Each individual case is so heartbreaking. Yesterday on the floor we heard about a 5yearold girl whose mother a police officer, her father, a firpte. 5 years old, died of the coronavirus and then we heard max zones sister is dying. Senator warrens brother is dying. Thats people we know but people we dont know, theyre having the same kind of terrible grief in their family. Our prayers and thoughts are with those who have lost their loved one. Our prayers and thoughts are with those who have been diagnosed. Approaching 900,000 diagnosed and also, what 26 million having lost their jocks. Staggering numbers. Lots of personal and family grief. The conversation thats going on now is if we are to open government how and when. As i had said, it should be sciencebased. Science based. Testing, testing, testing holds the key to opening the door to taking it from home into the economy. Had testing everyone agrees, testing well, not everyone. Scientists agree that testing, Contact Tracing and isolat
Speaker pelosi good morning. Morning. Thank you for being here. Its a sad day. I know that many people, as am i, are quite shaken by the fact that we have passed the 50,000 number of people who have died from the coronavirus mark. Over 50,000. The numbers are staggering but each individual case is so heartbreaking. Yesterday on the floor we heard about a 5yearold girl whose mother a police officer, her father, a firpte. 5 years old, died of the coronavirus and then we heard max zones sister is dying. Senator warrens brother is dying. Thats people we know but people we dont know, theyre having the same kind of terrible grief in their family. Our prayers and thoughts are with those who have lost their loved one. Our prayers and thoughts are with those who have been diagnosed. Approaching 900,000 diagnosed and also, what 26 million having lost their jocks. Staggering numbers. Lots of personal and family grief. The conversation thats going on now is if we are to open government how and whe
Are thrilled to be here today we have a terrific lineup of speakers i will introduce momentarily the ceo of the vaccine alliance. First thank you to our colleagues who put this program together very carefully over many weeks and my partner catherine who we will hear from on the panel. This is a big year of replenishment you hear about that it is the second replenishment in the tenure of ceo data back to 2013 and in that. Reflecting on what has happened during his tenure it is remarkable. The amount of leadership and achievement and change we have seen over the course of this. A continuous process of reworking and improving the transition policy, we have Seen Movement of the institution to a concentrated discussion in advancing Health Security and promoting stockpiles to advance hpv vaccine and looking immunization across the entire lifespan. The institution has been graded at various points with very high marks in terms of gender equity and accountability to shape markets to bring pric
49. 1 billion in discretion fundi funding and the disaster of the relief fund. Today we welcome chad wolf, the acting secretary of the department of Homeland Security. Thank you for being with us. Mr. Secretary, the fy 21 budget proposes 49. 7 billion in discretionary funding for the department of Homeland Security. This is a cut of 750 million below the current year level. I want to be clear, absent of any in acted law to affect such a transfer, this subcommittee will continue to include funding f for the secret service. When including funding for the secret service for the total, the budget request for fy 21 is 1. 78 billion above the current year level. There is something of the proposed budget that i believe will find strong bipartisan support. However there are also proposals we should not expect to see funded in the house bill. Among those are funding for border barriers and the expansion of capacity. Particularly in light of high priority needs that just continues to hire custom
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