Good afternoon as chairman of the Senate Commerce subcommittee on manufacture, trade and Consumer Protection i welcome you all here today to a hearing entitled, protecting americans from covid19 scams. The nation continues to fight the unprecedented Public Health present and president Public Health crisis brought on by the covid19 pandemic. In light of the serious threat this post to america, in the shoe shuddering of mainstream businesses, the response of Public Health protocols, have been felt in every corner of the country. It has been clear the preventive practices, policies, and resources, including expanded testing case testing capabilities and the ability to have protective equipment or absolute assess these to reopening the economy extinguishing this health crisis. However, during this time of National Emergency recorded and recovery, there are frustration scam artists that seek to take advantage of consumers, especially of the nations most vulnerable communities like that of o
Good afternoon. All here today to a hearing entitled acting americans from covid19 scams protecting americans from covid19 scams. The nation continues to fight the Health Crisis brought on by the covid19 pandemic. In addition to the threat this pandemic poses to americans, the Economic Impact resulting from responsible Public Health protocols have been felt in every corner of the country. It has become clear that preventing practices and dedicated resources including expanding testing capability and the availability of personal protective equipment are absolute necessities to a responsible path forward in extinguishing this Health Crisis. However, during this time of National Emergency and coordinated recovery, there are scam artists that seek to take advantage of consumers, especially the nations most vulnerable communities, like that of our nations seniors. Networks Consumer Reports consumers across the u. S. Reported over 136,000 Different Cases of covid related scams totaling appro
In focus with Russian Hackers targeting Companies Working on covid19 vaccine development. This after a massive twitter hack on the accounts of top lyrical and tech leaders. The attackers got access to internal controls. Michael chertoff told bloomberg earlier that twitter must ask itself two big questions. Are they adequately double checking the identity of the people posting on a regular basis . And also get to the bottom of how somebody on the inside was persuaded into turning over the keys to the kingdom. Facebook is also doing some soulsearching after the social net works latest diversity report showing the company is struggling to recruit black engineers. We are going to hear more on that with Maxine Williams. I spoke to her exclusively. She is reporting to sheryl sandberg. Meantime, cases of covid19 continue to rise. California reporting near record new cases and deaths. Florida, arizona, montana also seeing searches. Round ofgton the next stimulus relief could come as early as n
And talked about and consumed over the years. This conference is sponsored by the department of history at purdue university, is organized by one of our panelists. It is also by nikki. We are thankful to all of them to get into this and discuss how history is going to be taught in the future. My name is connie doebele. We are fairly new entity the, here at purdue, our goal is to help professors from across the country used the cspan archives, which is over 250,000 hours of american political history in their classrooms and in the research. We do some other things but thats what we are concentrating on at this conference. I tweet at c. J. Doubly we we hope that you will follow us. On twitter. We would be interested in following you as we reach out to, specifically history professors across the country who are interested in using the cspan archives in their classrooms and research. Here is what we are going to do, we have three excellent panelists who have different areas of interest und
We will hear from japanese epidemics at the center for strategic and international studies. Good afternoon. Thanks for joining us. I am mike green and a professor at georgetown, we are delighted to have all of you join us in discussion over the next two hours with four of japans rising academic thinkers on Foreign Policy and economic affairs. This is the seventh cohort we have invited under a program called strategic japan. Eight years ago we discussed with the Prime Ministers Office how to expand Strategic Thinking dialogue, planning between the us and japan. One thing to think about which was new for japan was the need to go beyond the traditional bureaucratic sources and to tap into the growing expertise among japans academic experts on issues that affect foreignpolicy and to bring more academics into the tent in japan and expand the dialogue with the us and to make sure japanese scholars who are making an impact in japan are sharing their ideas with the us, getting reactions and re