Veteran m. J. Hegar in a debate sponsored by nexstar broadcasting. This is an hour. This is the u. S. Senate debate in texas. Good evening and welcome to the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum in houston. Youre watching us on one of 14 next Star Media Group stations. Were broadcasting live from el paso out to texarkana and houston to amarillo and beyond. Youll also be able to follow us along with our discussion on twitter now at tx Senate Debate. Tonights debate is between the democratic nominee m. J. Hegar and the republican incumbent senator john cornyn. Were joined tonight by a virtual audience. On one screen we have supporters of senator cornyn tuning in from home and on the other side, we have supporters of m. J. Hegar. Thanks to aufl you for joining us virtually tonight from across the state. Here we have no live audience. We are following coronavirus social distancing guidelines set up by the c. D. C. To keep us all safe here this evening. Each candidate and their staff have
Comment . Clerk those of you on the Public Comment line press star, 3, to make a comment on the minutes. Star, 3. All right, no hands raised. So we can move on. President bernal upon review of the minutes, commissioners, a motion to approve. So moved. Second. Clerk i will do roll call vote. [roll call] great, the item passes. Next is the report. Im sorry . Is it okay if i call out . President bernal yes. On the minutes. Clerk okay. So the next item, number 3, the directors report. Good afternoon, commissioners. The director of health, and i will summarize and take any additional questions. Theres a lot going on in the world of Public Health. Some good news, september 9th the Supreme Court upheld proposition c, which will free up hundreds of millions of dollars for funding for homeless services, including a significant amount that will be dedicated to the Behavioral Health services for homeless individuals. So we are looking forward to hearing more on the legal opinion of that. But good
Administration, it is already manufacturing tens of millions of doses of six vaccines. And by the end of the year there will be tens of millions of doses of these vaccines already manufactured, ready to distribute. First, of course, to the priority individuals, those who are most vulnerable, Health Care Workers and others. Then according to the administration, they expect to be able to produce 300 million to 700 million doses of vaccines by march or april of next year. That is unprecedented. When i was a kid, we were terrified by polio. I had classmates who were in an iron lung and parents who were worried their children might be just as well. It took ten years to get a polio vaccine and polio is now eradicated. Most of the vaccines that our children take before they go to school, like mumps, measles, chicken pox, you have to take these vaccines, all 50 states and the district of columbia before you go to school. Most of them took ten years to develop. If the optimism of the administra
Good afternoon, the meeting will come to order. Without objection, declaring a recess of the committee, i recognize myself for an Opening Statement. This morning, we heard the president in his own words recorded in february slam the coronavirus has, quote, deadly stuff. Yet we also heard remarks, i wanted to always play it down. I still like playing it down because i dont want to create a panic, end of quote. The Trump Administration did play down the pandemic refusing to level with the American People about the known danger and refusing to develop and implement a National Plan to stop the spread. As a result, 190,000 americans have died, continuing to kill hundreds, tens of thousands every day. Over the last eight weeks, americans will be changing their votes in the midst of this ongoing crisis. A free, fair and safe election under these circumstances is a challenge. Let there be no doubt we do our part, america is up to the challenge. In june the centers for Disease Control and preve
The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The chair lays before the house a commune cane from the speaker. Communication from the speaker. 2020, ik september 22, hereby appoint the honorable Henry Cuellar to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Nancy pelosi, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the house of january 7, 2020, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties. With time equally allocated 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 continue beyond 10 50 a. M. Chair now recognizes the gentleman from illinois, mr. Quigley, for five minutes. Mr. Quigley thank you, mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, i rise today to highlight the inequalities that covid19 assistance distribution. Back in march,