You have the report in front of you. Just a couple of things. One is we are continuing our covid19 preparations and actions. Ive asked dr. Aragon to provide more details after my report, so he will be doing that in just a minute. We are continuing with our ongoing daily work, and that includes Behavioral Health options for people in the city as part of our Behavioral Health reform as part of health s. F. We are currently establishing a health center, to be established at 180 jones, with a particular focus on methamphetamine users. This will have a 15bed capacity, take care of many more than that over a 24hour period. This is really the beginning of a larger expansion if this initial phase is successful at providing more lowbarrier opportunities for people to have a place that is safe, that provides Harm Reduction approaches and also not only helps them but also mitigates the effects of Behavioral Health issues in the surrounding community. Im proud to announce an expansion of our hummi
Moments later said its not a matter of if but rather when it spreads throughout this country. Based on what we know now we believe the immediate rise next United States remains low. Its not so much a question of if this will happen but a question of exactly when this will happen, and how much team in this country will become infected and how much of those will develop severe or more complicated disease. Lou sobering questions and important questions. Trump Administration Officials briefing the senate on the nature of the threat which is clearly a coronavirus and deputy i can. Pandemic. Tonight well have a briefing as well and our briefing will be from the head of the president s head of the Coronavirus Task force, alex azar who briefed the senate today. He joins us here tonight. Because of the obvious spread of the coronavirus to new countries, the pandemic is worsening. The dow and s p both dropping more than 3 . The 10year treasury reaching a new record low and well have more on the
Acting office of management and budget are Russell Vought on trumps 4. 8 million Budget Proposal for 2021 before the house Budget Committee. This runs three hours. I certainly welcome the acting director phoned the Russell Vought. Thank you for being here to testify on the president s 2021 Budget Proposal and i hope todays hearing will provide an open and amistad examination of the party set forth by the Trump Administration so they can get back to passing legislation Appropriations Bills that reflect the needs and priorities of the American People. I will now yield myself five minutes for an Opening Statement just six short months ago the president signed a bipartisan just, can everybody hear me . A just six months ago the president signed it twoyear budget deal into law. It does everything the president s proposal failed to do set rational discretionary lines allowing strong investments in our national and Economic Security and has bipartisan support including the bank member and mys
The hearing will come back to order. And for the outstanding work you have done, thank you this has to be one of the hardest jobs in government to be the impartial watchdog and with those Government Agencies as important as department of justice and fbi i want you to know how much we appreciate your work and your teams work likewise it is important even though we are critical of the leadership of the fbi during the last administration the way they mishandled this counterintelligence investigation and the colleagues need to know that we are there for them and support them in the faithful discharge of their responsibilities. I served that there is no more ardent supporter. And i believe that general hayden when he wrote his book had it right it is called playing to the edge not over the line but up to the edge so that also makes it important for us to root out the illegality and the exercise of those that are given to the Intelligence Community. So let me ask you about that. Because i ca
Reports that the aid was being held, because ukraine was being coerced into doing an investigation. And congress had initiated congressional investigations into why the aid was being released. We you know, we can talk about alternative facts all day long, but the facts are really pretty clear. That the president abused his power. The precious power of his office, to coerce a country that was dependent on us. A country whose fight in russian aggression because when ukraine fights russian aggression theyre helping us fight russian aggression and he did it for personal gain and he should be held accountable. I yield back. Gentle lady yields back. Mr. Chairman i have u man news consent. Who . Arizona. Recognized. My first consent request is the record of the correspondence and subpoenas served on executive Branch Officials by chairman schiff. We have concerns because three of those served prior to the passage of the res. We will reserve the right. I have another one. Two letters sent by th