it does when we use the federal money. you can label me as a republican if you want, but most of the republicans label me as kind of a troublemaker. the fact is the more involvement to happen the federal government, the less efficiency you are going to have and the less capabilities of actually allowing people to be free and make choices and live and suffer the consequences of those. host: there are so-called homemakers in the house right now. this is the house freedom caucus, who wants the leadership in the house to defund planned parenthood. yesterdaydeo released with one of the officials from planned parenthood talking about a pr issue, if they got out about what was happening there. this is the 10th one. some in the freedom caucus want to defund planned parenthood and their willing to shut down the federal government over it. where do you come down on this? well, i don't mind shutting down the federal government if you know you are going to keep it shut down until you win. obamacare, that was a failed strategy. and thi

this morning on cnn and other networks, local lawmakers and federal officials are leading for federal assistance but at the same time coming up with solutions on their own. it's drawing attention to lack of masks and essential gear. and the news media is doing its part trying to get the word out and empower people. look around the world at these front pages. these three say when you are on your own, we are there with you. let's look at argentina. front page translated to english says we stopped the virus together. let's make responsibility go viral. around the world we're seeing newspapers, television networks, digital media and social networks do their part to help people come together. it is urgently needed now. franklin d. roosevelt's inaugural address in 1933 is best known as a speech where he said we have nothing to fear but fear itself. but i want to read a different portion of what fdr said that day. the he said this is preeminently the time to speak the truth, the whole truth, frankly and boldly. nor need we shrink from honesty facing conditions in our country today, that's wh

federal government. so settlers who had legal standing within the new nation, they use their place as the people, as part of the new nation to go settle lands and create a right to it. and indians who do not have that standing in the people, they can't do that. so settlers as the people have access to law and this gives them a chance to create land as a private property, whereas indians who are blocked from using the law are not able to do that and they lose the land. and this is also about the purpose of government. so what are the goals and policies of the federal government and whose interest should it represent? so all of this is at play here. and this is one place where the people are coming into contact with federal power. so the outline today we're going to talk about the revolution and the importance of land. and then we'll talk about land policies, and then we'll talk about the conflicting interests of the people. and then we'll talk about native americans who were excluded from the people and w

you know, at the federal level, we would ask congress to really consider making sure that federal agency funding in programs specifically the 53-10 and 53-11 program that serve people with disability and seniors as well as in rural communities are flexible enough to work together so that they don't restrict passengers by trip purpose. that's a critical aspect as we try to be flexible enough to meet the demands of the population. >> senator, what i would add to that is given what's been said is simply increasing the level of investment in public transportation will go a long way to helping that. communities can then figure out how best to meet that, whether it's a fixed route system, a door-to-door demand response system, but more than 45% of our american citizens don't even have access to any public transportation. so we have been an industry that's been underserved for decades in terms of investment. so increasing that investment as we're asking for here and calling for with the reauthorization would be a major step forward. more service, more expanded opportunities, whether it's bus ra

they have got support from the x hurts and the federal -- experts and federal government, but this is going to be viewed principally as a state response problem. the good news there is, because we work very closely with governors and state health agencies and state emergency management agencies, the states are pretty well greased to deal with this problem effectively. >> give us an idea of what your taskszation, the types of or things you have been asked by state governors to do to assist with. >> we have been asked by state governors, state agencies, also, localities on their own, can declare their own emergencies and take roles. we have been advising a lot of large counties, for example, in maryland. montgomery and prince georges, which are right on the border with d.c. and are very populist. governments. we are advising them on day-to-day responses as issues come up on this. county,ard, howard which is between d.c. and baltimore and is a very prosperous, well-run county government, last friday, we ran goingetop exercise through what a coronavirus would call upon the public schools

