we'll take you live now over to the rayburn house office building for the continuation of a hearing that started yesterday, was recessed with health leaders, including the c.d.c. director, dr. redfield, dr. anthony fauci testifying before the house oversight committee. live here on c-span. doctor kadlec: domestically, even though some of their sources for finished product is from overseas like china. then the third thing is what can we do to basically use masks that haven't been used for the medical area. nonmedical m-95's could be used in that fashion. f.d.a. is basically certified through an emergency u

we are in the rayburn house office building awaiting conversation with the cdc's dr. robert redfield and dr. anthony fauci. they'll be talking about the federal response to the coronavirus pandemic. we see that the chair is in the room. we're expecting it to resume shortly. live coverage on c-span3.

rayburn at the time? professor green: they were not. there were no televised house proceedings. yburn was famously resistant to electronics in the chamber, voting machines, cameras, radios, none of that. he didn't want it there. i think people might have known what he looked like from a picture in the newspaper, but it would not be the same as seeing the speaker at a press conference. susan: i found two major legislative things i wanted to ask you about. the first major crisis was world war ii, after he came into office, and he shepherded through the victory on the draft. do you know anything about the story? yes, a reallyn: good story because it shows that even though rayburn didn't have the formal tools like joe cannon had, he had ways of influencing the legislative process. so there is a temporary draft that is going to expire and president roosevelt wanted to extend it another six months, because there was a war going on and it was possible the u.s. might get involved. a lot of people don't want this. they are either being drafted or their sons are being smart -- being conscr

we'll take you live now over to the rayburn house office building for the continuation of a hearing that started yesterday, was recessed with health leaders, including the c.d.c. director, dr. redfield, dr. anthony fauci testifying before the house oversight committee. live here on c-span. doctor kadlec: domestically, even though some of their sources for finished product is from overseas like china. then the third thing is what can we do to basically use masks that haven't been used for the medical area. nonmedical m-95's could be used in that fashion. f.d.a. is basically certified through an emergency use authorization that m-95 respirators used in manufacturing and in mining and in construction could be used in health care settings. they are very similar but not the same but could be used that way. and the only thing that's keeping a lot of manufacturers from selling those masks to the broader health care population is because of liability provisions or lack of liability protections. there is the public readiness emergency preparedness act passed in 2005 that basically indemnifies man

we are in the rayburn house office building awaiting conversation with the cdc's dr. robert redfield and dr. anthony fauci. they'll be talking about the federal response to the coronavirus pandemic. we see that the chair is in the room. we're expecting it to resume shortly. live coverage on c-span3. >> the committee will come to order. i want to thank some of our witnesses for coming back. we're deeply appreciative for your time and your service. i have an update on your scheduling. before i do that, i want to point out two critical developments just since we recessed this morning. first, the world health organization has now officially declared the coronavirus outbreak to be a pandemic. second, the number of confirmed cases has skyrocketed to 938. just four days ago, it was 164. that is more than fivefold increase just this week. in terms of resuming our hearing today, we have been informed that the dr. fauci and dr. redfield have been unavoidably detained at the white house. we don't know what is going on but they cannot come back. as a result, we will resume this h