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Our community is concerned. I want to thank his leadership and also senator menendez, senator rubio who has been a champion on this, and the chairman of the Foreign Relations committee, and in the and jimliot engel chair of ao is the Congressional Executive Commission on china and chair of the committee on which mr. Smith is a cochair as well as a ranking member. That is all to say that in a bipartisan way, over the years, there has been a real commitment to shining a bright light on the Human Rights Violations in china and to say to those who are affected by that, youre not alone. The most excruciating form of torture that the oppressors can get to those who they are oppressing is to say nobody remembers, nobody cares, but we do, and we want the Chinese Government to know that. Thats why it is such an honor to enroll this bill, passed by the senate and house in a strong bipartisan way. Meaningful when on june 4, we observe the 31st anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre. We are
Tonights big who served, and and counsel to the house energy and commerce subcommittee and Commerce Consumer protection as a member of president clintons task force on healthcare reform. Thanks so much. So what were going to do is start with a conversation between us and then over to audience to ask questions directly. And in the process, i know that their appetites for reading this book will be seriously whetted. I spent the weekend reading it and it is, indeed, terrific. Let me start where you start in the book which is to describe the various kind of shaping forces that help shape our culture and our politics and the way in which they led to the moment were in today, the political moment, the social moment, the cultural moment were in today. And you start by arguing that throughout our history, theres been this ongoing tension in our sense of ourselves between rugged individualism on the one hand and a commitment to community, to collectivism on the other. Say a word about that and
Youve had more than a month to prepare for this, and is our country ready . So our country is preparing every day, and the effective aggressive containment measures that weve taken at our borders as well as working with our public ault have brought us time. One is always advancing preparedness. Mr. Secretary, i only have a few minutes. Let me be real clear, because you sent over a supplemental that wasnt clear. You just mentioned a number of things from tracing, state and local governments needing their healthcares and hospitals ready for this. Youve talked about protective masks. You talked about surveillance system. I did not see anything in that request that specifically says how much each of those are going to cost, and we know, weve seen this outbreak in china now. We know it is going other countries. It quickly overwhelms a healthcare system. It puts patients who dont have the virus at risk, who suffer from other conditions. We know that medications become very difficult. Did you
They have additional capacity. Happy mardi gras, everybody. How concerned should americans be . First, i heard there was mixed reviews. Away feeling like the administration is on top of this. They are adapting as they need to, trying to allocate resources where they will be most effective. When asked about 2. 5 billion dollars, is that adequate, if it theree anticipate will be another opportunity to increase. The supplemental is for 2020. If there needs to be more money in 2021, we will give it their. We will give it then. They specifically said that. Omb specifically said that. Are you confident that there is a strategy to deal with quarantine needs . Theres a lot of concern, sort of not in my back yard. I cannot speak to not in my back yard. One thing that was said, which is obvious, if it has now gone from china to south korea to iran and there are cases elsewhere, but south korea, they have increased the travel advisory to a level three and italy and iran to level two, it will spre