Intellectual property, this is about two hours. Come to order. Well im disappointed we cant all be together in person today, im grateful to the chairman graham, and our clerk for facilitating this through web apps. I want to be clear that this subCommittee Hearing is not distracting from the full committee. Congress must address issues of Police Brutality and horrific circumstances that led to the murder of george floyd, and the senseless deaths of so many of our African American brothers and sisters. Thats why im grateful to senator graham for holding eight full Committee Hearing until the sink in america and i fully support that effort. We also have to continue to address the covid19 crisis in the impact its had on millions of americans and livelihoods. Just this morning the full Committee Held a conference on covid19 and its impact on tension. Centers im also glad mcconnell and several republican senators will take up the protection program. We are going to continue to address this
Chaplain conroy let us pray. God of the universe, thank you for giving us another day. Throughout the country people mourn those whom they have lost. People lament the loss of businesses of normalcy. 100,000 have now died of covid19. They were democrats and republicans, they lived in urban areas and now more and more in rural areas. They were the desendents of men and women who were colonists or founding fathers, and immigrants who had recently become citizens. They were disproportionately people of color, but not only of color, and of every religion and culture in this nation. , when o lord, will we come to understand that we are all in this together . If we do not stand together we risk falling together. Heal the divisions within our body politic, within this chamber so that your healing power through our actions and good will can be manifest in our United States. May everything done this day and in the days and weeks to come be for your greater honor and glory, amen. The speaker pro
General Patrick Murphy was in charge of our National Guard for many years. Did an outstanding job. Ive been with him in many emergency situations over the years. Hes a man who leads from the front. Hes my type of leader. He had so much fun that he retired and came and joined us as commissioner of homeland security. This team, new yorkers should have total confidence because they have done it before. Theyve been in the situation. Not this exact situation, but theyve handled emergencies and theyve handled them all very well. They are proven. Lets go through this for an update on where we are today. Everyone knows what we are dealing with. Its preventing overload of the Health Care System, so the number of acute cases are coming in to the Health Care System, the growth in the number of acute cases must match the capacity of the Health Care System and that is what we have been working on. The rate of icu hospitalizations even more closely, the difference between the number of beds you need
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