then she entered what was then west virginia state college, now west virginia state university. of left in 1937 at the age 18 and never looked back. when she graduated from west virginia state university, she went into the field of teaching. she was inspired here and understood the significance of paying it forward. she went into teaching for 13 years. -- kacatherine and therine entered nasa while we were living in dual worlds. there was a white america and a black america. she was willing to delicately walk in both worlds. she went to work every day and gave nasa and the astronauts, none of whom look like her, 100%. she said regardless of how i am treated, i will come here and fight to make sure i do the best job possible for my country and for the space race. while at nasa, there were three significant space ventures that katherine played a significant role in. one was alan shepard, who was the first individual that entered into space. katherine calculated the trajectory for that space mission to happen. she played a significant role in john glenn. john glenn has said througho

west virginia knows how to protect itself. all of the people who have businesses or whatever it may be. follow the guidelines that are already out there. cleanliness has to be supreme beyond belief. people out in public have to wear masks. do what wenue to need to do. there are two sides to this coin. it is a difficult decision. anything we do is a difficult decision. it is as simple as i have said over and over. and you have the possibility of an out and out depression. somewhere in between is where we have to land. we have to protect ourselves as best as we possibly can. we will protect you. we will be ready to keep up. we have to recognize the economic benefits of what we have to do. we have to move north. we have to continue to move forward. i ask you to try to help and participate. i am happy about reopening the trails. but i'm also concerned. i will leave it at that. we are going to monitor in every way. i hope each and every person who is on that trail or in our buildings or whatever it may be, respect every single thin

small town afrom a few hours from west virginia state university. have here privilege to beautiful face on our campus at the age of 10. because she was unable to go to high school in her hometown her skin. the hue of she and her family had to travel two hours to come to west virginia state university. we had an elementary and a high school that was a part of the university at the time. a young katherine johnson with all of her skills and intelligence came here and she graduated at the age of 15. then she entered what was then westbury is state college -- what was then west virginia state college. she left us at the age of 18. she never looked back. in 1937 when she graduated, she went into the field of teaching. she was inspired here and oferstood the significance teaching and paying it forward. she went into teaching for about 13 years. timerine entered nasa at a when america was still living in dual worlds. katherine was having to delicately walk in both worlds. she went to work every day and gave nasa and the astronauts, none of whom looked like

and westbury is state college -- what was then west virginia state college. she left us at the age of 18. she never looked back. in 1937 when she graduated, she went into the field of teaching. she was inspired here and understood the very significance of teaching and paying it forward. and so she went into teaching for about 13 years. katherine entered nasa at a time when african americans and america overall was still living in dual worlds. we had a white america and an african-american america. and katherine was having to delicately walk in both worlds. and she went to work every day and gave nasa and the astronauts, none of whom looked like her, 100%. she said in spite of how i am -- how i'm treated, where i can go and eat, what i can do, i am going to come here and fight to make sure i do the best job possible for my country and or the space race. so while at nasa, there were three significant space ventures that katherine played a very significant role in. one was alan shepard, the first individual that entered space while katherine calculated the traje

reopening, we are strongng west virginia to come back. again, i caution everyone out there that we are dealing with a killer here. we are dealing with the disease that is absolutely a killer. and we see it, because every day i've got to come out here and tell you of the west virginians that we lost. and it's tough from the standpoint of knowing that the killer is there. knowing that you, west virginians, have got to know that and you have done incredible. you have done a miracle. absolutely, you have got to be on guard, cautious. smart. really, really in protecting, first and foremost, the elderly, but you've got to be smart, west virginia, and i know you will be. as we go forward, a week from this sunday, we are going to have church services. and i want to talk just a second about that. of discussionst with all different branches of the churches, from every organization you could imagine. last night in concern -- lots and lots of people have concern. we want you to be able to go back to your churches. we want you to be able to worship to

you have done great, west virginia's. you are sitting in the hot bed, in the most vulnerable state of highestolutely with the obesity, the highest diabetes, the highest chronic lung and heart problems, absolutely the stake that could have en attacked like nobodies business, and look what you've done. you have absolutely knocked it out of the park, west virginia. keep it up. thank you. to secretary bill crouch and dr. kathy sloan. good afternoon, everyone. i want to talk first of all about our ebt cardholders. we been working on an initiative to provide online purchasing options for electronic benefits transfer card, the ebt card. today we are pleased to announce the ebt cardholders can now purchase food items, online items from walmart and from amazon.com using supplemental nutrition program or snap and/or the west virginia works benefits. this is great option that helps our clits in lindemann eight -- eliminate the need for face coverings in social distancing. they can purchase these items from home. effective today, car

