House hearing on the lessons being learned from the coronavirus and how its affecting critical supply chains. Live coverage here on cspan3. Community safe, all started to become familiar with navigating this technology, i do want to remind members of a few procedures. First, consistent with the regulations, the committee will keep microphones muted to limit background noise. Members are responsible for unmuting themselves when they seek recognition or when recognized for their five minutes. Members and witnesses must have their cameras on at all times. Weve got to keep track of you even if you step away from the proceedings. Please leave your camera on rather than logging out. Finally as you know, we may have votes during todays hearing. It looks like theyre going to be later. If we do have votes, it would be my intention not to recess. Members should vote when their group is up and come back immediately. If your turn for questioning comes up while youve stepped away, i will get back t
Person of usfld and make ends meet and showing support of people who have been experiencing something thats so, like, difficult during a pandemic and has affected so many families across the board . I want to fo know if theres any specific resources that youve given to staff that have been potentially laid off or have been, you know, reduced in hours because i know that affects a lot of nex income and families. Can you repeat the question . My main question was, basically how are staff and personnel being affected through phase one . I dont want to make any assumptions off the bat. But what are some resources that have been shared with staff and personnel whose hours might be cut or have been cut . I know personally, i know someone whose hours have been reduced to two hours a day and thats on minimum wage. And i would like to share that we have solidarit solidarity wif our workers and i want to know if there are any resources that come to mind, that would help these people or if anythi
Recommendations for the next pandemic. Several members also pay tribute to representative john lewis who sat on the house ways and Means Committee. Appreciate everybody joining us today. This is a terrific turnout, considering all of the activity and turmoil going on around us. Many of us are back in washington today. We are holding this committee virtually in compliance with the regulations for Remote Committee proceedings pursuant to House Resolution 965. This authority allowed us to continue to do our work on behalf of the American People, while keeping our staff, families, and the Broader Community safe. We have all started to become familiar with navigating this technology, i do want to remind members of a few procedures. First, consistent with the regulations, the committee will keep microphones muted to limit background noise. Members are responsible for unmuting themselves when they seek recognition or when recognized for their five minutes. Members and witnesses must have thei
Noise. Members are responsible for on muting themselves when they wish to seek recognition. Somebody is not muted right now. Can you check to see if you are muted . Required tobers are leave their cameras on the entire time they are in official proceedings, even if they step away from the camera. Hearing, theremote Committee Chair is officially closed. Members who sit with their devices in the room must wear headphones to avoid feedback, echoes, and distortion resulting from more than one person on the platform sitting in the same room. Use are also expected to social distancing guidelines including the use of masks, gloves, and wiping down the area in the hearing room. Questions, if the witness is also in the hearing room, it would help if you mute while the answer is taking place , because the answer is picked up by your mike and that echoes back and there is usually distortion. The rollcall is not necessary to establish a quorum in official proceedings conducted remotely. When there
First, explain the pitch the biden camp is making with these spending Investment Plans. Guest thanks for having me, it is a pleasure. What joe biden is trying to do is counter President Trump on the economy. The president won the election in part on the strength of a populist pitch to americans who , and makinghind appeals to the industrial midwest about manufacturing. The first part of joe bidens new plan he put out last week is called build back better. Live laughtle like love, but for the economy. With the former Vice President wants to do is promote more of what he calls a buy American Youth host. He is going to get the government to spend hundreds of billions of dollars more on americanmade products. He is going to take other steps to make the country produce more things here so there are more manufacturing jobs, something that president s and president ial candidates for a long time have promised. The former Vice President is leaning into it here in an effort to take away some of