Witnesses and audience members. Thank you everyone for joining with us today as we all bear up under covid19 and address technologically to coming together. We will begin with Opening Statements by myself and the Ranking Member. Follow the by testimony from our witnesses and the opportunity for each member to ask questions. We will dispense of our practice of observing givens rule and instead go to go in order of seniority for questions. Alternating between minority and majority. Members will be responsible for muting and unmuting themselves throughout the proceedings. I thank you all for your patience as we navigate this new technology in order to continue serving our country in this great time of need. With that, i would like to again welcome everybody to the ways and means social subcommittee virtual hearing on the impact of covid19 on Social Security and its beneficiaries. Again, let me add my thanks to the member and of course our witnesses who have joined us today at the ways an
The republican senate. We are living through one of the greatest failures of president ial leadership in our countries history. Did you hear that donald trump . You have created one of the greatest failures of president ial leadership. We are going to this last portion of the conversation because the senate is about to gamble back in after their weekly caucus meetings. Senators continue work on the 2021 Defense Authorization bill with votes scheduled later this afternoon for five Senate Coverage on cspan2 a senator madam president. The presiding officer the senator from wyoming. Mr. Enzi madam president , i rise today to discuss our federal finances and the need to address our unsustainable fiscal debt and deficit. The federal budget has already been on an unsustainable path before covid19 reached our shores and before the pandemic and our governments response to it, which has accelerated what i believed is a coming day of reckoning. I recognize the unprecedented crisis presented by th
To afford Monthly Payments could be forced to either come up with all of their past due rent immediately or face eviction. A bill now in the state assembly would keep that moratorium in place and offer Property Owners a pass on orchids six to 12 months. The supporters say having renters homeless or doubling up with the family and in a crowded house would help the virus spread more quickly exacerbating the problem. We brought you a conference about looming evictions on cbsn the area, keep up to date 24 7 by streaming on our website and other platforms. California has more than 5700 you coronavirus cases and 32 new deaths. A test positivity percentage of 7 . All the numbers are very high, the positivity is going down. The california leads the nation with the most cases. Indoor operations at several as this is her shutting down. One gym is getting creative. Reporter were here at a testing site, some folks have been waiting in line since well before sunrise, today the county is telling pri
Restrictions and stay at home orders but air travel has been steadily climbing over the last month and a half despite searches in cases of the virus in fact here in the United States over the 4th of july weekend more than 2 and a half 1000000 people travel by air but heres that issue according to figures provided by the Transportation Security Administration more than 1000 t. S. A. Employees have tested positive for covert 19 this accounts for roughly 2 percent of the t. S. A. Workforce now the agency says most of them are security workers who work in screen to screen passengers at airports across the country Heidrick Thomas the president of the union that represents these officers said of the situation right now were bringing people back to work and the social distance is not in total effect employees are still complaining theres too many of them in one area meanwhile the u. S. Hit a nother record for daily new cases with more than 60000 cases reported thursday and. With all this in m
Is it hyphenated . Just the last time. Thank you. President sanchez can you pronounce your first name. I dont want to mess it up. Katia. Okay, thank you, welcome. Youre going to have a report in a minute or so. Welcome, everybody, to our meeting. I really am happy to be here with everybody. Its good to see so many people out there. We have hundreds of folks. Its going to grow probably. In these times of pandemic, i think its important, we would agree, to offer compassion, kindness and a gentle spirit as we all move through this ordeal together. That were all in it together and we obviously must Work Together to make this during these times. I count on that. Again, welcome, thank you for being here. Section b is opening items. We need approval of the Board Meeting. And two is superintendents report, dr. Matthews. Superintendent matthews good afternoon, everyone. Im glad to see so many you out there and welcome to our new Student Board members. Excited youre on board. So my report for th