The committee will come to order. The company is leaving today to receive testimony on confronting the coronavirus, without objection, the chair is authorized to declare the committee and recess at any point. Today the committee is meeting to hear from medical experts about how our country can best confront the coronavirus. Americans are justifiably concerned about the virus. It is spread around the world and claimed lives of thousands. Understandably, there questions about how how it may affect them, their loved ones in their communities. Our concern how concerned we need to be about the virus. It is most at risk. What can communities do to prepare. What can americans do to protect themselves and their families. What is the fellow government doing. What more should be doing. When might we have a vaccine or other treatment. My constituents are looking to the federal government for leadership, guidance and expertise and i share my colleagues constituents two. I am concerned that the Tru
Six. The house set the ground rules last week on the partyline vote. Now we have another week packed with scheduled depositions. Several witnesses we think will not show up and the most important thing that will happen this week is that mister schiffs Committee Says it will release the transcripts of the depositions taken so far. Those are the headlines teeseven weather representatives spears or adam schiff talking about the process and where it is heade headed, they say we will have open hearings but so far they are not saying when. Why quick. Thats a great question. Are they are working behind the scenes to get their ducks in a a row if they are trying to make a case with the public hearings to the country as well as members of the house. So that their cases solid to bring articles off impeachment. Those are producing behind the scenes. Coming up on thanksgiving will make it difficult. That week will be difficult to schedule hearings. They are trying to do two things at once. Make th
The Senate Committee on Health Education labor and pin hits will come to order. This has been a shortened week so i think youre going to see there are hearings taking place all over the place i think you i want to thank all of our panelists for being with us. This morning, we issue that is very rarely discussed in the halls of congress or the senate. That is the need to reduce the standard work week in the United States. In fact, the last time as we understand it the senate held a hearing on the subject was in the year 1955. So i think maybe the time is now to renew that discussion. At that hearing, the senate heard from at that point workers and the congress of industrial organizations and roofers, regarded as one of the great labor leaders of his time. This is what he said at that time. He said, we fully realize the potential benefits of automation are great. If properly handled, if only a fraction of what technologists promise for the future is true, within a very few years, automat
down. we knew that to succeed in highly competitive low-margin business we had to develop a business model differ from that of our larger competitors. our vision was to create a unique alliance with cattle producers and link them with our customers who wanted a consistent supply of high-quality beef. at the time cattle were bought and sold in the cash market and brought the same price regardless of quality. there was an economic incentive for cattle producers to invest in genetics or to improve their feeding regimen to enhance the taste and tenderness of beef. we developed a pricing grid that pay premiums to cattle producers who could deliver higher quality animal than what we could buy in the cash market. our business model works. although we were a smaller company with high operating costs we could compete effectively with the larger hacker spirit in 1987 we were approached by by the u.s. pr, a group that today represents a network of 2400 cattle ranchers, ranchers, farmers
chan julie long. [applause] in the episode of seinfeld titled library,, a library investigation officer named lieutenant bookman visits jerry s apartment. the visit occurs because according to library records, ch jerry has had henry miller s tropic of cancer doubt since 1971 . but according to jerry he returned at that same year. when he learns of the dilemma th kramer is terrified. do you know much that comes to? that s a nickel a day for 20 years. it s going tobe $50,000 . but when jerry corrects them it doesn t work like that, kramer gives voice to a fear that would havesent chills through my body as a child . well if it s a dime a day it s $100,000. when lieutenant bookman arrives on the scene he delivers perhaps the best monologue of the series and i m going to try to do it justice. let me tell you something, funny boy. you know that little stamp? the one that says new york public library? that may not mean anything to you but it means a lot to me. sure sure, go ahead,