The presiding officer the senate will come to order. Under the previous order, all postcloture time is expired. On the wiegand nomination. The question now occurs on the nomination. Is there a sufficient second . There appears to be. The clerk will call the roll. Vote vote vote vote the presiding officer are there any senators in the chamber wishing to vote or change their vote . If not, the yeas are 82, the nays are 14. The nomination is confirmed. Under the previous order, the motion to reconsider is considered made and laid upon the table, and the president will be immediately notified of the senates action. The clerk will report the motion to invoke cloture. The clerk cloture motion we, the undersigned senators, in accordance with the provisions of rule 22 of the standing rules of the senate, do hereby move to bring to a close debate on the nomination of thomas t. Cullen of virginia to be United States district judge for the Western District of virginia. Signed by 17 senators. The
This hearing will come to order. I would like to welcome dr. Robert redfield, director of the centers for Disease Control and prevention and we thank you for being here this morning. Dr. Redfield, to discuss the cdc and the on going response to covid19. I also want to welcome the subcommittee members, Ranking Member congressman thomas pole and our full Committee Chair. I want to thank you to the subcommittee members here in person as well as subcommittee members who are participating by secure video teleconference. Before i move to my Opening Statement, and because this is our first labor hhs and education appropriation subcommittee hearing with some members participating remotely, i would like to begin by offering a brief explanation of how it will work in order to benefit both members and the public. This hearing room has been configured to maintain the recommended six foot social distancing between members, witnesses, and other individuals in in the room necessary to operate the hea
Opportunity to testify. I want to provide an overview of the steps we have taken in colorado. We hope some of the successful practices will give an example for other states and nations. We set realistic goals. Freedom of movement throughout the United States, it would be impossible to eradicate the virus until there is a vaccine so on the Public Health side, our folks have been destabilized by protecting the most vulnerable, supporting Health Care Providers, making sure people have access to all forms of health care and doing everything we can to acquire testing equipment and personal Protection Equipment and being as smart as we can with the use of limited resources. And making and making sure we meet the needs of every critical patient that comes to the door, covid or noncovid so as not to overwhelm the Health Care System. On the economic side, we take into a number of its ordinary measures to help workers make Strategic Decisions about reopening, really taken into account the econom
Capacity, reopening guidelines, and what the federal government can do to provide further assistance. Difficulties,al this is a portion of the subcommittee hearing. Thank you for the invitation to testify. Thank you, chairwoman. If done a tremendous job in this crisis and beyond. Thank you, Ranking Member guthrie. It is great to see you in this capacity. And rankinghairman member and members of the committee. I want to provide an overview of the steps we have taken in colorado with the hope that some of the successful practices weve implemented here can be an example for other states, the federal government, and other nations dealing with the coronavirus. We started with realistic goals. We knew it would be impossible to eradicate the virus in theredo or america until is a vaccine. Our focus from the start has limitingtabilize by the spread, protecting the most vulnerable, supporting our Health Care Providers, making people received on Covid Health Care and doing everything we can to p
Today address as number of important issues related to ovid19 testing. One issue we examined in this work, i hope we talk about today, is how we can make sure that we are best prepared for potential overlap of covid19 and influenza cases in the fall. Im looking forward to the conversation we are going to have today. I greatly appreciate all three of our witnesses and governors for taking time from their extremely busy schedules to be here. Made a lot of improvement over the last few months, our work is not done and as we continue to work on drafting more legislation responding to covid19 pandemic, it is especially important to hear state perspectives. I thank you. Yield back. Ms. Degette i thank the gentleman for yielding back. I would advise members in case you are unaware of this, there is a window on your screen that says one, two, three clock. This will count down from five minutes for each other statements or questioning. And then it will start going over. If thats not working for