She sent plenty of signals in the past about what she feels about the Affordable Care act. My friend from south dakota who says you dont know how she is going to rule, there is some truth to that. She could change your mind. But i tell you if you were a betting person, you would say the statements she made criticizing chief Justice Roberts for saving the Affordable Care act, other statements that she has made about the law itself suggest she will not be a friend when she has the opportunity to vote. Do we take that seriously . On behalf of 600,000 people in illinois, you bet i do. It directly relates to this pandemic, the opportunity for people across this country to have the coverage they need. Im going to tell a quick story about one of them. I have a quote of her here that i want to share with people, a situation that she faces. Sorry that i dont have that in front of me, but im going to tell the story anyway because i remember it. Her last name is daninberger. She is from new berli
As of this morning, there were over 27 million confirmed cases covid19, and over 800,000 deaths. Have 6. 3 million confirmed cases and we are approaching 190,000 deaths. We have seen significant economic disruption to businesses and families and normal daytoday activities have been vastly altered. Leading experts have said we need a vaccine to return to normal. Which is why the topic of todays discussion is so critical. We will also discuss the lessons we are learning and developing a learning now in developing a covid19 vaccine, and the implications for future Vaccine Development. We have a short amount of time and a number of really terrific speakers. So why dont we go ahead and get started . Mark, why dont we begin with you. We have all heard about vaccines under development from pfizer, astrazeneca and the university of oxford, all of which are phasing phase three Clinical Trials. You have been working to develop a process to fasttrack safe and effective vaccines. Can you tell us w
Levine is the Director Office of minority and women inclusion of the federal Housing Finance agency. And laura mcrae, the director of the office of minority women inclusion of a Consumer Financial protection bureau. That yourare reminded testimony will be limited to five minutes. I chime will go off at the end that your time. Respect themt you members and other witnesses time by wrapping up your moral testimony. Without objection, your written statement will be made part of the record. Cole, you are now recognized for five minutes to give in or a presentation on your testimony. Chairwoman and a Ranking Member wagner and distinguish members of the subcommittee thank you for this opportunity to testify and share the diversity and inclusion efforts of treasuries headquarters. Diversity and inclusion emerged as a discipline over the past 50 years or so. But i prefer to trace these values to the words on the great seal of the United States e. Pluralist unum. Out of many, one. Hundreds of th
I know you are there. Dr. Fauci i am here, judy. Good to be with you. Miss woodruff lets start with the basics. Where are we right now in the country in the battle against covid19. If you are asked for a status report, what would you say . Dr. Fauci i would say it is a mixed bag. The numbers are very serious and very concerning. We have had now over 185,000 death, sixplus million infections. The country, a large country, there are some areas doing very well right now, got hitarly those that badly early on. For instance, the new york metropolitan area has for at least one month now been less than 1 test positivity. In contrast in other parts of the country, particularly what we saw in some of the Southern States that had big surges when they tried to open up the economy, that brought our baseline number of daily infections up from 20,000 a day to as high as 70,000, we are back now to 30000 and 40,000. In those states, they are starting to level off and come down which is a really good s
Each week the house of commons is in session we bring you Prime Minister Boris Johnson taking questions from the house of commons live wednesday morning cspan2. We also invite your participation using hashtag pmqs. Prior to question time members are finishing other business. Now live to the floor of the bridge house of commons. Action underway to determine what is driving this. The Scottish Government and social care on a range of issues related to covid19 and we will do so too discuss the impact of the black community. A survey of scottish ethnic minorities from 20152019 between 1820 of respondents that they experienced racial dissemination using health services. Will apartment commit to investigating this further and take steps to eliminate all kinds of Racial Discrimination . I would like to recognize the honorable lady. The uk government is keenly aware of continuing discrimination ethnic minorities face in the United Kingdom and sees its obligation to secure equality for all. That