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The million ventilators thus far that the media said we were in dire need of. Encouraging to be able to say that every single american who needed a ventilator ventilator. A and this administration has a hundred procure thousand ventilators to be days. Actured in 100 thats extraordinary. Thats three times the amount produced in the average year. Likewise, there was some concern about n95 respirators but the now administration has shipped over 90 million n95 respirators. Thats more than three time...

The 1800 page measure includes money to support state and local governments, Virus Testing and treatment and new Cash Payments to americans. Here is some of that now beginning with House Speaker nancy pelosi. Thank you very much, mr. Speaker. I thank the distinguished chair for yielding and thank her for her tremendous leadership. My colleagues, a horrible virus has made a vicious attack on the lives and the livelihood of the American People, indeed on the life of the our democracy of our democr...

Legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material on the bill under consideration. The speaker pro tempore without objection. Mr. Neal madam speaker, i yield myself such time as i may consume. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman is recognized. Mr. Neal first, thank you. We are here today in these very trying and unprecedented times to act on an emergency interim funding package that i am pleased has strong bipartisan support. But we did not arrive here without...

61,000 in the state of illinois. Sadly, we are quickly approaching a death toll of 100,000 americans, while more people continue to contract this coronavirus, another alarming trend has come to light. The coronavirus disproportionately affects minority communities. Black illinoisans make up less than 15 of the states overall population. However, they account for 34 of all coronavirus deaths. In chicago, black residents account for 52 of the total coronavirus deaths despite comprising only 30 of ...

Publish its monthly jobs report for april. Some experts are projecting that it could show well over 20 million job losses in the past four weeks. The preliminary report today suggests that will be over 30 million newly unemployed americans over the past seven weeks. Thats a tenth, one out of ten people losing their job. A tenth of our population. We are looking at what seems to be the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. Small businesses have shuttered. Some larger businesses have f...

The director of the department of Public Health, dr. Grant colfax. The director of the department of emergency management, mary ellen carroll. The director of the department of Human Services trent rhorer. The director of the department of homelessness and housing, abigail stewartkhan and our police chief bill scott. Thank you for joining us this afternoon. I want to start by providing the most updated numbers currently. We have 1,058 cases here in San Francisco of those diagnosed with the coron...

Whose career has been marked by steadfast determination to expand Health Care Coverage for all members of the american continues to be a champion for the least, the last, and the lost who are part of the grip of this pandemic, madam speaker. The speaker pro tempore the honorable speaker of the house is recognized for one minute. The speaker i thank the entleman for yielding and i thank him for managing this important legislation on the floor of the house. Also commend him for the work that he di...

[inaudible conversations] we are going to get started. Thank you. Good morning. The hearing will come to order. I thank everyone for joining us this morning and i want to especially thank my colleagues for joining us today for the House Committee on business hearing the response to covid19. We have had a hard stop act once again. We will move as quickly as we can but should we not be able to accommodate every member in person today, we will be accepting statements for the record until thursday, ...

Pro forma session, we do expect Mitch Mcconnell to ask unanimous consent to pass the latest Coronavirus Relief measure. Reports are that ideal has been reached on nearly 500 billion for Small Businesses, hospitals and further covid19 testing. The House Majority leader says members are ready to return to the capital quickly to pass the measure. Likely by the end of the week. Take you cliff and after the senate floor on cspan2. The presiding officer the senate will come to order. The clerk will re...

Here on cspan2. The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Black, will lead the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Eternal god, your words are true. Guide our lawmakers with your precepts. Give them a passion for whatever is just, worthy, and honorable. Guide them to cultivate such reverence for your providence that they will repeatedly pray for your will to be done. Remind them that if they faint under pressure, then their strength is too small. Help the...