Speaking, there will be a slight display before you are just plain before you are displayed on the screen. One box on your screen is labeled clock. It will show you how much time is remaining. Witnesses have five minutes for opening statements. For senators, the five minutes clock applies to questions. After the seconds remaining, you will hear a bell to remind you your time is almost expired. It ring again when your time is expired. This Technology Issue will move to the next witness or senator until resolved. Ranking member to me and i have agreed to go by seniority for the hearing. On sunday, we marked the 53rd anniversary of passage of the Fair Housing Act. If you years ago, jarred by the assassination of reverend dr. Martin luther king, our country finally made it illegal to refuse to sell a home or rent an apartment to someone based on the colorado state. It was a based on the color of their skin. It was a hardfought victory for civil rights advocate that was not so long ago when
The Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee held an oversight hearing wednesday on Relief Programs related to covid19. Representatives from the sba and Government Accountability office testified. This is two hours and 15 minutes. Sen. Cardin the Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee will come to order. I want to acknowledge that our four nieces today will be virtual, and they are all connected through webex, so we have them available. We have also been informed that several members of our committee will also participate through webex and not in person. I want to thank senator paul for his help in accommodating this hearing. This is an extremely important hearing. Our first with administration witnesses in regards to our responsibility to oversight the Small Business tools that have been made available as a result of the covid19 pandemic. Todays hearing will give us an opportunity to look back on sbas implementation of its covid19 Relief Programs in the past year. I
Nearly 2 trillion dollar covid relief plan yesterday. President elect biden addressing the nation today this time to introduce his vaccine plan this is a 5 step approach that will focus on getting more americans vaccinated biden has said he wants to vaccinate a 100 Million People in 100 days, hes planning to boost vaccine. Supplies create more vaccination sites get more professionals to help administer those shots and he wants more education on the subject getting all that done of course no small task kron fours Justine Waldman now explains. How biden plans to actually get it done. The city one of the most challenging operation efforts ever undertaken by our country. That you have my word. We will manage the health this operation. President elect joe biden is making it clear what the main focus of his administration will be fixing the extremely flawed Covid Vaccine. Rollout 5 things to turn frustration and the motivation. 5 things to help us meet our goal of 100 million shots by the en
But only about 13 million shots have actually gone in arms thats less than 42 of all available doses. Here in california just over 1 million of a possible 3 and a half million shots have been administered and that means california has just over 30 of its available shots. Thats the Second Lowest amount of any of the 50 states we look bad here. Governor newsome says the state simply has to do better. Let me just quite candid with each and every one of you weve got increased the pace and distribution in the administration of these vaccines. The reality is we need to get these vaccines out of the freezer we need to get him into peoples arms. The governor gave those remarks from dodger stadium, if you could tell there in los angeles its now the biggest Covid Vaccination site a vaccine site in the u. S. Officials working to set up similar. A huge mega sites across the state to speed up the Distribution Process and here in the bay area that could soon include the Oakland Coliseum Alameda Coun
Recognized. Weant here yet. Can you hear me now madam chairman. Yes we can hear you. Thank you so much. Is there any statistical benefit in requiring the borough to deliver a portion of data by the end of the year despite having to suspend Field Operations for three months . Shouldnt the bureau have had more time than usual to finish less . Rk than i concu with that statement. As far as rks of accuracy accounts. The shorter amount of time the bureau has to produce quality data, the higher the risk that something is going to go wrong. Its been a fewre degree the decision to rush the council could affect the quality and the accuracy of the dataur sampled . Subpoena. [inaudible] yes or from the Data Processing standpoint it does the initial plan from the Census Bureau this is precovid was to have 50 days of Data Processing. That went down to about 90 days. Now ten to 77 days. It does put more pressure on them to both be able to identify anomalies improperly be able to address those anomal