Your day and we are grateful for the encouragement in helping him to get this day and this is a professional achievement that you should take pride in. Our goal is to enable this committee to have thoughtful consideration to be the next inspector germ of the c. A. And he has responded to questions and this morning, members will be able to ask additional questions they have and hear from the nominee. Mr. Thomson is a law degree in 198 and spent 23 years as a federal prosecutor for the department of justice for the Eastern District of louisiana. Nd during his time at d. O. J. And special assignment with the National Security agency. And he has been in private practice in new orleans where he has had tried and litigated at the a. M. Ate. Years as add junk professor and giving back. Mr. Tom somebody you have been asked. They will irmed, conduct audits, investigations and reviews of c. I. A. Programs and operations. You will ensure that the d. I. A. Carries its mandate accountable and alway
Almost two and a half hours. [inaudible conversations] is a todays committee will come to order and i want to thank everyone for joining us here today and want to welcome the secretary and the administrator and thank you both for being here and all the members for being here. This is the first opportunity to hear from both of you about the enactment of the act in particular as it applies to Small Business. It is a landmark legislation and less than two Weeks Congress passed the largest Economic Relief package. They worked tirelessly to make it possible every single one participated on the leadership of the Ranking Member, senator cardin, senator shaheen and senator Collin Collins isnt a r of the committee that was part of the task force and it was invaluable in helping craft a lot of this and i want the record to reflect dot. We have invited senator collins does it and participate and rightfully so because of the extraordinary contribution. As every member thats been involved, the admi
[inaudible conversations] is a todays committee will come to order and i want to thank everyone for joining us here today and want to welcome the secretary and the administrator and thank you both for being here and all the members for being here. This is the first opportunity to hear from both of you about the enactment of the act in particular as it applies to Small Business. It is a landmark legislation and less than two Weeks Congress passed the largest Economic Relief package. They worked tirelessly to make it possible every single one participated on the leadership of the Ranking Member, senator cardin, senator shaheen and senator Collin Collins isnt a r of the committee that was part of the task force and it was invaluable in helping craft a lot of this and i want the record to reflect dot. We have invited senator collins does it and participate and rightfully so because of the extraordinary contribution. As every member thats been involved, the administrator has an incredible a
Experiencing at any one time, its different for your peers and you need the very best information, the best guidance you can get but you need the ability to understand your communities, your stakeholders, hospital capacity, Public Health capacity to make the very best decisions for your communities. Cdc has been on it since the beginning but we want to be a resource to you, your Public Health, staff and the city and the state Public Health and government and leadership as well but you, as mayors are playing an incredibly Important Role in amplifying the collective voices on major issues. As you know, your realities have really changed, for many of you since january and more of you since march when the pandemic really got here in the u. S. We know youre on the front lines, implementing the process of reopening our nation, city by city, for some of you it might be neighborhood by neighborhood and we know you are taking priority in this to do things in the manner best for your local area.
What i meant by its not working is were dealing with Community Spread as a substantial number of people getting infected do not know theyre infected. Theyre not symptomatic. Theyre asymptomatic individuals. The classic paradigm of identification and Contact Tracing is very difficult to make that work under those circumstances. You superimpose upon that the fact that even with identification, isolation and contact trace, often the dots are not connected. If you get on the phone and talk to people who are in some of these communityus find that a lot of it is done by phone. When its done by phone maybe half the people dont want to talk to one who they think is a government representative. If you live in a community thats mostly brown or black youre in a different situation that maybe 70 of them dont really want to talk to you. You can identify a contact but you dont isolate them because you dont have the facility to isolate them. That is whats not working. So what were going to do, and we