my first question to her was what she is seeing in her home state of west virginia. guest: like everybody, it is the uncertainty of not knowing exactly when business is going to open, when school is going to summer. what the is going to look like can we take the family vacation? when can i start seeing my friends and relatives and seeing my grandmother in the nursing home? the same kind of anxieties we see across the state. but we are hanging in there. west virginia's are good at helping one another. we are all in this together kind of attitude. i think there is a certain restlessness with all the uncertainty. host: of course, the state already has a high poverty rate. how is west virginia dealing with what i would imagine an increase in the unemployment rate? guest: we have over 100,000 people on unemployment than we did at the beginning.

it provided significant resources for the state and local governments, the state of west virginia has received one point to $5 billion to help our state, city, county government. after the cares act andan despite delays we came together again a pass additional bipartisan legislation that providedp. more funding for the ppp program. also more resources for hospitals, covid testing, 57 million to the state of west virginia for more testing. in a c bipartisan way congress responded to the needs of the medical community as we should. our small businesses, workers, families, state and local governments, and our heroes are essential workers. as a community began the process of carefully reopening, we know more federal resources and additional legislation will in all likelihood be necessary. we all hope that our economy which only months ago was very strong can rebuild quickly. at our small businesses workers will need additional help. there is no question that will happen. as we face the possibility of a second wave later this year, we should continue to build our stockpile of medical suppl

>> the senator from west virginia. >> thank you, mr. president. i would like to thank my friend from north dakota. it's great to hear stories from his great state and see how they're helping each other, coming to each other's benefit and really as somebody represents a state u.s. agriculture are not in the dimensions that senator hoeven does it's wonderful to see how the act community has stepped up not just for his date but for the rest of the country and we are very, very grateful for that. we seen so many people across this country stepping in and so many major ways. i i often describe my state of west virginia as one big small-town year we always help each other in times of need whether we know the person or not. the floods of 2016 i think were very good example of that and i call it our west virginia spirit, and there's no question it is helpless to some very difficult times like the time we are facing right now. every day, every day each of us, and i certainly am no exception, hear stories about how someone or some group has stepped up to th

in west virginia, we are at 50 now.nd i hate that we are at 50, because all 50 of those have a name and a family and loved ones. and so as we move forward, if we continue to spike up in community spread -- we are a whole lot more in tune with community spread that we are one hot spot in a nursing home or something like that. we are watching our nursing homes. you've got to remember, we were the first state in the country that said we are going to test every single person in every single staff person in all the nursing homes and we've completed it now. there's a lot of stuff that we've done right, but still, we just keep our prayers going really strong, because at the end of the day, this is something nobody has ever dealt with before. >> neil: governor, do you think that when people are getting back to work, you will see that economic turnaround that you've been talking about and certainly the president has been talking about? or it will take longer than you thought? where are you on that? >> neil, i'm worried that it's

to learn about katherine johnson, a west virginia state graduate who helped to put a man on the moon. >> she is right behind deal, mr. harrison. -- hind you,

you know john i can't imagine a 15 or 16 year old kid in west virginia that must have been at that point probably the most exciting 48 hours of your life up to that moment i musta wet your whistle a little to give it a try yourself right at least singing acting something what sent you from the beautiful hills of west virginia to hollywood way. i graduated high school 79 and my mom and dad's we lived in oxnard california until i was 2 and they split up so we took the train back to west virginia to live with my grandma and when i graduated from high school my dad i was going to go to college my dad's was a well there he said come on out and i'll put you to work in the boilermakers union and i did it i drove out here was somebody else i didn't know this guy very well i only met him a handful of times since i was 2 for a week and each time about every 6 years and his name was john also your ears close and he put me to work in the steel factory man and i was 30 miles south of hollywood. and i got hurt quickly i got hurt in 84 i guess i hurt my back and i went to junior college streeters junio

