At the mississippi book festival in jackson to talk about literacy and american libraries. [inaudible conversations] good morning everyone. Welcome to the third mississippi book festival. In the Mississippi Department of archives and history. Ive been asked to remind everyone that you are more than welcome to take photographs, post to social media, and the hash tag is literarylongparty. This is the conversation with the library of Congress Panel sponsored by the Mississippi Humanities Council and friends of the library. Mississippi is fortunate to have so strong a supporter as its literature, music and art as congressman greg harper. Now in his fifth term in the United States house of representatives, congressman harper chairs the committee on House Administration and serves on the House Committee on energy and commerce, the joint committee on printing and perhaps most pertinently for us here today, as the chair of the joint committee of the library of congress. Here is congressman gre
On homelandttee security will come to order. The committee is meeting today to receive testimony on examining the National Response to the coronavirus pandemic. Without objection, the chair is optimized to declare [indiscernible] at any point. Today, the committee is meeting to examine our National Response to the worsening coronavirus pandemic. This hearing comes at a critical moment. The number of coronavirus cases is surging, topping 58,000 per day for the first time on july 1, and setting alarming records with new cases over the past weeks. Dr. Anthony fauci recently warned that u. S. Cases could double to 100,000 per day if current outbreaks are not contained, putting the entire country at risk. As infections threaten to spiral out of control, President Trump has downplayed the impact of covid19, calling 99 of cases totally harmless, even as more than 130,000 americans have died, and many more have become seriously ill. Just this week, he falsely claimed the u. S. Coronavirus deat
Watch live coverage at 5 p. M. Eastern on cspan, online at cspan. Org, or listen live with the free cspan radio app. Illinois governor jb pritzker mississippi, joined a Public Health and Emergency Management officials from texas and alabama for hearing on the federal response to the coronavirus. Heres a portion of that hearing. The committee on Homeland Security will come to order. The committee is meeting today to receive testimony on examining the National Response to the coronavirus pandemic. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare the committee. Today, the committee is meeting to examine our National Response to the worsening coronavirus pandemic. This hearing comes at a critical moment. The number of u. S. Coronavirus cases are surging, topping 50,000 per day for the first time on july 1, and setting alarming records with new cases over the past weeks. Dr. Anthony fauci recently warned that u. S. Cases could double to 100,000 per day if current outbreaks are not cont
6 comes at a critical moment. The number of coronavirus cases are surging topping 50,000 per day for the first time july 1 and setting alarming records for new cases over the past week. Dr. Anthony fauci recently warned that u. S. Cases could double to 100,000 per day if current outbreaks in the south and west are not contained, putting the entire country at risk. As the infections spiral out of control President Trump has tried to downplay the impact of covid19, calling 99 of cases totally harmless even as more than 130,000 americans have died and many more have become seriously ill. Claimed the u. S. S death rate is the lowest in the world. When in fact, it is among the highest. Unfortunately, the president s this week he claimed its the lowest death rate in the world but its really the highest. The response has been an abject failure by any reasonable measure and he ignored early intelligence on the virus and continues to disregard the opinions of doctors and scientists including th
Dobbs and his team. And all that has gone into mississippi being one of the states that is testing at a higher rate than virtually any other state. That has not received significant federal help. When you look at the hot spots in new york and new jersey and even to our neighbor to the west, louisiana, city of new orleans, the federal government put significant resources in there to help them testing. Understandably so. Whereas they had a significant peak that went up very, very quickly, mississippi appears to have at least for now slowed the spread of the virus and we are becoming more and more confident each day that for where we are currently plateaued that we will not be putting the kind of risk on our Health Care System as was the case in those hot spot areas. We are also seeing now that some of those hot spots are spreading out a bit. When you look at the boston metropolitan area, the detroit metropolitan area, and to a certain extent the chicago metropolitan area as well. Those a