The subcommittee on Early Childhood elementary and secondary education will come to order. Welcome, everyone. I know that a quorum is present, and i note for the subcommittee ms. Mcbath of georgia, mr. Underwood of illinois, ms. Lee of nevada, ms. Trahan of massachusetts, mr. Walberg of michigan. Mr. Johnson of south dakota and up to murphy, North Carolina. The understanding the questions will come omafter all members of the Early Childhood, elementary and secondary education subcommittee on both sides of the aisle who are present have had an opportunity to question the witnesses. The committee is meeting today for a hearing to hear testimony on underfunded and unprepared examining how to overcome obstacles to safely reopen Public Schools. As this is a hybrid hearing with members participating both here in the hearing room and remotely i ask all microphones for participants remotely be kept muted to eliminate background noise. Members will be responsible for unmuting themselves when th
Washington journal continues. Ast our guest is representative our guest from new york, he is a member from the Small Business committee. We welcome you back to the shows, sir. Thank you so much. Thank you for having me once. Again on the Small Business front, what are the differences between the house and the senate in the next scolded relief package, especially comes to the business effort. I think certainly, we would like to see a bigger carved out for Community Banks and the Credit Unions i have a longstanding relationship with Small Businesses in main street. We want to see main street help. And the past we bailed out wall street, detroit, the airline industry. I think the main street deserves to get an injection in their economy. Their biggest employers and the country, and as such, i think that they are having a rough time reopening. We need to help them out, so when we carve out and fund a bigger percentage of the funding for these Community Based banks and Credit Unions, we are
However, we are experiencing a marked increase in Community Spread, based on the most recent community transmission. As stated previously, we are our mission extends beyond physical health. We are surveying the other arms of our mission, working to provide food adequacy, rental and mortgage assistance, as well as expanded Mental Health the endemic address of social aggravation that comes social isolation that has, as a result of this virus. We have honored to serve thousands of families through our Community Health organization, care connect. And while we honor our past and our community mission, we have developed Innovative Technology to help businesses reopen safely, and worked actively to support the wellbeing of our local employers and their workforce. The bedrock of a healthy eat Healthy Community requires a vibrant economy. As i close, i want to emphasize we are experiencing Community Spread here in st. Johns county. We encourage everyone to wear masks and practice social distanc
[crowd conversations] jim good morning. Good morning. Jim my name is jim. I am with the comcast corporation. We are pleased to be with you here today at Eastern High School. We have a wonderful guest speaker. Many times, leaders have a very uncommon vision and uncommon commitment to excellence, convictions. I think we will hear all of that this morning. We are in for a very special treat. This program, the students and leaders program, is a wonderful opportunity to bring leaders back to the classroom to show young people the values of public service, the importance of leadership, and to give people an opportunity to become more involved in government and more aware of the issues that face our society. Cspan, our partner at comcast, cspan is one of the very special ways we are able to do that every day. It gives our audiences on cable a chance to see their government firsthand, whether it is from the floor of the house of representatives, the senate, or special debates about public poli
We love you all over the state and just really appreciate your presence here today. Thank you so much. Dr. Biden thank you. Rep. Veasey absolutely. And congresswoman Eddie Bernice johnson. The congresswoman is one of our committee chairmen. Shes the chairperson of the science and Technology Committee and she represents the 30th Congressional District. I will be introducing her a little bit later, but i want to open up by saying over the past five months, the lives of working parents have really been turned upside down, especially our working moms. Daycares are closed, summer camps are closed, vacation bible schools arent open and mothers are out there multitasking. Theyre trying to do Conference Calls and zoom calls, just like we are today, and trying to take care of the kiddos. And we know that when school suddenly switched to distancelearning, that they had to drop everything that they were doing, including working, so they could help their kids on assignments. Look at our essential