Washington today, we are holding this hearing virtually in compliance with the regulations for Remote Committee proceedings pursuant to House Resolution 965. Remote hearings certainly are not the same as sitting together in our Committee Room and you should know. The new authority has allowed us to continue to do our work a behalf of the American People, while keeping our staff, families and broader communities this is the First Official Virtual Committee hearing in the United States house of representatives. As we begin this historic proceeding, i want to underscore that i plan to continue this committees long tradition of collegia collegiality and substantive debate even as we conduct our business from afar. I will continue to work with Ranking Member and his staff to make sure that all Ranking Members are respected in the knew virtual format. Before we turn to todays important topic, i want to remind members of a few procedures to help us all navigate this new platform. First, consi
From Social Security. Nothing else stayed put. Their mortgage payments, their rent, their food, their cost of living all increased, but for them they were stuck. These are the people that have worked all of their lives. I think we have a moral obligation to do so. Id love to hear from our witnesses what they think about that. Nd start with dr. Vindini. It dr. Candy . Dr. Candy i completely agree. I think specifically we talked earlier about many people who people of color in particular, who are in Nursing Homes and black and latino people there in Nursing Homes in which they are. Larger part of the population Nursing Homes are hit harder. Not only are they not receiving the Economic Resource that is they can to maintain their livelihood, they are also facing this epidemic. They are also harming as a result of covid19. For many of these people its a perfect storm. At least they can be economically during this crisis and i think we should be focused on elderly people in so many different
The president goes jet skiing. And why the new normal for lebanon is not good news for businesses already struggling to survive. And top level sport returns to north america for the 1st time in nearly 2 months and ultimate fighting championship event took place and a battle for your reader in Jacksonville Florida. Now fighting is intensifying between libyas warring sides after forces loyal to world Khalifa Haftar attacked the capitals are in a functioning airport libyas u. N. Recognized government launched a counter offensive to saturdays attack damaged planes and set fuel tanks that lice have to us forces also struck nearby residential areas killing at least 4 civilians the tripoli government says more than a dozen have died just in the last 2 days while our correspondent. Joins us now live from tripoli what were now seeing this promised retaliation from the government whats the strategy here. Well the governments strategy is to reach the have to the forces locations from which the ro
U. K. s new state of alert slogan head of a national address. On the coronavirus responds. And failed to Maximum Capacity in mexico overwhelmed by the so deaths. And top level sport returns to north america for the 1st time in nearly 2 months and ultimate fighting championship event took place in. Jacksonville florida. He says attacks on libya is only functioning airport as well as Diplomatic Missions amount to war crimes man is warning it will take action against forces loyal to walt holy fuck off if they continue to argue supports libyas un recognized government in tripoli which has launched a cunt. Offensive following saturdays attack planes were damaged and fuel tanks set alight after us forces also struck nearby residential areas killing at least 4 civilians the tripoli government says more than a dozen people have been killed over the last 2 days. The war heads joining us live from tripoli who lets just talk about this government counteroffensive 1st of all what is the government
In my Life Experience of every other country has shown its the only way to defeat the coronavirus the most vicious threat this country has faced in my lifetime and though the death toll has been tragic and the suffering in metz and though we grieve for all those we have lost it is a fact that by adopting those measures we prevented this country from being engulfed by what could have been a catastrophe in which the reasonable worst Case Scenario was half a 1000000 fatalities. And its thanks to your effort and sacrifice in stopping the spread of this disease that the death rate is coming down and hospital admissions are coming down and thanks to you we protected our n. H. S. And saved many thousands of lives and so i know you know that it would be madness not to throw away that achievement by allowing a 2nd spike we must stay alert we must continue to control the virus and save lives and we must also recognize that this campaign against the virus has come that colossal cost to our way of