Covid19 is not the first pandemic we will ever deal with and certainly will not be the last one, but it is incredibly important that we come together as a nation and as a planet to get ahead of this, address it, ad, you know, come up with remedy for it. If we think about the basis of Global Health security, it is a threepronged approach containment, mitigation, and then treatment. This is the third hearing that i am chairing on this subject. The first focused on the containment strategy. That was the first hearing that congress held. The conclusion of that was the initial strategy of trying to contain this disease with travel bands, etc. , was likely not going to be successful. Very difficult, and i think what china did was ambitious. About us some time that most of us in the Public Health world recognize that we would likely see in community cases, it would be difficult to stop the spread of this disease. The second hearing we had was on mitigation, largely looking at testing, this wa
This hearing will come to order. Without objection the chair is authorized to declare recess at any time. Good morning and welcome to the hearing on coronavirus, understanding the spread of the Infectious Disease and mobilizing Innovative Solutions. I will recognize myself for an Opening Statement and then i will recognize the Ranking Member for his Opening Statement and i will introduce the witnesses. Again, thank you for being here. Obviously this is an incredibly timely process. Covid19 is not the first pandemic we are ever going to deal with and certainly not the last one but it is incredibly important that we come together as a nation and as a planet and get ahead of this and address it and come up with treatment for it. If we think about Global Health security to threepronged approach. Containment, mitigation, and treatment. This is the third hearing that im chairing on the subject and the hearing is focused on the containment. It was the first hearing the congress held. The conc
The senate live here on cspan2. Next, a look at the challenges of caring for Senior Citizens with caregivers testifying on the lack of affordable longterm care for the elderly. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] would members and their guests please take their seats . Ways and Means Committee will come to order. Good morning and welcome. We are here to discuss a difficult issue that confronts nearly every family in our nation, and that is how to care for our loved ones as they age. It is certainly appropriate that we work to address this matter or in november, which is alzheimers Awareness Month and u. S. National Family Caregivers month. It is a deeply personal issue for many of us in the room, and for those who havent personally struggled to insure an older relative receives the care they need, you most certainly know someone in your life who has. Navigating a fragmented and insufficient longterm care system can be not only confusing and emotionally taxing, but also
Backed forces target the taliban. World leaders prepared to address the our new Un General Assembly will be live from new york. But 1st the british Prime Minister Boris Johnson says he disagrees with the ruling by the Supreme Court thats the countrys highest court that his decision to suspend parliament was unlawful bought he says that hes promising to respect that verdict as british politicians go back to westminster with the 31st deadline looming there are growing demands for the Prime Minister to resign he says hell fight on. Obviously this is a verdict that we will respect and respect the judicial process i have to say i strongly disagree with what the justices have done and i dont think that. Its right that we will go ahead and course upon the come back i do think theres a good case for getting on with the queens speech anyway move do that by the way support things we get on and librax it on october 31st and this clearly a the claimants in this case are determined to try to frustr
This is two hours and ten minutes. Thank you for coming. My name is seth jones, the harold brown chair and director of trance National Threats project for the center of international studies. We have a fantastic two sets of panels on what is an important subject and i think increasingly important subject and part of the motivation i think from Suzanne Spaulding and i in looking at this and i have to give you u credit, suzanne, for being the brain child behind this, was to look at some of the recent attacks including el paso and the synagogue attacks and note that there has been a dialogue debate within the u. S. About how to respond to it. The degree of threat and how serious it is then how to respond to it. So what we like to do is move in the following sense. Were going to begin with a discussion about the evolution of the threat. And how domestic terrorism, i know some of the terminology for these groups is the racially motivated violent groups. I cannot promise the panelists are go