- the federal advance. he still believes they are going to try to go towards richmond. and hill is coming up from the south, but he is going to be almost a day behind what yule can do. now, for the federals, the real problem is truly just beginning, because they are in the wilderness. and this area is virtually in penetrable. there aren't any roads between the plank and the turnpike and french is moving along trail and his orders are every intersection, they are to the left. when a guide is sent to french. nahenry prince is talking to a southerner. the southern union's. ebenezer mcgee, who is one of the spies for george sharp, in charge of the federal intelligence service for the army of the potomac. mcgee knows that route. but that is all he knows. he scouted it. prince says, where does this road go? mcgee can't tell him. i know how to get to my house. i nnever go there. prince says, you're no guide at all. get out of here. he goes blundering into the wilderness. great. uncertainty every intersection becom

not provide federal support for fear of hitting federal troops. from inside forth fi fisher the sent messages urging for them to attack, attack, attack. but brag did not. on january 15, 1865 the northern army made their move. the sun road in a cloud cloudless blue sky this morning. they were waiting for orders to assault the great fort. the navel bombardment would cease. the troofs would make the asuggestion in three brigades aiming for the extreme western flank. at the same time, 2,000 men in a naval brigade would assault fort fishers northeastern bastian. the naval ber gaze force was come boded of volunteers. they would charge the fort over open beach with handguns and t cutlaces. the fleet ceased fire. and in charge of the nfl ber gaze was a 33-year-old naval officer one of admiral porter's favorite officers. the volunteers in the naval brigade were not trained infantyman. they were brave, but they were not infantry soldiers, they were firemen, coal heavers. one of them, a shirt class boy, was practically a child. the orders call for the sailor

we calculated, if you just adjusted for inflation the federal federal government would have participated in about 40% fewer disasters because there could be more efforts. congress is required to come up with the new criteria it should be available later this year if they adhere to their schedule. this is very important, two from the government standpoint with fema. the more disasters they are involved in, the further their stretched across their capabilities, and they do not have the workforce they need if there is a major disaster that the government can help and respond. to those are my suggestions mister chairman, and i think there is plenty of room for improvement in budgeting for these issues. a lot of great ideas >> a lot of great ideas. senator brown. >> thank you. last year we talked about improper payments. we did get a bill across the finish line. the senate bill three 75 payment integrity information act which was motivated by what senator johnson and i heard last year and senator carper and peters joined in on it. it does raise the profile and enables various agencies to look

the part the federal government plays a larger spectrum is generally speaking the federal government investing in early-stage precompetitive basic research and development. it's very different then what the private sector does and that's by design. the types of research the federal government generally approaches is the type of research the private sector is not incentivized to do on their own.that's a gap which i feel. we do it in a way where these ideas can come to life and then they are taken up and absorbed by the private sector brought to fruition and completion ultimately to commercialization. a great example to show how our system is unique is this breakthrough that happened last year on quantum supremacy. there is no doubt in my mind someone in beijing had sort of called upon someone else in china to achieve quantum supremacy before united states did. we didn't make that call here in washington to our community yet the united states made the breakthrough first. the question is why or how. i think the story is pretty interesting. the federal government invests in this early-st

from the federal government. i want to thank the fda for moving very expeditiously to get us the supply. the president ordered the fda to move in the fda moved. supplygoing to get this and the trial will start this tuesday. the president is optimistic about these drugs. and we are all optimistic that it could work. i have spoken with the number of health officials and there is a good basis to believe that they could work. some health officials point to africa each has a very low infection rate. and there's a theory that because they are taking this antimalarial drug in africa, it may actually be one of the reasons why the infection rate is low in africa. we don't know. but let's find out and let's find out quickly. i agree with the president on that and we are going to start tuesday. i also think the fda should serologicaling testing for coronavirus antibodies and they should do it as soon as possible. this tests the blood to see if you have antibodies that were created to fight the coronavirus. remember, all the

