Everyone, thank you for joining us today to discuss the coronavirus pandemic response. The impact of economic and Health Care Services on Homeless Veterans in america. Rep. Takano thank you everyone for joining us today. Forum is airing live. It is an historic moment. I want to thank both republicans and democrats alike for making this possible. The majority and minority working in a bipartisan way. Entirely first, live, virtual bipartisan forum for the United States congress. It is the first one ever. Both sides, congratulations, everybody, for making this possible. Covid19 has changed everything. Every american is affected. And americas veterans are not immune. In fact, veterans are facing unique challenges right now due to the Global Pandemic. But the challenges created by covid19 wont go away overnight. And in the wake of this pandemic, new challenges will emerge, and their impact could become just as severe as the novel coronavirus. There is no shortage of frightening statistics t
Introduce people more formally prior to their also thomas fanning, two of the commissioners of the commission. First of all i want to thank the cochairs and that commissioners for the important work on the Cyberspace Solarium Commission. I think the end product is excellent. I think it has solid recommendations that a number of these are within our committees jurisdiction over the working hard to evaluate those and the ones that we can get them passed into law of these recommendations can be done through executive action. What id like to spend my time just enter my formal written state into the record, i just want to talk about two of the commissions recommendations. When i i got here in the congrs in 2011, cybersecurity was a hot issue. It still is. Its not going away. I remember the buzzword back ban is we have to do something about this. Weve made a number of attempts and quite honestly we made a fair amount of progress. My own sense is the bad guys, the people and often always have
Testifies before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee about the epas role during the coronavirus pandemic. And two 30, the Senate Energy and Natural Resources committee holds a confirmation hearing for the Deputy Energy secretary and on cspan two, the centered senate is back at 10 00 a. M. Eastern to consider judicial nominations. As of this morning, about a quarter of the debts are in new york city area, the new york area has been the hardest hit region of the country by this virus. Four v. A. Centers have 26260 debts, but the other deaths are spread out across 110 different v. A. Facilities. This is all over the country. Everyone has been touched by this in some way. Some places it is just two deaths, other places, philadelphia has been hit hard, new orleans has been hit hard, chicago has had around 60 deaths so this is not a regional problem, this is not just one area that has been hit. It is really a nationwide issu if you look at the overall numbers, and these have pr
Giving up his job and forgoing a paycheck that could top 1000000. 00 because he no longer felt comfortable working for a company that is comfortable firing whistleblowers with legitimate concerns and just what were these whistleblower concerns well you know the Little Things like oh workers Safety Climate change issues and the need to unionize in fact the guardian is now reporting that at least 6 amazon workers who have participated in protests are both really advocating for improvements to workers safety in conditions have been fired during the pandemic in one of these incidents leaked amazon memos revealed that p. R. Executives in a meeting attended by the grand poobah himself the worlds richest man jeff bezos planned to publicly character assassinate fired warehouse employee Christian Smalls for simply organizing a small walkout over employees safety concerns so one former Vice President amazon tim bray writes that the firing of whistleblowers isnt just a side effect but that its ev
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