Acting customs and Border Protection commissioner mark morgan testified the Senate Homeland security and government official. Pretty discuss the challenges they coronavirus pandemic posed to his agency including passenger travel restrictions. The hearing will come to order. Im looking at the title of this hearing. Cbp oversight unit i was talking to mr. Morgan earlier. Wondering if he wouldve broken of four told the future before he took this position. He wouldve done so. Is been challenging yes. Crisis after crisis after crisis. So first want to say i want to thank the witnesses mr. Morgan or your perseverance and your service to the nation. About the past and present and in the future. Things are not getting a whole lot better anytime soon a fear. I would ask consent to my Opening Statement be entered into record. This hearing on the border that we have not had of quite a few months. Obviously need to is a chart. This really what i want to talk about in my opening comments. I think c
As coronavirus cases continue to spike nationwide, we must ensure the contractors our government relies on are taking every step they can to minimize the spread of covid19 among workers and attain these. For fiscal year 2020, congress appropriated 3. 1 billion approximately in more than 45,000 adult and family i. C. E. Beds. Ion over 80 of these beds are operated daily by private contractors, some of whom are at this hearing today. That is a large amount of taxpayer money. It demands oversight and accountability. Detention facilities must be held to a High Standard at all times. Within this moment, it is of vital importance. Yet over the past few months, it is feared that ice am a and its contractors have not taken the outbreak seriously and have not i. C. E. And its contractors have not taken the outbreak seriously. At least 405i. C. E. Employees assigned to detention facilities have just a positive. Least twost at detainees, a potential third today in florida, and five contractors, d
Today, the subcommittee meets to examine the response to covid19 by four of the contractors responsible for managing facilities. As coronavirus cases continue to spike nationwide, we must ensure the contractors our government relies on are taking every step they can to minimize the spread of covid19 among workers and detainees. Facilities. As coronavirus cases continue to spike nationwide, we must ensure the contractors our government relies on are taking every step they can to minimize the spread of covid19 among workers and attain these. For fiscal year 2020, congress appropriated 3. 1 billion approximately in more than 45,000 adult and family i. C. E. Beds. Ion over 80 of these beds are operated daily by private contractors, some of whom are at this hearing today. That is a large amount of taxpayer money. It demands oversight and accountability. Detention facilities must be held to a High Standard at all times. Within this moment, it is of vital importance. Yet over the past few mon
President. County terry, administer. South, the doctor here at the Medical Center. We will have interesting talks. Thank you for being here. We will go over some things we are doing in terms of covid response. Our mission focuses on protecting vulnerable, expanding testing. We are doing that. Yesterday, 95,000 tests. Today, over 80,000 tests. Taiwan has done 78,000 tests the entire pandemic, 23 million people. We are doing a lot of testing. Practicing social distancing. Supporting hospital and health care workers. Today,updates on things hospitals throughout florida will be getting additional shipments of therapeutic remdesivir, something a lot of physicians have been using. We got positive responses. Developed andtic given in emergency use authorization by fda. We are scheduled to get more later in the month. There was a need to expedite that. President ith the vice and secretary a czar to get that expedited secretary azar to get that expedited. Today and be obtained hopefully we will
Public service and brought to Cable Television provider. Announcer 2 Florida Governor ron desantis held a briefing on the States Coronavirus pandemic. Joined by representatives from the community and state and local officials, the governor discussed testing in the state, the need for testing and adhering to medical protocols like Wearing Masks and social distancing. Gov. Desantis well good , afternoon. I want to thank everyone for being here. Blake Medical Center randy , curran, ceo of the Medical Center, and also my friend, bill, for being here. We also have representative will robinson, dr. Shari, Florida Division president. I want to thank him for being here. We have sherry, the Manatee County administer, and we have dr. Scott south, the doctor here at blake Medical Center. I think we will offer some interesting talks as well. From the beginning we wanted to do that. We are expanding testing. We are doing that. Yesterday, 95,000 tests. Today, over 80,000 tests. Put that in perspecti