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Day. We ask your blessing upon those throughout our country who are suffering so much more each day. Keep safe the firefighters out west. Keep safe those who are responding to the destruction of Hurricane Sally on the gulf coast. Listen to the cries of those who have lost so much as a result of these natural covid rs even as the pandemic weeks its havoc in our communities. Here in the capitol impel with your spirit the members of congress who, more than any others, have the opportunity to addres...

Atis clear we are looking the strain on School Districts we have not seen in a decade. How do states, families and School Districts cope with the massive physical strain of the Great Recession and how do you expect this crisis to be similar or different than what we just went through in the last decade . Fiscal strain. Providedderal aid under the recovering act during the Great Recession was really important but only covered one quarter of state budget shortfalls. It ended too soon when the stat...

We are ready to go now. Take it all for joining the first remote hearing of the subcommittee on select revenue measures. We find ourselves in challenging times as evidenced by this new method of conducting Community Business in accord with the Public Health and safety recommendations. But the challenges we encounter here in congress are small compared to what i hear and see and what i am sure all of you here and see in our communities. Im glad we can move forward into the work that our constitue...

Regulations members are required to leave their cameras on the entire time they are in an official proceeding, even if they step away from the camera. This is an entirely remote hearing and as such the Committee Ruling will be closed and members who choose to sit with their individual devices in the hearing room must wear headphones to avoid feedback echoes and distortion resulting for more than one person in the room on the Software Platform as has been reported by the committees. They also are...

[roll call] [roll call] pursuant to Committee Rule Opening Statements is limited to the chair and Ranking Member and this allows to hear from our witnesses sooner and provides members and adequate time to answer questions. I now trigger myself for an opening statement. Before i deliver the opening remarks i must first acknowledge the recent protests against Police Misconduct in in favor of Racial Equity and justice across the nation. Times are demanding and we address this countrys centuryold ch...

U. S. Senate when they return here on cspan2. Next a house ways and means subCommittee Hearing on efforts to provide tax relief to low income workers, minorities, women and families affected by the coronavirus pandemic. Witnesses include representatives from the National Womens law center, Georgetown University poverty and inequality center, the American Enterprise institute and Childrens Health watch at Boston Medical Center. We are ready to go now. Take it all for joining the first remote hear...

He will also deliver remarks. Live coverage on cspan gets under way at 5 p. M. Eastern, followed by your phone calls. The cspan city store visits literary and Historic Sites across the nation, to hear from local historians, authors and civic leaders, every other weekend on cspan2s book tv and American History tv on cspan3. And this month, with congress on its summer recircumstance the cities tour is on cspan each day at 6 p. M. Eastern. Today, we are in key west, florida, and aboard a u. S. Ship...

Early on set alzheimers and also appeared before the senate aging committee. The hearing will come to order. Good afternoon. It is my pleasure to convene this afternoons hearing to assess our nations process in combatting alzheimers disease since the enactment of the national alzheimers project app which i co authored with then senator in 2011. I dont need to tell the people in this room what a devastating disease alzheimers is it exacts a tremendous personal and economic toll on the individual ...

Ignoring the devastation in puerto rico and also mexico they are eager to help out. This feeling of what can i do . Why do i feel this horrible . I have not done anything about the situation and im all the way over here and there is nothing i can do . The Mexican Association of students at university of pennsylvania is proof you can do something. They are lending a hand for the people that affected by the 7. 1 earthquake that levels buildings and started a go fund me that raised over 30,000. I t...

Does not feel like fall, chris. Reporter it does not, good morning, gray, good morning everyone, temperatures this afternoon top out in the upper 80s. Tomorrow were in the low 90s. It will feel like the middle of july this weekend. 59 in quakertown. Thats not too bad. 59 in pottstown. Cool in the poconos, 55. Mid 60s to the southeast, fortescue, the gandys beach area, 66. 64 in glassboro. Vineland, 65. Tuckahoe, 66 degrees. Were waking up to mainly Clear Conditions youll see a ton of sunshine ou...