Www. Health. Senate. Gov is our website. I think it makes it possible for us to be table to attract witnesses who have very busy schedules on the same day such as today. Some senators are participating by videoconference. Senators may remove their masks since were 6 feet apart. Im grateful to the rules committee, the sarge want at arms, the press gallery, the capitol police, our Committee Staff for all their hard work to help keep us safe. Senator murray and i will each have an opening statement, and then well turn to our witnesses who we thank very much for being with us today. Each witness we would ask that you summarize your remarks in five minutes, which will allow more time for the large number of senators who we expect to participate to present their testimony. Well have one round of questions for a five minute round. Less than four months ago on march 1st the coronavirus situation was about this. At the end of february there were 79,000 cases around the world, only 14 in the Uni
This is the scene in miami right now where crowds are marching we are going to go ahead and through the streets. Power down. Right now in chicago there is a moment of silence that was we are going to see exactly ordered by the mayor hoping for where the police are just for a second here. If we can. A break in violent clashes we will check back with you in between police and protesters just a little bit. That have led to hundreds of Gadi Schwartz, take care of arrests, six people shot, and 20 your crew. Police officers hospitalized. Thank you. We will come back to you as we heres an emotional mayor lorie see more and get a sense what have might be developing. Gadi schwartz, who is in santa light foot. Monica, california. Look at this picture in new this is a city that we must york city. The governor said he expected protect so it can provide for more protests in new york city us. We know its not perfect. Tonight. But if it gets destroyed, we are announced the New York National guard has
This was hosted by georgetown university. Welcome everyone who is watching us tonight here on zoom as well as on youtube, facebook and twitter. On zoom, we have members of the Georgetown Community but also excited to have students and members of the community from a couple of nevada universities. Unlv and university of nevada at reno are also participating. Welcome. Thank you for joining us. So everyone is aware, the video is being recorded and will be posted for viewing later. I have always been very interested in the issue that were going to be focused on tonight, diversity in Public Service. As a person of color myself who spent most of my career working in the political trenches, looking around and seeing a lack of representation always struck me. On the political side, on the policy side. So tonight were thrilled to be joined by senator cortez masto to talk about some of these issues. Shes well versed in them. She spent her career fighting for issues and fighting for members of un
Welcome everyone who is watching us tonight here on zoom as well as on youtube, facebook and twitter. On zoom, we have members of the Georgetown Community but also excited to have students and members of the community from a couple of nevada universities. Unlv and university of nevada at reno are also participating. Welcome. Thank you for joining us. So everyone is aware, the video is being recorded and will be posted for viewing later. I have always been very interested in the issue that were going to be focused on tonight, diversity in Public Service. As a person of color myself who spent most of my career working in the political trenches, looking around and seeing a lack of representation always struck me. On the political side, on the policy side. So tonight were thrilled to be joined by senator cortez masto to talk about some of these issues. Shes well versed in them. She spent her career fighting for issues and fighting for members of underrepresented communities. The first lati
Next, an update on the Coronavirus Response with governor kristi noem. She was asked about the status of an investigation into a local food plant that saw a covid19 outbreak among its employees. Gov. Noem are we ready . Afternoon, everybody. Thank you for joining us, i am joined by the secretary of regulation, and our department of health secretary. A couple of quick things before i turn it over to update you on things going on across the state. I had a phone call this morning with the Vice President talking about supplies a lab testing capabilities. I also followed that up with a conversation with dr. Birx about getting supplies necessary to be more aggressive in communities across the state in testing. Those are encouraging and i appreciate their help. They have been amazing to be responsive to the situations not just in south dakota but across the country. I want to talk about our development program. It is a Small Business loan program we passed legislation for on the last day of s