WASHINGTON, May 5 -- The Center for Strategic and International Studies issued the following transcript on May 4: KATHLEEN H. HICKS: Good morning, everyone. Thank you for joining us at CSIS for this two-part event that we're going to have on "Establishing a Bipartisan COVID-19 Commission." It's my pleasure to kick off our event with a conversation between two members of Congress who are co-sponsoring some bipartisan legislation to establish such a commission, and then we'll follow up with an ex more PR

WASHINGTON, May 8 -- The Center for Strategic and International Studies issued the following commentary on May 7 by Michael J. Green, senior vice president for Asia and Japan chair, and Kurt M. Campbell, chairman of chief executive officer, and co-founder of The Asia Group: We awoke this morning to a beautiful spring day in Washington and the shocking news that veteran Japanese diplomat and businessman Yukio Okamoto had been taken by Covid-19 at the age of 74. Like many in this town, we are dee more PR

WASHINGTON, May 5 -- The Consumer Product Safety Commission issued the following news release: The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is announcing a 90-day solicitation seeking applications for a special Pool Safely Grant Program (PSGP) offered to state and local governments. CPSC will award up to $2 million in two-year grants to assist jurisdictions in reducing deaths and injuries from drowning and drain entrapment incidents in pools and spas. The Pool Safely grant program is a pa more PR

WASHINGTON, May 9 -- Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-New York, chairwoman of the House Oversight and Reform Committee, issued the following news release on May 8: Today, retired Lieutenant General Russel L. Honore, who was appointed by President George W. Bush to lead a unified taskforce in response to Hurricane Katrina, provided a video briefing to Democratic and Republican Members of the Committee on Oversight and Reform on lessons from Katrina that could improve the Trump Administration's response t more PR