Payments were sentenced to dead people. Later members exchanged words of our green facemask during Committee Hearings. Good morning. Today our select committee the hybrid meeting. Some members will appear in person others may fear mostly rated via webex. Since the members are very in person, let me first remind everyone that pursuant to the latest guidance, from the house position, all individuals attending this another hearings in person should be wearing face masks. Now i did not make these rules. Thus the rules. And after this meeting, other authorities, will make a determination as to whether or not we recognize people in the hearings. He did not wear facemasks. Happen to be born and raised as of the 21st next month, 80 years in south carolina. So i know little bit about rules and i know a little bit about things. So im going to consult with them as of today i will share with the authorities. The experiences here today. So thats me also make a few reminders about hybrid hearings ri
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[indiscernible chatter] the subcommittee on health will now come to order. Good morning, colleagues. The chair now recognizes herself for five minutes for an Opening Statement. Madam chair, would you yield for a parliamentary inquiry as we start this hearing . I want to do my Opening Statement pardon me . I already recognize myself, but i will recognize you afterward. Id be holding, or that we would be holding a hearing under these circumstances. But i think it is a necessary one. Our country is in pain. Americans are afraid, you they they are sick, hungry, and jobless, and over 80,000 souls have been lost. The government that was supposed to protect them has failed. They haveheroes, and risen, extraordinary, ordinary americans showing courage, compassion, and a sense of selfsacrifice and duty beyond what could have or should have of them. Been asked regular americans have risen when their leaders have not. We are the greatest country on , and we have the most deathsnd the most from co
Risks, but we are ready to do the business our country demands. So theres a question that loom . Why isnt the senate focused on responding to the covid19 pandemic . There hasnt been a single vote here on the senate floor related to coronavirus, not even a nominee related to coronavirus. Rather than focusing on covid19 with laserlike intensity, the Senate Judiciary committee today will waste precious time on the nomination of leader mcconnells protege, justin walker, to serve on the d. C. Court of appeals, the second most powerful court in the country. Mr. Walker is a 37yearold Federalist Society disciple who has more experience as a cable news commentator than he does trying cases in court. Mr. Walkers qualifications pale in some pair son to those previous nominees to the d. C. Circuit, democrat and republican. Nominees by democratic president s and republican president s all were deeply steeped in the law, just about every one, and here we have this what leader mcconnell is doing to t