Sixweek hiatus weve accomplished quite a bit in a bipartisan basis. Weve confirmed National Security nominees. Weve held hearings. States are getting back to work and stool and the impact of the pandemic on broadband. In short the senate has been working on a bipartisan basis to understand the challenges that this virus has created so we can rovide targeted reforms. It seems to be a different approach than the one taken by the house. Earlier this week the house released a socalled Coronavirus Relief bill, you could say they mailed it in because they havent been here for two weeks, but it has a staggering price tag. 3 trillion. With a t. Thats more than we spent on the first four Coronavirus Response bills combined. Mr. President , i tell my constituents when im talking to them on a Video Conference call or teleconference that two months ago i never would have imagined that the senate would be voting on trillion dollar bills. But now apparently the house wants to make this a routine way
Having discussions. Peaker pelosiys staff, my staff. And secretary mnuchin. I dont seey reason why we cant come to an agreement. Next, Texas Governor greg abbott holding a briefing with reporters on his states response to the coronavirus. At the start of the event he stated plans for opening his states economy. This is 45 minutes. Almost 700,000 americans have been infected with covid19. More than 35,000 of them have tragically lost their lives. Economic damage has hit even more americans than the coronavirus itself. More than 22 million americans have filed for unemployment. More than a million texans have filed unemployment claims. Businesses have shuttered. Paychecks have disappeared. Food bank lines are swelling across texas as more families seek food that they desperately need. Well, in typical texas fashion, you have come together to support one another. You have made personal sacrifices to ensure that our state slows the spread of covid19. You have helped to reduce the number of
Responders, everybody out there, who is working so very hard on this emergency. And i want to, again, thank our health care workers. All across the state of louisiana. Whether theyre doctors and nurses, respiratory therapists, you name it. A lot of really, really good work by selfless people has taken place across the state of louisiana. Governor edwards and certainly particularly down in the new orleans region. Last night i requested a major disaster declaration for the state of louisiana from the federal government. So i directed that request to President Trump. In order that we might receive Additional Support for state and local agencies as we continue to combat the spread of the virus and deal with all of those individuals who actually have the disease, covid19. As we anticipated and as we stated and, quite sadly, the number of cases in louisiana continues to rise. More drastically than we would like. As of today, we have 1388 cases. And 46 deaths. That is 216 more cases than we r
For being with me. We will be here to take any questions related to testing. I want to start by thanking all of the state and local first responders, everybody out there, who is working so very hard on this emergency. And i want to, again, thank our health care workers. All across the state of louisiana. Whether theyre doctors and nurses, respiratory therapists, you name it. A lot of really, really good work by selfless people has taken place across the state of louisiana. And certainly particularly down in the new orleans region. Last night, i requested a major disaster declaration for the state of louisiana from the federal government. So i directed that request to President Trump. In order that we might receive Additional Support for state and local agencies as we continue to combat the spread of the virus and deal with all of those individuals who actually have the disease, covid19. As we anticipated and as we stated and, quite sadly, the number of cases in louisiana continues to r
Taking place across the state of louisiana and certainly particularly down in the new orleans region. Last night i requested a major disaster declaration for the state of louisiana from the federal government, so i directed that request for President Trump in order that we might receive Additional Support for state and local agencies as we continue to combat the spread of the virus. And deal with all of those individuals who actually have the disease, covid19. As we anticipated and as we stated and, quite sadly, the number of cases in louisiana quite sadly, the number of cases in louisiana continue to rise more drastically than we would like. As of to date, we have 1,388 cases and 46 deaths. That is 216 more cases than we reported at noon yesterday and 12 more deaths since our report yesterday. I want to remind you that we are updating the numbers once a day now at noon. Because it just became too much to try to manage with all the various testing labs and reports that had to be coming