Objection. The senator from ohio. Mr. Portman thank you. Mr. Portman thank you. Im on the floor today to tug about the coronavirus pandemic and what we can and should do here w in the United States sene and congress as a whole. To actually address the ongoing problem. We are not out of the woods yet. We have a Health Care Crisis and of course an economic crisis as a consequence of that. We have done some good bipartisan work over the past six months. In fact not many people realize the past five or six bills with strong bipartisan majority. What people know about most is that it is when the cares act to gut 97 votes here on the floor of the senate, 970. So we have in the past been able to figure a out a way to come together as republicans and democrats as americans to be able to address this crisis. We need to do it again because we still do have a crisis. We still do have an acceptably high levels of people getting in fact did, hospitalized in being in the icu fatalities in their econ
Welcome to todays hearing on support for healthy air travel. Air travel plays a Critical Role in business, commerce, education, travel, and tourism. We take for granted that we can travel great distances by air. That weredestinations once reserved for imagination. Air travel moved from our imagination to a real audi reality that has changed the way we with each other. Our dependence will only continue to grow. Global air travel will nearly double. As with many other industries, the pandemic has dramatically impacted commercial air travel. In the u. S. Alone, Passenger Air travel was down 96 . Worldwide, the air travel industry is projected to use more than lose more than three hunter billion dollars in operating revenues this year. Shiftpple effect of this goes well beyond the airline. Full recovery requires ensuring safety and reestablishing the confidence as we continue to face the risk of covid19. These are positive steps, but are they enough to ensure safety and reestablish trust .
Department services and programs. A panel of experts follows talking about how the va can modernize. The American Enterprise institute hosts the hour and 40 minute event. Lets try to get started here. Good morning. Welcome to aei and welcome to our program today. The value of our veterans, our conversation with representatives, mike levin and brad. Im gary smith, im a senior scholar here as strategic studies and im director of aeis program on american citizenship. I am going to skip a set of introductions since we will be talking the next two hours. So those joining us here in joining online or watching on cspan, if you want lengthier bios go to the website and go to the link for the page and you will see everybodys biographies. That may begin by giving a quick overview of the proceedings. We will first hear from representative mike levin, the recent elected congressman from californias 49th district, a district that runs along san diego to southern Orange County and quite frankly i ha
Welcome to aei and welcome to our program today. The value of our veterans, our conversation with representatives, mike levin and brad. Im gary smith, im a senior scholar here as strategic studies and im director of aeis program on american citizenship. I am going to skip a set of introductions since we will be talking the next two hours. So those joining us here in joining online or watching on cspan, if you want lengthier bios go to the website and go to the link for the page and you will see everybodys biographies. That may begin by giving a quick overview of the proceedings. We will first hear from representative mike levin, the recent elected congressman from californias 49th district, a district that runs along san diego to southern Orange County and quite frankly i have a niece that lives out there, im not sure why he decided to move to d. C. , a patriotic act on his part. He is the chair of the subcommittee on Economic Opportunity with the house of Veterans Affairs committee. F
Institute hosts the hour and 40 minute event. Lets get started. Good morning welcome to aei and welcome to our program today the value of the conversation with mike levin. Im gary schmitt a senior scholar here at aei and director of the program on american citizenship. I will skip the link the set of introductions and there are link the bio go to the website. And to also look at their biographies. s we have a click one a quick overview of theov proceedings. Of the recently elected congressman from the 29th district in california from the northern san diego to southern orange county. Frankly i have a niece that lives out there not sure why he decided to move to dc. And with the house of Veterans Affairs committee. Following his remarks and of the Second District we are pleased what the congressman and the willingness to come our way. So to be joined in a discussion after the brief remarks by the two congressman by the questionandanswer session. So after that discussion with the Henry Ja