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Longterm commitment to bring you live gaveltogavel coverage of congress. Coming up, the house will debate Foreign Affairs pills with votes late they are afternoon. This week theyll work on an emergency funding bill to respond to the coronavirus outbreak. Live coverage of he thousands of the house here on cspan. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2020] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncica...

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...

Coronavirus without objection. The chair is authorized to declare the committee in recess at any point. Good morning. 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 which has spread around the world and claimed the lives of thousands. Understandably, they have questions about how it may affect them, their loved ones and their communities. How concerned do we need to be about...

Officials are asked about the federal governments response to the spread of coronavirus. We will hear from the director at this security meeting. The committee will come to order. The committee is meeting to receive testimony about confronting the coronavirus. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare the committee in recess at any point. Good morning. Today the committees meeting to hear from medical experts about how our country can best confront the coronavirus. Americans are just...

Good evening. Good evening. Thank you and good evening. [ applause ] thank you and good evening. Good evening rhode island. Mr. Speaker and Senate President , members of the house and the senate. Members of the judiciary to my cabinet and my wonderful family. Thank you for being here tonight. And my fellow Rhode Islanders. Tonight i stand with all of you filled with optimism for our future. We work hard together digging our way out of the deep economic hole. And now we are prepared for Rhode Isl...

You 19 started in would has wuhan, china. Atients have become sick with covid19 have cough, fever, and he more serious cases underlying viral few monia. In china approximately 80 of had mild the illness symptoms. 15 required hospitalization. 5 developed critical illness. T has a one to 14day inc. A bigs period and spread by respiratory droplets with people in close contact. And elderly and those with at rlying conditions are risk. The u. S. Had confirmed 118 cases including eight deaths. The maj...

My name is caitlin emma. I am a federal budget and congressional appropriations reporter on capitol hill for politico. Just a quick reminder to you guys here in the audience and those tuning in on the lifestream, tweet your questions with the hashtag statesolutions. I have a circuit here and i will track those and hopefully we will get to one or two at the end of our time today. So i am here with rhode island governor gina raimondo, shes serving in the second term as estates democratic governor ...

Efforts to combat the Opioid Epidemic. Public Health Officials from five states testified on prescription take backs, needle exchanges, and access to opioid overdose drugs. Subcommittee of oversight investigations is holding a hearing entitled a Public Health emergency, state efforts to curb the Opioid Crisis. The purpose of todays hearing is to examine state efforts and successes addressing the Opioid Epidemic as well as opportunities for future support. Just to let everyone know, the reason we...

Have governor of rhode island. Thank you everyone for staying patient. We have had our fair share of trouble issues today so we appreciate you sticking with us. We will have to cut our time a little short because she has places to be but we will get down to a lot of questions and really good discussion of state policy. My name is caitlin emma i am a federal budget and congressional appropriation on capitol hill for politico and just a quick reminder to you guys here in the audience and those tun...

S . Roo vote vote vote the presiding officer are there any senators in the chamber wishing to vote or change their vote . Seeing none, the yeas are 52, the nays are 39. The nomination is confirmed. The clerk will report the next nomination. The Clerk Department of state, John Joseph Sullivan of maryland to be ambassador of the United States of america to the russian federation. The presiding officer the question is on the nomination. A senator i ask for the yeas and nays. The presiding officer i...