state, federal and local governments. councilmember hit it on the head, , cities towns and villags are the front lines in dealing with the coronavirus public health emergency. but this is a challenge for partnership can shine. ordination between all levels of government is critically important in responding to a public health emergency. we each have our expertise. local leaders understand the needs of their communities and are the best positioned to make emergency management decisions on resources and communication with residents. there are a lot of moving parts, and the stakes are the health and well-being of our communities. i shared with npr-a few days ago some of the basics of what we need to be doing not only in our communities but in our workplace, in our schools and even in our homes. it's common sense information. it's what your mother taught you. what big mama taught you. wash your hands. keep your hands out of your face. if you are sick, stay at home. if you're sick, stay in a room away from everyone else. it's

i'll take a step further it federal offense for elected officials to deny federal law. i encourage my colleagues to support this legislation and i yield back to the gentleman from north carolina, mr. budd. mr. budd: thank you, mr. steube. i appreciate your insights. i would also like to welcome a great friend of mine, mr. doug lamalfa, he he is a great friend and hardworking member from california. mr. lamalfa: appreciate it, thank you, mr. budd, for working on this issue. even though you're not from a state that has as much of it as california. i indeed have seen so much happen to my population at home, that many are giving up. for a host of reasons. but this is one right near the top of the list. and leaving our state to go to others that don't have sanctuary cities, sanctuary constituent policies. you know if you go back in time and what really was at the front of this issue which put it on a lot of people's radar around the country was the kate steinle tragedy that happened in san francisco. illegal immigrant was here many times over, having been deported and still

we can't depend on the federal government. we are taking care of our problems and that's what we do. residents and communities like lexington are the most engaged and want to work with our local leaders to grow our communities. and i want to talk about partnerships as a way forward. as a way to connect the dots from problems to solutions, from small cities like lexington, south carolina, to large cities, like los angeles california. in lexington, our slogan is building partnerships and we want to build partnerships with our citizens, with our business and with our schools. partnerships here between local leaders and community members, etween state leagues and n.l.c., between the federal, state and local government, those partnerships are what connects the policies of today to the advocacy of tomorrow. local leadership and local solutions are critical in olving problems at the national level for communities no matter what size. so let's get it done and let's get it done together. that's what this year is all about, working toge

the federal government and states. but last time we were talking about the debates between state and local level power. and those mirrored debates at the federal level and if anything they were much more contentious because so much governing authority was located in the states and localities. and what we're talking about was a system of layered authority. where states had control over the rights of citizens and the public interest. but they gave local areas broad discretionary authority over a wide range of matters involving the public interest. so basically the states then handed over all of the discretion over this broad area of the public interest to local areas and so these jurisdictions that operated simultaneously, with local things doing their thing and states doing their thing. and this contained a conflict between two different kind of visions of law. so we had a universal view where states had a monopoly over legal authority and they were the ones who defined the law. and then a particularistic view where sta

if you were to federalize it, you would lose that ability. certainly the president can mobilize the national guard. it would be my advice, and there are no plans to take the national guard and put them in a federal status. much better used in a state status. >> thank you. >> general, you talked about moving those half-million swabs to memphis. fedex will distribute them. walk us through what the role will be after that. doer the tests are done, guard members get them from the lab? tot do you expect your role be? that is a large volume. i think that the best determined by the situation and each state and the capacity from what they have in the civilian sector and public health sector in a variety. i know tennessee is planning to establish, drive sites. medical capability to train members to administer the tests or support other civilian medical professionals. involved inly be administering the test. some states, colorado, new york, have used the national guard to do that. florida is expanding. we could be the transportation mechanism to delive

let the federal government put in place the federal defense production act. it does not nationalize any industry. all it does is say to a factory, you must produce this quantity. that's all. >> when i call these ventilator manufacturers, in one case they told me i was competing with fema to acquire ventilators. so i'm competing against the federal government to get ventilators for the state of illinois. and the federal government is not distributing ventilators to the state of illinois. so i'm literally working against, you know, a competitor. now, here i'm competing with my own federal government. >> right now we're facing two big problems. the first is that we have a critical shortage of medical supplies, masks, ventilators, coronavirus tests, and more. but the second and potentially even bigger problem is that all 50 states and thousands of hospitals are being forced to fight against each other in a bidding war for these scarce supplies. and in some cases, as governors and hospitals are desperately trying to find suppliers, they're spending precious time t

