Capacity, reopening guidelines, and what the federal government can do to provide further assistance. Difficulties,al this is a portion of the subcommittee hearing. Thank you for the invitation to testify. Thank you, chairwoman. If done a tremendous job in this crisis and beyond. Thank you, Ranking Member guthrie. It is great to see you in this capacity. And rankinghairman member and members of the committee. I want to provide an overview of the steps we have taken in colorado with the hope that some of the successful practices weve implemented here can be an example for other states, the federal government, and other nations dealing with the coronavirus. We started with realistic goals. We knew it would be impossible to eradicate the virus in theredo or america until is a vaccine. Our focus from the start has limitingtabilize by the spread, protecting the most vulnerable, supporting our Health Care Providers, making people received on Covid Health Care and doing everything we can to p
Spend the last half hour talking about the future of the Restaurant Industry. Good morning. Guest good morning to you. Host what has been the overall impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the Restaurant Industry . Guest it has been devastating. Right after the cruise lines and airline business, restaurants and bars have been hurt the most. And it is a very different kind of business from the two i mentioned, the cruise ships and airlines, which are very concentrated. With restaurants, i mean, you have millions of restaurants ou t there. Of sales forion these companies. Familyownedre with less than 50 employees. And the great majority of them have been closed down. Million people who work in restaurants, up to 15 million have been collecting Unemployment Insurance already. Thehat is a good chunk of nearly 40 Million People who have applied for Unemployment Insurance. So the business has been devastated. Of that 900 billion, the businesses estimate they will lose about 300 billion this y
Are profiteering on the back of migrants. Can you talk about that is one of the opening points in your book . The work you are doing is so important to in my in the American Public about the vice grip the cartels have at the border. So one of the things that is really important to eliminate in chapter one is the Caravan Cartel that they could not do it alone not just to have explicit conspiratorial is out there to make billions of dollars of profit to endanger lives and wreaking violence and havoc but the fact that benevolent charities and religious organizations that may think they are doing good deeds and of course we know about the kinds of roads that good intentions pay but those religious organizations on both sides of the border are enabling the drug cartels to make as much cash as they do. We have seen the ill legal alien caravans come into your state and beyond. And the support money that subsidize the shelter networ network, especially churchgoers is from their own pockets and
His writing career and books on indepth. Watch booktv this memorial day weekend on cspan2. Journal continues. Host once again, we are going to open up our phone lines to you with the question, will you attend church in person once they are reopened . On friday,because President Donald Trump announced that his administration is moving toward deeming places of worship essential, which means he wants governors to start reopening religious institutions for services immediately. In fact, here is President Trump and what he said. [video clip] President Trump some governors have deemed Liquor Stores essential, but have left out churches and other houses of worship. It is not right. I am correcting this injustice and calling houses of worship essential. I call upon governors to allow our churches and places of worship to open right now. If there is any questions, they are going to have to call me, but they will not be successful in that call. These are places that hold our society together and
Today address as number of important issues related to ovid19 testing. One issue we examined in this work, i hope we talk about today, is how we can make sure that we are best prepared for potential overlap of covid19 and influenza cases in the fall. Im looking forward to the conversation we are going to have today. I greatly appreciate all three of our witnesses and governors for taking time from their extremely busy schedules to be here. Made a lot of improvement over the last few months, our work is not done and as we continue to work on drafting more legislation responding to covid19 pandemic, it is especially important to hear state perspectives. I thank you. Yield back. Ms. Degette i thank the gentleman for yielding back. I would advise members in case you are unaware of this, there is a window on your screen that says one, two, three clock. This will count down from five minutes for each other statements or questioning. And then it will start going over. If thats not working for