Cspans q a. Cspan, your unfiltered view of government. Created by cable in 1979 and brought to you today by your television provider. Defense secretary mark eer and mark milley were on capitol hill to testify for the 2020 request for the pentagon. They were also asked about military moderation efforts and defense funds for border wall construction. The Committee Meets today to receive testimony in the department of defense fiscal year 2021 budget request and our witnesses we thank them for our service and both dr. Marques per and general mark. We have a pair of marks this morning. This committees top priority is ensuring the effectiveness adjacent to a National Defense strategy thats our vote we had heard in hearing for a long period of time now, about three years. Unfortunately, the last administration we asked our military to do more with less. That got us in trouble between 2012 and 2017, we boost 150 billion to sequestration. Our Defense Budget in the redness of our forces were dev
They also cautioned against the misinformation on social media regarding the coronavirus. This house, science, space and Technology Hearing meeting is out is about one hour and 40 minutes. This hearing will come to order. Without objection the chair is authorized to declare recess at any time. Good morning and welcome to the hearing on coronavirus, understanding the spread of the Infectious Disease and mobilizing Innovative Solutions. I will recognize myself for an Opening Statement and then i will recognize the Ranking Member for his Opening Statement and i will introduce the witnesses. Again, thank you for being here. Obviously this is an incredibly timely process. Covid19 is not the first pandemic we are ever going to deal with and certainly not the last one but it is incredibly important that we come together as a nation and as a planet and become to get ahead of this and address it and come up with treatment for it. If we think about Global Health security to threepronged approach
Covid19 is not the first pandemic we will ever deal with and certainly will not be the last one, but it is incredibly important that we come together as a nation and as a planet to get ahead of this, address it, ad, you know, come up with remedy for it. If we think about the basis of Global Health security, it is a threepronged approach containment, mitigation, and then treatment. This is the third hearing that i am chairing on this subject. The first focused on the containment strategy. That was the first hearing that congress held. The conclusion of that was the initial strategy of trying to contain this disease with travel bands, etc. , was likely not going to be successful. Very difficult, and i think what china did was ambitious. About us some time that most of us in the Public Health world recognize that we would likely see in community cases, it would be difficult to stop the spread of this disease. The second hearing we had was on mitigation, largely looking at testing, this wa
This hearing will come to order. Without objection the chair is authorized to declare recess at any time. Good morning and welcome to the hearing on coronavirus, understanding the spread of the Infectious Disease and mobilizing Innovative Solutions. I will recognize myself for an Opening Statement and then i will recognize the Ranking Member for his Opening Statement and i will introduce the witnesses. Again, thank you for being here. Obviously this is an incredibly timely process. Covid19 is not the first pandemic we are ever going to deal with and certainly not the last one but it is incredibly important that we come together as a nation and as a planet and get ahead of this and address it and come up with treatment for it. If we think about Global Health security to threepronged approach. Containment, mitigation, and treatment. This is the third hearing that im chairing on the subject and the hearing is focused on the containment. It was the first hearing the congress held. The conc
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