Different colors. All woven and held together by a single precious thread of democracy. Paul has taught us so much and as students who followed him, worked with him, believed with him, loved him and now miss him, we could never, ever be more thankful. With that, mr. Trone and mr. Speaker, i yield back the balance of my time. Mr. Trone i recognize mr. Levin. Mr. Levin thank you very much for recognizing me, mr. Trone and i thank the majority leader for organizing this. Mr. Speaker, i rise to speak for mr. Sarbanes, senator sarbanes employees. And especially for my sisterinlaw milley freeman, who worked for Paul Sarbanes from december of 1989 to january of 2007. And im not going to talk about all the Amazing Things about senator sarbanes that his maryland colleagues have eloquently mentioned and john, im not going to talk about fathers and sons, but my dad who served in this house and my uncle carl levin who served in the senate, both loved him very much. Andlet me talk about nellie his
If you are confident in the u. S. Postal service, we want to hear from you at 202 7488000. If you are not confident in the Postal Service, we want to hear from you at 202 7488001. And we are going to open special lines this morning. Postal workers, we want to know what you are seeing and what people are saying to you. We want to know what is going on in your post office. Postal workers, your line is 202 7488002. Keep in mind, you can always wet us at 202 7488003 and are always reading on social anda, at cspanwj facebook. Com cspan. Dejoyster general louis has been on capitol hill all week long, talking to senators about the u. S. Postal service. Lets start by reading a little bit from the wall street journal;s story on the congressional hearing s storyon journal on the congressional hearing. Louis dejoy said the post office could handle mailin ballots this fall, amid concerns from democrats particularly that his actions will interfere with the election. Dejoy has been at the center of
Opening statements at hearings are limit to the chair or the ranking minority member or his designee. This will allow us to hear from our witnesses sooner and help members keep to their schedules. Therefore im asking for unanimous consent that all of the members Opening Statements be made part of the hearing record if they are submitted to the clerk by 5 00 p. M. Today. Hearing no objection so ordered. Without objection the chair may also declare a recess subject to the call of the chair. As described in the notice statements, documents or motions must be submitted to the electronic repository hnrc. Mail. House. Gov. Additionally please note in all full person meetings members are responsible for their own microphones. With our fully inperson meetings members can be muted by staff only to avoid inadvertent background noise. Anyone present in the hearing room today must wear a mask covering their mouth and nose. The speaker of the house and the sergeant at arms acting upon the recommend
Within minority communities toward the medical industry. Thank you to all of our witnesses and, of course, my colleagues for joining us. Todays reading is about the extraordinary effort underway to develop a vaccine to prevent covid19, safe and effective vaccine could hasten the end to this disastrous pandemic. But the herd immunity that would in covid19 once and for all requires all of us, all of us to get vaccinated. For that we need public trust in this entire vaccine project. Around the globe nearly 200 vaccine candidates are being developed and over 20 have entered human Clinical Trials. In the United States, five entered human Clinical Trials with large Clinical Trials that begins later this month. With a historic all hands on deck effort underway around the globe, the timeline to develop a vaccine may be compressed from several years down to just 12 or 18 months. However, moving with this amazing speedos not and must not allow for getting any corners. Today we will how we must p
So, if there is no safety signal, if it is effective, we should say that absolutely loudly. If there is a safety signal and if its not as effective as we hope to say that also. I have very folk of his and the scientists that they will say what they find. While the data are produced by companies that are running the trials, the trials or under enormous amount of scrutiny, both by the fda and by the public. The guidance the fda put out that include a lot of this concerns other Committee Members have raised, including the representation of diverse populations, sample size, looking to safety signals. I believe, and again, maybe im being naive, but i dont think so. I think were going to see a lot of information. I hate to interrupt you but i want to make the point back when i was a very small child, i remember standing in line at my Elementary School with my mother to get the sugar cube for polio. I had friends that have polio, and im excited about what the possibilities can be, and i also