To unmute your microphones anytime you speak. If at any time during hearing im unable to chair the hearing the human chairman colon or vice chairman of the committee congressman kennedy will serve as chair until im able to return. Documents for the record can be sent to Benjamin Tabor at the email address weve provided. All documents will be entered ininto the record with the inclusion of the hearing. The chair will not recognize herself for an Opening Statement. Today the energy and Commerce Committee continues itser oversight of the nations covid19 Pandemic Responsee examining a safe and effective covid19 vaccine that the American People can trust. In the eight months we battled covid19 over 7 million americans have had the virus and tragically over 200,000 have lost their lives. Millions ofll people face on employment and have lost their Health Insurance and families are still juggling childcare and virtual classrooms. The list of those most vulnerable to covid19 is especially on th
Microphones anytime you speak. During the any time hearing, the chairman the vice chairman of the committee, congressman kennedy will serve as chair until i am able to return. Beuments for the record can sent to Benjamin Tabor at the email address provided to staff. All documents will be entered into the record at the conclusion of the hearing. The chair will not recognize herself for an opening statement. Today the energy and Commerce Committee continues its oversight of the nations covid19 Pandemic Response. Examining the pursuit of a safe and effective covid19 vaccine that the American People can trust. In the eight months that we battled covid19, over 7 million americans have had the virus, and over 200,000 of them have lost their lives. Millions of the phase unemployment and have lost their Health Insurance, and families are still juggling childcare and virtual classrooms. The list of those most vulnerable to covid19s especially on the line as the virus continues to spread across
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Theres another extremely important point that the senator from virginia made, and that is that this rule which has been criticized by some is in direct response to a g. A. O. Report, a direct response to g. A. O. Criticizing h. U. D. For not doing a good job in carrying out this part of the 1968 fair housing act. That is so important. How many of us in this chamber have repeatedly looked to g. A. O. For advice on how we can improve how federal programs work . Well, look to g. A. O. , look to its 2010 report which was very critical of h. U. D. , and surely it is significant that when h. U. D. Last year issued the new regulations, the g. A. O. Said fine and closed out its recommendations as being completed. Thats significant. This wasnt some wild scheme that was dreamed up by bureaucrats at h. U. D. As some have claimed. This was in response to a report from the Government Accountability act. We talk about how we want more efficiency, better accountability. Thats why we have the g. A. O.
Better place but quite frankly at times how could you take this when the turkish pregnant mr. Is a guiding israel to being the 90s and put that forward to the cabinet not even to consult egypt who is a real player in this that is a mistake that we all make mistakes. The question is have we heard from it. We are back on track now but this latest episode, look what we do when our soldiers are captured. We want to get them all back and theres got to be a balance. Israel will clean out a jail and released a thousand people to get a soldier back they will do more, too than they go the other way this time. My point is yesterday or this morning was a turning point in the war and America Needs to be in their camp and john kerry, president obama and every member of Congress Needs to knock off urging israel to be more cautious when their entire state of the nation is at risk. They are cautious. Hamas is not a. U. S. Employers extended the high hearing search into july by adding a solid 209,000 j