[laughter] he is enamored with the people in west virginia in july of 63 they wrote from a book coming to the cumberland spiritt it was in exposÉ about the people coming there for the coal companies and major corporations in the u.s. that depended on coal. and then in october 63, homer was a reporter for the "new york times" wrote an expose about poverty in eastern kentucky. i think jack kennedy had seen both of these and they made quite an impression on him. he had planned to go to eastern kentucky to see with the conditions were like for himself. that trip was scheduled for december of 1963. so of course, that never took place. however after his assassination, lbje. stepped up to the anti- poverty campaigns in january 1964 stated the union address he declared war on poverty. in august of 64, just seven months later the economic opportunity act was passed tray andic the office of economic opportunity the agency that oversaw all the war on poverty tsa programs. some of them are headstart, medicare is really something that came out with the school lunch program, things like this. so rfk

with that would like to yield the floor to my colleague from west virginia. >> mr. president i like toat think my friend from north dakota. it's great to hear stories from his great state to see how they are helping each other and coming to each other's benefit and is somebody who represents a state but not in those dimensions to see how that community has stepped up not just for his state but the rest of the country and we are very grateful for that. we have seen so many people across the country stepping in. i describe my state of west orginia as one great big small town we always help each other in times of need if we know them or 2 not the floods of 2016 were a good example of that and following the west virginia spirit no question it has helped during difficult times mike what we are facing right now. every day each of us when i'm no exception here how someone has stepped up to the plate to go above and beyond not for attention when they are forced to but they genuinely want to make a difference today wanted to join my colleagues to help highlight thosebl unsun

too if i was i wasn't ready but i worked in the county for the capital music hall in wheeling west virginia when i was 16 in kansas came through they did tonight spreadin sarat a 7 o'clock and 10 o'clock show both nights and i was 16 i was just supposed to watch a door so the people didn't come in from the outside a fire escape but i had up having to be there go there you know there go over for 2 days i hung out with these jews now little did i know they seem so much older but little that i know they were 2223 years old when i was 16 now looking back and i got to hang with these days now this is right in the heat of carry on a wayward son dust in the wind those songs were they were still probably number one on any top 40 radio so it was so cool to hang out hang out with those guys and as a matter of fact. i guess about 5 or 6 years ago they were having like a 40 if anniversary of them being a band no probably a 50th and they had heard me tell the story one time somebody from their camp and i got to make a video that they played in our hometown in pittsburgh of a big concert that they did wh

>>the whole idea is control the operator some west virginia lawmakers are concerned about the spread of the coronavirus inside the states federal prisons i think any place that has a volume of people that e in close quarters. we need to get the testing to them west, virginia senator shelley moore capital wants the federal bureau of prisons to provide more testing machines for the kilmer and hazleton correctional facilities after 5 inmates tested positive following a recent transfer the bigger broader regime might have prevented this situation from happening west, virginia representative david mckinley says increased testing will provide vital information if we have an inmate comes in the test positive then we go back and find out where that inmate in a real as he might have interacted which keep an eye on those individuals. >>the federal bureau of prisons is stopping transfers in visitations at both sites. capitals says top priority is keeping the staff safe. >>by providing them with the testing. but also with the safe working conditions we can we want quick action to avoid the probl

, there are only 13 grocery stores and west virginia has 162 in comparison. you are talkg about diabetes or obesity being in a desert and having access to processed foods is one of those major risk factors that we see. >> as a doctor, what have you learned about covid-19 from treating hundreds of patients? >> in navajo nation is very humbling and as a doctor i have seen so s ny different tyof pneumoni generally you start to get good and this patient coming in i see them and i can predict their course and in covid-19 19 people i dothought would exceptionally well started to go off on their oxygen and we ended up ingrating them and some people actually peek at that auction level you are thinking you are ing to have to integrate them and they turn aroundcond turn a er. it is one of these very humbling diseases from our standpoint we don't have a lot of therapies so it is really supportive with oxygen and i felt like a doctor, we certainl see across the nation that covid-19 has laid bare many of the inequities across our country and this really notice in navajo n

to learn about katherine johnson, a west virginia state graduate and a nasa mathematician. >> what is the status on that computer? >> she speaks. >> yes sir. i do.

