Business. Lets jump right into it. Its safe to say we were thinking of the Home Strategies and the big focus was election 2020. We all know we had to leap into a new posture with people working from home and there is a lot of impact not to mention those just from the lifestyle of health to proliferate. It is a pretty big undertaking. I would say that i am really pleased with how prepared are. We already mad made a number of platform decisions so weve are leveraging called services i would say w we have to like everyonhad to likeeveryone elsea better job probably the two biggest areas that were challenges and opportunities is to figure out how we do our work and in the same ways that we had before. We had to figure out different ways to have this footprint and giving as much of our work as we could where we learned a number of things. The other part of that is we serve the rest of the executive Branch Agencies as well as other constituent agencies. Many of them were less prepared than w
I want to take the opportunity to acknowledge the passing of Justice Ginsberg. She was a trailblazing civil rights lawyer, a giant of a jurist and a largerthanlife human being. But what i will remember most about her is her indomitable spirit. That and the devastating series of questions she hurled my way at oral argument in the Lilly Ledbetter case. In the kindest way possible, of course. Invite time, i want to any Panel Members who wish to do so to say anything they would like about Justice Ginsburg, but first, let me introduce our panel. [reads names] anybody who wants to come up be on video and take the floor. To, be on video and take the floor. Anyone want to start . Don . To get myill trying head around the idea that Justice Ginsburg wont be on the bench any longer. , maybe for most of us all of us on this panel who have argued in front of the court, she has in there for every argument we have paid have made. As you said in your introduction , even when you ultimately got her vot
Alliance for democracy and a senior fellow at the in your moderate for today. With that to introduce our special guest both have had the pleasure of working with. David is the author of race, america russian 100 years of covid interference. Foreignpolicy reporting going the new york times, the new yorker in foreign affairs. Steven is pursuing a doctorate in natural relations at the oxford up as a marshall scholar. He is an associate fellow at Yale University where he received his undergraduate and masters degree i got to know david his interning on Hillary Clintons president ial campaign. John brennan is a distinguished fellow he is a former scholar the university of texas in austin. His director of the Central Intelligence agency where he spent many hours in the situation room and previously served as assistant to the president , Homeland Security and counterterrorism. Specialists in middle Eastern Affairs and counterterrorism, john has received cell several awards for his contributio
Obviously is being held remotely. All members and witnesses will participate Via Videoconferencing as part of our hearing microphones will be set on mute to eliminate background noise. Members and witnesses, youre going to have to unmute your microphone each time you wish to speak. So i just say that as a reminder and as a little housekeeping issue, but please remember to do that. Documents for the record can be sent to megan mullen at the email address we provided to your staff. All documents will be entered into the record at the conclusion of the hearing. The chair now recognizes herself for five minutes for an Opening Statement. Lets see, where is the clock on the screen . There it is, okay. In any given year, one in five adults experience a Mental Illness such as depression, anxiety, or bipolar disorder. But 2020 has been a year like no other. In a recent poll, half of adults report that their Mental Health has been negatively impacted due to the coronavirus. One can only imagine
Peter urban and im a park ranger at for the National Park service here at ellis island. This island for Many Americans is a place where their american story began. 12 to 13 million americans came to this island and to this building in order to be given the ok to go out and start their lives in the late 1800s and early 1900s. A lot of people dont know about ellis island before that time, so let me talk to you briefly about ellis island itself. Today, we are 27 acres in size. But in the origin form this island was in, it was three acres. A small island in the middle of the the barely came above. Its first serve as a fort in 1812 and then as a storage depot. Somewhere around 1890, it was decided by the federal government that this would be the place that they would institute the first buildings specifically constructed for the processing of immigrants. And so they did construct that building between 1890 and 1892. The building you see here is not the first Processing Center, it is actuall