Congressional Budget Office testify before the Senate Subcommittee on physical response ability and Economic Growth. Thank you all for participating. I think it will be good. Im sorry we cannot have it in a more, what to say, a more kind of formal setting because it may have been better because im not sure if there is any hearing we have that was more important than this. Our Witnesses Today will be philip schlagel, director of the congressional Budget Office and jean todaro who is the comptroller general of the United States and head of the u. S. Government accountability office. With that i will make my Opening Statement and then turned to maggie, my Ranking Member, and then Ranking Member wyden for the entire committee has a statement he would like to make as well. Again, thank you all for being here and im grateful to all who are there during us by internet. Todays hearing will address the topic that was shied away from Syrian Refugees and when it comes to our health we make choice
Mr. Lehrer good evening from the Clark Athletic Center at the university of massachusetts in boston. Im jim lehrer of the newshour on pbs, and i welcome you to the first of three 90minute debates between the democratic candidate for president , Vice President al gore and the republican candidate, governor george w. Bush of texas. The debates are sponsored by the commission on president ial debates, and they will be conducted within formats and rules agreed to between the commission and the two campaigns. Tonight, well have the candidates at podiums. No answer to a question can exceed two minutes. Rebuttals are limited to one minute. But as moderator, i have the option to follow up and to extend any particular give and take another threeandahalf minutes. Even then, no single answer can exceed two minutes. The candidates, under their rules, may not question each other directly. There will be no opening statements, but each candidate may have up to two minutes for a closing statement. The
Person and others may appear remotely via webex. Since some of the members will be in person, me first remind everyone that pursuant to the latest guidance in the house, all individuals in attendance and searing in person must wear a Face Covering. Those who are not wearing a Face Covering are not permitted to remain in the hearing room and will not be recognized for intent to speak. Let me also make a few reminders about other hearings. For those members who appear in prison, he will be able to see members appearing remotely on the two monitors in front of you. And one monitor you will see all members appearing remotely at once. And what is known in webex as a special mode. On the other monitor you will see each person speaking during the hearing when they are speaking. Including members who are appearing remotely. For those members of repairing remotely can also see each person speaking during the hearing whether they are in person or remote if you have your webex set to an active sp
Welcome everybody. Today, the subcommittee were some members will. Person and others may appear remotely via webex. Since some of the members will be in person, me first remind everyone that pursuant to the latest guidance in the house, all individuals in attendance and searing in person must wear a Face Covering. Those who are not wearing a Face Covering are not permitted to remain in the hearing room and will not be recognized for intent to speak. Let me also make a few reminders about other hearings. For those members who appear in prison, he will be able to see members appearing remotely on the two monitors in front of you. And one monitor you will see all members appearing remotely at once. And what is known in webex as a special mode. On the other monitor you will see each person speaking during the hearing when they are speaking. Including members who are appearing remotely. For those members of repairing remotely can also see each person speaking during the hearing whether they
We should not lose sight of what that means for people who are still struggling and the fact we still have a very deep hole to climb out of. The socalled [inaudible] workers at the low end distribution hedonic options to work from home and federal health is already fading away. Nasa been said about what this means for cities and as we see hollowed out downtowns with your workers coming in, buying lattes and what 115th congress has called any service that depends on a smile what does that mean for city revenues . One estimate suggests especially in high rent districts, employment is still at 45 of precovid levels. We arere about to explore the sinks a bigger graph of blog, my colleagues have a blog looking at what this means for cities and look at how really depends on state revenue structure, well exposure to covid as as the highly uncertain federal policy response. If i could get the next slide, please. There we go. The point of a blog is really going into this were a lot of things we