Republicans need strong federal leadership to combat this deadly threat. Help to get the protective equipment and supplies they need to protect their frontline medical workers and essential employees. Thertunately, administration is leaving it up to the states, forcing them to compete against each other in order to purchase equipment and supplies from the private sector. This is leading to higher prices and greater shortages. We need the federal government to use the existing authorities to efficiently, effectively, and citiesly help states and that need them the most. This committee has heard from Bipartisan Health experts that cities and states need a comprehensive nationwide plan to safely reopen the economy, including detailed plans for tracing, andact containment. Have been forced to develop their own testing ineffective,cient, and inequitable patchwork that will only prolong and exacerbate the crisis. Local governments are facing financial crises. Expectt survey shows budget shor
On thursday, georgia governor, brian kemp, talked about efforts to be transparent with data about the coronavirus moving forward. Since the information we used to determine further statewide openings. This is an hour. Good afternoon, everyone. Let me just thank everybody for being with us today for our covid19 weekly briefing. Crowd you will hear from. Fema,thleen toomey, from from the National Guard, colonel l, the department of Public Safety, commissioner Mark Williams with the department of Natural Resources, and to wrap us up, the agriculture commissioner, gary black. For several months, our nation has been fighting an invisible enemy and uniting to ensure the health and wellbeing of all americans. The path has been long and difficult, and everybody has make has made sacrifices to keep one another out of harms way in communities all the United States. Medical providers, Public Health officials, frontline workers, first responders, Law Enforcement are all working very long hours and
Opportunity to testify. I want to provide an overview of the steps we have taken in colorado. We hope some of the successful practices will give an example for other states and nations. We set realistic goals. Freedom of movement throughout the United States, it would be impossible to eradicate the virus until there is a vaccine so on the Public Health side, our folks have been destabilized by protecting the most vulnerable, supporting Health Care Providers, making sure people have access to all forms of health care and doing everything we can to acquire testing equipment and personal Protection Equipment and being as smart as we can with the use of limited resources. And making and making sure we meet the needs of every critical patient that comes to the door, covid or noncovid so as not to overwhelm the Health Care System. On the economic side, we take into a number of its ordinary measures to help workers make Strategic Decisions about reopening, really taken into account the econom
Capacity, reopening guidelines, and what the federal government can do to provide further assistance. Difficulties,al this is a portion of the subcommittee hearing. Thank you for the invitation to testify. Thank you, chairwoman. If done a tremendous job in this crisis and beyond. Thank you, Ranking Member guthrie. It is great to see you in this capacity. And rankinghairman member and members of the committee. I want to provide an overview of the steps we have taken in colorado with the hope that some of the successful practices weve implemented here can be an example for other states, the federal government, and other nations dealing with the coronavirus. We started with realistic goals. We knew it would be impossible to eradicate the virus in theredo or america until is a vaccine. Our focus from the start has limitingtabilize by the spread, protecting the most vulnerable, supporting our Health Care Providers, making people received on Covid Health Care and doing everything we can to p
To 330 million folks, by land size as the United States the Biggest Country by land. We are close. The few times i have been to china the people are wonderful very interesting, smart, hardworking. Very aspirational and a say this because when i talked today about china i hope you understand mr. President and my colleagues to s understand not talking about the people of china. They are good people. The Chinese Communist party, not so much. I really regret having to say this, i would not turn my back on the Chinese Communist party if it were todays dead. I dont want to have a cold war with china i would rather see us together for the common good of planet earth and we tried but it hasnt worked out very well. We admitted china to wto december 11, 2001 you china would not have been admitted without our support. So we agreed and then they started cheating december 12th is still have intellectual property, not just ours but everyone else in the world they steal the intellectual property they