Good afternoon everyone. Here we are. When we invited you to this meeting, we were going to be talking about three things. Testing, testing, testing. Testing to open up our economy, testing to send our kids back to school. And testing, the coronavirus. What little did we know that we would be coming here almost at the exact time when her country would be registering 100,000 people dying from the coronavirus. 100,000 people. In about a hundred days. Think back 100 days. Think back to president s weekend. Would you have ever thought that we would be observing 100,000 people. So im honored to be here. A distinguished chair, energy and commerce committee. He is about saving lives prayed and testing, they have seen outstanding horses in the congress on the subject. Were also going to be joined by a man of illinois who is the chair of the Congressional Health franchise. And grace in new york and the leader of house of representatives. Another member of the appropriations committee. And deb h
Member, John Sarbanes, as well as delegates. This is an hour. Speaker pelosi good morning, everyone. That poster of the women members of congress. Thank you for being with us today. It is a very special day in the history of our country. 101 years ago today, the house of representatives voted to pass the 19th amendment. As you know, that is the amendment that gives women the right to vote. Not that they werent given, because they fought very hard for it, but that success was achieved. It took another year to pass the rest of the process, the ratification. In august, we will observe the 100th anniversary of women having the right to vote, but today, we are honoring what happened in the house of representatives on this very day. And we are very proud of the fact that we have over 100 women in congress now, over 90 women on the democratic side. We made a decision about that a long time ago. Among them are carolyn maloney, who could not be with us, but she has been a champion on all of the
Zoom and skype meetings going with your constituents . Guest they are going well. It has been interesting for me. I think of myself as somewhat tech savvy. We have been using social media haveome time, but i broadened that vocabulary. A lot of the platforms we have used over the last couple weeks, skype, zoom, facebook live, facetime, even when i did with a senator from north dakota, we did an event on shindig. T has been very interesting the ability to stay connected is very important when you are in public life. Since we cannot do that person to person, we are trying to do that through technology. Thank god we have the connectivity that can make that happen. Host what is shindig . Guest its another one of those platforms that is able to throw a bunch of people up on the screen and handoff from one person to another when they ask questions. We had several hundred people on that particular event. Host do you think this is going to change the country . Has it . Guest i do not think ther
Each individual case is so heartbreaking. Yesterday on the floor we heard about a 5yearold girl whose mother a police officer, her father, a firpte. 5 years old, died of the coronavirus and then we heard max zones sister is dying. Senator warrens brother is dying. Thats people we know but people we dont know, theyre having the same kind of terrible grief in their family. Our prayers and thoughts are with those who have lost their loved one. Our prayers and thoughts are with those who have been diagnosed. Approaching 900,000 diagnosed and also, what 26 million having lost their jocks. Staggering numbers. Lots of personal and family grief. The conversation thats going on now is if we are to open government how and when. As i had said, it should be sciencebased. Science based. Testing, testing, testing holds the key to opening the door to taking it from home into the economy. Had testing everyone agrees, testing well, not everyone. Scientists agree that testing, Contact Tracing and isolat
Speaker pelosi thank you for being here. A sad day. I know that many people are quite shaken by the fact that we have passed the 50,000 number of people who have died. Over 50,000. The numbers are staggering. Each individual case is so heartbreaking. Yesterday on the floor we heard about a fiveyearold girl whose mother was a Police Officer and father a fire fighter and she died. Then we heard maxines sister is dying. Senator warrens brother died. That is people we know, but people we dont know are having same terrible grief in their families. Our prayers and thoughts are with those who lost their loved ones. Our prayers are with those who are diagnosed, over 900,000 people, approaching 900,000 people diagnosed. And also 26 million having lost their jobs. Staggering numbers. Staggering numbers. Lots of snow and family grief. The conversation going on now is if we were to open government, how and when . It should be signs based sciencebased, testing holds the key to opening the door to t