Inspectors general from the justice, transportation, and Homeland Security departments, along with officials from the Government Accountability Office talked about oversight of pandemic really funds and efforts to detect and prevent fraud. They testified before members of the House Transportation and infrastructure committee. There is a safety issue, and with respect to the wearing of masks, we would prefer the uphold the safety of the committee recommended by the attending physician and respectful of all the occupants of the room. With that, the committee will come to order. I ask unanimous consent that the chair asks for a recess. Without objection, as a reminder, please keep your microphone muted unless speaking. Blah, blah, blah. If you make noise, i will shout out at you. To submit a document to the record, please submit it in with that, i would go to my opening statement, which i put somewhere. There we go. Today, we will hear about the impact of the Governments Covid19 really fu
Efforts. Inspectors general from the justice, Transportation And Homeland security departments testified, along with officials from the Government Accountability Office. [no audio] as i did yesterday during yesterdays markup, i am reading an announcement from the office of the attending physician. The physician has once again imposed a requirement that staff and all of theirs physically present in an enclosed house of representatives controlled space, i. E. This room and others like it, and the floor of the house will be required to wear a mask unless speaking. I view this as a safety issues, therefore an important matter of order. The chair would greatly refer prefer if all uphold the coram the coram. With that, the committee will come to order. The chair be authorized to declare recess, without objection, so ordered. A reminder, please keep your microphone muted unless speaking. If you made noise, i will shout at. To insert a document into the record, please email it. With that, i wi
Good morning. Senate Health Education Labor and Pensions Committee these come to order. We are holding a public pandemic. We will have an Opening Statement and introduce our witnesses. After the give testimony, senators will each have five minutes for a round of questions while yet unable to have the hearing fully open to the public or media for imprisonment pundits, live video is available on our committeeo website health. Senate. Gov in this if anyone is in need of accommodations, reach out to the Committee Or Office of congressional sensibilities service. We are at a time of great Promise And Peril in the fight against covid19 while i am encouraged by the fact that two thirds of adults in our country received their first Dose Of vaccine, i am alarmed by how the rate of vaccination has been slowing and driven by the Delta Variant of covert cases and deaths are on the rise again. Five counties in my state currently have high levels of transmission according to the centers for Disease
Operations and you have time to order the congressional directory for members of congress and the biden administration. Go to cspanshop. Org. Inspectors general from the justice, transportation, and Homeland Security departments, along with officials from the Government Accountability Office talked about oversight of pandemic really funds and efforts to detect and prevent fraud. They testified before members of the House Transportation and infrastructure committee. There is a safety issue, and with respect to the wearing of masks, we would prefer the uphold the safety of the committee recommended by the attending physician and respectful of all the occupants of the room. With that, the committee will come to order. I ask unanimous consent that the chair asks for a recess. Without objection, as a reminder, please keep your microphone muted unless speaking. Blah, blah, blah. If you make noise, i will shout out at you. To submit a document to the record, please submit it in with that, i w
yet now, especially in europe and the western world, it feels as though the disease has passed us, even though it actually hasn t. it s as though we couldn t take all the restrictions it brought any more. life has opened up and only a minority of people are wearing masks now. in china, by contrast, the epidemic still dominates everything. i talked to fergus walsh, the bbc s medical editor, about the world s experience of this modern day plague. covid is going to be with us for years and years to come. and there was a lot of talk right at the beginning about herd immunity the idea that we d all get it once and then that would be it. well, now you can get omicron, the latest variant of concern, and you can get that again and again. so it s going to be, in a way, a little bit like flu and vaccines will be our best protection against it. they have been the extraordinary success story of this pandemic. i think the fastest ever developed vaccine was. took four years to develop an