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
Into the congressional record as long as as well as my Opening Statements. I want to think everybody participating and covid19 continues to inflict terrible economic toll in the United States. Just over five months, weve express of our 120,000 deaths. 2 million total infections. Tens of millions have lost their jobs. This Congress Reviews response to covid19 is important take the lessons weve learned learned during this crisis to better prepare for pandemic are the biological events of the scale the future. Folks on todays hearing the Strategic National stockpile. First established with a 51 milliondollar preparations in 1998, was National Pharmaceutical stockpile. The s s was codified in 2002 and obtained his current name with expanded mission in 2003. Over the years, the response ability for the s s has changed between different agencies within hhs and vhs. Developing a plan for this communities oversight for the response to the coronavirus, the Strategic National area of interest as
Emergency management professionals about its role during pandemics. And how best to retool stockpile for future and biological events. On the welcome and thank all of the witnesses for the participation in for the thoughtful testimony and ill ask unanimous consent to enter the full testimony into the record of predisposing doctor garrett has requested the full ending of the crisis in complacency of the report be put into the congressional record as long as as well as my Opening Statements. I want to think everybody participating and covid19 continues to inflict terrible economic toll in the United States. Just over five months, weve express of our 120,000 deaths. 2 million total infections. Tens of millions have lost their jobs. This Congress Reviews response to covid19 is important take the lessons weve learned learned during this crisis to better prepare for pandemic are the biological events of the scale the future. Folks on todays hearing the Strategic National stockpile. First est
Hill as this historic election unfolds. Watch on cspan, cspan now, or online at cspan. Org. Cspan, your unfiltered view of government. A look at u. S. Investments abroad and oversight of the International Development corporation with its ceo, scot nathan. He talks about the dfcs focus on Food Security, and strengthening supply chains. This runs an hour and a half. This hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will come to order. Let me start by making something crystalclear to the international community. To the u. S. Foreignpolicy community. Two our nations allies and adversaries. As this Committee Moves forward, we will continue our work on behalf of the american people, as we have done for more than two centuries. The world faces challenges as well as opportunities. This committee of Senate Foreign relations, its members and staff, play a Critical Role in meeting the challenges america faces in National Security. As i accept the chairmanship with great humility, thanks to t
Area news. We begin on the Berkeley Campus where the students have taken to hiking in groups after a woman was attacked. Police say that yesterday, a student was jogging on the upper fire trail just off campus when a man tackled and sexually assaulted her. She was able to get away. The bay areas Sergio Quintana is live on the Berkeley Campus and this is rattling nerves with so many students out for the home football game. A lot of the students that we talked to out there on the trail said they decided to travel in groups, and as you mentioned, the police say that attacker tackled that student as she was running on that trail last night. Reporter students and reside residentses of the neighborhood say that the upper fire trail above the ucBerkeley Campus is a beautiful place for a hike or run, but an alert issued by the Uc Police Department reveals that the student was attacked here yesterday. She was running on the trail when the man jumped at her and pulled her to the ground. The aler