Leave. A summer of protests across the u. S. Ends with rallies for and against President Trump and fears of another coronavirus surge. And our salvatores government invites journalists to see the tough conditions in its presence after reports its been doing deals with interests m s 13 gang. And who sudans government has declared a 3 month state of emergency because of weeks of floods that have killed around 100 people the knowledge risen to levels not seen in a century and overall rates of flooding and rain exceed records set in the 1940 s. And eightys 100000 homes have been badly damaged or collapsed entirely since late july the un has warned that the situation is expected to get worse over the coming weeks as above average rains a forecast until the end of september. Had their little brother got our power operated equipment is out of order and theres a high possibility they wont operate again needless to say residents are all gripped with fear and panic we have not slept for days the
Witnesses and audience members. Thank you everyone for joining with us today as we all bear up under covid19 and address technologically to coming together. We will begin with Opening Statements by myself and the Ranking Member. Follow the by testimony from our witnesses and the opportunity for each member to ask questions. We will dispense of our practice of observing givens rule and instead go to go in order of seniority for questions. Alternating between minority and majority. Members will be responsible for muting and unmuting themselves throughout the proceedings. I thank you all for your patience as we navigate this new technology in order to continue serving our country in this great time of need. With that, i would like to again welcome everybody to the ways and means social subcommittee virtual hearing on the impact of covid19 on Social Security and its beneficiaries. Again, let me add my thanks to the member and of course our witnesses who have joined us today at the ways an
Students to return to classrooms even though Coronavirus Infection rates in some places are higher than a. Lot more. And speaking out against the silencing of hungarys media thousands accuse the government of crushing a popular news website. Staff of the u. S. Consulate in chengdu in china packing up today and getting ready to leave after beijing ordered its closure in a worsening diplomatic standoff its in response to the u. S. Ordering the closure of chinas consulate in houston and texas and shortly after everyone left that building several men thought to be u. S. Federal agents were seen getting in through a back door the u. S. Government has accused stuff of espionage and data theft beijing describes the allegations as malicious lander. Meanwhile police in chengdu have blocked off access to the u. S. Consulate ahead of its closure its unclear when the staff will have to leave but a state run newspaper says the u. S. Has until monday. Lets go live to new aljazeera correspondent katr
Are doing here and why we are doing it, this is part of an ongoing series sponsored by the center that historical current issues. The center itself is strictly nonpartisan and the purpose of the program its not to advocate for any particular policies, but to provide Historical Context helping inform policymakers as they deal with difficult issues. I want to thank or acknowledge the Financial Support of the mellon foundation, which makes this briefing possible. I also want to thank regional weekly in the back of the room, which is the assistant director that helped organize this. I want to thank the office of gerry connolly, and also alert you to the fact that you all have index cards on your chairs. This is for questions. As the presenters are speaking, feel free to jot down questions. We will collect them. The second half will be devoted to q a. We will collect the questions and go from there. Thank you all for coming. David . Good morning. Thank you for coming. I have been Teaching I
So i welcome you this morning, thank you all for coming, my name is dane kennedy. Im the director of the National History center. Which is sponsoring this briefing. It is on the geo politics of middle east oil, Historical Perspectives on the current crisis. I want to just briefly explain what we are doing here and why were doing it. This is part of an ongoing series sponsored by the center that brings Historical Perspectives to current issues. The center itself is strictly nonpartisan. The purpose of the program is not to advocate for any particular policies, but in fact to provide sort of Historical Context to help inform policy makers and the public as they deal with difficult issues. I want to thank or acknowledge the Financial Support of the mellon foundation, which makes this briefing series possible. I want to thank rachel wheatly in the back of the room who is our assistant director and has helped to organize this. I want to thank the office of jerry connelly. Which has booked t