The governors of new mexico, kansas and guam as well as douglas holtzeakin, former director of the Congressional Budget Office. This virtual hearing is just over four hours. The committee will come to order. Authorized to declare recess of the committee at any time. Before we begin todays hearing, i want to remind you of a few matters including some regulation accompanying House Resolution 965. I would ask all members to keep themselves on me was. This will minimize disturbances not being recognized with background noise they made only again one at a time. If you are participating today please remain with us during the hearing t that she recommends vendors identify themselves and facilitate the chairs recognition. I would also ask members to be patient this hearing is entitled the need for Financial Aid to americas states and territories during the pandemic. I now recognize myself for four minutes to give an Opening Statement of the 189,000 people have lost their lives to the virus las
If they had to use the third one in the japanese still resisted. Learn more about the Manhattan Project here on American History tv. Announcer each week, american and history tvs american artifacts takes you to museums and historic places. Coming up next, we traveled west of new orleans to visit Whitney Wallace louisiana, to learn about the history of slavery in america. Ashley my name is ashley rogers. I am the director of Museum Operations at the whitney plantation. We are beginning our tour today in an historic church, which was built circa 1870 by people who lived on the opposite side of the river in helena, louisiana. In paulina, louisiana. The structure was donated about 10 years ago by the descendents of that congregation. They bought the land in 1870, two parcels of land, for the express purpose of building a house of worship. In the excel document, which we have from the courthouse, they named their congregation the antiyoke baptist congregation. That message of being against
And by contributions to this pbs station from viewers li. Thank you. Laura this is announcer this is bbc world news america. Reporting from italy, i am laura trevelyan. It really tries to recover from the economic fallout of coronavirus. Will the crowds becoming . All 50 u. S. States have started to reopen, the death toll in americapa sursses 92,000. Government guidelines on how to reopen safely are finay released. ,000 people in michigan are in vacuum after two dams failed. The governor warns there could be historic levels of flooding. We hear from the u. K. Dr. Who survived coronavirus after weeks on a ventilator. You give yourself goals. My goal was just to get home. Laura to all of you watching on pbs and around the glowo, welcome tod news america. S the whorning that rising numbers of cases are in poor nations. Even thoug rich countries, like the u. S. , are emerging from lockdowns. The biggest daily increase in all 50 u. S. States are starting to reopen, along with much of europe
Socialist democrat dream that it is a nightmare for the American People. Nancy pelosi needs a serious ncreality check. The fantasy will never become law. It cannot pass the senate. The country is trying to recover from the coronavirus. People are stressed and struggling. People have been living through two months of lockdowns while the infection finally started to flood in tens of thousands of americans have already died. People across the country know what they need to do. We need to get back to business safely. We need our communities back and we need it as soon as possible. Democrats are exploiting and prolonging because it seems to me you are trying to do it for political gain. Joe biden has called this, quote, an Incredible Opportunity to fundamentally transform the country. Nancy pelosi agrees. She said its a wonderful opportunity. She cannot let a crisis go to waste. She said she what is nancy pelosi doing, shes wasting the publics time on a proposal that has not a single chance
Trillion yen or 100 trillion. Earlrlier at a meeting of Coalition Parties the Prime Minister said it will take considerable time to resume normal daily life while preveventing infection from spreading. We have to take advantage of the fact that tin fex hhe infection subsided. It includes cash handouts of 200,000 yen or 1,800 for Health Care Workers and allocates funding to support the development of drugs and vaccines. Other elements plan to help struggling businesses by covering 2thirds of the rent for six months and increase subsidies for employers. The latest move comes as japan has confirmed more than 16,600 cases of the virus and nearly 870 deaths. So far, 27 new cases have been reported nationwide. A man in his 80s tested positive for the third time. Moving to south korea where Health Authorities are on alert after the sharpest rise in infections in 50 days. Officials said 40 people tested positive on tuesday. The figures nearly double. Most of the new cases were in seoul. We are