Pandemic, members of the House Appropriations subcommittee and on capitol hill to look at the virus. The hearing included testimony from former cdc director tom frieden and caitlin rivers from the Johns Hopkins center for Health Security. This is 2. 5 hours. The hearing will come to order. Welcome to thend labor, health, and Human Services and education appropriations subcommittee. Todays hearing is on the nations ongoing response to the coronavirus. On thether supplemental package, it has been bipartisan. Let me commend my colleagues on both sides of the aisle clouding my friend and Ranking Member. Before i begin, i want to extend a very warm welcome to our witnesses, dr. Tom frieden, president and ceo of resolve to save lives and former director of the centers for Disease Control and prevention, the cdc. From 2000 92016. Dr. Caitlin rivers, featured scholar at the Johns Hopkins center for Health Security and assistant professor in the department of Environmental Health and engineerin
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With Speaker Nancy Pelosi and republican leader kevin mccarthy. We want to send a message that like many families, we have are differences but we also know what is important for us and americans families are important for us so we are so pleased today to be able to have passed on the floor, practically unanimously, this important bill cares. We want to demonstrate that we do care for the American People in every way. We are so honored to have the distinguished republican leader of the house with us today. I was honored to work with him in a very bipartisan way as this went along. Again, having her disagreements but also knowing our purpose. Hehat, i want to yield called you the majority leader and im calling you the democratic leader. [laughter] in any event, the distinct republican leader of the house, the office is right there and you see the sign. Kevin mccarthy from california. Thank you, madam speaker. A belated happy birthday to you. To the american public, we hear you and we are
Governor grisham we are working on a system that respects the instructions to stay at home. Its very clear about social distancing but we want to provide direct updates and today is an opportunity to do things a little bit differently. It will take a little longer. I really believe that the benefits of this kind of conversation with everyone in new mexico who has the opportunity to do now or later will be incredibly beneficial because in fact, we are all in this together. We will do a format that starts about where we are so you will get a case update from me. I want to talk about what we have done, kind of an accomplishment so you get a sense that things are happening all the time. And are still doing what to expect, what is the next several weeks or months and what to they look like and how do we know that . And then we are going to talk about any of the questions, we will have a dialogue and move got folks who provided questions in advance. I think there is an opportunity to ask que
Bostick. The to us about what drove numbers down again today . It seems they are waiting on a stimulus package from the senate. Romaine that is really where all eyes are right now. You saw the market rally in the premarket but all of those gains faded and we ended up down on the day because of the negotiations that have been going on in washington. We had a vote to advance that bill in the senate. That failed to get the 60 votes needed. You saw the market sort of sell off as a result. Mitch mcconnell said that it could be friday before this bill even makes it out of the senate. It still has to go to the house and to President Trumps desk. From there, you still have to get that cash to people. The more time it takes to get this out of congress, the more you will see these market gyrations. The market wants to know who will be helped and how much they will be helped by. Fory it was an awful Day Financial stocks. Romaine this is all about the concern that there is a credit crisis. We have