With time equally allocated between parties and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and minority whip limited to five minutes. But in no event shall debate 9 50 a. M. Beyond the chair now recognizes the entleman from illinois, mr. Shimkus, for five minutes. Mr. Shimkus thank you, mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, i rise again this thank my boys, now young men, for the love, support, and understanding during my time as congress. F as i stated yesterday when i was sworn in for my first term in 1997, david was 3 years old. Joshua was 1 years old. In 1999, daniel was born. After completing this term, i 24 years. 21, ns will be 28, 25, and respectively. So their entire lives have been of ng their dad as a member congress. I always joke that in the early packageable. Were in the district we just packed them up and hauled them around. Changess meant diapers, of clothes, lunchables. Well, you get the idea. They had a chance to visit county and state fairs. They also had to sit thr
Have learned during the crisis to better prepare for pandemic or other biological events of this scale in the future. Folks of todays hearing is the Strategic National stockpile. First established with a 51,000 appropriation in 1958, the sns was codified in 2002 and obtained its current name with an expanded mission in 2003. Over the years, management responsibility for the sns has changed between different agencies within hhs and dhs. In developing a plan for this committees oversight for the federal governments response to the coronavirus, the role of the Strategic National stockpile was an obvious area of interest, as is the vulnerability of our supply chain and theyre very interrelated. I assume that staff would be able to quickly obtain the list of items that should be held together with required and actual inventory levels of each item. Once again, i learned it is dangerous to assume. We quickly found out that those lists do not exist or certainly are not made available to congre
Amy hollyfield is live in berkeley for us this morning. Reporter School Districts across the bay area are discussing this now. What will Distance Learning look like. Berkeley voted on its model last nilts. O nght. One standout headline is what they decided on high school kids. They will be doing Distance Learning for the entire semester until the december break. Middle school and Elementary School students are saying that they will be Distance Learning for the first eight week. Oltslo remotely four days a week. Elementary students not in front of the computer as much, they are saying that they will meet with their teachers live online for about 30 minutes every morning and then will be 2k3wi6 given independent assignments. The school board has set up a town hall meeting for monday to help aunts questions about this new very unique way of educating students, so a good time for parents to come and ask all their questions. Amy hollyfield, abc 7 news. And San Francisco mayor breeze says th
12000 previously the trumpet ministration says it could withdraw all forces from the country by next may if the taliban meets all requirements of the deal including severing ties with al qaeda reducing violence and engaging in power sharing talks with the Afghan Government jesse its been nearly 2 decades since the us invaded afghanistan so its well beyond time for our government to end its occupation there well brigitta lets lets go back in history and look how all d this came about 1st ok we were allegedly attacked by Osama Bin Laden on 911. 00 so therefore we had to go there to get him that was without question were going to go get bin laden in afghanistan but that turned out to be a front bush and cheney really wanted to invade iraq that was their ultimate goal afghanistan didnt mean nothing to him they had to do it to satisfy the 911. 00 but then they went after iraq and everybody kind of forgot about afghanistan thats why its been sitting there now for 20 years of guys have been d
Anger and frustration builds in sudan the Prime Minister asks the government to resign with this sacred not fuji off limits with any japanese religious order thats made in many replica carry on worship. So the u. S. Supreme court made 2 significant decisions in the past few hours regarding president Donald Trumps financial records records he has fought hard to keep private the judges decided his tax returns can be made available to prosecutors in new york but not yet to the u. S. Congress that is the Manhattan District Attorney who wants the records as part of a criminal investigation into hush money payments made to Women Donald Trump allegedly had affairs with there was another ruling that concern committees in the house of representatives they have been investigating potential foreign influence and russian Money Laundering but the judges say that one needs to go back down to a lower court for a decision. The president has reacted plenty online already this was his 1st tweet talking