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The Senate Armed Services committee met to consider the nominations of the Lieutenant General to be chief of the National Guard bureau and an army general to lead operation warp speed which is tasked with developing a coronavirus vaccine. In his testimony, he told lawmakers it was likely the u. S. Will have a vaccine by the end of the year. Their confirmation hearing is almost 2. 5 hours. Good morning. The Committee Meets today to consider the nominations of Lieutenant General David Hokanson to be chief of the National Guard bureau, and general Gustave Perna to be chief operating officer of the project warp speed. I think both of you for being here today particularly under the current circumstances of what we are facing now, we are doing things differently. I know you are down there but i can barely see you. Anyway, we enjoyed meeting the families and all of that. We were not going to be able to do with the same way. When you do your Opening Statement, you may want to introduce family
In our communities of volunteer to do this. Experiencesd, their , a lot of them have appreciated the opportunity to help within their communities. It will help recruiting and retention. I think it will also help to retain them in our formations. We love them all. Let them know that. Senator reid. You, mr. Chairman, thank you for your excellent statements. Gen. Perna, we had a great discussion yesterday afternoon. Talked about typically the way the military we spent i spent some time, you spend your whole life. Planned for the worst, hope for the best. Here in d. C. , and this is a bipartisan model, it is usually planned for the best and ignore the worst. You will be put in the middle of that. It goes back to the point we reiterated. You have to base your activities on science, fact, on committing saypeak truth to power, to not only the good news but also to bring us the bad news. I hope that you will do that. Can you commit to that . I 100 will commit to that. Thank you. Ppe, that we w
Leader kevinrity mccarthy spoke to reporters today, answering questions on the possibility of more economic aid in response to the coronavirus pandemic, reauthorization of the federal Surveillance Program and President Trump saying to curtail the power of social Media Companies by executive order. Mr. Mccarthy before i begin this weekly press conference, i want to do something different. I want to spend a few minutes paying tribute to an American Hero that we lost yesterday. You all knew him. Congressman sam johnson. He was a hero in every sense of the word. Sam was a republican member who served in this chamber for 28 years. Before being sworn in, sam had already done to this country than anyone else. You see, sam was an air force pilot and flew missions in korea and vietnam. He was shot down and served in hanoi hilton seven years. 3. 5 of those years was in solitary confinement. He was one of those type of individual it was just an honor to get to know. I want to tell some personal s