Blocking the commonsense multihundred billion dollars measure that republicans have been ready to deliver for months. Now come first, all of my colleagues had a fine a fine thanksgiving well know that across the country we celebrated a thanksgiving, all of us, every american, unlike any in recent memory. Too many loved ones spent this holiday alone unable to join with loved ones out of concern for their safety. As painful as it is to refrain from seeing family and friends, these are tough choices that we sometimes have to make it and we need to maintain a result more than ever while the hope of a vaccine shimmers on the near horizon, were living through the worst stretch of the pandemic right now. Last friday for the first time over 200,000 new cases of government were reported in ina single day. The United States is averaging over 1 million new cases a week. Some 20 of of all patients now hospitalized in the United States have covid19. The worst andpa most unalterable part of this pan
Its critical that we allow telework to minimize the number of people in federal buildings. With that, mr. Chairman, i yield back and i look forward to hearing from our witnesses today. Thank you. At this time i want to proceed with testimony from our witnesses. Let me do a quick introduction of the four of them. Joining us remotely is Michelle Rosenberg and the Strategic Issues team where she is on capital issues and she served for over 20 years on gaos tenured team. Shes been recognized with Health Care Team awards including two Meritorious Service awards and shell be testifying first and joining us remotely. Mr. Keith waington is with the u. S. Department of troilgz. Has been with the Department Since 1991 and in hiscurrent position he provides leadership and oversight in the areas of Human Resources, security, audit relations, acquitions and gras and transportation and facilities and space management. Maybe you can lead nasa for us next since we need a new director for nasa since yo
2020 president ial election and the latino vote. No question that 2020 will be a year of intersecting crises in the midst of a pandemic and the most consequential election in a lifetime. More americans voted in the 2020 election than any other in modern history with 65 of eligible voters casting a valid and for the first time in our countrys history latinos were the largest ethnic minority in the electorate with 32 million eligible voters for record numbers of latinos turning out the vote, highest numbers of latino and latino youth in the previous election cycle. Donald trump and president elect joe biden benefited from higher turnout of latino voters across the us yet the support they received from this diverse and complex electorate buried in different parts of the country. The majority of latinos lean democratic when it comes to faith levels there are differences that cannot be so easily counted on by either party. Todays conversation will highlight have record levels of latino turn
Justice and the associate justices of the Supreme Court of the United States. All persons having business for the honorable Supreme Court of the United States are advised to give their attention for the court is now sitting. God save the United States and this honorable court. We will hear argument first this morning in case trump vs. New york. Mr. Chief justice and may it please the court, this case should be over. Thatistrict court held illegal aliens would be shielded from her dissipating in the enumeration. But that is now over, and whatever existed has thawed. They pivoted therefore to possible future injuries but as of this very morning, career experts at the Census Bureau confirmed with me that they still dont know even roughly how many illegal aliens they would be able to identify, let alone how their number and geographic concentration might affect the course of it. And if they dont know, certainly the other parties in this case do not. The court therefore should follow the co
Thanksgiving. I believe we are going to have to make many of those same arrangements into the christmas holidays. Why dont we go to the first slide . Ok. Today, we have 1684 new cases. That brings us really to a startling yearly 100,000 cases statewide. 97,095 total cases. Today, we have an additional 28 deaths. That brings our total to 1568 total deaths statewide. This is really the grimmest part of these updates for everyone on the state of new mexico team and i know for all new mexicans, i gave personal condolences to some families who shared their information with me this morning in this incredibly painful, of course, these are unnecessary deaths and we all must do better. I do want to alert folks that in the details of the emails we send out about the new mexicans we lose to covid, we lost two individuals in their 30s with no underlying conditions. And i dont report this, and we dont put it in our daily updates that go out via email or on our websites and in the media, to provide