Want to extend our condolences to families who lost their lives to the storms. And like to offer our support to the impact of these storms and local environment agencies. I had meetings with the colleagues and others and in addition to my duties, i will have other meetings today. I would like to extend my thanks to the Prime Minister and those helping in the amp fterma of storm dennis. It brought record high water levels. Parts of my area have been flooded. And one just breached its banks. Will the Prime Minister use his influence in the budget and later this year in the comprehensive Spending Review for flood defenses for communities at risk as part of this is determination in this year of 26 to show Global Leadership taking action on Climate Change and adaptation and mitigation . Indeed i can. I thank my honorable friend saying we have been insuring the minister of Housing Needs and local government is able to extend where appropriate and i can tell my honorable friends of course we
Member for his longtime friend ship and partnership in this issue. Also want to thank the members of the cdc and Senior State Department officials for taking the time to come up here. Obviously, this is a very timely subject. This is our second hearing. A couple weeks ago we had the first hearing in congress on coronavirus, and this will be my second hearing. I think about this issue based on my background as a physician, but more importantly, as the former chief medical officer for Sacramento County who is in charge of the Public Health Delivery System there. And as a faculty member, my last Home Institution was the university of california davis, school of medicine. The reason why i give that background is last night it became personal for me because its hitting close to home. The first Novel Coronavirus case potentially person to person, nontransmission is in Sacramento County as we speak. That patient is housed at uc davis. I have been in communication with my former colleagues tha
Prevent that. So i think traveling still is a good idea, within the United States of america, and we do have a great country, but our Health Care System still has holes in it. Congressman shakowski, thank you for talking to our viewers this morning. Thank you. And live today, here on cspan 3, well be hearing about the u. S. Response to the coronavirus before a house subcommittee, with testimony from the director of the centers for Disease Control and prevention, and other officials. The hearing starting later than scheduled, should begin in about 40 minutes or so. That will put us at 2 45 p. M. Eastern time. While we wait, well take a look at more details on the coronavirus outbreak from todays washington journal. Welcome to the table, congressman Warren Davidson, a republican of ohio. A member of the Financial Services committee, also the freedom caucus, lets begin with the coronavirus, and then we will talk about fisa courts as well. The president has asked for 2. 5 billion. The demo
And i appreciate very much the time we spent together last week. And general stephen lyons, so i appreciate you two, the years of service that you have donated and given to your country. As stated many times before, the Armed Services committees top priority is to ensure the effective implementation of the National Defense strategy. We have that. Yeah. We have it pretty much surprised me, senator, how we have really stuck with the from the very beginning. With that from the very beginning. It means that we must ensure that in this era of great power and competition with russia and china, that our military services are resourcing commands to address the challenge of strategic competition. This is especially true of our two combatant commands that are here today, ucom is focused on deterring vladimir putin, who has repeatedly shown his willingness to use force to achieve his political objectives, and then there is transcom, focused on fullspectrum mobility operations. Both of which face
Political level, as a result of recent documents that were approved at the political level, we are seeing greater cohesion. For the first time in over six decades, we at nato approved the first nato military strategy. It is a document that is classified, nato secret, that codifies the threat and codifies the activity we need to embrace to more comprehensively defend all 29 nations agreeing to the nato military strategy. I think that is a reflection at the political level, the military level, of improving cohesion. We talked about the shipbuilding program, can you give us a quick summary of where we are at and where we have to go . Gen. Lyons yes, senator. On toow, we depend carry 90 of our Cargo Capacity in a wartime scenario. Our readiness of the fleet is below where we needed to be. It is rapidly reaching the end of useful life. We are working closely with the nato the navy. I anticipate we will purchase two in 2021 working closely with the navy. My view is we should have the first v