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Us with your first name and city , youate at 202 7488003 can also join the conversation on twitter or facebook. Yesterday follows the news that the Unemployment Rate the highest rate since the great depression. We want to hear from all of you. Becomingy about unemployed because of the pandemic. We begin with the debate on the floor. Here is David Schweitzer, the republican from arizona making the argument for the legislation. Phone calls last couple weeks talking to that Small Business person an...

Stayathome orders. Those are some of our top headlines on this monday, april 27th. We are entering the final days of april 2020. Hard to believe, may is coming. We do begin with the push to ramp up testing and reopen the country as the Coronavirus Claims more american lives. Today the governor of texas will announce his plan to end stayathome orders with some restrictions set to be lifted on thursday. New jerseys governor will also unveil a roadmap for reopening, but he says those first steps ar...

Coronavirus. Like all other efforts on the supplemental package, it has been bipartisan. Let me commend my colleagues on both sides of the aisle, including my friend and Ranking Member, congressman tom cole. Before you begin of what to extend a very warm welcome to our witnesses, dr. Tom frieden, president and ceo of resolve to save lives, and former director of the centers for Disease Control and prevention. The cdc, from 20092016. And dr. Caitlin rivers, senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins cen...

Going hungry around the world. No vaccine but that doesnt mean you know how we look at the different drugs and treatments being used to treat cope with 19. With the pandemic throwing world oil markets into turmoil donald trump says his government will look to support the domestic industry the president says hes told the energy and treasury secretaries to formulate a plan to make Funds Available to ensure the survival of american oil and Gas Companies that follows an unprecedented collapse in the...

We leave this program to suspend cspans coverage of live gaveltogavel coverage of the u. S. House. Ouse a communication from the speaker. The clerk the smooms, washington, d. C. The speakers rooms, washington, d. C. April 24, 2020. I hereby appoint the honorable g. K. Butterfield to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, nancy pelosi, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore the prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. C...

Died. Warrens brother died. That is people we know, but people we dont know are having same terrible grief in their families. Our prayers and thoughts are with those who lost their loved ones. Our prayers are with those who are diagnosed, over 900,000 approaching 900,000 people diagnosed. 26 million having lost their jobs. Staggering numbers. Grief. Snow and family the conversation going on now is if we were to open government, how and when . Should be signs based sciencebased, testing holds the...

Earlier this week. Chatss is part two of our with the chairs for those of you who tuned in monday night. We had the Democratic National Committee Chair and tonight we are excited to continue the conversation with the republican National Committee chair. I think this is the chairwomans second time with us at gu politics, the less time on campus and we are looking forward to the next time being back on campus as well. About where tonight the Campaign Stands for campaign 2020. Its primarily against...

We are leaving this portion to have u. S. House coverage. You can watch all of our coverage online at cspan. Org. The house is holding a recession today. He house will be in order. The chair lays before the house communication from the speaker. The clerk the speakers room, d. C. , april 24, 2020. Hereby appoint the honorable g. K. Butterfield to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, nancy pelosi, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore the prayer will now be of...

From roswell park cancer where we areich is today, in buffalo. Roswell park is one of the cancer institutes in the united states. And a real jewel for the state her veryrk and i thank uch for their hospitality today. Let me give you some of the facts today. One of the points we want to today is were in western new york, buffalo. Weve been talking a lot about new york city and the situation in new york city and long island and westchester and rockland, the suburbs of new york city. Ut just as wer...

Numbers start to decline so we can make some more progress. What we are doing is working, and i plead with the people of alabama, keep doing what you are doing peering what you are doing, social distancing, staying at home when you can. As a reminder our current order stays in effect april 30. Last week i talked to you about the shift from our peoples safety and health to include also the Economic Health of our state. In my mind those two have been closely interwoven since the beginning. As most...