Coronavirus pandemic and Environmental Impact on lowincome communities. Recognized mr. Ali, recognizer five minutes. Recognized for five minutes, sir. [inaudible] you might have to unmute. Can you hear me now . Weaken your you know. You have five minutes please. You missed the best part. Chairman tocco, Ranking Member shimkus and members of the committee on behalf of the National Wildlife federation are 52 state and territorial affiliates in more than six main members, and a thank for the honor of testifying before you today. I was thinking about this testimony, and i was raised and family about this and pentecostal ministers, and my grandmother came to my might and she stepped a favorite verse, and it said do you know what it want . I want justice, oceans of it. I want fairness, rivers of it. Thats what it i want. Thats all i want. My grandmother used to say when you know better, do better. Todays hearing comes at a critical moment in the history of our country. Outline communities ar
Chief of staff. Now, live coverage of the u. S. Senate. Vice president under the previous order, the senate will consider the following nomination. The clerk nomination, general charles q. Brown, jr. , to be chief of staff and general of the United States air force. The Vice President under the previous order, the question occurs on the nomination. Is there a sufficient second . It appears there is a sufficient second. The clerk will call the roll. Vote vote vote the Vice President are there any senators wishing to vote or to change their vote . If not, on this vote, the yeas are 98, the nays are zero. And the historic nomination of general charles q. Brown, jr. As the United States air force chief of staff is confirmed. Under the previous order, the motion to reconsider is considered made and laid upon the table and the president will be immediately notified of the senates action. Mr. Alexander madam president . The presiding officer the senator from tennessee. Mr. Alexander thank you
Heard officials of both administrations for two decades talk about agreements that are eventually going to happen, and they almost never do. Ambassador lighthizer has been a bit of a pit bull on this piece of it, but discussing it in the interagency process isnt really the same as pushing to help statebased backers understand that this has real consequences. I am glad it is a topic for discussion, but i would just say ,n the Intelligence Community oversight in the legislature, this is an increasingly bipartisan issue that republicans and democrats believe it is important to be holding these faux private Sector Companies in china to account, and show that we mean it, not just to say eventually somebody is going to come up the stairs if you keep stealing ip, and they continue to do it. For what it is worth, i think of one perspective on an increasingly bipartisan basis is serious. Sen. Crapo thank you. Thank you, mr. Chairman. My question is quite simple. Can i get both of your commitmen
Massive local tax increases. Anyone of those alone threatens to make this economic crisis even worse and the combination of all three is almost unthinkable. The bureau of labor statistics just reported that state and local governments laid off nearly one million workers in april. That is almost one million firefighters, police officers, teachers, Emergency Personnel that should be on the front lines of the Public Health crisis but are sidelined instead. Chairman powell, let me start by asking, do you agree that our economy will get worse if state and local governments are forced to lay off even more firefighters, teachers, any and Emergency Personnel . Let me say what we are doing. We have a liquidity facility that is there to address the shortterm liquidity needs that these entities have because of their loss of revenue due to the effects of the pandemic. That is really the tool that we have. I appreciate that. That is not my question. States,ion is if counties, and municipalities con
Other universities we have been following. Amy hollyfield live at uc berkeley this morning. Good morning, amy. Good morning. The words are will be open and offering instruction and janet napalatano did leave online instruction and she is envisioning a mix. The question will be how much will be in person versus how much will be done remotely. According to the mercury news, uc system has lost 1. 2 billion because of this pandemic. A lot of money and you can see thats why they are looking to fall in their plans. The California State University system already announced all classes will be remote. This is a big departure from what that system is planning. It soundslike not only uc system but across the country are considering a mix at this point. Now, ucs president janet napatano says they will have to meet standards to help prevent the spread of coronavirus and they will have to get in place and get approved before they are allowed to reopen and she is saying that those decisions would be