Persistent challenge of china not playing by the rules. In the case of coronavirus, that was about china not telling the World Health Organization, not telling other countries, not telling their own people what was happening in terms of the coronavirus, not taking steps to stop International Travel early on. That wasnt playing by the who rules, the World Health Organization rules and the result has been devastation. Its been the spread of the virus and so much of that devastation weve seen around the globe in my view could have been avoided. Had they played by the rules. Unfortunately, not playing by the rules applies to china in many other areas, too. Weve talked about trade a lot on this floor of the senate to be sure theres a level Playing Field between china and the United States and making sure they play by the International Trading rules, but here is another one, where china and the Chinese Communist party has not played by the rules. And thats with regard to obtaining our intell
Officials say that person had Underlying Health conditions and had recently returned from a San Francisco to mexico cruise. In washington, another death was announced bringing the total there to ten. Placer county officials also held a News Conference today. Placer county Public Health has been conducting intensive Contact Tracing to identify and Contact Health care workers and Community Members who were expos individual. Officials say they think the person had Minimal Community exposure between returning h spo ntcted coronavirus. Princess cruises has identified the patient as a 71yearold man. And that patient is not the only Northern California resident on that creuise who later tested positive. Now crews passengers on that ship are being warned once again. You can see the cruise ship right there. And kate larsen is live with the latest. Reporter well, originally that cruise ship was supposed to come back to port here in San Francisco on saturday morning and then this morning princess
Vote vote vote the presiding officer are there any senators in the chamber wishing to vote or change their vote . If not, the yeas are 74, the nays are 18. The motion is agreed to. Mr. Portman mr. President . The presiding officer the senator for ohio. Mr. Portman i would like to talk today about a couple topics. First i want to thank my colleagues on the Senate Commerce committee for approving legislation very recently to rename the nasa plumbrook station in ohio after a true american hero, the lateneal armstrong. I ask that it legislation be taken up and we get it passed. There is an identical bill in the house and we hope to get both of them to the president for his signature. It is a stateoftheart testing facility near sandusky, ohio. It is doing a lot of the testing right now both for nasa and some privatesector companies. It is part of the nasaglenn complex. It is an impressive operation. The one that is most impressive right now is the artifice project. This is to put astronauts
Really unprecedented im if you look at total inequality its like the worst periods of really unprecedented im if you look at total inequality its like the worst periods of American History. Of. American history. But if youre a find it more closely inequality. But if youre find it more closely the inequality comes from the extreme wealth in a tiny sector of the population comes from the extreme wealth in a tiny sector of the population fraction of one percent. Fraction of one percent. There were periods like the gilded age in the twentys and the early ninetys there were periods like the gilded age in the twentys and the early ninetys. And so on when a situation will rather similar to this. Now this period and so on when a situation developed by the similar to this. Now this period 6 trillion because if you look at their Wealth Distribution to inequality its extreme because if you look at their Wealth Distribution the inequality mostly comes from super wealth. Mostly comes from super wea
Order. Without objection the chair is authorized to declare recess at any time. Good afternoon, welcome to todays hearing, the future of electricity delivery, monetizing and securing our nations electricity grid. I want to thank all of our witnesses for joining us today. This is such an important topic. Im a young guy as i can tell but ive read some history about what it was like when we first started building the electric brig grade over a century from now. I dont think we could have imagined the tech elegies that we would use to power homes businesses and hospitals and i think the challenge is different. The real challenge was just extending power itself to every corner of our society. There was a challenge that those providing powers knew that they could make money in cities and well Populated Areas and places with businesses and commercial opportunities, but it was not as profitable to take it into the countryside into the hill country of texas for example. The government made a ba