We begin with leader mcconnell. Sen. Mcconnell the new coronavirus has spread from china throughout the world and is challenging our nation in new ways. Across our country, daily routines are being disrupted. Families are grappling with School Closings and changes to childcare. Major American Companies and institutions are literally modifying how they do business. And a growing number of main street Small Businesses face the possibility of significant disruptions as more and more communities begin to hunker d own. Put it, on the advice of local health experts. As an aside i notice a lot of the discussion in media has focused on individuals who may be temporarily transitioning from office work to working from home. O especially acknowledge the many working americans who where telework is not an option. We are reminded to keep this country running. The hardworking men and women who. Grow business who make things. Who drive trucks. And move goods across the country. Or otherwise produce Domestic Energy and literally power our communities. We run the stores and shops, rely on. Er serve our communities and the dedicated Frontline Health care professionals who worked tirelessly to heal and protect all the rest of us. But to all americans, but most especially those hardworking people whose efforts are going to get our country through this challenge, i have one message. The Senate Stands with you. We stand with American Workers and families. We stand with american businesses. And we stand with the Public Health experts and the heroic frontline medical professionals whom our nation seems poised to lean on as heavily as we have at any point in recent memory. The senate is committed to meeting these Uncertain Times with bold and bipartisan solutions. Thats what we did a little more than a week ago when the Senate Passed billions of dollars in emergency funding for health and Small Businesses with an overwhelming bipartisan vote and put it on the president s desk. Thats what were going to keep doing this week, particularly if the house of representatives can actually complete its work and transmit a finished product of its relief over to us. And its what were going to keep doing in the days and weeks ahead. With respect to the housepassed legislation, i understand the house chose to proceed with their planned oneweek recess despite not having finished processing their bill. As of this afternoon were waiting for the house to reach a decision on possible technical corrections and submit a final product to us here in the senate. We cannot consider the legislation until we get it. But i know that senators on both sides have spent the last several days carefully studying the house proposal, and i know that all of us are eager to act quickly to support American Workers, families, and Small Businesses. Even more broadly, Senate Republicans are absolutely convinced that the houses bill canal only be the houses bill can only be the beginning, just the beginning of Congress Efforts to secure our economy and support american families. This this is a unique challenge, a unique challenge. Unlike in any other tough circumstances, our shortterm goal is not simply to bring Economic Activity right back to normal starting tomorrow. Instead, our task is to secure the historically Strong Foundation of our nations economy and support americans during this period when Public Health may require that some normal activities simply be scaled back. Ive spoken with countless colleagues and Committee Chairmen over the last several days. We agree there are three major areas where the senate must continue to develop bold and bipartisan action. Number one, well need to take further steps to assist individual americans and families with financial challenges in the weeks and months ahead. Number two, we will need to further we will need to further significant actions to secure our nations economy, particularly main street Small Businesses and safeguard our historically Strong Economic Foundation through this period. And number three, well need further steps to ready our Health Care System and support our nations medical professionals. The Senate Majority is already working toward next steps on all three of those fronts. I hope further bold action can be just as bipartisan and collaborative as the process by which we passed the first set of additional funds. We must work with each other in the bipartisan spirit this moment demands and with the administration and the house to deliver a quorum call. Mr. Schumer i ask unanimous consent the quorum be dispensed with. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Schumer first, let me thank the staff who are with us today under these difficult circumstances. At the desk, the sergeant at arms, the police officers, the many others who are