to learn about katherine johnson, a west virginia state graduate and a nasa mathematician. >> what is the status on that computer? >> she speaks. -- she's right behind you, mr. harrison. is she able to handle geometry. >> yes sir. i do. >> which one? geometry and speaking. >> yes, sir. i prefer it over euclidean coordinates. >> catherine has had the fortune

but the people of west virginia have done the right stuff.ou just think of all the surrounding states and the multiples of deaths that are way beyond west virginia and the simple fact that we are an elderly state but we are a great state and we absolutely enjoy majestic social distancing here, so you know, we want to welcome all the west virginians at some point in time but we want to take baby steps. we don't want to rush into this but -- but the other thing is for all practical purposes, we didn't declare -- we had a very wide range of essential businesses so we haven't been completely shut down. but west virginia's doing pretty good. neil: what has dialed back just a tad? i know you have said whatever we do, maintain social distancing guidelines that were in place, but what is going to be a little different monday than what you had originally planned in this next wave? >> well, i think you know, we could have been moving a little more aggressively towards, you know, opening up, our restaurants, in-restaurant dining, we could have moved a l

west virginia is among those taking early lead getting back to business as usual. egin attorney general patrick more ricci is with us. always good to with you have us, patrick. how are things going in west virginia and the process of reopening? >> thank you, neil, for having me on and these are obviously critical days in west virginia. i think buy and large the state is doing pretty well. there was a lot of early activity to limit the spread of the contagion. by and large those tasks have been achieved because west virginia has one of the lowest incident rates in the country. there have been still too far many deaths. i think we were about 58 to 60 as of this morning. there may be some updates coming. west virginia is really gearing up to reopen because they took all the right public health steps. i think folks are moving ahead, because it is critical we get our citizens back to work. we know unemployment is very high right now. we'll have to start assaulting that right away, work to create the economic environment that allows our state to flourish. there are pieces

west virginia had the highest casualty rate of any states in the vietnam war.and eastern kentucky the counties of eastern kentucky were considered their own state. it would have an even higher rate. appalachians i was in a say appalachian boys their men, were considered especially good at walking points because they were film layer with mountain terrain. they were fantastic marksmen, and they were familiar with living in rough environments because they did for long periods of time. i think it was 8% of the combat veterans, of the combat soldiers in vietnam were from app to latch about 13% of the medal of honor recipients were for appalachia, so it's a pretty big disparity. so to answer your question, there is ambivalence, definite ambivalence and appalachia the time. young people unequivocally opposed the war. i think their parents were more ambivalent than that. they supported the war but they certainly did not like seeing their children go off and fight it and die in such proportion. >> what is known about the health effects of the war on poverty? it certainl

we'll talk to the beijing bureau chief for the washington post and the senator from west virginia. join in on the conversation. in the eastern time zone. for those of you out west, (202) 748-8001 shared if you are in arkansas a resident, (202) 748-8002. numbers with the courtesy of johns hopkins university worldwide. with more than 4.4 million cases around the globe and a worldwide death toll now approaching 302,000. joining us from little rock is arkansas governor asa hutchinson . thank you for being with us. guest: it is great to be with you any great to be on c-span again. host: new job numbers out today showing an estimated 3 million americans filing for unemployment this week alone. what has been the economic impact on this pandemic on your state of arkansas? guest: we have taken a serious hit. whenever you look at the businesses closed for a couple months, you look at the unemployment figures that go up. whenever you look at those who do not qualify for unemployment, the barbers and salon operators that are struggling, that has been a hit. businesses,ditional we were not a she

jon sopel, bbc news, west virginia., in the greatest restriction on daily life since world war two. most people are obeying the lockdown rules — to the extent that new research suggests many would feel uncomfortable leaving home, even if the government allows an easing of the rules in a months time. our home editor mark easton reports. has anyone had any symptoms shed? in a warehouse in north london, a group of 20 young people have been documenting their lives on lockdown. this whole crisis right now is stressful. surveys show young people are struggling with the restrictions much more than older people. i have been trying to self—isolate. 42% of 18 — 2a—year—olds say they aren't coping, more than twice the proportion of the over—65s. younger people are less likely to have secure employment or accommodation, many have been furloughed or made unemployed, busy social lives are put on hold. i don't have any money. the warehouse community tell me they feel lucky to have each other, but there is still a sense of lost opportu

this is what west virginia university. these two cases would be bad enough on their own, but since the start of this month we had three more cases announced by the department of justice and f.b.i. in relation to the program. i commend the f.b.i. for their work to continue to crackdown on this program and go after these problems. they need better tools to do it. a few weeks ago a former emery university professor worked simultaneously and secretly for six years for worth emery university and -- for emery university and for the communist party of china. conducting similar research projects at both institutions. despite the clear conflict of interest, he failed to report any of his at least $500,000 in foreign income on his federal tax returns. that very same day a professor at university of arkansas was arrested on charges of wire fraud for allegedly failing to disclose his ties to the chinese government despite being required to do so as a grant recipient from nasa. nasa. and just this past week we found out that this probl

