National crisis to get the house and congress in general moving . Rep. Graves it is important to look at where we were. We passed legislation to address this type of scenario. We increased funds for organizations to make sure we are prepared for this. This is an evolving threat. Every country in the world is working together with the World Health Organization till learn as much as we can. The legislation we passed through the house yesterday provides funds to the department of health. The primary objective is trying to get funds out to the state Public Health departments and the folks who are actually on the ground. This is everything from surveillance, trying to understand where the infection is, how it is being transmitted and learning as much as we can. It is about ensuring we are moving forward on treatment and vaccines. Most importantly, getting the resources out to our state and local public entities to ensure they have the appropriate testing and other types of respiratory equip
The climate crisis, Louisiana Republican garret graves. Good morning. Give us a sense of where the money from the coronavirus package is headed in the house. The house allocated 8. 3 billion yesterday. Where is that money going and why does it seem like it takes a National Crisis to get the house and congress in general moving . Rep. Graves it is important to look at where we were. We passed legislation to address this type of scenario. We increased funds for organizations to make sure we are prepared for this. This is an evolving threat. Every country in the world is working together with the World Health Organization till learn as much as we can. The legislation we passed through the house yesterday provides funds to the department of health. The primary objective is trying to get funds out to the state Public Health departments and the folks who are actually on the ground. This is everything from surveillance, trying to understand where the infection is, how it is being transmitted
Rep. Graves it is important to look at where we were. We passed legislation to address this type of scenario. We increased funds for organizations to make sure we are prepared for this. This is an evolving threat. Every country in the world is working together with the World Health Organization till learn as much as we can. The legislation we passed through the house yesterday provides funds to the department of health. The primary objective is trying to get funds out to the state Public Health departments and the folks who are actually on the ground. This is everything from surveillance, trying to understand where the infection is, how it is being transmitted and learning as much as we can. It is about ensuring we are moving forward on treatment and vaccines. Most importantly, getting the resources out to our state and ublic entities to ensure they have the appropriate testing and other types of respiratory equipment and other Protection Equipment they need to be effective managers of
Maintain our peace and to provide a better life for our people. Reel america, sunday at 4 00 p. M. Eastern on American History tv on cspan 3. Ourn newsmakers this week, guest is the Ranking Member of the Senate Select committee on the climate crisis, resentative garrett rai good morning. Give us a sense of where the money from the coronavirus package is headed in the house. 8. 3 billion yesterday. Where is that money going and why does it seem like it takes a National Crisis to get the house and congress in general moving . Rep. Graves it is important to look at where we were. To addressegislation this type of scenario. Forncreased funds organizations to make sure we are prepared for this. Evolving threat. Every country in the world is working together with the World Health Organization till learn as much as we can. The legislation we passed provides funds to the department of health. It provides funds to the cdc. It provides funds to the department of health. Get fundsive is to out to
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