We welcome your comments by text , 202 7488003. Tell us your name and where you are from. Wj. Twitter we are cspan maryland was one of the first states to impose tight restrictions. The latest from the Washington Times, saying they will ease restrictions and prepare to reopen maryland. The governor eased coronavirus restrictions wednesday to allow residents to participate in some outdoor act to videos and resume elective medical procedures. They closed Public Schools for the rest of the academic year. Residents may participate in golfing, fishing, boating, tennis, camping, and other outdoor activities. He added that local governments can exercise flexibility in reopening playgrounds and parks. That is from the Washington Times. An Washington Post published oped, an opinion piece by five republican governors who kept their states open. Five republican governors, our states stayed open during the coronavirus, here is why our approach worked. That is the headline of the piece. The governo
Work thats going on . The promise, apaper, of therapeutics like remdesivir . Guest im excited that the Global Scientific Community has focused in on this problem in a tremendous way. There are at least 60 candidates or more than that by now that have been eached that much therapeutic potential for covid19. One of the most exciting things is that the use of Super Computers to literally recreate the virus in cyberspace, do the same thing with existing drugs and ask whether or not nose drugs can bind to and therefore inhibit the virus. For a lot of exciting approaches being taken so i do think within the coming months, theres going to be a therapeutic thats going to be found that works. Im less convinced that well have a having zone in a year because having studied viruses for 40 years, i know not to expect that to happen. Its a possibilities but not very likely that well have a having zone in a year. Host in addition to hearing about your work this morning, talk about the Racial Disparit
Off 280e dash up with a miso is cannabis businesses that are legal at the state level cannot write their businesses off. So if they buy pens pins oy buy tables for their dispensary speeded we will break away from this discussion to keep our over 40year commitment to covering congress. You can watch all of our washington journal segments if you go to our website cspan. Org. Today the u. S. Senate is back in session following its summer recess. Sandage will be voted on the Federal Reserve vice chair nomination later this afternoon. And i like to the of the u. S. Senate here on cspan2. And now live to the floor of the u. S. Senate here on cspan2. The presiding officer the senate will come to order. The chaplain dr. Barry black will lead the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Eternal god, who rules the raging of the sea, you reign over the nations of our turbulent world. You alone subdue the winds and the rain with a word from your mouth. As we return from recess and open this ses
Neutrally. The content was neutral, Net Neutrality. People really like youtube. They preferred youtube to glool video. And youtube thrived. Enemy fact, in 2006, google bought it for a stock valued at 1. 65 billion. Its a nice chunk for three guys over a pizza restaurant in san mateo. Its not just Tech Companies that rely on an open internet. A coalition that includes visa, bank of america, u. P. S. And ford explained that, quote, every retailer with an online catalog, every manufacturer with online product specififications, every specifics, every Bank Offering online account management, every company with a website, every business in america interacting with its customers online is dependent upon an open internet. Unquote. I repeated this quote on the floor and at rallies time continue time again over the years because i think it perfectly exemplifies the importance of this issue. Preserving Net Neutrality is only controversial for the few deeppocketed entities that stand to financiall
Lets call this session to order. If everybody who is all right. Whoever is going to be in, get in. Whoever is going to not, dont. All right. Thank you all. Thank you all so much. Can i have everybodys attention in the room, please. Thank you so much. I know time is precious for a lot of people and we have a lot of very important guests and i want to make sure that everybodys time is honored. Im just thrilled to be able to have a conversation about something that just continues to challenge us in a very significant way in the country, and theres no reason to believe its going to abate. All of us are going to suffer through disasters of one type or another, and cities along with states and the federal government, have been working very, very hard, before and significantly after september 11th to make sure we organize ourselves as a country so that we can recover quickly from disasters that happen so we prepare for them, and so that we build in a way where were resilient. When bad things