Coronavirus. The chairs authorized to have the committee and recess at any point. Good afternoon. Today the committee is meeting to examine the federal government response to the Novel Coronavirus pandemic. As a nurse i want to open by encouraging everyone to visit coronavirus. Gov. The most uptodate information from the center of Disease Control print mentioned. Keep us all safe. Wash your hands often with seven water or Hand Sanitizer dont touch her face, cover your cough, and avoid close contact with others if you are they are sick. We note that the spread of coronavirus has likely not yet reached its peak. It is affecting all of our communities. I dont think there is a person in this room was that worried about an elderly or an immune compromised relatives health, friends job, or Childs School closure. Just yesterday, the first two cases were diagnosed in the counties that i represent in illinois. Our job is members of congress is to keep americans safe. Im working with the executi
Next, a hearing on how federal agencies are working in response to the corona Virus Outbreak. Ken cuccinelli as acting deputy Homeland Security secretary and doctor Robert Kadlec is assistant secretary of Human Services. Topics include supplychain management, sick pay support and travel issues. Specifically how the coast guard is working with cruise line. This is just over two hours. This hearing will come to water. I want to thank the witnesses first and foremost for the efforts as related to the current i guess we have to call it a pandemic at this point in time with conv19, the corona virus. I do think its important we put everything in perspective and i would ask my Committee Members to include my pretend Opening Statement in the record. But we often times. Let me rattle off a couple figures here. Ebola total cases worldwide ended up being less than 29,000. I remember in a crisis we were talking about it spreading and could be a Million People which would have been a huge problem b
This hearing will come to water. I want to thank the witnesses first and foremost for the efforts as related to the current i guess we have to call it a pandemic at this point in time with conv19, the corona virus. I do think its important we put everything in perspective and i would ask my Committee Members to include my pretend Opening Statement in the record. But we often times. Let me rattle off a couple figures here. Ebola total cases worldwide ended up being less than 29,000. I remember in a crisis we were talking about it spreading and could be a Million People which would have been a huge problem because ebola had a mortality rate of 40 , but in the end because of effective action on the part of the world health organization, the Obama Administration and resources we prevented it from spreading some less than 29,000 contracted it and about 11,000 died. Weve had other outbreaks where we are Getting Better and weve developed some relatively effective vaccines to help protect Heal
Fisa court and they forged papers and did a lot of bad things. The whole thing to me is a scam. The mac for more than three years President Trump has been the target of the greatest political scandal in history. The concerted effort by an antiterm persistence force hellbent on removing him from office, their feeling strategy moving onto their claims that the Justice Department is independent of the presidency and the president also making it clear he has high regard for his attorney general that the constitution guarantees the president can and will speak into it as he pleases and just because he hasnt addressed the attorney general and a criminal manner he will do so whenever he decides to do so. The attorney general is a man with incredible integrity. Just so you understand i chose not to be involved. Im allowed to be totally involved. Im actually the chief Law Enforcement officer of the country but i have chosen not to be involved. Lou the president today also saying he will continu
They went into the fisa courts and forged papers and did a lot of bad things. The whole mueller thing to me is a scam. President trump has been the target of the greatest political scandal in history. The concerted effort by an antitrump Resistance Force hell bent on removing him from office. Their claims are that the Justice Department is independent of the presidency. The president making it clear he has high regard for his attorney general. The constitution guarantees the president can and will speak and tweet as he pleases. Just because he has the address about a criminal matter he will do so whenever he decides to do so. President trump the attorney general is a man with incredible integrity. I chose not to be involved. Im allowed to be totally involved. Im actually i guess the chief Law Enforcement officer of the country. But i have chosen not to be involved. Lou the president saying he will continue speaking out for the victims of injustice. Noting the crooked cops of the fbi an