Chairman of the American Enterprise institute or trustees. Its my pleasure to welcome you to aeis irving urban kristol e summit, featuring renowned scholar nicholas eberstadt. Nick holds the chair and political economy at aei. Nick is being honored with this years Irving Kristol award and is simply put one of aeis and americas great intellectuals. At this moment in our nations history, his work and his lecture today will point the way forward for our country and offer a vision for how to revitalize our nation and oppose pandemic world. His scholarship and that all of aei scholars has served to help americas leaders navigate our nations the story challenges throughout the course of this year. Although many challenges still lie ahead, aei is wellpositioned to meet these headon by supplying the visionary thinking and actionable policy solutions that our nation needs. Aeis college will promote free people and free markets, increased economic and social mobility, revitalize constitutional o
Peters, and delivering the opening statement, a minute to acknowledge the United States passed another milestone that we have lost 200,000 americans to covid19. Our hearts go out to their families, husbands and wives, mothers and fathers, children, grandchildren and grandparents. Americans everywhere must fight to stop the virus from spreading, to protect millions more from experiencing this loss. As members of congress we will go to republicans, all united to be our part. We turn to opening statement, unlike every hearing, in the u. S. Congress economic committee, simply explore economic issues. We will focus on Public Health. With the closing of coronavirus is in march causing unemployment in april, democrats reset some of those Public Health experts in the country. Two all two nobel prize laureates, 5 former chairs of the president s council of economic advisers and 3 were president of the National Economic association over 2 dozen in all. Every one of them have the same urgent mess
Voters whether their concern about political division. Watch this program in entirety on our website cspan. Org. Now to a virtual discussion on governing priorities for the next president. Live coverage on cspan2. We welcome you to the second phase of our conversation following up on Nick Eberstadts lecture about our country which has seen more than its share of challenges and unexpected turns. Next lecture will be one starting point for this and another will be the simple fact we are less than a month away from a president ial election. The winner of that election, the person who takes the oath of office will face ordinary challenges both those created by the pandemic, many of which nick just discussed and those that have been building long before and require attention and action. That person will confront unusual opportunities in this strange moment. It helps the president think about those challenges and opportunities about how to prioritize them and ai has been engaged in a special
Substance, feeble in fact. That the court notwithstanding that strict scrutiny virtually always ruled for the government. Were going to leave this recorded program at this point. You can watch it online at cspan. Org. We go live now to a joint Economic Committee meeting looking at the impact of covid19. Watching live coverage on cspan3. Senator peters from michigan and many others who will be joining us from the house and the senate. Before i deliver my opening statement, i would like to acknowledge that today the United States passed another sad milestone that weve lost more than 200,000 americans to covid19. Our hearts go out to their families, to the husbands and wives, mothers and fathers, children, grandchildren, even grandparents. Americans everywhere must fight harder to stop the virus from spreading so we can protect millions more from experiencing this loss. Members of congress and members of this committee, were all united to do our part. With that, let me turn it over to our
Possible and on testing the American People really deserve to know that when we began, as you said, mr. President it, was literally a standing start. We didnt have information on the coding of the coronavirus until midfebruary but americas cdc labs and Public Health labs did their level best. By the end of february we had done less than 10,000 coronavirus tests but as you Just Announced a few moments ago, last week we cleared 100 million tests all across the country. It is extraordinary. We have the capacity to do three million tests a day. It is a testament to American Innovation and the leadership youve provided. Also, mr. President , weve delivered to nearly 14,000 Nursing Homes in america point of care tests already and are making it possible for us to really keep focus on the most vulnerable. As you know only 8 of those who have contracted the coronavirus are in Nursing Homes but 40 of those that have lost their life have been in Nursing Homes. So weve surged those resources and s