Peters, and delivering the opening statement, a minute to acknowledge the United States passed another milestone that we have lost 200,000 americans to covid19. Our hearts go out to their families, husbands and wives, mothers and fathers, children, grandchildren and grandparents. Americans everywhere must fight to stop the virus from spreading, to protect millions more from experiencing this loss. As members of congress we will go to republicans, all united to be our part. We turn to opening statement, unlike every hearing, in the u. S. Congress economic committee, simply explore economic issues. We will focus on Public Health. With the closing of coronavirus is in march causing unemployment in april, democrats reset some of those Public Health experts in the country. Two all two nobel prize laureates, 5 former chairs of the president s council of economic advisers and 3 were president of the National Economic association over 2 dozen in all. Every one of them have the same urgent mess
Substance, feeble in fact. That the court notwithstanding that strict scrutiny virtually always ruled for the government. Were going to leave this recorded program at this point. You can watch it online at cspan. Org. We go live now to a joint Economic Committee meeting looking at the impact of covid19. Watching live coverage on cspan3. Senator peters from michigan and many others who will be joining us from the house and the senate. Before i deliver my opening statement, i would like to acknowledge that today the United States passed another sad milestone that weve lost more than 200,000 americans to covid19. Our hearts go out to their families, to the husbands and wives, mothers and fathers, children, grandchildren, even grandparents. Americans everywhere must fight harder to stop the virus from spreading so we can protect millions more from experiencing this loss. Members of congress and members of this committee, were all united to do our part. With that, let me turn it over to our
This hearing will come to order. Since this is our first hybrid hearing, a brief explanation of how it will work will benefit senators and the public. The hearing room has been configured to maintain the recommended 6 foot social distancing between senators. Nominees, and other individuals in the room necessary to operate the hearing, which would have kept to a minimum. A number of senators have chosen to use secure video teleconference technology which will allow them to remotely participate. For those joining by videoconference, once you start speaking they will be a slight delay before you are displayed on the main screen. To minimize that ground noise, we ask senators who are using the videoconference option to please click the mute button until it is your turn to ask questions. If there is a technology issue, we will move to the next senator until that issue is resolved. I remind all senators and the nominees that the fiveminute clock still applies. For senators using the video op
The whole of germany, i share the deep pain felt by these people over the brutal deaths of so many of our fellow citizens. It the message from the german president , you are not alone. Brent to our viewers on the u. S. , pbs and around the world, welcome. It has happened again. Germany is reeling following the deaths of 10 people in a farright terror attack attack. I suspect an extremist with a gun walked into two bars no frankfurt. He targeted people of color and shot them execution style. The suspect is a 43yearold german man. The police are just calling [indiscernible] he reportedly later shot his mother to death before turning the gun on himself. The morning after. Residents will go to spepeculatn that farright extremism motivated attacks in their neighborhood. The severity of the incident is being felt far beyond the city. Strong condemnation from the german chancellor. Racism is poison. Patriots poison. This poison exists in our society. It is to blame for far too many crimes alr
Good thursday morning. Welcome to squawk alley. I am Carl Quintanilla with Morgan Brennan and jon fortt at post nine of the New York Stock Exchange getting close to new highs well start with facebook. Mark zuckerberg goes to the hill today. Were getting news out of the company on new ad formats as well Julia Boorstin has both those stories. Good morning to you Mark Zuckerberg is making the rounds in washington, d. C. , meeting with legislators, looking to regulate two areas, one, facebook privacy policies, two, responsibility for inappropriate, manipulative content on its platform. Zuckerberg met with democratic senator cantwell and also attended a dinner with mark warner and senator blumenthal also joined take a listen. I was impressed by a number of the ideas and interests of facebook in advancing privacy on the internet but i hope that we also can continue the conversation zuckerbergs meetings span the aisle, he is meeting with republican senator moran, and supposed to see hawley an