Chairman shelby and his staff for letting us try this and see how this kind of information gathering works for appropriators. Its not a markup. There will be no voting today, but were going to get some really important information. Yesterday, the new coronavirus cases passed 50,000 for the first time, making it a single day record. This morning, 128,000 americans have died and nearly 2. 7 million have tested positive for covid19. Of course, the thoughts of myself and everyone on this committee are with those individuals and those families whove been affected. I called this hearing really to look at an update on the efforts that the administrations put together and, frankly members of this committee were very involved in to see if we couldnt establish a new way to look at responding to pandemics. I think we have the chance to actually write a new important chapter in what that response looks like. Developing the right vaccine, the right therapeutics, the right testing is important. And
Senator blunt the appropriation subcommittee on labor, health and Human Services, education and related agencies will come together. Im glad to be here this morning with my colleagues, some offices or from some other location. This is the first appropriations hearing being held in person and virtually and want to thank chairman shelby and his staff for letting us try this and see how this kind of information gathering works for appropriators. Its not a markup. There will be no voting today, but were going to get some really important information. Yesterday, the new coronavirus cases passed 50,000 for the first time, making it a single day record. This morning, 128,000 americans have died and nearly 2. 7 million have tested positive for covid19. Of course, the thoughts of myself and everyone on this committee are with those individuals and those families whove been affected. I called this hearing really to look at an update on the efforts that the administrations put together and, frank
How important he was to our country, for africanamericans, for those who wanted to go to law school africanamericans who wanted to go to law school, i was a part of that generation who looked up to him, believed in him, who was inspired by him. That i too someday could go to law school and i could someday become a lawyer. There is a whole generation of people just like me who have gone on to do that because of the bravery and the courage of Thurgood Marshall. So tonight, we are here gathered here this evening and i have view this really has the intersection of history and the future. What to i mean by that . The intersection of history and the future . Well, we are in Lincoln Theater. In this theater, this was the only place where black folks could come and get entertained in a theater because they couldnt go downtown. They would come right here. And this theater was nearly demolished. Almost tore it down. And we saved it, renovated it and it is now one of the jewels of the city of col
President s . Guest quite a few. My taste is about the same as everybody else. Well, maybe not. I will grant you theres been about on him and eisenhower. Again, you do get some wonderful privileges. She was kind enough to invite me the chief of staff another dear friend to come out to gettysburg to get a personal tour of the eisenhower postpresident ial homestead. And it was wonderful. It was one memory after another. Here is where i met khrushchev and the house. We were talking and i actually got close to the plane and 59. My dad was a Master Sergeant in the air force base and i will bl never forget us going out there to look at the plane that had brought Nikita Khrushchev to the united states. He was the most Senior Master on the base. It was wonderful. What a treat. Their grandmother and grandfather and what it was like and see the things in the home but have a personal hunch this is where i used to sit when my grandmother was doing this, that and the other. Host i dont know if you
Would love to have you come over st. Paul minnesota. [applause] you cant believe how excited people are to see you. I am not kidding. They came for you when no other author could have done this. Tell that to my daughters. [laughter] i want to talk about this idea of why we are so intrigued by the idea and here is my theory. You tell me whether this fits. Is it something about the adventure and the optimism of the voyage polite in with this tragedy that passengers dont know they are ceiling into is it like thethat like the collision of those ideas . No. [laughter] i often wondered about that myself because its kind of drew me to the lusitania was the fact that i have this maritime thing as i think we all do in the titanic. I think what happens is having something bad happen to you with no help available. Its the isolation and also the idea of the glamour of the crossing and suddenly the interrupting of the catastrophe. But its also because of my scandinavian roots i should point out in