>> to federalize them? >> yes. >> well, i mean if we were to go to war with a major competitor and yearly to grow the united states army by 350,000 people, then congress would give us the mobilization authority to federalize all of the national guard, and the national guard would be a part of the united states army and we would go to war. that is the world war ii scenario of using the national guard. everybody is mobilized in a federal status. >> and you don't see this crisis at that point yet? >> i think you can get everything you need from the national guard more efficiently and more effectively if you leave them in a state status. those 450,000 men and women are out in the 54 states, territories, and the district. they are there. .t he -- their equipment is therefore the government to use if they need it. if you mobilize all of the national guard, it is going to cost billions of dollars and a lot of people won't have things to do -- i mean, there is no 400 right now to have 50,000 guardsmen on duty at an

i ame federal role, requesting today from the federal government the army corps immediately proceed to erect temporary hospitals. i went out yesterday. i surveyed the site. there are several good options that give us regional coverage. corps temporary hospital at stony brook on long island. westchester where we have the terrible cluster, which is thank goodness, reducing. and the large convention center in manhattan. new york city is where we have the highest number of cases. i met with the army corps. they reviewed the sites. i approve it on behalf of the state of new york. we just have to get it done and get it done quickly. these temporary hospitals are helpful, that they do not bring supplies. they do not bring staff. that compounds our problem of not having enough medical and compounds our problem of not having enough staff because we are trying to increase the capacity in our existing hospitals. the sites that we picked allow for indoor assembly of these facilities so they will not be out-of-doors. some places, we may need to do them outdoors, but these campuses also have matures

so right now, our total federal budget is 4.5 trillion dollars. those four programs or activities alone will be 4 trillion dollars relatively soon. so that will crowd out a lot of other opportunities for spending in vital areas ranging on defense to the whole planoply of discretionary programs through the country. so we need a plan to deal with this. i recognize that we need to deal with short-term national priorities and to make sure that we have strong economic growth, but we also need a plan to put us on a better path. i was very pleased, mr. chairman, to see the bipartisan bill that was passed out of this committee that would set the debt to gdp targets and would also deal with another troublesome area that i pointed out in the past, which is to have a different approach to setting the debt limit. the debt limit approach right now, those who control the debt, it is dangerous in the fact that it can disrupt treasury securities if it's not raised in time. the treasury securities market and increased interest cost of the federal government. so ne

seems to be some problem with the definition of what a federal program is. i think i can help with that, if they would just give us a print out. all of the payments that go to any entity, if an entity is getting money from us, it is one of our programs. this is my last year in the senate, it is my sincere hope that we can take concrete steps toward a sustainable fiscal future before i leave. a return to sensible budgeting would be a good start. i hope that members today will pay attention to the urgent message from congress is nonpartisan watchdog, our current federal, fiscal situation is unsustainable, and we must act before it is too late. i want to thank comptroller mr. dodaro for being here again, and again. and for all the delightful information he shares with us. when we follow up on it, we get results. i look forward to his testimony, and i don't think that we have a ranking member statement today. i think it might be preparation for a debate that is coming up. so, i don't know if senator grassley wanted to make any comments? >> i'll ask questions. >>

army corps on the federal left. the white troops withdrew under heavy fire, with the black troops held firm. as they unflinchingly traded fire with southerners, solid experience combat veterans, these army, the u.s. color troops answer the question often posed by critics, black troops would fight, and fight well. even so as the right flank of the federal resort guard began to give way, some of hope's field officers were certain that the entire federal line in the rear was finally about to break. then, general bragg ordered the troops to seize assault and go back up the peninsula. brags decision meant that fort fisher surviving troops would have to fight alone. inside the fort, meanwhile, the federal push down the land faced will ground to hold. watching the battle from a distance with a pair of binoculars, general terry ordered in more troops, another brigade would go in,. third brigade, second division, 24th army corps, it was known as bills brigade. it was composed of troops from indiana, new hampshire, new york,

