Recognized by the chair. Members are also reminded that they are responsible for muting and on muting themselves and to commute to themselves after they finished speaking. Consistent with the regulations accompanying House Resolution 965 will only mute members and witnesses as appropriate. When not recognized for inadvertent background noise. Members are reminded that our house rules relating to the order and the decorum of the hearing. This hearing is entitled insuring against a pandemic challenges and solutions for policies and i now recognize myself for three minutes to begin with an opening statement. According to the Congressional Research service, 110 Million People could enter a state of extreme poverty do that to the Global Economic contraction and here in the united states, 67 Million People filed for Unemployment Insurance since march of this year. The harmful effects of this pandemic are the stability of Small Businesses like restaurants cannot be overstated. Thereve been li
Their video functions on at all times even when they are not recognized by e chair. Members are also reminded tha they are responsible for muting and on muting themselves and to commute to themselves after ty finishedpeaking. Constent with the regulations accompanying House Resolution 965 will only mute members and witnesses as appropriate. When not recognized for inadvertent background noise. Members are rinded that our house rules relatin to the order andhe decorum of the hearing. This hearing is entitled insuringgainst a pandemic challenges and solutions for policiesnd i now recognize myself for three minutes to begin with an opening statement. According to the Congressional Research service, 110 million ople could enter a state of extreme poverty do that tohe global econoc contraction and here in the United States, 67 Million People filed for Unemployment Insurance since march of this year. The harmfu effects of this pandemic are the stability of small bunesses like restaurants can
Then with that, again, i thank the chairman and i now welcome our panel of witnesses. First, i would again like to welcome senator angus king, the former governor of maine, who served as cochair of this commission. Senator king currently sits on the Senate Armed Services committee and the committee on intelligence among others and has been a vocal leader on cybersecurity throughout his tenure. I welcome the senator here. Next, representative Mike Gallagher, cochair of the cyber Space Commission and current member of the house of representatives for the 8th district of wisconsin. Mr. Gallagher is a member of the house Armed Services committee and a former member of this committee. I also would like to welcome mr. Gallagher back to the committee again, back to congress after his paternity leave. I thank him for interrupting his paternity leave being with us. Again, congratulations on your daughter grace. In addition to being a huge packers fan, i know youre very proud as a father and for
Outbreak. After that Prime Ministers questions. And then a roundtable discussion President Trump posted in las vegas with latino supporters. Susan richard horton, editor of the medical journal the lancet, you published a book, and you wrote the virus that caused covid19 is not going away. It will be with us for a long time to come. The best we can hope for is peaceful coexistence. What does that look like . Means negotiating a relationship with the virus, if i can put it like that. When covid19 hit, countries locked down. Virally way to cut transmission was to stay at home , stop social mixing, implement physical distancing and so on. That is fine in the short term. It can extinguish the outbreak, but it is not a longterm solution. It is not possible to live life like that. Coexistence, i mean we have to renegotiate our relationship with the virus, which means we need to leave our homes, go to work, send children to school. We have to do it in a way that minimizes the risks to those wh
Host that does it for todays washington journal. The American Enterprise institute is hosting epa administrator andrew weaver. That conversation is beginning now. Administrator we were, he will have some opening remarks and then i will have questions. You can ask questions to pitch as you can see on our event page and or youtube page, and questions on twitter at hashtags airandwater. First, his opening remarks. Admin. Wheeler i want to thank aei for inviting me to be here today. Month, i provided reflections on the past 50 years of the amber mental Protection Agency and laid out a plan for its future at the nixon library. Today i would like to explain based on what we have accomplished over the past 40 years, how we are going to get to this future. It is incontrovertible that today, the environment is in better shape under President Trump than we found it. Air pollution in this country has fallen 7 . Manyyear, the apa delisted superfund sites. And we will ddelist another 27 this year.