Coronavirus. The chairs authorized to have the committee and recess at any point. Good afternoon. Today the committee is meeting to examine the federal government response to the Novel Coronavirus pandemic. As a nurse i want to open by encouraging everyone to visit coronavirus. Gov. The most uptodate information from the center of Disease Control print mentioned. Keep us all safe. Wash your hands often with seven water or Hand Sanitizer dont touch her face, cover your cough, and avoid close contact with others if you are they are sick. We note that the spread of coronavirus has likely not yet reached its peak. It is affecting all of our communities. I dont think there is a person in this room was that worried about an elderly or an immune compromised relatives health, friends job, or Childs School closure. Just yesterday, the first two cases were diagnosed in the counties that i represent in illinois. Our job is members of congress is to keep americans safe. Im working with the executi
About the possibility of Community Spread in Washington State and tried to work with federal agencies to conduct testing, the administration did not work with them to let the public know how serious the coronavirus was. You can be sure i am going to get to the bottom of this and make sure it will never happen again. I am furious that instead of acting with urgency, they did nothing. Instead of acting with transparency, they kept quiet. Instead of working to keep families safe, they wasted now, in myme and state, 24 people have died. Over a thousand across the country are confirmed to be infected. Experts are telling us many more are likely to be ill. Im hearing from people in my home state of washington who are worried about their older relatives who are dying alone. Worried about having to miss work and unable to pay their rent, worried about how to keep their children safe at school and make sure they get a nutritious meal if their schools canceled. Im hearing from Small Business own
Coronavirus outbreak with california representative nanette berrigan, a member of the Homeland Security committee. At 9 a. M. , reid wilson previews todays primary contests in six states. The primary contest in 6 states. Host good morning. It is tuesday, march 10. Senior Administration Officials will head to capitol hill to discuss the package of emergency economic measures aimed at blunting a slowdown over fears of the coronavirus and plunging oil prices. Major stock markets tumbled more than 7 with the dow jones shedding 2000 points in the largest oneday point drop in history. We are opening our phone lines to ask if you believe fiscal stimulus is needed to respond to the coronavirus. Phone lines split up regionally. Eastern and central time zones, it is 2027488001. In amount or pacific time zones, 2027488001. You can send us a text. That number, 2027488003. If you do, include your name and where you are from. Otherwise, catch up with us on social media. N twitter it is cspanwj on fa
Brought to you today by your television provider. Next, centers for Disease Control and prevention director dr. Robert redfield and National Institute of allergy and Infectious Diseases director dr. Anthony fauci testify on the coronavirus outbreak. They were joined by other Health Officials at this House Oversight and Reform Committee hearing. It is two hours and 10 minutes. The committee will come to order. The chair is authorized to declare a recess at any time. I want to inform members that we have a change in schedule. As we explained in the hearing memo, we were planning to do Opening Statements from 9 30 to 10 00 and testimony and questions from 10 00 to 1 00. This morning, we were informed that President Trump and Vice President pence have called our witnesses to an emergency meeting at the white house. We dont know the details, just that it is extremely urgent. Now the witnesses have to leave at 11 45. In light of this sudden change, we are going to significantly reduce Openin
Outbreak. This is 25 minutes. Thank you all for joining us. On the Councilmember Joel vizcaino from the city of los angeles and are proud president of the nationally good cities. Welcome to our 2020 congressional cities conference where this year recordbreaking attendance numbers here, over 2000 attendees from all across the country, different sized cities and look at the beautiful faces behind me, excitement that we are here, we are loud and where proud of the fact that we come together to bang on the door here of the federal government to make sure that our federal partners listen to us and act and act quickly. Local leadership is critical in creating cohesiveness cohesion throbber country. Cities, towns and villages have tremendous opportunity to usher Forward Partnership and positivity and a time of growing gridlock and change in washington. The best way to move our communities forward is to promote partnership, leading together with other local, state, and federal leaders. We can