Here on cspan3, well take you live now to a hearing on amtraks response to the coronavirus pandemic. This hearing is already in process. While possibly only saving amtrak 213 million. Overall, the damage could top 3 billion if amtraks planned nine months of Degraded Service stretches another quarter to a full year. Ill finish. Thank you. The amtrak community was hit especially hard because several airlines say theyll drop service when the c. A. R. E. S. Act expires. Thats 67 cities facing air cutbacks. Nearly half, 31 of them, would all flew the same, sacramento, tampa, these routes touch nearly every corner of our country. On the empire builder on eight states from illinois to washington, those towns face a nearly 400 million blow. The north south city of new orleans between louisiana now produce nearly 134 million in economic benefits. It could wipe out as much as 88 million of that. Simply put, this drastically reduced utility of a nationwide Network Operating three days a week, mak
Nations rail Service Needs 4 billion to stay afloat for fiscal year 2021. He made the comments in testimony before the house transportation subcommittee on railroads. The subcommittee will come to order. I ask unanimous consent that the chair declare a recess at any time during todays hearing. Without objection so ordered. I also ask unanimous consent that the subcommittee be permitted to sit with the subcommittee at todays hearing and ask questions. Without objection so ordered. This is a hybrid hearing. I want to remind members of key regulations from the House Committee on rules to ensure that the hearing goes smoothly. Members must be visible on screen for the purposes of identification when joining this hearing. Members must also continue to use the video function on todays Software Platform cisco webx for the remainder of the time they are attending this hearing, unless experiencing connectivity issues or other technical problems. If a member is experiencing any connectivity issu
Order. I ask unanimous consent that the chair declare a recess at any time during todays hearing. Without objection so ordered. I ask unanimous consent that [ inaudible ] the subcommittee be permitted to sit with the subcommittee at todays hearing and ask questions. Without objection so ordered. This is a hybrid hearing i want to remind members of key regulations from the House Committee on rules to ensure that the hearing goes mooths smoothly. Members must be visible on screen for the purposes of identification when joining this hearing. Members must also continue to use the video function on todays Software Platform cisco web x for the remainder of the time attending this hearing unless experiencing connectivity issues or other technical problems. If a member is experiencing any connectivity issues or problems, please inform the Committee Staff as soon as possible so you can receive assistance. A chat function is available for members on the web x platform for this purpose and member
Inland. It already has. The hit series daniel tiger will soon be teaching toddlers and preschoolers about the covid19 pandemic. They kick off with a special on the coronavirus outbreak on august 17. During the special, daniel learns that the neighborhood carnival has been canceled and he has to cope with missing the people he loves and how to keep himself and others healthy. As we go to mike, good morning. We do not watch daniel tiger in our house anymore. I do remember them being riveted by that show so it will probably be pretty good for those kids. I watched the original daniel tiger, the puppet mr. Rogers had. That does not surprise me at all because i know that mr. Rogers had a beautiful way of addressing really heavy issues in a perfect, child appropriate way. Many of us grew up with mr. Rogers addressing racial equality, and civil rights. In and then a that families can understand and digest. It was an important thing to plant. That led to many important conversations. Covid19 i
Well thanks very much for being with us here on to the point to my guests here in the studio on who is a freelance journalist from china and she argues that cold war is an american a narrative in the current tensions of the expression of a dysfunctional world order also with us is my right back who is with the asia program of the German Marshall Fund she believes that transcend once a cooperation on china is key and for it to work both sides of the atlantic need to adjust their china strategy and a very well malcolm to sit down hamilton from Johns Hopkins university an academic and former diplomat to down thinks the competition isnt china versus america its all for its hereon isnt versus democracy. Thank you for being here with me today id like to begin with you mike a in your latest book event you have written together with Clive Hamilton the schools the hidden hand how the Chinese Communist party is reshaping the world so my 1st question is tell us how is it doing so so the main argu