And lane college. They talked about Financial Assistance provided by the cares act and the important of addressing the hardships of minority students and those of lower socioeconomic status are facing. [inaudible conversations] good morning. The hearing of the senate health, education, labor and Pensions Committee will come to order. We want to thank our staff for working through some technical difficulties this morning and thank the senators that are witnesses who are joining us from around the country in various offices. We are all following the attending physicians protocol for safe distancing and those of us who are here are Wearing Masks on our way in and sitting at least six feet apart while we are here. Senator murray and i will each have an Opening Statement, then we will turn to our witnesses for their statement of about five minutes each, if they could summarize. There it is. Senators will each have five minute round of questions. We have a vote at 11 40 so we will need to fi
Good afternoon. I call this meeting, i called the string to order. Without objection that shares authorized to declare recess at any time. We have a number of numbers participating remotely. Welcome. Before we proceed i like to go over some items for our members participating remotely. First, if you are having or expensing connectivity issues, please make sure you or your staff contact our designated Technical Support so those issues can be resolved immediately. Members participate in remotely must continue to use the video function for the duration of their participation in the hearing unless they expand connectivity issues or other technical problems that render the member unable to participate, to fully participate on camera. It is at the committees, it is Committee Policy that members participating remotely will remain muted when not recognized, just like turning her microphone on or off during an in person hearing. This is at a courtesy to all members on the committee and so that
The number in the United States is twice as many as any other country. And doctor Francis Collins who once led the human genome project and now leaves the National Institutes of health needs a competitive shark tank enterprise at the nih to discover new ways to create tens of millions of quick and extensive diagnostictests. Covid19 plans should last for at least a year. The government is pursuing vaccines at what it calls s work speed a, faster than weve ever done that before but no one expects a vaccine this august. The second half of the school year schools should be able to provide more tests, more treatments, better Contact Tracing and hopefully we should begin to have vaccines. It will likely be the fall of 2021 though before we begin toapproach normal. There are several reasons schools have an advantage in weproviding a safe environment for students and for faculty. One younger people have been less hurt by covid19 and older people. Although doctor county told our committee we sh
Ambassador kelly kraft. Kelly craft. Doing a job amid a pandemic, which has created a bigger challenge. We will talk about the challenges the United States faces along with priorities for the United States and the western world. We will start with our relationship with china, and how the United States negotiates with a country that refuses to be transparent. Transparency would undermine the chinese government, so how do we deal with a country like that with so many important issues to address . We will talk about the roles of the World Health Organization and the pandemic, and the impact of covid19 on vulnerable relations, refugee camps, and in developing countries . This occurs while we have crises in venezuela and syria. We will talk to her about that. One of the things that has made the job more difficult is she talks about diplomacy u. N. Face, like a you ambassador has to do it. Welcome. Ambassador craft thank you for having me. What a nice change of pace, being teleconferencing w
Hosted by the hudsons to toot the hudson institute, this is 45 minutes. The hudson institute. I am honored to be joined by our ambassador kelly kraft. Kelly craft. Doing a job amid a pandemic, which has created a bigger challenge. We will talk about the challenges the United States faces along with priorities for the United States and the western world. We will start with our relationship with china, and how the United States negotiates with a country that refuses to be transparent. Transparency would undermine the chinese government, so how do we deal with a country like that with so many important issues to address . We will talk about the roles of the World Health Organization and the pandemic, and the impact of covid19 on vulnerable relations, refugee camps, and in developing countries . This occurs while we have crises in venezuela and syria. We will talk to her about that. One of the things that has made the job more difficult is she talks about diplomacy u. N. Face, like a you a