Subcommittee will reconvene. Hearingthe most clunky ive ever participated in, let alone chaired and that is saying a lot for the United States senate, so i apologize for our way to our witnesses, but to all who are paying attention, how challenging it has been with the series of votes. Senator cantwell is next to question. Cantwell thank you for inviting a witness that is both in kansas ander a Washington State residents to boot. I do want to work with you on the manufacturing workforce workforce issue that you and senator warner introduced keeping the supply chain and aviation manufacturing. I appreciate this hearing and i know we are dealing with an increase in the number of cases and challenges we face. Im very proud our state has kept our rates of infections and hospitalizations down, and appreciate the ongoing efforts but im also impressed by the manufacturing efforts in our state. Everybody working together. Outdoor research converted one of its seattle facilities into making sur
Runs just under two hours. Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for being with us, or being near us, at least in the technology since. I welcome all of you to todays hearing that weve entitled, examining the response to the covid19 pandemic. The subcommittee at the sound of the gavel will come to order. As the nation continues to fight the unprecedented Public Health crisis, americans worked to protect against further spread of the virus while trying to maintain a certain degree of normalcy, including maintaining a job and earning a paycheck. There is not a corner of the u. S. Economy that has not felt the impact of the pandemic todays discussion will talk about the harmful effects on the Manufacturing Sector. During this pandemic, many in the Manufacturing Community have adapted their operations to help provide products needed to prevent the spread of the virus. Distributionlesale company that pivoted to manufacturing face masks in response to a dire National Supply shortage, or a cart
Message away from what joe biden had to say. And the politicize ation of basic Health Measures with. The most impassioned that weve heard joe biden on that particular issue saying that by wearing a mask you could save the life of somebody packing shelves in a supermarket you could save the lives of one of your childrens teachers you could save your own life this was the absolute thrust of what hes saying and that takes particular residence at the moment given the news of a potential vaccine that weve heard in the course of the day joe bidens response to that welcoming congratulating the team who working on the development of this particular vaccine all of this of course while donald trump still refuses to concede defeat his team is preparing legal challenges to some of the counts going on in battleground states that favor joe biden. Other world news a new round of talks on libya is underway in tunisia as capital 75. 00 libyan representatives from various groups have been invited by the
David hawkings is the editor in chief. There are leadership elections. Explain how they go about the two parties electing their leaders and can we see any changes . We will see some so, they meet in caucuses, different causes. No surprise here. The things are happening a little bit differently this year because of the pandemic. The Democratic Caucus which is happening the first of the meetings is happening today. There is a virtual opportunity for members to stay home, stay in their districts and cast the votes in the upcoming leadership elections using a secure app that the democrats have come up with. We wont see any changes at the top. The republican leadership, kevin mccarthy, steve scalise, maybe, maybe not liz cheney, thats staying the same. Were not seeing any changes at the top there either. Remarkably long run of nancy pelosi as the leader and jim clyburn of South Carolina as number three, thats all continuing. Thats continuing for a into a 16th year. Its a remarkably long run
Diversity in government and Foreign Policy. Welcome to our new shavers road ahead series leading to the of ever election. I am coming to from my home in washington, d. C. I am our politics editor. Thanks to bank of america making these conversations possible and welcome to audiences on facebook, youtube, twitter, linked in and axios. Com. We hope you will follow along using the axios events and at axios on twitter. Over the next 30 minutes i will be joined by steph kyte and mike allen to unpack that news of the date, but her turnout and how National Security will play a key role in the member election. Now i would like to welcome our first guest, the ceo and president of photo op latino, Maria Teresa Kumar joins us from newark new jersey. Hello. Thank you for having me. How are you . I am tired. They election is a week away. We are not on the road. Are not on the road and i do not know about you but i could i get energy being on the road and there is an end to the day. There is no end