at the same time, we need to get the waste out of federal spending.this does not mean sacrificing essential services. nor do we need to destroy the system of benefits which flow to the poor, elderly, sick and handicapped. we have long committed ourselves to help those among us who cannot take care of themselves. but the federal government has proven to be the costliest and most inefficient provider of such help we could have. we must put an end to the arrogance of the federal establishment which accepts no blame for our condition and cannot be relied on to give a fair estimate our situation and utterly refuses to live within its means. i will not accept the supposed wisdom that has it that the federal bureaucracy has become so powerful that it can no longer be changed or controlled by any administration. as president i would use every power at my command to make the federal establishment respond to the collective wishes of people. we must force the entire federal bureaucracy to live in the real world of reduced spending, treamline function and account

bad luck for the federals. they don't see that lee is actually moving in their direction, going where meade is afraid he's going to go. so about noon, meade gets nervous. i backed up and didn't fight, and lee is not trying to cut me off from d.c. wow, that's going to look bad in the papers. that's going to look bad to the administration. maybe i should, if lee is going to be in culpeper, go fight him. so he sends two corps under john soejwick, the fifth and sixths. back into culpeper courthouse. takes half his army back into culpeper to see if lee is there and willing to fight. all that's there is a cavalry brigade under pierce young which has a bad half a day trying to hold back a union avalanche. but sedgwick figures out, lee is not here. so by dusk, lee is not here. he's not in culpeper. but greg hasn't reported the rebels trying to outfwlank me. where did they go? and some of meade's officers are like, you know what they're doing. this thing was a feint. now they're pulling back closer to richmond. at night

as the governor mentioned, we are talking to our federal partners almost daily. my department is seeking as much as possible of the $100 million in worker grants announced by the u.s. department of labor. this will allow us to expand the program even further. but we know how important it is to provide immediate relief during this rapidly evolving state of emergency, so we are cutting through all the red tape in order to get our businesses the help they need. with these flexible layoff aversion funds, business can do countless things such as purchase remote access equipment and software to allow employees to work from home. sanitize their facilities to protect employees that if the providing essential services on-site. pay for liability insurance needed to change business models, like previous dine in only restaurants were now delivering food to the community. this fund can also provide up to $50,000 to supplement a small business's payroll costs if they are involved in labor, work sharing program. the workshare program provides an additional alternative to layoff

that's really what the federal government is supposed to be all about. what states cannot individually do, individual communities cannot do, it is the power of the federal government that can do it. we must be willing to mobilize that power. it's time the united states of america live up to its history of defeating extraordinarily -- extraordinary challenges and prevailing in the face of great uncertainty. it's time to harness the ingenuity of our people, the might of our manufacturing base, the wisdom of our health care experts to confront covid-19, to protect our families and our communities, to slow the spread of the virus so we don't overwhelm our hospitals so that we can save lives. i've seen some of the projections. i hope to god's sake they're wrong. but we will lose many people unless we all take this seriously and unless we act. this is a moment for action and to show the world once again that there's no challenge too great for the american people. with that, madam president, i yield theebraska. mr. sasse: thank you, madam president. we are in t

also the federal government has 20,000 ventilators or thereabouts in the federal stockpile. secretary azar runs an agency called h.h.s., health and human services. i asked the secretary, look at the first word in the title of the agency you run, it is health. your first priority is health. you have 20,000 ventilators in the stockpile. release the ventilators to new york. how can we be in a situation where you can have new yorkers possibly dying because they can't get a ventilator, but a federal agency saying, i'm going to leave the ventilators in the stockpile. have we really come to that point? smarter have to be about the way this is being done. the federal government has to prioritize the resources. look at where the problems are across this nation. california has 2,800 cases. cases.ton state, 2,200 florida, 1,200 cases. massachusetts about 800 cases. new york is 25,000 cases. new york has 25,000 cases. it has 10 times the problem that california has. 10 times the problem that washington state has. you prioritize resources and your activity and your actions to where they

