Accompanying regulations, members are required to leave the camera on the entire time they are in an official proceeding. Even if a step away from the camera. While roll call is unnecessary to establish a quorum and official proceedings conducted remotely, whenever there is an official proceeding with remote participation, the clerk will call the roll to make clear who is present at the start of the preceding. At this time i ask the clerk to call the roll. [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] chairwoman, this concludes the roll call. Thank you very much. Pursuant to Committee Role 7c, Opening Statements are limited to the chair and the Ranking Member. This allows us to hear from our witnesses sooner and provides all members with adequate time to ask questions. I recognize myself do for the purpose of making and opening statement. Today, as we know were examining how the covid19 pandemic is straining our Higher Education system and discussing what Cong
I dont think theres anything brazenly irresponsible about advocating for us having a deterrent to nuclear war. What the purpose of my remarks was, we need to make it clear to our adversaries, russia in particular, if we use Nuclear Weapon, he will pay an enormous price for it. I cant believe the gentle lady as opposed to that. The goal of all of this is to stop anybody from thinking they under any circumstances, to have a good outcome for them. My point on the deterrence is the russians will launch the low yield and if they dont have one they know we wont do anything because we wont want to be disproportional. It implies a low yield nuke. If this is launched. It will set off and instructive war. We want to discourage them from thinking about launching it. In that regard, nothing wrong with making it clear to our adversaries you launch Nuclear Weapon we will consider nuclear war. We have all the options on the table. I will point out as Mister Cooper pointed out we have a low yield Nucl