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CSPAN Speaker Pelosi Holds Bill Enrollment For CARES Act July 13, 2024

With Speaker Nancy Pelosi and republican leader kevin mccarthy. We want to send a message that like many families, we have are differences but we also know what is important for us and americans families are important for us so we are so pleased today to be able to have passed on the floor, practically unanimously, this important bill cares. We want to demonstrate that we do care for the American People in every way. We are so honored to have the distinguished republican leader of the house with us today. I was honored to work with him in a very bipartisan way as this went along. Again, having her disagreements but also knowing our purpose. Hehat, i want to yield called you the majority leader and im calling you the democratic leader. [laughter] in any event, the distinct republican leader of the house, the office is right there and you see the sign. Kevin mccarthy from california. Thank you, madam speaker. A belated happy birthday to you. To the american public, we hear you and we are working for you. For those on the front line of the medical community, we cannot thank you enough. Within this bill, there is more than 140 billion for hospitals. Not just the necessity of the money but also for the equipment to make sure to keep you safe and perform your job. To every Small Business that has asked to shut down and everyone that works for a Small Business, now the resources are there for you. If you own a Small Business, apply for the loan. If you pay your employees, you pay your rent, you pay your utilities, that is not a loan. That is a grant. To the others, we have a tax credit for retention to keep your employees working. We will get through this together. I want to thank so many of you who worked on this bill. I want to especially thank those ranking members on the republican side that worked with their chairman and the senators. Kevin brady, especially, greg walden has done so much, patrick mchenry, virginia foxx, sam greg, rodney davis, mike ,onaway, tom cole, rob bishop jim jordan, frank lucas, mike mccall, kitty marchand, phil roe, max dorn berry, mike rogers everybody coming together to make sure we could make this come to fruition today. As i said on the floor, the virus is here. We did not ask for it. We did not invite it. We did not choose it. But with the passing of this bill, you will see that we will fight it together and we will win together. I want to thank our colleagues for that type of work. I especially want to thank the majority leader for his work today and the work in the future that we can all Work Together and put America First and to the speaker, thank you. Thank you very much, mr. Leader. I want to join you in acknowledging the leadership of our committees on all of this. Richie, you started with ways and means, nita lowey who is not here now but led the fight in the appropriations committee. It was important discussions in the appropriations committee. Also who wrecked presented her committee on the floor in the discussions. Peter defazio, transportation and infrastructure, bobby scott, education labor, maxine waters, veterans affairs, Small Business, frank pallone, energy and commerce, jim mcgovern on a rules committee was very helpful of ours was so many other members here. I want to acknowledge also the house administration. Of course, her distinguished leader, mr. Hoyer, thank you for being on the floor today and leading us through all of this discussion. We were notake sure only on course substantively but that we had the numbers needed to get the job done today. It would not have happened without you. Thank you so much also for your work. I want to acknowledge Chuck Schumer and some of the members on the senate, did turbine especially and members of their committees as well. Now, as the to do i amr was speaking, further encouraged to say that what we have to do now is we need to do more but in terms of this bill, what we are all working on right now is to translate it into a toolkit for our members so that any one of their constituents, if they are a Small Business owner, whatever their category is, that they know immediately how they can avail themselves of what is in this legislation. It is there, its substantial, we need to do more. I just want to say once again that i thing its very important we do more for the personal protective equipment so that our Health Care Providers have what they need i want to acknowledge the great work of congresswoman eschew in this regard. I think i forgot kate granger. On the appropriations committee, they worked in a bipartisan way in the house and the senate. I want to join the leader in acknowledging nita lowey as the chair but kay granger is the ranking member. Now its time for me to sign the enrollment of the legislation. That way we can send it right over to the senate. We thought senator grassley would be with us but he had a change of plans but we will send it to them and they will send it to the president so he can sign it as soon as possible. So the benefits will be available to the American People. I thank all of those gathered here for their distinguished contribution to all of this. I wish i could have a pen. [inaudible] this is the proper pen. [applause] [no audio] [indiscernible] [inaudible] dont forget, wash your hands. [indiscernible] [applause] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2020] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] the enrollment ceremony, the signing of thehe corona virus aid relief Economic Security act passed in the house by voice vote 30 minutes ago. We will show you full coverage of the debate later in our program but we will go back to the floor debate now on cspan. Measures, such as personal protective equipment, ventilators and 11 billion for manufacturing, production and purchase of vaccines, therapeutics, diagnostics and other items to address the nations medical preparedness needs. The care act opens up the Fastest Computers in the world at our National Laboratories for research and analysis related to the covid19 virus. We help ellen expedite the ability to get help e. P. A. Expedite the ability to get disinfectants into the community quickly. And the volatile oil market, the care act delays a

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