Solutions. No cheering france but major professional sport is back south koreas baseball is finally get to start the season. Because it t. V. Network in the philippines ordered to shut down after a lengthy dispute with the president we go to turkey. Now and santa how much snow have all the sporting clytie the n. F. L. Cancels its games in london in mexico city for the coming season because of the global pandemic. So that one of the toughest coronavirus lockdowns in asia is to be eased even further hong kong chief executive kerry lamb says cinemas and bars can reopen later this week or secondary schools will restart later this month a lockdown was imposed in march there have been no new domestic infections for 2 weeks elsewhere though the u. K. Is still in the grip of the pandemic it now has the highest number of deaths in europe and russia has reported more than 10000 new infections for the 3rd day in a row worldwide more than a quarter of a 1000000 people have died this is the. Hopkin
Into the darkness, the sound of your footsteps causes tribulations to hide. Almighty god, permit our lawmakers to be aware of your providential guidance. May they depend on you to lead them according to your will. Give them the wisdom to trust you when they cant see the road before them. Believing that you will be their light in the darkness. Would he we pray in your great name, amen. Would you please join me in the pledge of allegiance to the flag. I pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Mr. President. Senator from iowa. Permission to address the nate for one minute. Without objection. Americans from coast to coast hunkered down to stop the spread of the virus. Office workers, including my staff here in washington, adapted to work from home, but not all americans can do their job from home. Many must work away from home to provide essential services f
This hearing will come to order. Since this is our first hybrid hearing, a brief explanation of how it will work will benefit senators and the public. The hearing room has been configured to maintain the recommended 6 foot social distancing between senators. Nominees, and other individuals in the room necessary to operate the hearing, which would have kept to a minimum. A number of senators have chosen to use secure video teleconference technology which will allow them to remotely participate. For those joining by videoconference, once you start speaking they will be a slight delay before you are displayed on the main screen. To minimize that ground noise, we ask senators who are using the videoconference option to please click the mute button until it is your turn to ask questions. If there is a technology issue, we will move to the next senator until that issue is resolved. I remind all senators and the nominees that the fiveminute clock still applies. For senators using the video op
They are important for the country, they have been languishing for six weeks. Oversight is beginning already. Senator alexander is going to have dr. Fauci and others before his committee next week, related to the coronavirus epidemic that we are all working our way through. We will continue to discuss with the administration a way forward. Many people are asking for additional legislation. Conference for our by saying, we are not ruling that out, but if i could pause here do a good job of evaluating will we have already done. It was encouraging yesterday that the secretary of the treasury issued a guidance that provides some flexibility on the state and local front, where we 150 million. You. Ank he covered well what the senate is doing. To the past several iterations ofrelief, done a lot coronavirus legislation. Much of which is now being implemented. I think part of our job is to make sure it gets implemented in the right way. A lot of our committees will be conducting oversight hear
Watch book tv this weekend on cspan2. [inaudible conversations] good evening. Im from the carter library. I cant tell you how excited i am to see you all for the audience watching this, it has rained all day long. It is raining very hard right now. To seek you all turn out tonight, i think its a attribute to ingrid and her organization and the book so thank you all very much. I appreciate it. If you have not been to our Author Program before, art encourage you to go on to the Jimmy Carter Library website. We have two to three authors, sometimes for every week they are fascinating. Later this week, we have a book called wilmingtons lie about the rise of white nationalists in North Carolina back in the 1880s. We have judged ductless in his book talking about his book, voices of the republic. Its a tiein with pbs series on thursday. We have a whole bunch of wonderful authors so i would encourage you to take a look there and come back and see us again. I am delighted for tonight program. I