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And extended Unemployment Benefits until january 2021. The heroes act will provide significantly more funding to cities and towns and also would clarify treasury guidance that currently prevents State Governments from using [indiscernible] alternative bills provide zero dollars to states, zero dollars for financial assistance, and clawed back hundreds of billions of dollars that could be used to support struggling businesses. In addition the president cut funding to states. The protestsike against racism and Police Brutality in the streets in many communities. Families across the country suffer [indiscernible] about the challenges their faces and the response needed from the federal government in this international crisis. I recognize the Ranking Member of the committee for four minutes. I think the chairwoman for yielding. Here we are again. We are having hearing about a bill the house passed four months ago that has no chance of becoming a law. The committee is being used to prioriti
Would anybody trust a vaccine coming out of this administration . And when it is [indiscernible] we are having technical problems with our live feed, but we are working to fix the problem and when you back to the discussion shortly. [no audio] second round of economic stimulus payments to families and extended Unemployment Benefits until january 2021. The heroes act will provide significantly more funding to cities and towns and also would clarify treasury guidance that currently prevents State Governments from using [indiscernible] alternative bills provide zero dollars to states, zero dollars for financial assistance, and clawed back hundreds of billions of dollars that could be used to support struggling businesses. In addition the president cut funding to states. The protestsike against racism and Police Brutality in the streets in many communities. Families across the country suffer [indiscernible] about the challenges their faces and the response needed from the federal governmen
In december of 2019, and infection startedhi in china and is spread rapidly through the wilpon region and by january, there were thousands of people affected to the foremost before the most of the world knew it existed and now almost every country in the world has infections. Hundreds of thousands of people that if in contact with this virus. And unfortunately we have lost thousands of people worldwide. In United States numbers continue to increase and the number of people that we can actually test. Fortunately the vast majority of the people get this virus have little to no symptoms. Cold or mild food to them but for a vulnerable population our elderly population, hard to among issues, smokers diabetics, can be a very serious thing. The challenge that we face in our healthcare, is that for every person that walks in and gets tested, the facetoface their healthcare workers especially in rural areas are saved that may be the only healthcare professional for that entire county. And if th
Thousands were affected. Now almost every country in the world has infections. We have hundreds of thousands of people that have had contact with this virus and we have lost thousands of people worldwide. The United States, numbers continue to increase we are increasing the number of people we can test. Fortunately the vast Authority People who get this virus have little to no symptoms, cold, mouth, flew to them. Were vulnerable or elderly population, there are heart issues and lung issues, smokers, diabetics, it can be a serious thing. The challenge we face in our healthcare is for every person that walks into get tested, they are facetoface with one of our healthcare workers especially in rural areas of our state, that may be the only healthcare professional for the entire county. If that person who has not been vaccinated as well because there is no vaccine yet, if that person is not able to serve the rest of the population, bad Health Situation becomes even worse because of diminis