I represent the committee is on and will come to order. [inaudible] the committee of Homeland Security will come to order. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare the committee in recess at any point. Good morning. Again i want to say our thoughts with those americans dealing with devastating natural disasters including the wildfires in the west and hurricane is in itself. As the churning, i remain committed to ensuring they receive the federal health needed to respond, recover and deal back stronger. Today the committee on Homeland Security is meeting for its annual hearing on worldwide threats to the homeland. Our nation recently observed the 19th anniversary of the terrorist attacks of september 11, 2001. Nearly two decades later, we continue to mourn the nearly 3,000 lives lost that terrible day and keep their loved ones in our prayers. This committee and the department of Homeland Security were established in the wake of 9 11 to help prevent future attacks on our soi
America. This is just over two hours. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee will come to order. Welcome everyone and good morning. Senatorsing to have participating both live and virtually. Since it is difficult to determine when they showed up virtually, we will go on seniority. If that is agreeable, that is what we will do. Three we welcome witnesses. David stillwell, secretary of state for east asia and pacific affairs. The senior pacific official. Assistant to pity secretary for western affairs. Today, of course, we are going to be talking about china. Obviously, china presents us with many challenges. With opportunities also. Right now, challenges. Ofre has been a lot legislation introduced as far as china is concerned. Bill we introduced earlier that tries to bring together as many as possible. I am told as recently as today or yesterday, the minority introduced a bill of which senator schumer is the lead sponsor, i am told. In any event, this is not a partisan issue. This is an
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
Between parties and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and minority whip limited to five minutes. But in no event shall debate a. M. Nue beyond 10 50 the chair recognizes the gentlewoman from North Carolina, minutes. , for five ms. Adams thank you, mr. Speaker. I rise this morning to honor two North Carolina women who left us this year, former former dr. Dorsett, representative mcalister. I admired and was friends with them. Of they were both educators who service. Public proud graduates of historically colleges. Founded and led organizations to cell a anemia. Lows of personal tragedy, both women were predeceased by a child they loved like a best friend. They were both county commissioners and state legislators. All, trailblazers. Katie dorsett was the first black women on the greensboro i was proud to follow in her footsteps. After serving on the security she was elected to the county board of commissioners and went on to serve in governor hunts administration an
Langevin and others. Recognizeey i myself. The warnings we had and decisions made about the most recent worldwide Intelligence Committee in january of 2019, and i quote, the United States and the world will remain vulnerable to the next pandemic where large scale outbreak of contagious disease that could lead to massive rates of death and disability, severely affect the world economy, strain international resources, and increase calls from the United States for support. We must ask ourselves what are the warnings are going unheeded, and what can we do right now to protect the American People from other threats . Before the unthinkable happens in the future, how can we exercise strategic and precisive foresight to the best of our ability today to ensure are a nation prepared for tomorrow . That same worldwide threat assessment Cyber Attacks is a top global threat with china, russia, iran, and north korea, raging a silent war capable of shutting down with such Information Systems and cri