The committee will come to order. Without objection the chair is authorized to declare a recess at the committee at any time. I want to remind members of a few matters including some required by the regulations accompanying the House Resolution line 65 which established the frameworks were removed committee proceedings. I dont know if we have gone through this already but i would ask all members on the platform to keep themselves muted when they are not being recognized. This will minimize disturbances while members are asking questions of the witnesses. Members on the platform are responsible for muting and on muting themselves. The staff has been instructed not to mute members except where a member is being recognized and theres inadvertent background noise members on the platform are reminded that they may only attend one hearing at a time. If you are participating today, please remain with us during the hearing and members should try to avoid coming in and out of the meeting partic
[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] the cs authorized to declare a recess at the committee at any time. I want to remind members of a few matters including some required by the regulations accompanying the House Resolution line 65 which established the frameworks were removed committee proceedings. I dont know if we have gone through this already but i would ask all members on the platform to keep themselves muted when they are not being recognized. This will minimize disturbances while members are asking questions of the witnesses. Members on the platform are responsible for muting and on muting themselves. The staff has been instructed not to mute members except where a member is being recognized and theres inadvertent background noise members on the platform are reminded that they may only attend one hearing at a time. If you are participating today, please remain with us during the hearing and members should try to avoid coming in and out of the meeting particularly
Task more. This will all be pending a determination by the food and Drug Administration that will be taking place in mid december just to give you a sense of how this works. This very accelerated time line that weve seen for pfizer and madura is in part because of the request for a mercy authorization under the Public Health service act. And the reason that these Drug Companies are able to do this is because there was declared a Public Health emergency with regard to covert like teen back in january of 20 twentieths or earlier this year. So what does this mean . This means that there can be a rapid approval pending that determination of the Public Health hearings. Here is president elect, joe biden has nominated the former chair of the federal reserve, janet yellen, to be his treasury secretary, yellen will be the 1st woman to lead the Treasury Department if shes confirmed a Funeral Service for a top or a knee. And you could, a scientist, mohsen frustrated results has been held in the
Concede and what this means for trade deals with china as well. Don i read about the trade deal. It is on the back burner for americans because both candidates, both parties are reticent to sign those deals. We can touch on that, but front and center in the nation is the stepbystep, the back, tweet by tweet with the president , but er than that is the pandemic. It was the oddest of weekends. Francine it was a busy weekend, and here in the u. K. With news that Boris Johnson, who contracted the virus in march, even went to icu, now having to selfisolate after coming into contact with someone who tested positive. We will have plenty more on that , and the consequences for brexit. First lets get to bloomberg renews with ritika gupta. President elect joe bidens top coronavirus advisers say a National Lockdown is not on the agenda. One of them, the former surgeon general, who says the approach to fighting it is a dial that we turned up and down, depending on the severity. U. S. Case records
Hollywood Jewish Center for justice, the Holocaust Museum l. A. , the forward, and the pico union project. As it is thanksgiving eve, just a word on that topic. On october 3, 1863, at the height of a bloody war dividing our country, Abraham Lincoln issued a thanksgiving proclamation which officially established thanksgiving as a national holiday. He proclaimed that though the nation was at war with itself, there were still blessings for which both sides could experts gratitude. He also proclaimed despite the painful and divided times, all americans should be concerned about those suffering as a result of civil strife. He set for the last thursday of november as thanksgiving. He asked everyone to pray to heal the wounds of the nation, and restore it to the full enjoyment of peace, tranquility, and union. President elect biden spoke today to the American People, he similarly acknowledged the countrys deep divide, and he also urged unity. A statement that harkens back to lincolns thanksgi