Gentleman from texas, mr. Castro. Mr. Castro madam chair, i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and tend their remarks the speaker pro tempore without objection, so ordered. Mr. Castro i yammings. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman virginia tech. Mr. Castro i rise in support of the uighur forced labor prevention act. The human rights atrocities, the Chinese Government is perpetuating are now wellknown. More than a million uighurs and muslims, ethnic north have been thrown into detention camps where they face torture, brainwashing, sexual abuse, and even forced sterilization. These atrocities are horrific, and the congress has acted to hold perpetrators of these crimes accountable by passing the uighur human rights policy act. We must not stop there. The legislation we are considering today focuses on a specific form of abuse. Forced labor, an abuse of human rights, which also has grave implications for supply chains and consumers worldwide
Where they have Good Public Health system and you can make critiques about some aspects but china was able to jump on it quickly. That wasnt true in 2014 when people appeared in west africa. There was no Health System and for three months we were unable to know if it was evil and it turned into an explosive epidemic. We have to have no communities left out. We have to think of this not just as a development or equity issue but a Global Health security issue. If you get sick in one of those communities, you are likely to have side effects or die or have that disease spread among you. For all those reasons it is a good community. 75 , 13 large fractional countries, we are going to get granular with a metric, try to take away at that but also a metric on how those 0 dose children get incorporated into a system and we want to build a resilient Health System for everybody. We have to be more differentiated and targeted. We have to go subnational. There is a reason communities are being reac
Howdy. Thank you for that howdy in return. I would like to welcome everyone from the thurn annual institute of International Affairs pandemic and bio Security Forum at the National Press level. I will serve as your event moderator today. I wear several hats at texas a m university where i serve as the associate dean is at the college of veterinary medicine and the director of the pandemic and bio Security Policy policy system. This forum is one part of the institutes policy framework as a Conference Series with an event both here in washington dc and at the push school of government and Public Service in the fall. Together with policy research and nextgeneration education on pandemics Health Security and bio defense throughout the year. The generous contributions of University Partners we have been able to form a strong commitment over the last three years for the nations Health Security. Reviews are essential to health and wellbeing and emerging and reand have become an integral part
Howdy. Thank you for that howdy in return. I would like to welcome everyone from the thurn annual institute of International Affairs pandemic and bio Security Forum at the National Press level. I will serve as your event moderator today. I wear several hats at texas a m university where i serve as the associate dean is at the college of veterinary medicine and the director of the pandemic and bio Security Policy policy system. This forum is one part of the institutes policy framework as a Conference Series with an event both here in washington dc and at the push school of government and Public Service in the fall. Together with policy research and nextgeneration education on pandemics Health Security and bio defense throughout the year. The generous contributions of University Partners we have been able to form a strong commitment over the last three years for the nations Health Security. Reviews are essential to health and wellbeing and emerging and reand have become an integral part
By vitac. Biologic. Captioning performed by vitac so, you know which world im in most of the day. The solution to both is, in fact, the same thing. Its changed tar i can technical youre the of government. Changed the way we look at the partnership. Now, i think my colleagues from the house would agree with me. Part of this is making predictable funding for barta. Part of is improvising poppa we identified over time. If you dont dhaeryou dont cha architecture it wont change the out come. So we have to focus how we put together partnerships, how were less concerned who owns the intellectual property and we can produce something thats a therapeutic solution to a problem. You might remember that when we thought we were on the verge of another pandemic we did something incredibly bold in congress. We passed legislation where the United States government owns three quarters of three flu manufacturing facilities in the United States. They are privately run. It was an investment by three quart