Criminal Trial Association and we are devastated by the attacks on our Asian Community and we stand in solidarity with supervisor mar and the appi advocates and victims of this violence. In looking ways to protect our asianamerican brothers and sisters, rather than a broken system, we must invest in communitybased solutions. We have relied too long on police and prosecution and prisons to protect us from racialized violence. These institutions are systematically bias, disproportionate and dehumanizing. These institutions have failed in the last 170 years to remedy the root causes of violence in our community. We need to increase police presence, to have bureaucracy or to push for more incarceration. We call to invest in our community and to prioritize support for Mental Health and treatment and Restorative Justice and responses to racialized violence. To bring all people together, including our black, indigenous, communities to promote unity. We cannot charge and punish our way out of
And we are beginning our hearings today in a very bipartisan way with witnesses that we have before us are the result of a bipartisan consensus and there is nothing partisan about Consumer Protection. We all want to protect against the abuses and deception and lies that all too often we see in the marketplace. We are completing a year of unimaginable heartbreak and hardship for all americans. A year of pandemic crisis, Health Care Crisis and consumer crisis. This year of heartbreak for americans its also been a breakout year for the swindlers and con artists. They have seen it as a bonanza and in fact, they have made it a bonanza. There have been 460,000 reports of Consumer Fraud in the past year, according to the ftc, at a cost of more than 411 Million Dollars which represents a 45 increase in the numbers of reports, 83 rise in the dollars lost. So, these reports show the results of a flooding of Online Marketplaces with fake personal protective equipment, sophisticated counterfeits a
Hearing to share their thoughts on the legislative proposal. Sen. Klobuchar i call to order this hearing on s1 the for the people act. Today we are here to consider the for the people act, legislation that im honored to lead with senator merkley and majority leader schumer, which has been cosponsored by every democratic member of this committee. I would like to thank senator blunt, our colleagues, and our witnesses for being here today. I would also like to acknowledge in addition to senator merkley two of our other members who are new to this committee and are new to the senate. Senator ossoff, who along with senator warnock were elected in georgia, where we know election issues were front and center. As well as senator padilla, who has his own extensive experience with these issues from his time as california secretary of state. Last month when we held this committees organizing meeting, i announced the for the people act would be the subject of our first ledge first legislative hear
Sen. Klobuchar i call to order [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2021] senr [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] sen. Klobuchar i call to order this hearing on s1 the for the people act. Today we are here to consider the for the people act, legislation that im honored to lead with senator merkley and majority leader schumer, which has been cosponsored by every democratic member of this committee. I would like to thank senator blunt, our colleagues, and our witnesses for being here today. I would also like to acknowledge in addition to senator merkley two of our other members who are new to this committee and are new to the senate. Senator ossoff, who along with senator warnock were elected in georgia, where we know election issues were front and center. As well as senator padilla, who has his own extensive experience with these issues from his time as california secreta
This one is looking at cases per 100,000 population. It is in a pattern of the u. S. Each box, each box is a state or jurisdiction. Maine is up here. California on the lower left. Puerto rico and the Virgin Islands in the ocean somewhere. In the x access axis, each box cases thousand the white why axis is time. Colors indicating the level of transmission. Red and orange, lowering transmission. Yellow and blue are low reassuring to read a couple of things to point out. There is a lot of red. There is a lot of orange. A lot of transmission throughout the country at the moment. You will see in the northeast region over time, a high elevation of case rates sustained over time. If you look at new york city or new york or rhode island, high case rates maintained over time. Versus the southeast, georgia and california have high rates. But we see a decline in the last two weeks. Oregon is in the yellow. California, the rates are lower and continue to come down. There is a lot of reasonable reg