there's something called the federal defense procurement act where the federal government can basicallyproduce certain materials, and we're going to need protective equipment in hospitals, we're going to need ventilators. and that is something that a state can't do, but the federal go government can do. also, as this has gone on, we said we are fighting a war on two fronts. we're fighting the virus and we're fighting fear. and they are two totally different situations that you have to deal with. in many ways, the fear is more dangerous than the virus. i started working on disasters and emergency situations when i was in my 30s. my first experience was hurricane andrew in homestead, florida. and i felt it. i saw on the ground what happens when people panic. and the panic and the fear is as dangerous or more dangerous than the hurricane. i've seen it in floods, i've seen it in fires. we now have misinformation and fear and panic, which is as contagious or more contagious than the virus. we have to deal with both of them. i've had some conversations that are just irrational with people who

of federal employees. this is the right thing to do for the frontline workers. the right thing to do for the traveling public. and the right thing to do for our national security. i thank my colleagues for their support and urge passage of h.r. 1140. with that, mr. chair, i yield back the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. all time for general debate has expired. for what purpose does the gentleman from mississippi seek recognition? mr. thompson: mr. chairman, i move that the committee do now rise. the chair: the question is on the motion that the committee rise. so many as are in favor say aye. those opposed, no. the ayes have it. the motion is adopted. accordingly, the committee rises. if the chair: mr. speaker, the committee of the whole house on the state of the union having had under consideration h.r. 1140, directs me to report that it has come to no resolution thereon. the speaker pro tempore: the chair of the committee of the whole house on the state o

the part that the federal government plays in the larger spectrum is that generally speaking, the federal government is investing in early-stage, precompetitive basically research and development. that's very different than what the private sector does. that's buy design. so the types of research that the federal government generally approaches is a type of research that the private sector is not incentivized to do on their own. that is a gap we try to fill. we do it where these ideas can come to life, taken up and absorbed by the private sector and brought to fruition and completion. a great example is this breakthrough that happened last year on quantum sup remcy. there's no doubt in my mind that someone in beijing had sort of called upon someone else in china to achieve quantum sue remcy before the united states did. we didn't make that call here in washington. our community yet the united states made that breakthrough first. the question is why or how? the federal government invests in this. we made a commitment years ago to investing into a kwuntum lab at uc santa barbara. we're fund

but we need federal assets, and we need federal assistance. i am very proud of this state government and what it can do. and we have done things that no state government has done before. we built bridges, we build airports, we respond to emergencies. but know what you can't do. we don't have the billions of dollars that you would need to implement an immediate emergency hospital construction program. this state can't do it, no state can do it. to increase hospital capacity of the existing hospitals in the meantime, doh is going to be suspending its regulations to allow existing hospitals to increase their space and capacity. doh has regulations about how many beds per room, how much space between beds, et cetera, how wide a hallway has to be. those are going to be suspended so hospitals can actually use their physical space with more efficiency. we're leaving it up to the hospitals for their discretion and prudence in making these decisions. but we do have to get very aggressive about them better using their existing space. i want the private

what the federal government can do. states don't fight wars. the federal government has the capacity to mobilize the way we need society to mobilize today. and i've had numerous conversations with the president, spoke with him again last night. he is mobilizing. he's mobilizing the federal government. we had a number of meet wgs different federal officials yesterday. i think that is the best positive sign that the federal government is actually stepping up to the plate. ou will see that this has been diagnosed, pardon the pun, as a health care crisis from moment one. this has always been about one thing. reducing the rate of spread so the health care system can manage it. it's been a question of math and projections. it is still exactly that. can we get the spread down to a rate that the health care system can manage? what is going to be the issue in the health care system? it's going to be the number of hospital beds. it's going to be the amount of protechive equipment. and most of all it's going to come down to ventil

