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Been fighting for, we Senate Democrats. First the Marshall Plan for our medical system. Our hospitals, or nursing homes, or Community Health centers, our whole Healthcare System needs desperately needed dollars, they need them fast and they need them in a very large amount. Hospital beds have to expand, expanding capacity is not easy. The need for ventilators, for ppe use, for the workers for masks, even things as simple as swabs are not always available and we in new york city and new york stat...

Quickly as possible to help Small Businesses meet payroll and operating obligations for a time roughly equivalent to six weeks. Use bankers in the Banking Industry in general, those who are approved do that and anyactivity now, other Financial Institutions through the treasury department, to participate, that basically allows Small Businesses to go get money in the amount equivalent to what payroll and operating costs are for a time of roughly six weeks. Final details are being worked out. The g...

Lord, give our law lawmakers aing this upper for your words and a desire to apply your knowledge in their daily work. We pray in your merciful name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in the please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to the flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Mr. Mcconnell mr. President . The presiding officer the m...

Theres no better place than to be in the u. S. To step back and ask what do we have achieved in the last. Years when i look back i see that in the last years europeans have begun to understand that they can in a european way that we must pave our own way to stay relevant in the 21st century for me is in the way europeans are changing the way they look at themselves and starting to see you are as capable of being strong and being sovereign. We europeans often do not see ourselves as being powerfu...

Testing center returns at noon tomorrow eastern time to work on phase three of the coronavirus economic aid package. When the senate returns, watch live coverage on cspan2. Earlier today rubio and collins held a News Conference on their proposal for the economic stimulus provisions for Small Businesses to be included in the phase three coronavirus aid package. This is 20 minutes. Says senator collins and i in the group here have been working, as well as the outrage with our bipartisan partners t...

Coronavirus cases continues to tick up, up and up. A report by the World Health Organization last week noted while it took more than three months to reach 100,000 cases nationwide, excuse me, worldwide, it took 12 days to 1get another 100,000. It doubled in 12 days. And now we know it took less than a week to have the next t100,000. Some of this is because of increased access to testing, something we knew we were not ramped up to do and more and more people are getting tested. Thats good news fo...

And we will overcome this together i thank you. Thank you very much or at risk we will start with questions that will remind your analysts that we can take only one question per person so we can advance as much as possible so we will start with the loser news agency thats a portuguese speaking news agency can you hear us yes or can you hear me yes is it antonia yes this isnt on you thank you please go ahead well i would like to ask a question on the issues of birth and newborn care and breastfee...

Chairman heinicke all right. Good morning good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. I will call this meeting of the San Francisco m. T. A. To arrested. I will read some preliminary rules after the roll is called. Call the roll. [roll call] clerk thank you. You have a quorum. Chairman heinicke all right. We have a quorum. Obviously, these are unique times, as we could say. Given the Public Health recommendations issued by the department of Public Health and Governor Newsom and mayor breed have lifted...

Unanimous consent the quorum be dispensed with. Mr. President , negotiations on the third phase of the coronavirus legislation went late into the night last night and continue through the day today. I have spoken to Speaker Pelosi and secretary mnuchin several times as well as President Trump to keep them apprised as we continue to work through a number of issues. Good,t, i just had a very very detailed phone call with secretary mnuchin or stephen chuck, as he prefers to call it. We discussed ma...

Ahead of us, especially in San Francisco and throughout this country. When i look around this room here today, when i think about so many of the incredible inspiring leaders that are with us right here on this balcony, i cant help but be excited about what we are going to do to change the future for the better because we know that we are stronger when we come together. There is nothing we cant accomplish. So we want to keep that in mind as we move forward with these challenges. We are going to t...