoon to our reporters. For those watching or listening at home, we are pulling reporters. Will be receiving questions through many of them. I will try to remember to reiterate and repeat the question and then answer it. This last week has been tough. There is no other way to put it. Our numbers are unrelenting in our hospitalizations. You have seen record set in terms of cases, hospitalizations, icus and unfortunately deaths. Our hospitals and First Responders are deriving everything are
Good afternoon, minnesota and good afternoon to our reporters. For those watching or listening at home, we are pulling reporters. Will be receiving questions through many of them. I will try to remember to reiterate and repeat the question and then answer it. This last week has been tough. There is no other way to put it. Our numbers are unrelenting in our hospitalizations. You have seen record set in terms of cases, hospitalizations, icus and unfortunately deaths. Our hospitals and First Responders are deriving everything are doing everything they possibly can. There are reasons to be optimistic over the horizon with a vaccine. There are reasons to be optimistic now that we have new therapeutics. There are also reasons to be optimistic because the data shows if we change our behaviors and take some of the mitigation efforts, there is a cascading effect that keeps people from being infected, keeps people out of the hospital, which saves lives. It is what we asked last week. I want to b
Theres much that we can learn from this 13year experience in how to take a more comprehensive approach, and to recognize while kinetic actions have a value all of their own certainly and thats blatantly obvious, nonkinetic actions do as well. We can do much better at that than what we have done. Thank you. General matt is my time is up, but do you have any you want to add . Very quickly senator i would point out we have to improve the process assuming there is a process. Ive been unable to identify one recently. I think it starts with the assumption we must develop a sound strategy or were going to waste lives and our treasury and our countrys future. I think, too, we need to move thor back to the senate, and not concentrated in a small but mushrooming it at the same time natural security staff that does not have the Foreign Service officers and the trained military officers who can actually develop what you are looking for here. I dont think we can adopt one preclusive form of war far
Ryan, and the gentleman from arizona, mr. Grijalva, each will control 20 minutes. The chair recognizes the gentleman from wisconsin. Mr. Ryan mr. Speaker, i ask unanimous consent that all members have five legislative days in which to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material on h. R. 1075, currently under consideration. The speaker pro tempore without objection so ordered. Mr. Ryan mr. Speaker, i yield myself such time as i may consume. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman is recognized for as much time as he wishes to use. Mr. Ryan mr. Speaker this bill would designate United States cuss toms and Border Protection port of entry located at first street and pan american avenue in douglas arizona, as the Raul Hector Castro port of entry. Raul Hector Castro was a distinguished Public Servant who served in both elected and nonelected Public Services, in offices such as the governor of arizona and the United States ambassador. Mr. Castro was the first Mexican America
Do you have Small Business from the Mental Health commission. We dont have dr. Sandra in the Child Division its more about Child Development i dont think we do in that way. Okay. Thank you. Any other pbts seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Heres another one we have qualified people and only two seats open. As you know, i was on the first 5 commissioner years and years and years ago. And i know that a good composition of the commission can really make a difference. And one of the pieces that i do care of k care about it the Mental Health piece because so much of what we did in the Early Education prior to the consultant we didnt have Mental Health and we knew i know first hand that we having centers in protecting areas like chinatown and tenderloin that we were in desperate need of having professionals in Mental Health that understood zero to 5. And that connection that we have now i really want to remain retain that so heres my preference i want to Mental Health worker in there and