Good afternoon. Vice president like biden and i met with democratic and republican governors. Talk about what we need to do to make free Testing Available to everyone, to make a free vaccine available for everyone and to get this pandemic under control. Governors are elected by their states to take action in moments of crisis. They are the ones who talk to the people who are the hardest hit and during this pandemic to have been called on to make very difficult decisions about the health and safety of the people they represent and about opening schools and opening our economy responsibly. I have served in state and local government so i understand the Critical Role our government plays. We will have partners in the white house starting gender trends because of governor herberts inner meaning in the states are successful the country is successful. Our message to our governor into all of our nations state and local leaders as simple president elect biden and i will make sure you have the
Available to everyone, to make a free vaccine available for everyone and to get this pandemic under control. Governors are elected by their states to take action in moments of crisis. They are the ones who talk to the people who are the hardest hit and during this pandemic to have been called on to make very difficult decisions about the health and safety of the people they represent and about opening schools and opening our economy responsibly. I have served in state and local government so i understand the Critical Role our governors play. We will have partners in the 20te house starting january because as governor herbert said in our meeting, when the states are successful the country is successful. Our message to our governor into all of our nations state and local leaders is simple. President elect biden and i will make sure you have the resources and support you need to save lives and help get our economy back on track. We will also make sure that our federal state local and Trib
President elect biden and Vice President elect harris spoke with governors concerning the coronavirus pandemic and economy. The former Vice President said takingnot ruled out legal action against the General Services not recognizing the election win, and giving his team access to information for the transition of power. Sen. Harris good afternoon. President elect biden and i met with democratic and republican governors. We talked about what we need to do to make free Testing Available to everyone, to make a free vaccine available for everyone and to get this pandemic under control. Governors are elected by their states to take action in moments of crisis. They are the ones who talk to the people who are the hardest hit and during this pandemic to have been called on to make very difficult decisions about the health and safety of the people they represent and about opening schools and opening our economy responsibly. I have served in state and local government so i understand the Critic
Services administration for not recognizing the election win, and giving his team access to information for the transition of power. Sen. Harris good afternoon. President elect biden and i met with democratic and republican governors. We talked about what we need to do to make free Testing Available to everyone, to make a free vaccine available for everyone and to get this pandemic under control. Governors are elected by their states to take action in moments of crisis. They are the ones who talk to the people who are the hardest hit and during this pandemic to have been called on to make very difficult decisions about the health and safety of the people they represent and about opening schools and opening our economy responsibly. I have served in state and local government so i understand the Critical Role our governors play. They will have partners in the white house starting january 20 because as governor herbert said in our meeting, when the states are successful, the country is su
Pandemic. We follow the advice of the attending physician and the sergeant of arms that were seated at least 6 feet apart. That means theres no room for the public or media here, but the media is participating we hope. And we hope the public is as well. Our website. Our witnesses are participating by Video Conference which is change for the United States senate and a welcome one because it makes it possible for us to attract witnesses to have busy schedules on the same day such as today some are participating by Video Conference senators may remove their masks since we are great thank yout a part to the press gallery and the architect in the capital police, Committee Staff for all their hard work to help keep us safe. Senator murray and i each have an Opening Statement then we will turn to our witnesses we think for being with usfoo today we ask that you summarize your remarks and five minutes to have time for the large number of senators we expect to iparticipate we will have one roun