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The white house with the nations top executives of the pharmaceutical industry as governments around the globe race to create a vaccine to combat the coronavirus. We are going to take you there when the president speaks. Should happen any moment. But as america sees its first deaths from the virus, six of them now, and Vice President mike pence says he expects many more cases in the u. S. , author of the coming plague Laurie Garrett is here. Shes been critical of the response of the World Health Organization. Shes here with her very latest threat assessment. And as americans opt to stay home v...

Coronavirus outbreak. This is two hours. [inaudible conversations] committee will come to order. Without objection, all members will have five days to submit statements, extraneous material, and questions to the record subject to the length, limitation, in the rules. Well begin, mr. Secretary, thank you for meeting with us this morning. Weeks ago, we invited you to testify about american policy toward iran, iraq, and the use of force. No one doubts that Qasem Soleimani was a dangerous terrorist, but its important that we look at Foreign Policy in terms of whether it makes americans safer and a...

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...

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 h...

You can take your seats. We want to take advantage ofg to the opportunity to give the secretary some time for the give and take and the dialog that we are going to embrace here for the next couple ofhink hours. I think we can proceed on the first issue so that we can get so, firs to the chairman, it is of no controversy. Mor so, first, let me call the waysa and Means Committee to order, before turning to our hearing thise morning, the committees aint budget for fiscal year 1974. 2021 in accordance with the congressional budget act, of 1974 in house rules for f, you will find a copy of the lett...