This is just over two hours. This hearing will come to water. I want to thank the witnesses first and foremost for the efforts as related to the current i guess we have to call it a pandemic at this point in time with conv19, the corona virus. I do think its important we put everything in perspective and i would ask my Committee Members to include my pretend Opening Statement in the record. But we often times. Let me rattle off a couple figures here. Ebola total cases worldwide ended up being less than 29,000. I remember in a crisis we were talking about it spreading and could be a Million People which would have been a huge problem because ebola had a mortality rate of 40 , but in the end because of effective action on the part of the world health organization, the Obama Administration and resources we prevented it from spreading some less than 29,000 contracted it and about 11,000 died. Weve had other outbreaks where we are Getting Better and weve developed some relatively effective
Next, a hearing on how federal agencies are working in response to the corona Virus Outbreak. Ken cuccinelli as acting deputy Homeland Security secretary and doctor Robert Kadlec is assistant secretary of Human Services. Topics include supplychain management, sick pay support and travel issues. Specifically how the coast guard is working with cruise line. This is just over two hours. This hearing will come to water. I want to thank the witnesses first and foremost for the efforts as related to the current i guess we have to call it a pandemic at this point in time with conv19, the corona virus. I do think its important we put everything in perspective and i would ask my Committee Members to include my pretend Opening Statement in the record. But we often times. Let me rattle off a couple figures here. Ebola total cases worldwide ended up being less than 29,000. I remember in a crisis we were talking about it spreading and could be a Million People which would have been a huge problem b
This hearing will come to water. I want to thank the witnesses first and foremost for the efforts as related to the current i guess we have to call it a pandemic at this point in time with conv19, the corona virus. I do think its important we put everything in perspective and i would ask my Committee Members to include my pretend Opening Statement in the record. But we often times. Let me rattle off a couple figures here. Ebola total cases worldwide ended up being less than 29,000. I remember in a crisis we were talking about it spreading and could be a Million People which would have been a huge problem because ebola had a mortality rate of 40 , but in the end because of effective action on the part of the world health organization, the Obama Administration and resources we prevented it from spreading some less than 29,000 contracted it and about 11,000 died. Weve had other outbreaks where we are Getting Better and weve developed some relatively effective vaccines to help protect Heal
Mind. Created by cable, in 1979, cspan is brought to you by your local cable or satellite provider. Cspan, your unfiltered view of government. The house and Senate Democrats spoke with reporters about u. S. iran tensions including the war powers act legislation thats being debated in the house today. Thank you all for being here. And let me thank all of my colleagues who are here with me this morning. And for joining together for this enormously important piece of legislation. A bill which would prevent any funds from being used for a war with iran without congressional approval. And the senate, this is being cosponsored by harris, bloomen thal and other, and im very pleased that the house leadership has committed to seeing that congressman conyers similar bill and congresswoman lees appeal of the 2002 iraq umf both come up for votes an i look forward to working with them, to get our legislation passed in the senate. When i look back upon american history, i remember the two most signi
Approval. In the senate it is being cosponsored by senators. Let me also say that i am also pleased that the house leadership has committed to andng that a similar bill the repeal of another bill are coming up for votes and i look forward to working with them to getting our legislation passed in the senate. When i look back upon american two mosti remember the significant foreignpolicy mistakes our country made in the modern era. And those were the war in be at phnom and the war in iraq. Clear, we were led into both of those wars by a series of lies. Vietnamlt, the war in cost us 59,000 american deaths and many others came home wounded in body and spirit. In fact, a whole generation, my generation was devastated by that war. Vietnam, laos,in and cambodia are almost incalculable, they run into the millions of people. In 2002 and 2003 in terms of iraq, we were told over and over again that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass distraction, that he was working with al qaeda, and that we need