Live Breaking News & Updates on Global Health Threats
Stay updated with breaking news from Global health threats. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
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 ....
With time equally allocated between parties and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and minority whip limited to five minutes. But in no event shall debate 9 50 a. M. Beyond the chair now recognizes the entleman from illinois, mr. Shimkus, for five minutes. Mr. Shimkus thank you, mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, i rise again this thank my boys, now young men, for the love, support, and understanding during my time as congress. F as i stated yesterday when i was sworn in for my first term in 1997, david was 3 years old. Joshua was 1 years old. In 1999, daniel was born. After completing this term, i 24 years. 21, ns will be 28, 25, and respectively. So their entire lives have been of ng their dad as a member congress. I always joke that in the early packageable. Were in the district we just packed them up and hauled them around. Changess meant diapers, of clothes, lunchables. Well, you get the idea. They had a chance to visit county and state fairs. They also had to sit thr ....
Man in the world right now. So thank you so much for joining us today dr. Anthony fauci and look forward to seeing you again when we can all get together in person. Thank you very much. I hope so, steve. We will focus our energies on intersection of race and access to care. You will get underway a few housekeeping notes. You can tweet as at hashtag the home health. Broadcast live and we will be taking your questions throughout the program. If youre experienced trouble with the live stream please refresh the page. That should be a quick fix. I i dont believe in pachuca tractor the coronavirus does not discriminate we thought from royals to World Leaders are going is foldable yet as the numbers are scrutinized Racial Disparities come into focus. People of color who are at the lower end of the socioeconomic spectrum are uniquely positioned to worse outcomes. Questions of acce ....
Today, access for care is a matter of life and death. Social determinants of health have become more vital than ever before. Directorguest is cdc robert redfield. Thank you for direct thank you for joining us again. I have been telling people several times in that last conversation, i could feel you simmering when we talked before about the lack of investment over decades in our Public Health infrastructure and why that is so consequence role consequential. Dir. Redfield thank you very much. I think it is really important for us to be honest and transparent about the fact that for decades we have failed to invest in Public Health. Complexityn the that has caused us as we confronted the covid outbreak. I would argue now is the time to make that investment to hit our nation on a sustained pass to have the Public Health system ....
[inaudible conversations] the cdc before the subcommittee this morning and has been several years march of 2016 since our last hearing on the budget of the nations leading Public Health agency. Before i do a formal welcome, i was made aware of this issue which is very troubling. And that is, that the administration is ordered the immigration courts to immediately remove coronavirus posters and it just says the immigration courts have been ordered nationwide by the administration to takedm down coronavirus posters from courtrooms and waiting areas. The executive office for immigration review under the department of justice mandated allex posters which explain in english and spanish how to prevent catching and spreading the virus had to be removed immediately. I just want to say that whatever your point of view on any issue that we face in this nation whatever your personal views are or your ideology , that we canno cannot, we cannot ....