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Good morning. Good morning. The hearing on the senate labor and Pensions Committee will please come to order. We want to thank our staff for working through some technical difficulties this morning and thank thean senators and our witnesses who are joining us from around the country in various offices where we are all following the attending physicians protocol for safe us whoing and those of are here Wearing Masks on our way in and sitting 6 feet apart while we are here. Senator murray and i will have an Opening Statement then we will turn to our witnesses for of about fivets minutes each, if they could please summarize them, there it ais. Senators will each have five minutes rounds of questions and we have a vote at 11 40 so we will need to finish this hearing by about noon and all the senators will have had that ....
The vote 11 40 eastern, a final vote around 1 30 this afternoon. Now, live coverage of the u. S. Senate here on cspan2. The chaplain lord god, in these difficult and challenging times, remind us that the earth belongs to you, and you have not abandoned it unite us with the understanding that you are our father, and we are all members of the human family. We pray for all who have been impacted by the pain of this us to crisis season. Use our senators to make the weak strong, the sick healthy, and the broken whole. Lord, surround those who have been shaken by anguish with your divine presence and peace. We pray in your loving name. Amen. The presiding officer please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. The presiding officer the clerk will read a communi ....
Everwhere. By karen sherman. What a title, right . Each word of the title has meaning within itself and i think you will see that eliminated today during the conversation that karen will have with barbara. I am Marjorie Sims managing director at the Aspen Institute and sly pleasure to step in for my boss pam mosley who is the executive director of aspen and the Vice President at the Aspen Institute. Unfortunately she had a family emergency today and is not able to speak she was heavily involved in the planning and it was her honor to be able to host this book talk because she has been a very close friend for many years. If you know ann you know the personal relationships and commitments are very important to her so only in emergency would have kept her from opening ....
Ronald reagan president ial foundation and institute thank you for coming this evening. In honor of men and women in uniform defending freedom around the world please stand and join me for the pledge of allegiance. [cheers and applause] i pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america. And to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all. [cheers and applause] before we get started theres people i would like to recognize this evening i will start with the mayor and his wife shelby. [applause] former congressman and his wife and charlie kirk is here founder of turning point usa. [cheers and applause] and i know he is supposed to be where is pat . We have a great evening in store for you so i will be very brief before i introduce our special guests who will introduce our speakers want to take a moment to thank a handful of other people we have in our audience this ev ....