Intelligence Committee Heard from former ambassadors and diplomatic officials. House committee on intelligence, first remote hearing. Before we proceed to where were topic today, the impact of the covid19 pandemic in Subsaharan Africa, i want to address some housekeeping matters. Todays session will be conducted on an unclassified basis. Urged tonts are inrain from presenting compliance with House Resolution 965 and resolutions for remote proceedings. Like many of you, i would have preferred to hold this in person in washington, d. C. , but because of the threat of covid19 we remain serious and widespread and are proceeding remotely to ensure the safety of our witnesses, members, staff, and the public. I was hoping that todays hearing would be bipartisan. Unfortunately, our republican colleagues have decided not to dissipate. I hope they will not to participate. I hope they will join us in the future and im committed to continuing our work notwithstanding the pandemic, and both sides o
Amount of money. That will allow the sba to give 300 billion of disaster loans. That will be a terrific impact on Small Business. It will also cover Unprecedented Programs of 25 billion for testing. Everybody is very focused on testing. What about money for states . The president is willing to consider that in the next bill. We are already distributing money to the states. We distributed about half of it last week. We will distribute the rest of the money this week. And we will consider that in the next bill. Right now, we are focused on Small Business and hospitals. They are getting money now. There is money going to their hospitals. Working with the federal reserve, we are establishing an Unprecedented Program for states and local governments to be able to borrow. The president is very focused on those issues. You mentioned the money for testing. For state labs . You mention the money for testing. Is that going to be for state labs . For everything. It will make sure we have ample su
They have an extraordinary leader in Michael Dowling. Michael dowling ran health care for the state of new york, social services for the state of new york. He worked with my father, came for one year, wound up staying with my father for 12 years in state service. He is one of the really beautiful and brilliant leaders in this state and it is a pleasure to be with him. I want to say to all the people of northwell who have done extraordinary jobs, thank you so much for having us today. To my right is Melissa Derosa, secretary to the governor. To her right is what is your name . Mariah kennedy cuomo, who is part of my team and it is a pleasure to have her with me today. I will be mentioning more about that in a second. Today is sunday. That is a fact. I know these days tend to run one into the other, but today is sunday. And i like to focus on the facts in this situation because facts are what is most important. A lot of people have opinions and a lot of theories, but senator Daniel Patri
Studentcam documentary competitions. Middle and High School Students created videos answering the question what issue do you most want the 2020 president ial candidates to address . Our first prize High School East award goes to thomas mckenna, a 10th grader from at mckenna homeschool in lovettsville, virginia, with cspan available through comcast. Their winning entry is titled overreach from the oval office. Here i have an article to where i have the right to do whatever i want as president , but i do not even talk about that. Ive got a pen, and ive got a phone. And i can use that pen to sign executive orders and take executive actions and administrative actions that move the ball forward. Out oury one, we take executive order pen and we rescind every damn thing on this issue trump had filed. Is this the way the government is supposed to function . According to the constitution, all three branches are supposed to check and balance each other. But over the past three years, the executi