federal reserve cuts interest rates in a bid to boost the economy during the coronavirus crisis president donald trump welcomes what he describes as a terrific move he also tells americans to stop panic buying we'll go live to washington also coming up. germany closes its borders with pfizer its neighbors travel to austria switzerland denmark and france will be hit as berlin increases measures to try to stop the spread of the coronavirus. and the shutdown continues to tighten across europe spain imposes almost total lockdown telling residents to remain inside their homes it's the 2nd worst hit country in europe after italy. imo me and he said welcome to the show u.s. president donald trump has congratulated the federal reserve on another cut in interest rates the u.s. central bank on sunday dropped its target range to between 0 and point 25 percent it's the 2nd cut in 2 weeks aimed at shoring up the u.s. economy during the coronavirus emergency and also had advice for americans on how they should behave during the crisis. there's no need for anybody in the country to hoard essential food

there's two ways the federal government can do it. one is to use the federal production act. the federal government can say to manufacturers you must produce this product. i understand the federal government's point that many companies have come forward and said we want to help and general motors and ford and people are willing to get into the ventilator business. it does us no good if they start to create a ventilator in three weeks or four weeks or five weeks. we're looking at an apex of 14 days. if we don't have the ventilators in 14 days, it does us no good. the federal defense procurement act can actually help companies because the federal government can say, i need you to go into this business, i will contract with you today for x number of ventilators. here is the startup capital you need, the startup capital you need to hire workers to do it around the clock, but i need the ventilators in 14 days. only the federal government has that power. and not to exercise that power is inexplicable to me. volunteerism is nice and it is a beautiful thing. it's nice that these comp

the states, whatever the federal government does and what the federal government does is very importantbut it is a supporting role. ands the state governors the mayor of the district of columbia who really have the lead on all of this. -- not everystate state -- has declared a state emergency and that is a very important process because it frees the governor to take extraordinary actions within the state under state statutes and case law. what we are seeing in new york, california, maryland, are the governors taking actions, closing bars, closing restaurants, limiting the assemblage of people. they have got support from the experts of the federal government but this is going to be viewed principally as a state response problem and the good news is -- we work very closely with governors and state health agencies and state emergency management agencies -- if the states are pretty well greased to deal with this problem effectively -- of whatve us an idea the university of maryland does. the types of tasks you have asked by state governors to assist with. guest: we've been asked by state go

saying federal government.aller: i never call this early in the morning, but they are drinking the kool-aid very early this morning. i don't know what they are talking about, that local governments are doing the best. the federal government through trump is doing an amazing job. an amazing job. who the heck would ever think that something like this would happen. in such a short time you see the country coming together like it did in world war ii. it's amazing. his leadership, his administration, people are coming together more and more and more under private businesses. cuomo attacking the president when he had 30,000 of these in alators in a warehouse hospital and he only came out recently with it and he hit it, he said well, we need that. we need it for some reason if something should happen. wentime, he kept on saying need 30,000. he already had 30,000. host: what about your governor in california? he's doing ank great job, even though he's a democrat he's not bringing politics into it. politics into it just

i want the federal response to the coronavirus to be robust. no one is rooting for failure , but i have seen -- what i have seen is leading me to believe -- to become very concerned. with that said, the goal of today's hearing is to understand what, as members of congress, we can do to minimize the coronavirus outbreak for the american public. we need to hear today how congress can support state and locals in preventing the spread of this virus. i would like to thank the panel of witnesses today and look forward to hearing their remarks. without objection, i now recognize the ranking member of the subcommittee, the gentleman from new york, mr. kaine, -- mr. king for an opening statement. thank you, mr. chairman. i also want to welcome and thank all of our witnesses today for taking the time to be here. all of us have a lot to learn on this and i look forward to your testimony. the novel coronavirus or covid-19 has already claimed thousands of lives across the globe, including over 20 here in the united states and i think as we realize those num

