Washington today, we are holding this hearing virtually in compliance with the regulations for Remote Committee proceedings pursuant to House Resolution 965. Remote hearings certainly are not the same as sitting together in our Committee Room and you should know. The new authority has allowed us to continue to do our work a behalf of the American People, while keeping our staff, families and broader communities this is the First Official Virtual Committee hearing in the United States house of representatives. As we begin this historic proceeding, i want to underscore that i plan to continue this committees long tradition of collegia collegiality and substantive debate even as we conduct our business from afar. I will continue to work with Ranking Member and his staff to make sure that all Ranking Members are respected in the knew virtual format. Before we turn to todays important topic, i want to remind members of a few procedures to help us all navigate this new platform. First, consi
Responsible for overseeing Nursing Homes to testify today. She was offered dates and times of her choice this month and next month. She was offered the opportunity to come in person or appear virtually from her desk. Administration, which seems more terrified of transparency and accountability then covid19, has declined to provide any witness with the courage to face the responsibility for the thousands of deaths that have occurred. These were send a crisis that existed long before covid19 occurred. We will learn from a nurse who took it on herself to purchase protective equipment with her own funds for her staff. Including preventing evictions and appropriate settings. Like sending nursing home residents to homeless shelters. Thousands of nursing home residents are being evicted across the country to homeless shelters and other inappropriate settings because there is a natural incentive for some homes to take more lucrative patients. We will get their perspective. Much of this crisis
Early today starts right now good wednesday morning. Im Frances Rivera minneapolis d who died when a white Police Officer knelt on his neck for rest his funeral attended by more than 500 people comes after weeks of global and National Protests that have called for police reform. Nbcs dan shenamen has more on the emotional good bye reporter more than two weeks after george floyd died in police custody, it was time to say goodbye. We honor him today because when he took his last breath, the rest of us will now be able to breathe reporter mourners filled the church to pay their respects my big brother, thats big floyd. Everybody know who big floyd is now. I give you praise reporter it was a celebration of life. I just want to say to him, i love you, and i thank god for giving me my own personal superman god bless you all. Reporter mixed with anger over the way that life ended those four officers were literally on him for nine minutes and let him show they have a heart or soul this is not
[roll call] [roll call] pursuant to Committee Rule Opening Statements is limited to the chair and Ranking Member and this allows to hear from our witnesses sooner and provides members and adequate time to answer questions. I now trigger myself for an opening statement. Before i deliver the opening remarks i must first acknowledge the recent protests against Police Misconduct in in favor of Racial Equity and justice across the nation. Times are demanding and we address this countrys centuryold challenges and with todays hearing we can be prepared to answer the call to Racial Equity and justice in education. I want to note this hearing marks the committees first fully remote hearing pursuant to House Resolution 965 and accompanying regulations. To date we will examine how covid19 pandemic has directly impacted his state and local government revenue and how projected state and local government shortfalls to further exacerbate educational inequities rooted in a with the inequities rooted a
Nursing homes. We are joining this hearing in progress. Youre watching live coverage on cspan3. As one basis for work authorization. U. S. Cis has used deferred action in medical and humanitarian cases for decades. The idea is longstanding, and, in fact, customary. In one data set i received in 2011, nearly half of the cases i could identify involved serious medical conditions. And many of the cases involved more than one factor. For example, deferred action was granted to a 47yearold schizophrenic who overstayed his visa, was the son of a lawful perm resident, and had siblings who were u. S. Citizens. Over 100 of these cases involved people whose homes were destroyed by an earthquake in haiti. In another data set, a 578 cases obtained from u. S. Cis in 2013, 336 were based on medical issues. One case involved a mexican female who entered the United States without inspection and had two u. S. Citizen children. One of her children had down syndrome, and the other child had serious medic