Good morning to everyone. The committee on Health Education labor and pensions will please come to order. First, a few administrative matters. Weve gotten advice from the sergeant at arms health and human services, centers for disease control, individuals in the hearing room will be at least six feet apart. Theres no room for the public, therefore, but this is all streaming and there will be an unedited version of it that anyone can watch later. Our witnesses are participating by videoconference today and some senators are as well. Id like to Say Something about masks. Since were six feet apart we dont need to wear masks, although some may. Thats why my mask is off, although i have one and i wear it outside because as we were reminded yesterday its extremely important tool for stopping the spread of covid. Im grateful to the rules committee, sergeant of arms, the press gallery, the architect of the capitol, the Capitol Police and our staff, people, all their hard work in helping to kee
Congress. Congressman, we continue to watch the western states burn this week and you went to the floor yesterday to talk about the importance of forest esmanagement. Could you walk through what that means and what we are and arent doing for our western forests right now. Guest good morning, great to be with you. Forest management is something i love to talk about being a forrester and love to practice for history. A scene how it works. What we are talking about is applying science to make the forest healthy and resilient. In the life of climate effects is more important now than ever to apply these concepts to Management Practices to the forest and i am proposing in the trillion trees act as part of that bill i filed, for areas on public plans and these are also crossed over into private lands that we really need to focus on, especially in these fire prone areas where we are seeing higher weve got all the physics and youve got fuel, oxygen and heat and what we can do is manage the fue
The appropriations subcommittee on labor, health, and human services, education, and related agencies will come to order. I want to thank our witnesses for appearing before the subcommittee today to provide an update on where we are on the areas that they are so involved in on covid19. As we continue to be challenged by this pandemic in the country, we know that 195,961 americans have died as part of the pandemic, and 6. 6 million have tested positive during the process of testing in the pandemic. Pandemic, and 6. 6 million have tested positive during the process of testing in the pandemic. This has rapidly swept across the globe, and even countries who thought their cases were contained are facing new outbreaks and dealing with those new and unanticipated outbreaks. This is a new disease in many ways. And even after 9 months we still know relatively little about this disease or coronavirus generally. This has hindered our Public Health response. In many ways this has been like trying
Funding expires. Bills on energy and clean air and forced labor. Announced Ruth Bader Ginsburg will lie in state in statuary hall at u. S. Capitol friday. The ceremony will only be open [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc. , in cooperation with the United States house of representatives. Any use of the closedcaptioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u. S. House of representatives. ] the speaker the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by conroy. Plain, father chaplain conroy let us pray. Ord, merciful god, we give you thanks for giving us another day. E give you thanks for the life and work of justice ruth ginsburg. Americans be inspired to be their best selves because of her example. She rest in peace. Bless those throughout our ation who are suffering from the pandemic, fires, hurricanes, and flooding. Needs continue. Our political leaders to tend to those needs with sp
Bless you all. Thank you. Thank you. You may be seated. First of all, i want to say what a tremendous honor it is to be here with all of you. There is something very encouraging about getting together again, and especially with people who love america, that love god, who love the church, who love jesus, who love worship, who love the bible, who still believe jesus is the answer. Ive just come tonight to, first of all, say what an honor it is , and i made a. Ecision in 2016 paula and jonathan, who are just some of the greatest people that we have known for many, many decades we have known you, paula, and now jonathan, and the more that i know jonathan, the greater my respect gets for him. They are just a power couple in the kingdom of god. They really are. Dr. Jackson is here and ralph is here and dr. Lee is here, and im leaving somebody out very important, im sure, but youre all here not to lift ourselves, not to talk about ourselves, we our time ited in weve got five minutes, and ill