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Word signup box. While the house of representatives remains out of session due to the coronavirus pandemic, members of the House Appropriations subcommittee met on capitol hill to look at the virus. The hearing included testimony from former cdc director tom frieden and caitlin rivers from the Johns Hopkins center for Health Security. This is 2. 5 hours. The hearing will come to order. Good morning, and welcome to the labor, health, and Human Services and education appropriations subcommittee. T...

Hygiene. Thank you for coming. I hope everybody has disinfectant that they can use. We spaced out the room to be as safe as possible to my staff and minority staff, thank you for working together. We are back, we spent 40 something days since the senate has been able to meet. The committee has a lot to do related to the coronavirus but we have other things for the good of the nationlike filling judicial vacancies or getting comments throughout the country about the vacancies and how they are imp...

Administration and was reappointed by President Trump. In addition he most recent was given the prize for his involvement in spiritual matters involving scientific matters and will talk about that in a moment. If i could talk to dr. Collins first. Dr. Collins, you just over the human genome which is a complicated project and it involved thousands of scientists, in a was amounts of effort over many, many years. Was the pressure to get the human genome discovered, how to compare that with depressi...

Introduce people more formally prior to their also thomas fanning, two of the commissioners of the commission. First of all i want to thank the cochairs and that commissioners for the important work on the Cyberspace Solarium Commission. I think the end product is excellent. I think it has solid recommendations that a number of these are within our committees jurisdiction over the working hard to evaluate those and the ones that we can get them passed into law of these recommendations can be don...

We are featuring a conversation with cyntoia brownlong. I want to thank molly gold. She was also instrumental in developing the program for her visit and for tonights event. Thank you molly. [applause]. I want to take all of my colleagues for the work on this forum and some the other events throughout the year. I like to a mile acknowledge acknowledged more than a dozen cosponsors. I hope you saw them recognized on the screen before we started. It is gratifying that some the organizations from a...

Host are against this week on the communicators is congresswoman Abigail Spanberger. Spanberger. Shes a democrat from virginia in her first term. Congresswoman, get some legislation that was passed earlier this month. What was it . Guest i had a bill focused on five Key Technology and the bill passed 4133, and the premise of this bill is we are facing significant challenges with the future 5g technology and the United States needs a comprehensive strategy. This bill would require that we develop...

Book contributor joins Howard University professors to talk about the essay in the book that inspired the exhibit and how the africanamerican experience served as a catalyst for the Civil Rights Movement. Good evening. Good evening. Good evening. Good evening. First of all, thank you all for coming out on this rainy evening. I know its a challenge, but i think its well wofrt your time to be here this evening for this discussion. Its my pleasure to welcome you to tonights program entitled histori...

Tonights program has been a long time in coming. David was originally scheduled to be here in february, but was grounded byebye bad weather. Kansas city library programming, its the latest in our series with the u. S. Army command of general staff in ft. Leavenworth. But it also comes in the middle of the librarys partnership from january through may with the eisenhower president ial library and foundation in abilene. And its on the Dwight Eisenhower exhibit thats up on the second floor gallery....

Discusses his book. And the federal response to the coronavirus with democratic congressman jamie raskin. Video from yesterday of President Trump announcing further federal and military intervention in the aftermath of the killing of george floyd. After those comments, the president strode through ofayette park cleared protesters to briefly visit a historic church, st. Johns church, which had been partially burned the night before. Welcome to washington journal. Getting your thoughts on what you...

Getler and when people do people get exposed to the virus they should selfquarantine and protect others from getting it getting it. Does it with a worker in at risk . Sec. Mnuchin one of the reasons why we are able to hear and know people have been in selfquarantine because of testing. I spoke to doctors who had vaccines in trials and i couldnt be more optimistic. When the president says he thinks we will have a vaccine by the end of the year, i think that is very important. The virals that are ...