in march rereceived news of another arrest of a professor who used to work at west virginia university who participated in thousand talents. in this case, the justice department found he had convinced his employer, a u.s. public university, to give him paid parental leave funded by american taxpayers while he went to china to work at university there to work on specializing molecular reaction used in coal conversion technology, this is from west virginia university. these are as bad as they are. this month we've actually had three more cases announced by the department of justice and fbi in relation to this thousand talents program. i commend the doj and fbi for their work to continue to crack down on this program and to go after these problems, but they need better tools to do it. about two weeks ago, a former emory university professor pled guilty to falsifying his tax returns to conceal his work for the chinese government. the professor worked simultaneously and secretly for six years for emory university and overseas for chinese universities affiliated with the communist party of c

georgia, iowa, nebraska, and west virginia. the president called jocelyn benson a "rogue secretary of state.." she's a democrat in the state of michigan. she fired back last night. i want you to hear what she has to say about this, harris. >> it's also a reflection of what will be happening in our state in the months ahead, which is an effort to misinform and confuse voters about their rights in the state. we see it happening nationally. >> it's not only the governor and the secretary of state to michigan. the attorney general there has also piled on. she wrote an open letter today, harris, saying president trump must -- she's basically instructing him to wear a mask at this plant. he was at the honeywell plant last week in phoenix where he says -- or, a couple weeks ago, i should say, in phoenix -- where he claims he wore a mask but no campus pick that up. she says he must wear a mask today. he was asked about this on the south lawn today. he said, "we will see to that." we will see when we get the videotape of him when he's i

that's james in west virginia giving us his perspective. one of the local news stations out of the commonwealth of virginia saying the governor ralph northam saying most of the commonwealth set to reopen friday. there are exceptions being made saying that those exceptions are the population-dense washington suburbs in northern virginia. we'll hear from olivia, next. you're up. >> caller: yes, i do feel safe. and i just want to say i think wearing those masks and standing, we're lowering our immune systems and we're not even going to be able to survive a cold, a common cold, if we don't stop this nonsense. but let me say this one thing about c-span if i can -- >> house speaker nancy pelosi -- >> caller: you all never talk about biden. that's how i know you all are fake. you never bring him up. >> that's not -- that's not absolutely true. just a couple of weeks ago -- wait, wait, wait, wait. even a couple of weeks ago we brought up the issue of joe biden when the allegation from tara reade came out. i know that because i was sitting here doing

you bring up both something creative that west virginia did in working with their communities and then obviously, this horrific example that you have of the county, one of the hardest-hit covid spots. i think it is the hardest hit west-most county in washington where 30% of students do not have access to internet services. so, what one or two things should we be doing now to try to address this in a more comprehensive way? and i'm intrigued by your statement about the press and the delivery of information, too. you know, we have been pushing to have the next ppp coverage, make sure that broadcasters and news entities also can apply, because we've had -- we've lost tens of thousands, if not more, jobs from broadcasters and i want the local information to be there. if you have any ideas, what we should be doing there, i would like to hear them. what one or two things should we be doing on broadband now to be more comprehensive than the current programs we have? >> you just have to, first of all, expand lifeline e-rate, money to telehealth. you're already taking some of these initiatives.

i was and davis west virginia the mayor had three phones because he didn't have coverage. it's a great place to live and work and enjoy the mountains is a very expensive place to build. but if you had that west virginia could get access to the funds that it needs for broadband and so could the rest of the united states so we have to get serious about reforming the usf contribution factor long-term predictable dollars. >> five years. >> the only way to use efficiently and accurately answer that question is to understand it is a policy question. our providers are readyllol to o to work to have more customers and close that digital divide. timing is a question to put the resources required to have a universal service and also equally will be accelerated to have the political will to fire up the weed wacker to streamline that federal lands permit is still available and to level the playingso field. and the municipal charters are tripledd or quadrupled. >> my time is up. >>. >> thank you mr. chairman. one talk about firing up that weed wacker i live in a state where two thirds

