That worked with charisma when hunter biden served on its board. Here is that meeting. On may 12 the Committee Meets to consider a subpoena. I note the presence of the corm. Again i want to think the members for coming here and providing a quorum, i do want to announce we will not vote on brian miller who is nominated to be the special Inspector General for the pandemic recovery. I appreciate the cooperation that we got from the Ranking Member and then one order he this is an important position and oversight of the cares act, massive spending bill and will fully support those oversight efforts. I worked with senator peters on a different version of oversight on this to pass the care act, and a appreciate that as well. We will just be able to discharge the nominee from our committee and hopefully get him confirmed for the Holiday Weekend would be nice to get the oversight efforts starting on the cares act as quickly as possible. The other business item will be conducted is a motion to s
At my direction, the centers for Disease Control and prevention is issuing guidance for communities of faith. Andnt to thank dr. Redfield the cdc for their work on this matter and all the other work they have been doing over the past what seems like a long period of time. Today, i am identifying houses of worship, churches, asagogues, and mosques, essential places that provide essential services. Some governors have deemed Liquor Stores and abortion clinics is essential, but have left out churches and other houses of worship, its not right. So i am correcting this injustice am calling houses of worship essential. I call upon governors to allow churches and places of worship to open right now. If there is any question, they will have to call me, but they are not going to be successful in that call. These are places that hold our society together and keep our people united. The people are demanding to go to church and synagogues, for a mosque. Or a mosque. Worship as an essential part of
People . Have remote 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. The hearing will come to order. I believe we have some of our colleagues who will be remote. I dont really have an opening statement. We will hear from judge wilson and a bit. We will let our colleagues from mississippi to the introduction. I will defer to senator feinstein if she was to seining first. Senator feinstein thank you very much. Today we will hear from cory wilson, nominated to a mississippi seat on the fifth Circuit Court of appeals. As i stated during the nomination hearing for the District Court in january, i am interested in judge wilsons views on a number of issues including health care, Voting Rights, womens reproductive rights, gun safety and the rights of lgbt americans. His record of opposition to the Affordable Care act is troubling, particularly because we are concerned with covid19. I hope people straighten us out on that. It has been reported judge wilson has a commitment to undermining the Affordable Care act. He has called
Okay, the rules committee will come to order. Before i give my opening statement, i just want to read a guidance from the attending physician. And we asked him specifically about the use of face coverings during proceedings like these. And while he is not mandated their use, he did share that, and i quote, my preference is that members retain their face covers when speaking as speaking is an activity which can release virus particles, especially if the speaking is of high spirited nature. And ive never had a meeting in the rules committee that hasnt been of a high spirited nature. So were going to leave it up to individual members to decide. But i think i will to be cautious here, im going to keep mine on. Others will be mindful of the reason why there is guidance on this issue. It has been roughly three months since the First Community transmission of covid19 was discovered in the United States. Since that time, our world has changed dramatically. There are now more than 1. 3 million
Thank you for being with us organizing todays event in my Live Audience here in San Francisco you can always visit us at www. Commonwealth club. Org and with the upcoming schedule. With cohost of morning edition of npr with jesse and john fremont thank you for coming. [applause] thank you everyone im delighted you could come this afternoon one of the most beautiful cities in the world San Francisco and to talk about jesse and john fremont to had some issue with the creation of california as we know it is so much to do with the creation of San Francisco as we know it. And then on the july a delayed flight from los angeles and then to be picked up by a car and driven by a car the thing about live radio but with San Francisco traffic but really you will not make your exact time. [laughter] but 8 00 a. M. Pacific time and still on the road creeping up the freeway seven or 9 miles an hour but looking out the right side San Francisco bay is out there and the Southern Suburbs with the hills i