The House Oversight and the m subcommittee on Coronavirus Crisis held a hearing on the strategic hear from ockpile to the person in charge of keeping it filled. From estifying, officials the Defense Department and health and Human Services. Good morning. Welcome, everybody. Mr. Clyburn today, our select holding a hybrid hearing where some members will appear in person and others will webex. Remotely via since members are appearing in person, let me first remind veryone that pursuant to the latest guidance from the house attending physician, all ndividuals attending this hearing in person must wear a Face Covering. Remove themw you to s you see me doing in order to speak. I know a bit about how your and then t fogged up you dont see where youre going. Wearing a Face Covering are not permitted to remain in the hearing room and recognized to speak. So when youre not speaking, we you to have the facemask orwell not recognize you. Or we will not recognize you. Make a few reminders about hyb
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Chairman the committee will come to order. The department of health and Human Services, everybody is sitting six feet apart. All Witnesses Today are participating in person. We thank you for that. Participatingare by videoconference. I would like to say a word about masks. The office of attending physicians advised us we may remove the mask and talk to the microphone as long as we are six feet apart. Msak imask isy off. When i am walking the senate floor, i am wearing a mask. Simple clothsd, help from transmitting it to others. Unfortunately this practice has become part of the political debate that says if you are forced from you do not wear a mask, if you are against trump you do. I suggested the president occasionally wear a mask even though, in most cases, it is not necessary for him to do so. The president has plenty of admirers. They would follow his lead. End this help an political debate. The stakes are too high about this to continue. Masksrs and staff wear because we do not w
Historians are not supposed to guarantee anything about the future, but this is one thing i feel certain about. Watch q a on cspan. Coronavirus Task Force Members testified on the response to the pandemic. [indistinct conversations] today, the committee is holding a hearing entitled oversight of the Trump Administrations response to the covid19 endemic pandemic. Due to the Public Health emergency, members can participate in todays hearing either in person or remotely via video, and. Theart of this hearing, microphones will be set on mute, for the purpose of eliminating inadvertent background noise. Remotelyarticipating will need to unmute your microphone speak. Participating in person, please wear your mask when not speaking. Dr. Monahan extract expressed in the updated guidelines that the use of face coverings is meant to protect other people in case the wearer is unknowingly infected. When we are not speaking, each of us is playing a vital role in tech and all members and staff in at
Accountable. We are very honored to have as our guest today, senator brown, the senior United States senator from the state of ohio in the Ranking Member of the Senate Banking committee. Somebody who cares passionately about that we focus on and care about. I first met senator brown almost a decade ago in an aftermath of the Global Financial crisis part in fact the faculty directors, myself and my colleague testified about banking regulation before the subcommittee, senator brown shared in 2011 to 2015. Our country once again faces great many challenges. Looking forward to the perspective on how we go here where we go from here. Senator brown has dedicated his career to restoring what he, and a reference to doctor Martin Luther king, calls a dignity of work. Let me give you a few examples of how he puts his mantra into practice. The senator often wears a pin of a canary in a cage as a symbol of the day went minors brought canaries with them into the coal mines before we had any rules p