our north america editorjon sopel is in the state of west virginia, and has this report. resume normal life. richard will open his restaurant next week and is taking out a number of the tables to maintain social distancing. this popular spot is called the rabbit hole, but he fears that in opening too soon, west virginia may be going down one. we desperately need to reopen. and we need the income. we need people to get back to work, we need society back to where it had been, but i just am very fearful that this thing is going to come back and bite us even harder, and that is scientifically what it looks like it is capable of doing, it is not going away, it is here, it is all around us right now. it seems fitting that today is may day, signifying growth of things blossoming but it also sounds out a warning and in america it is both with half the country deciding to stay closed and the other half preparing to reopen. in republican texas, despite having its worst day of deaths from coronavirus yesterday, the shutters are coming off today. and no one can doubt the economic hard

he was in the mountains of west virginia. they sent me to another city for just a short period of time and transferred me to montana. as far as i was concerned, i was clear out of the world. if i knew montana existed, i didn't know anything about it. i ended up in montana and that's where i was when december the seventh came along. the ccc made a provision that if you wanted to get out for the purpose of entering the armed fores, we wore army uniforms and we had army doctors and that type of thing. the permanent personnel of the cccs were army people. first sergeant, sergeant major, lieutenant that handled all the discipline and finances and that type of thing. i requested a discharge and asked to be discharged to go home and join the marine corps. i had not quite missed my 18th birthday yet. they gave me a discharge and i went home. as soon as i passed my 18th birthday in october and in the november i went to enlist. >> you never had a doubt you always wanted to join the corps? >> i wanted to join the corps. theoretically i

>>the whole idea is control the operator some west virginia lawmakers are concerned about the spread of the coronavirus inside the states federal prisons i think any place that has a volume of people that are in close quarters. we need to get the testing to them west, virginia senator shelley moore capital wants the federal bureau of prisons to provide more testing machines for the kilmer and hazleton correctional facilities after 5 inmates tested positive following a recent transfer a bigger broader regime might have prevented this situation from happening west, virginia representative david mckinley says increased testing will provide vital information if we have an inmate comes in the test positive then we go back and find out where that inmate in a real as he might be interacting which keep an eye on those individuals. >>the federal bureau of prisons is stopping transfers in visitations at both sites. capitals says top priority is keeping the staff safe. >>by providing them with the testing. but also with the safe working conditions. >>we can we want quick action to avoid the pro

young: i thank my colleague from west virginia. a delight to hear from her and hear the story of so many great americans across the country who are stepping up during this time of need. we're passing through a painful period, one i think it's safe to say we never imagined we'd live through, one i know we'll never forget. it's not only the infected that this pandemic has hurt. the coronavirus is robbing so many americans of their ability to earn a living. it's taking away businesses they worked for decades to build. new anxieties are everywhere. routines are upended. our children are wondering when they're going to see their friends again and why their graduations were canceled. you know, it's difficult not to feel hopeless or even afraid during times like these. congress, i know, is sending every necessary support to workers and employers and much-needed supplies to medical professionals and to hospitals. we're also removing red tape to help our economy withstand this virus and speed medical innovations to treat and eventually cure

>>the whole idea is control the operator some west virginia lawmakers are concerned about the spreadcoronavirus inside the states federal prisons i think any place that has a volume of people that are in close quarters. we need to get the testing to them west, virginia senator shelley moore capital wants the federal bureau of prisons to provide more testing machines for the kilmer and hazleton correctional facilities after 5 inmates tested positive following a recent transfer a bigger broader regime might have prevented this situation from happening west, virginia representative david mckinley says increased testing will provide vital information if we have an inmate comes in the test positive then we go back and find out where that and made a real as he might have interacted which keep an eye on those individuals. >>the federal bureau of prisons is stopping transfers in visitations at both sites. capitals says top priority is keeping the staff safe. >>by providing them with the testing. but also with the safe working conditions. >>we can we want quick action to avoid the problems ex

patients and medical research to save lives for social security to expose the social security see in west virginia and to file bogus of disability applications. his clay pigeon amendment is legendary in senate procedure. he was one of the unlikeliest members to vote for tarpon 2008. and then so is the right thing to do that is what it boiled down to and willing to do the right thing no matter what the cost and with that opposition to prefere to argue to resolve an issue rather than in public although he was clearly not afraid to argue in public. after years of serving families to continue on weekends even in the house of representatives is an ethics committee ruled the doctor was violating conflict of interest rules to hold an outside job prohibited him from practicing medicine as a senato senator. he didn't just off taking payment and did pro bono and the ethics committee rejected that plan prohibited him from working pro bono. ironically i am now the chairman of ethics of the senate and the last time i visited doctor coburn at his house in february we had a great conversation he said to me centu

