get started let me center best wishes for a speedy recovery to president trump, the first lady, as well as all the officials who work closely with the president. one month out from november 3 americans across the country have already started voting in the most important presidential election in a generation. president elect joe biden for reelected president donald trump will face a double digit unemployment situation and a global pandemic, a reckoning on racial inequality and a divided nation. the one institution that could help address these problems is the federal government. the federal government needs to be effective if it will deliver for the american people. that is why preparation and planning today is critical for effectiveness on january 20. regardless of your wins a smooth transition this year is not enough in this year we need the best transition ever in american history. should vice president biden win the challenges are truly daunting. in normal times a new pres
the committee will come to order. the company is leaving today to receive testimony on confronting the coronavirus, without objection, the chair is authorized to declare the committee and recess at any point. today the committee is meeting to hear from medical experts about how our country can best confront the coronavirus. americans are justifiably concerned about the virus. it is spread around the world and claimed lives of thousands. understandably, there questions about how how it may affect them, their loved ones in their communities. our concern how concerned we need to be about the virus. it is most at risk. what can communities do to prepare. what can americans do to protect themselves and their families. what is the fellow government doing. what more should be doing. when might we have a vaccine or other treatment. my constituents are looking to the federal government for leadership, guidance and expertise and i share my colleagues constituents two. i am concerned
for a while larry summers withdrew his nomination. janet yellen was the odds on favorite. larry summers was in front in the summer and now it s back to janet yellen. now it s official. at 3:00 tomorrow president obama in the east room will make the announcement. ben bernanke will be there. janet yellen will be there and they ll announce that janet yellen is the first female ever nominated to be the fed chair. i m glad of that. steve, let me ask you. i know it s right off the top of your head. will there be any changes in a janet yellen fed? i don t think so. i don t think there will be a big change, larry. i think janet has generally supported the policies that the fed has. i think she s felt for a long time that high levels of unemployment have necessitated high levels of federal reserve stimulus and i also know that she would probably be a person to run the committee very much like a committee and not a very strong leader in terms of imposing her will on the committee.
you say repeal it, and if you say keep it as is. you can also make a comment on .ur twitter page you can send us an e-mail at .ournal at c-span.org one of the contractors on the front page, there suspect a lot of time in the witness chair at the energy and commerce committee. same headline and picture on the front page of the washington post. representative kim murphy is on the committee. he is a republican from pennsylvania. here s a little bit of what he had to say. as chairman of the oversight investigations committee i have heard numerous promises from the administration officials that all is well with the health-care law. not true. either these officials were shockingly unaware of what was happening inside their own agencies or deliberately misleading our committee and the public. this would all turn around. two weeks before enrollment began we were told that consumers could go online, shop and enroll on october 1 heard not true. we were promised a website where peop
later today discussion on the nsa trevelyan s programs. the meeting will focus on privacy issues and that gets underway live at noon eastern here on c-span. more from the road to the white house 2016 with ted cruz. he s speaking at the annual iowa republican party reagan dinner. you can watch a live at 8:00 p.m. tonight. a pair of profile interviews. we spoke with joe manchin and cathy mcmorris rodgers. those conversations will air starting at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span2. , the yesterday s hearing ministration released figures claiming about 700,000 people have signed up so far. officials did not write down those numbers per state. will testifyer before the house ways and means committee on tuesday. check www.c-span.org for our coverage plans. tragediesirsthand the that children face this week when they are not care for by loving parents. it was in the sheriffs s office where i first witnessed the horrors of child sex trafficking and it convinced me that we needed to do mo