Today. Member granger and all subcommittee members participating via video. I want to offer a brief explanation of how this will work. Configuredm has been for the appropriate social distancing. Some members have opted to use teleconferencing, which allows them to participate mostly. Once you start speaking, there will be a slight is delay. Speaking into the microphone activates the camera. If you dop ui remarks not immediately see the screen switch. If it does not change after several seconds, please make sure you are not muted. That the members participating by video remain on mute, unless you have sought recognition. Thatill notice the clock will show how much time is remaining. Remaining, i will gently tap the gavel to remind you that your time has expired. Ie clock will turn red and will recognize other members. We will follow our traditional order. Finally, we have set up gmail address. That includes documents to be inserted by unanimous consent. Address is house appropriations.
On homelandttee security will come to order. The committee is meeting today to receive testimony on examining the National Response to the coronavirus pandemic. Without objection, the chair is optimized to declare [indiscernible] at any point. Today, the committee is meeting to examine our National Response to the worsening coronavirus pandemic. This hearing comes at a critical moment. The number of coronavirus cases is surging, topping 58,000 per day for the first time on july 1, and setting alarming records with new cases over the past weeks. Dr. Anthony fauci recently warned that u. S. Cases could double to 100,000 per day if current outbreaks are not contained, putting the entire country at risk. As infections threaten to spiral out of control, President Trump has downplayed the impact of covid19, calling 99 of cases totally harmless, even as more than 130,000 americans have died, and many more have become seriously ill. Just this week, he falsely claimed the u. S. Coronavirus deat
Testing positive in march. Positive in march. Lets get started. Mayor, i want to start with your personal experience with covid. You were the first elected official to contract covid. How has that affected your response to this crisis . I was not only the first elected official, but i was the second or third case in the county. Dade county has experienced thousands of cases since then. It was interesting for me because, number one, i had to go directly into quarantine. I was quarantined for 18 days but was able to continue to function as mayor, to give people some sense of hope that if they did contract covid19 take yourself back to early march when there was so much unknown, so much fear about the possibility of getting it. It gave people a tremendous comfort to know that somebody was documenting their experience. Second, i was very asymptomatic. I was asymptomatic before i was tested and my symptoms, i would classify as mild throughout. I never got a 100 degree temperature. I had a c
Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor dissented. This oral argument from may is just over an hour and a half. The honorable, the chief justice and the associate justices of the Supreme Court of the United States. Oh yea, oh yea, all persons having business before the Supreme Court of the United States are admonished to give their attention as the court is now sitting. God save the United States and this honorable court. We will hear arguments in case 19431 Little Sisters of the poor v. Pennsylvania in the consolidated case. General francisco. Mr. Chief justice, may it please the court. In 2011, the government required employers to provide Insurance Coverage for all fda approved contraception, including many religious employers who objected to the coverage, sparking years of litigation. In 2017, in the best traditions of this countrys commitment to religious liberty, the government sought to resolve the issue by promulgating new rules, excepting those employers who objected t
Welcomed the president of mexico to the white house to sign a joint declaration in the white rose garden. About tradee relations under the u. S. Mexico agreement and the coronavirus pandemic. Ladies and gentlemen, the president of the United States, and the president of the united execute states. Mexican states. Trump thank you very much. Itice, hot day, to put mildly. We will make this quick, but it is all very positive. It is my tremendous pleasure to welcome everyone to the white house, my good friend president Lopez Labrador of mexico. We have at an outstanding relationship. We are moved that you have to make your first foreign visit since taking office, successfully taking office, i might add, to be with us at the white house. The relationship between a night of states and mexico has never been closer than it has been right now. People were betting against that. It is never been stronger, closer. We are doing a tremendous job together. We are cherished partners and neighbors. Our