On cspans q a. Next, a hearing to examine the issue of College Athlete compensation. The Senate Health education and Labor Committee heard from College Athletic programs about how athletes could be compensated for their name, image, and likeness, which organization should oversee these decisions, and what implications it could have on the student athlete model. This is two hours and 15 minutes. [inaudible] good morning. The committee will come to order. There is no room for the public. The press is covering it as a pool. You can watch this on streaming or there will be an unedited recording that everyone can watch. All of our Witnesses Today and some senators are participating by videoconference. I would like to Say Something about masks. The office of attending physician has advised that senators and witnesses may remove their masks to talk into the microphones since our chairs are six feet apart. Thats why my mask is off when im not back here. Im grateful to the rules committee, the
Joe biden good afternoon. Welcome from the Natural History museum. As a nation, we face one of the most difficult moments in our history in my view. Four historic crises all of the same time. The worst pandemic in 100 years that has already killed nearly 200,000 people and counting. The worst economic crisis since the Great Depression has cost tens of millions of american jobs and counting. Emboldened White Supremacy unseen since the 1960s, and a reckoning on race that is long overdue. And undeniable acceleration, the punishing reality of Climate Change on our planet and our people, on the lives and livelihoods, which i would like to talk about now. Jill and i continue, as i suspect all of you do, pray for those in california, oregon and washington, and across the west as these devastating wildfires rage on. Just as we hold those in our hearts those who faced the hurricanes, tropical storms off the coast of florida and north carolina, or like in parts of new orleans that have been issu
[applause] good morning, janesville. Vice president mike pence, welcome back to wisconsin. [applause] i am excited to have the Vice President here in my hometown. Mom and dad, thank you for coming. [laughter] in many ways, 2020 has been a difficult year. This weekend we saw again how difficult the job of Law Enforcement can be. Today, you need to keep two sheriffs deputies in Los Angeles County in your thoughts as they recover from a difficult act on Law Enforcement in los angeles. The men and women of Law Enforcement wake up every day not knowing what it will bring, but they know they will answer it. [applause] i was on the ground in kenosha as lawenforcement was working to restore Public Safety to our community. I spoke to people who were petrified. They were scared for personal safety, scared for their family, concerned [indiscernible] they were scared for their city. It was heartbreaking to walk the streets of kenosha and [indiscernible] on Tuesday Morning of that week, i called th
Fmr. V. P. Biden thank you very much. I just want to thank you all. I understand you spoke, i could not hear you. Bishop, thank you for inviting me. Reverend harris, reverend jackson, all of who joined us tonight, i am humbled to be with you. My daughter, who is a fulltime social worker, is part of your effort. She is visiting a real sick friend who had a kidney replacement. Her name is ashley, and, reverend, she is anxious to meet you. Together, we can carry on dr. Kings poor peoples campaign, based on a simple truth that we are all created in the image of god, and everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect. My father used to say a jobs about more than a paycheck. It is about dignity, respect, being able to look your kid in the eye and say it is ok. So many people today cannot do that. So many people have made the walk my father had to make up a short flight of stairs. He lost his job in scranton, pennsylvania years ago when i was a third grader. He said, you have t
To a Senate Committee hearing looking at college ath lecks and athlete compensation. Live coverage on cspan 3. But in the institutions of Higher Education themselves, and then before that in 1929 a report from the carnegie education was being neglected and commercialism reigned. The ncaa had been formed to protect the safety of players and deal with corruption. Now, my second experience forming an opinion about the subject were talking about today came from my service of that Night Commission when i was president of the university of tennessee. Our Commission Recommendation was that University President s take charge, assert themselves, take charge of College Athletics, to take charge of the huge amount of Television Money it attracted and restore academic and financial integrity to the programs. As a result over the next several years academic standards became more stringent, Financial Support for student athletes increased, college presence asserted more responsibility for financial