many of these red states already have plans in place to reopen their indoor dining rooms right west virginia kentucky ohio these are all states scheduled to reopen dining rooms next week in new hampshire west virginia and louisiana the dining rooms may be closed but outdoor seating is already allowed now in washington restaurants are closed over all but just today 2 counties were approved to start reopening their restaurants now the green states are states that have already allowed restaurants to start offering dine and services again like arizona which just reopened its dining rooms yesterday but still many of the states have restrictions on things like capacity right like in arkansas also opened yesterday but no groups of over 10 are allowed now texas alaska and florida these states have indoor dining rooms but are only allowed to fill them to 25 percent of their normal capacity in florida it's not all counties but it is most in alabama indiana mississippi nebraska nevada and iowa 8 it's 50. scent of normal capacity again in iowa it's not all counties but it is most now georgia is an inter

. >> west virginia native katherine johnson but at the role in nasa's missions to put men on space and on the moon.

in some of the rural parts of west virginia.y businesses are the lifeblood in those small, rural communities. and frankly, we have the minority business development agency that has done a really good job of helping to deploy some of the resources from the ppp into those underserved communities. my question is, how can we use the mbda or some other mechanism to get some of those resources into our rural communities, or frankly, into our inner city communities where perhaps the paycheck protection program has been more intimidating for smaller businesses like barber shops and beauty salons, some of the rural gas stations that may not have the banking relationship that was necessary at the beginning of the program or their 1099 which means that basically they had to wait a week before they were able to get in the cycle. how can we help those organizations and agencies like the mbda actually provide the marketing so that more people understand the benefits and understand the program of the ppp, mr. secretary? >> well, senator scott,

caller: host: let's go to permit, west virginia. republican line. you are on. go ahead. they never come asked about that $1 billion he paid -- host: that doesn't apply to these allegations that have been recently laid against him. do you have a comment about that? caller: yeah. how come he won't let them have over -- to find out if that woman said that or not? host: we will go to detroit, michigan. caller: how are you doing? host: fine. joeer: my comment is that biden was the vice president for eight years. if it was a big issue, it would have come up then. i would take joe biden over a man who has 25 such allegations, rn stars, over 3000 times has lied to the people. why are we debating this? there is no comparison grid i would say to my republican friends, until you can come up with something that is not embarrassing to you by donald trump, just be quiet. host: why do you not believe tara reade? caller: i don't believe that she waited until he was running for president. if she had an issue, he was vice president for eight years. she could have made her claim because he

newest aircraft carrier. 1942, miller was awarded the navy cross for his heroic actions on the uss west virginia. during the japanese attack at pearl harbor. he ran toteful day, his battle station at the sign of alarms only to find it had been destroyed by a port -- for pedal. -- torpedo. he carried sailors to safety and aided the captain while under fire. he was assigned to another battle station where he fired a 50 caliber machine gun at japanese bombers for nearly 15 minutes until he exhausted his ammunition. miller was 22 years old at the time with just over two years of service under his belt. he had no formal training on the ships machine guns and only seconds of instruction from a young and senate. -- lieutenant. hadas blazing away until he -- as if he had done it all his life. he represents the type of american that you now have the privilege to lead. it's a great honor and responsibility. i'm confident you are prepared for the challenge. today, you become officers in the most ready, capable, lethal fighting force in the world. be proud of all that you have accomplished and commit yourse

fighter for social security disability fraud, eventually exposing $1 billion social security scam in west virginia run by a lawyer, a kentucky lawyer who fought thousands of disability applications. he was a master of senate rules. is clay present amendment is legendary and senate procedure. he was one of the unlikeliest members to vote for tarp in 2008. one of the hardest votes he took, looking at the facts in front of him, he thought it was the right thing to do. that is what it boiled down to. he opposed what needed opposition. he argued in private to resolve an issue rather than in public although he was not afraid to argue in public. after years of serving families as their physician, a task he continued on weekends even in the house of representatives the senate ethics committee ruled that doctor coburn was violating conflict of interest rules by holding an outside job, prohibited him from practicing medicine as a senator. doctor coburn did not just start taking payment and did his work as a physician pro bono and the ethics committee rejected that plan and prohibited him from working pro bo

plus, a major transition in the state of west virginia.fficials easing restrictions on retail, indoor dining and even tanning salons if you feel