Direction. President obama. Very quickly on a vaccine. Today. And always. This pandemic has fully we hear this 12 to 18month helping people stay in their homes through mortgage finally torn back the curtain on the idea that so many of the timeline. Payment relief efforts folks in charge know what is that timeline too optimistic . And donating 175 Million Dollars to help hundreds theyre doing. We know the president wants it my guest this morning, sooner, and why wouldnt he, why wouldnt anyone want it sooner . Of local organizations provide food and other critical needs. Defense production coordinator Peter Navarro and dr. Tom is the 12 to 18month timeline inglesby of Johns Hopkins when you need us, wells fargo is here to help. University. Realistic or not . Coming into this year, i plus, partisan pandemic. Would have said it was completely unrealistic. Antigovernment protests across i still think its far from a the country. While in wisconsin, the states sure thing. But given that there
Because we are in mountain view. Joining me on stage is the director of internet ethics, stamos, the director of the stanford internet observatory and the director of journalism and media ethics at Markkula Center. This evening is copresented with the Markkula Center for applied ethics. This event is part of kqueds series on common ground. It is an initiative ream people together for civil discourse, featuring journalists hosting provocative conversations about politics, policy, art, culture, science and technology. Reckoning with the force of disagreement among us about how to face the future of economic, culture and environmental uncertainty. This series asks what are our shared responsibilities to the common good . Next in the series if you have an open calendar is this tuesday at 7 00 p. M. , at the San Francisco exploratory them we rium. We will look at how to overcome the polarization. On to tonights topic. Democracy is under attack worldwide. Populism is on the rise. Disinformat
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. Todays hearing is on the nations ongoing response to the coronavirus. Like all other efforts on the supplemental package, it has been bipartisan. Let me commend my colleagues on both sides of the aisle, including my friend and Ranking Member congressman tom cole. Our witnesses, dr. Tom frieden, president and ceo of resolve to save lives and former director of the centers for Disease Control and prevention, the cdc. From 2000 92016. Dr. Caitlin rivers, featured scholar at the Johns Hopkins center
Today address as number of important issues related to ovid19 testing. One issue we examined in this work, i hope we talk about today, is how we can make sure that we are best prepared for potential overlap of covid19 and influenza cases in the fall. Im looking forward to the conversation we are going to have today. I greatly appreciate all three of our witnesses and governors for taking time from their extremely busy schedules to be here. Made a lot of improvement over the last few months, our work is not done and as we continue to work on drafting more legislation responding to covid19 pandemic, it is especially important to hear state perspectives. I thank you. Yield back. Ms. Degette i thank the gentleman for yielding back. I would advise members in case you are unaware of this, there is a window on your screen that says one, two, three clock. This will count down from five minutes for each other statements or questioning. And then it will start going over. If thats not working for
Seating has been spaced so we are six feet apart and we have made it possible for senators and witnesses to participate by Video Conference if they choose to do so, and several have. To maintain social distancing, we have very limited seating and dont have room formulas of the public to attend, however this hearing is available to watch a live online and a recording will be available on the committee health. Www. Senate. Gov. The hearing will be shown from gaveltogavel in its entirety, unedited by anyone from the moment that we start until the very end that we stop. Due to the limited seating, representatives of the press are working as a pool to relay observations to their colleagues and senators and staff present have been reminded about the safety guidelines put in place by the attending physician. We all wore our masks. Im not going to wear mine during the hearing, since we are six feet apart, but senators may do whatever they choose to do. I would like to thank the rules committee