s being least orted satisfied with pay than federal other federal agencies. gonzalez-colon for recognize under the current system there are disparities in in t.s.a. outside the contiguous 48 states. that i ask my colleagues to support the amendment and yield back the balance of my time. he chair: the gentleman yields back. the gentleman from alabama is recognized. mr. rogers: i yield back the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman yields time.lance of his the question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from alabama. those in favor say aye. no.e opposed, in the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it. the amendment is agreed to. it's now in order to consider printed in mber 2 house report 116-411. the hat purpose does gentleman from new york seek recogniz recognition? mr. rose: mr. chairman, i have an amendment at the desk. the chair: the clerk will designate the amendment. the clerk: amendment number 2 116-411 n house report offered by mr. rose of new york. house ir: pursuant to resolution 877, the gentleman from new york, mr. rose, and a will

also the federal government has 20,000 ventilators, or thereabouts, in the federal stockpile. secretary azar runs an agency called hhs health and human services. i asked the secretary, look at the first word in the title of the agency you run. it is health. your first priority is health. you have 20,000 ventilators in the stockpile. release the ventilators to new york. how can we be in a situation where you can have new yorkers possibly dying because they can't get a ventilator, but a federal agency saying, i'm going to leave the ventilators in the stockpile? i mean, have we really come to that point? also we have to be smarter about the way this is being done. the federal government has to prioritize their resources. look at where the problems are across this nation. california has 2,800 cases, washington state 2,200 cases, florida 1,200 cases, massachusetts about 800 cases. new york has 25,000 cases. new york has 25,000 cases. it has ten times the problem that california has. ten times the problem that washington state has. you prioritize resources and your activity and your

terms ofplicated in the sources of revenue of the federal governor will -- federal government as well. if you will allow me to talk about what is in some ways the second crisis, the economy and its ripple effects over what could be years to come. it could be months. the question is whether this will be a long downturn, medium downturn, could we have a sharp return to the strength of the economy as it was before? the states are being affected very differently. caller kind of alludes to it. in some states, they are reliant upon taxes from oil and gas. like oklahoma, texas, north dakota, alaska. these states base their fiscal year 20 -- 2021 budgets on oil closed at $20 a barrel. one of the lowest price in decades. those states are going to have tremendous challenges as far as funding education, roads and transportation. health care and, highway patrol, prisons, those things. some states are tremendously reliant on sales taxes. those states are going to be devastated because many of those sales taxes come from restaurants, bars, retail places that are not currently operating. going to ha

governors to discuss federal, state -- federal and state coronavirus measures.ll also hear from vice president pence and dr. deborah birx. the conference took place at the national response coordination center in washington. this is only an hour long portion of the event because of technical difficulties. >> mr. president and vice president, we thank you for being here. we appreciate your visit to fema. week byndicated last signing the national emergency, .t has really empowered fema continue to support the emergency and all elements with state and global partners. processs know the fema and how that works. process we will be usinin

could you imagine if the federal government said we're going to back up, federal reserve, jay powell comes out this morning, which he must, and say look, we're going to guarantee these credit lines so there's no need to panic no one is saying this is something that lasts forever >> this will past. scott gottlieb, it will. we don't know how long, but it will without a doubt, it will >> then why don't we guarantee things so four months from now we don't have every major company in chapter 11. >> we're not going to have every major company in chapter 11. >> certainly those that are poorly positioned for an economy in terms of where people gather and/or travel. >> but no one has insurance for coronavirus. so why not just take the emergency measure that says, you know what, for the duration, we will do this then you pay the money back or you will have to file chapter 11 i hate to see an act of god, not this country or that country, an act of god make it so so many companies go under someone has to speak for the companies and say, you know what, this is something we need the federal govern