We are ready to go now. Take it all for joining the first remote hearing of the subcommittee on select revenue measures. We find ourselves in challenging times as evidenced by this new method of conducting Community Business in accord with the Public Health and safety recommendations. But the challenges we encounter here in congress are small compared to what i hear and see and what i am sure all of you here and see in our communities. Im glad we can move forward into the work that our constituents need given the difficult economic situations in which so many find themselves. The covid19 recession has laid bear the economic struggles of millions of American Families with almost no warning the shutdown claimed tens of millions of jobs, and American Workers and families felt the ground ball from under them. Many had been just barely scraping by and unable to save much for a rainy day, and the sudden loss of income has left them nothing. Food banks are Unprecedented Demand in the country
Playing out on the front lines of healthcare, and how those harms can drive the decisions and the policies Going Forward that can affect other platforms are held accountable and how they behave. So lets start with a short video if we can. To illustrate the damaging impact that disinformation can have on healthcare professional professionals, on consumers who turn to social media for information, about covid19 generally and about how to protect themselves. Take a look. I have had colleagues that shared with me tragic cases of intentional bleach that were aimed at preventing or curing covid19 by patients who had been misled by social media. That is how the disinformation has spread in our communities. All the disinformation is putting my patient at risk in the sense if people come in that it had symptoms and they havent gone to see a physician because the decided the virus isnt ist real. They were told its just like the flu. By the time they came to the hospital, one of them died on the
Hearing on the covid19 pandemic best practices and opportunities for innovation. Before we begin i would like to remind members that we have established in the military and the distribution list dedicated to circulating red materials that members might want to offer is part of our hearing today. If you would like to submit that terry will. Send them to the email address that has been previously distributed to you all and we will circulate the materials to members and staff as quickly as we can. I also ask unanimous consent that following items be entered into the record. A letter to chairman johnson and Ranking Member roby and the American Association of judges and the results of a study in a recent survey by the federal Bar Association and its members on Legal Practices in the covid19 era. Without objection, so admitted. I will recognize myself for an opening statement. Welcome to the Senate Committee hearing on courts during the covid19 pandemic best practices and opportunities for i
Theyre buying up parts of it. The advertising boycott enters with Corporate Giant starbucks joining a slew of names to with draw all ads from facebook the coronavirus outbreak killed 500,000 people around the world. The number of confirmed infections topped 10 million thats according today at a compiled by Johns Hopkins university you can see how the death rate looks with the usa up top followed by brazil and then the United Kingdom in terms of what we are witnessing on the european markets this morning, we started out the day weaker or roughly. 2 down and then you can see that we reversed again. Were down just over a tenth of a percent so far and this is struggling to find directions in the start of the session were picking up losses from wall street on friday. It hit the european mashltrketst week and also the second wave of infections and this one is particularly hard to quantify given we are seeing localized restrictions that we witnessed at the initial phase or start of phase one.
Slavery had been abolished, two years after the emancipation proclamation. Meantime, President Trump ready for a planned rally saturday in oklahoma, where 100,000 protesters are scheduled to gather in oklahoma. Protesterstipolice ahead of the president is first rally in months. Meantime, big tech in the spotlight amid scrutiny at home and abroad and charges with the eu. Joining us now is the leader of u. S. Antitrust efforts against microsoft back in the day. Gary, thanks for joining us. Lets start without strong you believe the eu case against amazon is. Gary pretty strong, based on everything we read. The eu is going to charge with amazon with misusing data it gets from merchants on its site. Think, is going to claim amazon uses that data to help amazon make copycat products that compete against the very merchants they are supposed to be supporting. The press has done great analytical reporting, and it appears that exactly the cake that is exactly the case, based on interviews with f