The challenges we face. Lord, we can meet these challenges with your power that transcends human understanding. When you whisper, dangers flee into the darkness. The sound of your footsteps causes tribulations to hide. Almighty god, permit our lawmakers to be aware of your providential guidance. May they depend on you to lead them according to your will. Give them the wisdom to trust you when they cant see the road before them, believing that you will be their light in the darkness. We pray in your great name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to our 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. Grassley mr. President. The presiding officer the senator from iowa. Mr. Grassley permission to address the senate for one minute in morning business. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Grassley ame
Lock down measures a reinstated after a new cluster of virus infections of. Hunger joining a pandemic entire households in south africa struggling to afford enough food. And on time hummus now have all the sporting creating a look at how Major League Baseball is aiming to start is the late season in july. And going beginning this news with unemployment figures out of the United States almost 3000000 people have filed for Unemployment Benefits in the past 7 days that is down from previous weeks but it brings the nationwide figure to more than 36000000 people since long over coronavirus began meanwhile World Leaders have made a plea for the eventual covert 19 vaccine to be. Distributed free of charge to all countries in an open letter more than 140. 00 current and former leaders Nobel Laureates and academics cold for the global sharing of data and technologies related to the virus the World Health Organization has warned the virus may never be wiped out the health body says without a vac
Bless their plans, as they seek to do your will on earth, and empower them to succeed. Use them to bring comfort and healing to a troubled nation and world. Keep them aware of the constancy of your presence, inspiring them to give primacy to prayer and praise as they work for your glory. We pray in your majestic name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in the pledge of allegiance. 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. Grassley mr. President. The presiding officer the senator from iowa. Mr. Grassley permission to speak for one minute in morning business. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Grassley the pandemic has disrupted just about everything americans take for granted in life, including our food supply. Empty Grocery Store shelves have greeted u. S. Consumers, perhaps for the first time in their lifetime. The pandemic shin
And responsible fashion. During this time, americans must maintain strict vigilance and continue to practice careful hygiene, social distancing and the other protective measures that we have outlined, and that everyone has been very familiar with. We continue to be encouraged that many of the areas hit hard by the virus appeared to have turned the corner. For example, recent deaths are down very substantially. You can compare that with their peak not so long ago, and you 25 ,numbers of 30 , detroit as an example, is down over 50 . In new orleans, where they have done a terrific job, they are down 65 . 30 states had just one case or less per 1000 people. Thanewer cases per capita germany, united kingdom, spain, singapore, norway. The netherlands, austria, sweden. Administration continues to press conference to replenish the enormously successful Paycheck Protection Program which has impacted 30 million american jobs. We hope to have an agreement very soon, and hopefully tomorrow the sen
That is on top of hundreds of thousands of hospitals. In new york you built 2,000 hospitals, 900 beds, nobody say anything like it. Fortunately we have not had to use too many of them. That is okay. Probably better news than using them at all, right. A lot of good things are happening in new york and elsewhere. Through the Public Private partnerships and deregulation the federal government has made immense testing capabilities available but some states need to take action to fully out advertise it. To date the United States has conducted millions more tests than any other country. You can add them all up and they dont catch us. Our numbers are doubling certainly on a monthly basis, but almost on a weekly basis, were moving very rapidly, at a number nobody thought possible. Well double the number of daily tests that the governor brings states online through the capability they have. We have tremendous capability out there already existing and we explained that to the governor today, mik