World Health Organization suggests an adequate test positive rate should be somewhere between 3. 12 . But right now in the u. S. , its about 20 . This comes as the death toll has skyrocketed in the u. S. Last week was the deadliest sent on to say the death toll was just over 25,000 but its sort of 4300 deaths from wednesday to thursday. And over 4500 people died on friday alone. Last night we closed in on 39,000 deaths and thats more than the number of people who died in the korean war. For weeks now federal and state officials have been talking about testing shortfalls and why patients who have symptoms cant get tested. Well now we have new insight into how testing got off to such a slow start here in the u. S. Karen caifa has more. President trump says a few states are ready to ope businesses within the next week we continue to see a number of positive signs. The virus has passed its peak. The president pointing to vermont and montana and texas where the governor says a phased reopen
Individuals, with Small Business owners. Ive seen something ive never seen before. Ive seen people who are concerned. Health, d about their concerned about their future. Mr. Speaker, this is something to address. Ive also seen something ive never seen before either and is people pulling together. People doing for each other. Other. Caring for each volunteering at food banks. Volunteering at service organizations. Workers health care putting their own health at risk to deliver services. Best of america as well. Mr. Speaker, it is our here, our responsibility to help these people to deliver to them. Is not a perfect bill. If i had an opportunity id change a number of things in it, to do, s what we need mr. Speaker. And mr. Speaker, more than anything, what we need to do is pray. D to we need to pray to the god the speaker pro tempore the entleman from maryland is recognized. Seconds toi yield 30 the gentleman from michigan, dan kildee. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from michigan
The committee on transportation infrastructure will come to order. I ask unanimous consent that security be authorized to declare basis of the hearing without objection, so ordered. I also ask unanimous consent for the Ranking Member of the full committee to be recognized for ten minutes each i will be making to unanimous requests for documents from the attorneys said. I see nothing that is export sensitive in these documents will be making a unanimous consent request pistol into the export control act and make a unanimous consent request to enter the documents on the list into the hearing record. This list includes the export control documents theyve reviewed all these documents on both lists and with i would ask unanimous consent that they be disclosed pursuant to the code. I want to reserve my right to object. The reason for doing that is we have had at least two that i can remember noting the industries and that includes maritime, transit, you name it and they would love to have th
Would begin the first in a series of hearings on the state of the federal judiciary in the 21st century. In this hearing we will investigate ideas for promoting ethics, accountability, and transparency in the federal courts. We focus on these ideas in our first hearing on the judiciary because they flow from two foundational principles of due process. First that no one can be a judge in his own case. Second, to form a Supreme Court Justice Felix frankfurter , justice must satisfy the appearance of justice. Justice must satisfy the appearance of justice. Both rules embody the understanding that the constitutions implicit promise of equal justice under law depends on at least two things that our court must be fair, independent and impartial and that we must also believe that our courts are fair, independent, and impartial. Justice must satisfy the appearance of justice it might take a second but we intuitively understand that. It means that as the Supreme Court recently explained both th
Off. Export the nations passed on American History tv every weekend on cspan3. Next, a Congressional Panel visit Online Platforms and their visit on entrepreneurship in the us. We hear from google, apple, facebook and amazon officials to talk about ecommerce. This portion of the house judiciary subcommittee hearing is one hour and 50 minutes. Everybody will come to order, the chair is authorized to declare recess at any time. We welcome everyone to the second of our series of hearings investigating competition, this one on innovation, i recognize myself for an opening statement. 30 years ago, the first of the World Wide Web was released into Public Domain to create a Global Communications network. Within a few Years Services were built on the software to give people tools to communicate, share and export information from decentralized platform designed to be open and nondiscriminatory. Internet pioneer and codesigner of the internet early architecture testified in 2006 that the overarc