Pandemic, members of the House Appropriations subcommittee and on capitol hill to look at the virus. The hearing included testimony from former cdc director tom frieden and caitlin rivers from the Johns Hopkins center for Health Security. This is 2. 5 hours. The hearing will come to order. Welcome to thend labor, health, and Human Services and education appropriations subcommittee. Todays hearing is on the nations ongoing response to the coronavirus. On thether supplemental package, it has been bipartisan. Let me commend my colleagues on both sides of the aisle clouding my friend and Ranking Member. Before i begin, i want to extend a very warm welcome to our witnesses, dr. Tom frieden, president and ceo of resolve to save lives and former director of the centers for Disease Control and prevention, the cdc. From 2000 92016. Dr. Caitlin rivers, featured scholar at the Johns Hopkins center for Health Security and assistant professor in the department of Environmental Health and engineerin
Staff are onsite today at peramis. With the additional staff theyve received, they are reporting that they are adequately staffed. Additionally, in conversation with the leads that are in association, they have identified a need for improved Infection Control training, improvements in the use of p. P. E. They are developing a communication plan for families that needed to be shored up. And they have noticed that the housekeeping products, they were running low on housekeeping products and they were not following specifically the c. D. C. Disinfection guidances. Additionally, they found, due to the high degree of dementia patients, that they had difficulty cohorting dementia patients that need to be in isolation. That is an issue, a problem, that we have heard from many of our dementia facilities. So theyre working on innovative ways to encourage patients that need to be in isolation to stay behind closed doors. The total census of all of the homes, the veterans homes today, is 741. 183
[inaudible conversations] good morning this hearing will come to order. Its the day to do the environment subcommittee with fiscal year 2021 budget request for the Environmental Protection agency. And acting chief Financial Officer welcome to both of you. The president s request 2021 to 66 billion to the epa and 27 percent cut hello fy 2020. This seeks to undo all the progress we were able to achieve in a broad bipartisan basis fy 2024 example to request to eliminate 30 mine Million Dollars of new funding we provided to the epa and requests with Clean Energy Funding grants by 47 percent and 9 milliondollar cuts fy 2020 also 870 million from the 3 billion we invested to rebuild our crumbling Water Infrastructure. I held a listening section in st. Paul they would lose 56 percent of federal funding and approximately 75 percent of the cats were to go through the minnesota pollution control that air pollution monitoring for the communities back home and clean water action said it would be a
Also to those that are joining us this morning the director of the Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Human Development and the subcommittee on health and education services. Doctor fauci director of National Institute of allergy and Infectious Diseases. And then the director of the National Cancer institute and director of the National Institute on drug abuse. Again, welcome to all of you leader hoyer asked me this morning you have the nih coming he said can you get all the Institute Directors and he said he will this is one of the most remarkable hearings that we have and we thank you for the great work that we loan that you do and saving lives the people of the great country. Let me touch on the matter of the coronavirus i just want to say i thank you to the director and all the institute tends particular thank you to doctor fauci i want to say Public Health experts deserve our praise for what is the excellent work that you are doing and clearly a matter of National Importance an
[inaudible conversations] good morning. Today is the day we will examine the president s fiscal year for the epa joining with morning is administrator wheeler and acting chief Financial Officer. Welcome to both of you. Fiscal year 2021 the president s 66 billion to the epa but this request the presidency of what you were able to achieve on the fy 2020. And then to eliminate the new funding we provided to address pfas and the Clean Energy Funding grants c by 47 percent at 409 million fy 2020 also has money from the 3 billion we invested with our nations crumbling Water Infrastructure. Recently held a listening session and they would lose and what at what happened of these cuts were to go through the pollution control also proposed cuts to the clean water grant act air pollution and monitoring to have our communities back home included it would be an absolute catastrophe for clean water. And i directly heard about concerns with the budget with the pfas pollution it could be truly devasta