Virus committee, saying both were unnecessary at this time. The reporter questioning part of the briefing due to technical issues at the beginning. Our first question comes from Eric Wasserman from bloomberg news. A quick question. You say it would be inappropriate to assess the esp. Could you specifically address infrastructure . Are you opposed to that idea some part later this year . Im not opposed infrastructure but im opposed to is using a crisis to try and restructure government. Watching dealing with when we were trying to put the deal together on sunday. 90 of that will turned out exactly as we had done on sunday. What we were able to add was the retention tax credit later. The speaker wanted to deal with election law, she wanted to deal. Ith tensions for government all of these sanctuary cities that had nothing to do with coronavirus that had a bill up for a number of days not only to hospitals with those who were being laid off. But to have the speaker come back when we had not even implement it this yet and looking at what she wants, i know she was frustrated. Money onpend some places that were not dealing with coronavirus in the last month. I am for infrastructure in the future, but one thing i want to make sure for taxpayers is that word targeted, that works i have looked through these projects and seen the waste that was used. I do not think this is the time or place for that. The First Recovery we should focus on is implementing the 2 trillion we just passed and make sure it is done correctly. Needed, letsis make sure it is targeted to what we need instead of pushing political philosophy and using a crisis to make that happen. She saidention what today about an Oversight Committee and this crisis. We created two new oversight. Ntities in the last bill i think her focus is wrong. The focus right now should be on the health of the American Public and keeping people employed. Thats what the bills do. Lets focus on implementing it and what you heard from all ranking members today on the phone call and what we are working towards. The select committee she talked about today cant even be effective until Congress Votes on it. What with the budget be based upon all of the other five entities that have oversight . Next question, operator. [no audio] question comes from Andrew Taylor from the associated press. Thank you for doing this call. Demands like one of the you are going to be confronted with as the crisis goes on is the fiscal distress of both states and municipalities. Ofwas one of the elements one of the more recent bills republicans were resistant to. The bill excluded smaller and mediumsized cities like bakersfield. You see the need for further Fiscal Relief to these states . Bell, there is a fourth do you think that will be a driver of it . I appreciate the question hope you are staying safe remember what we did do on some of the stuff before. We supplied mind to states, we increased 2 in our second bill. 2 trillion is a lot of money coming through. We are trying to keep people employed and paying insurance, adding 600 a week and extending it another 13 weeks. We have to go back and look instead of just thinking about what it would take. Lets get some data and understanding as for what people actually need. Lets get this to trillion out there and get people employed. Im going to have kevin brady follow up on this. About cities with sales tax getting hit, businesses shut down and others. People want to know what the data is and where they currently are. Do you want to touch on this . First, you are exactly right. Lets see how it works. Lets get facts before we act. What the heck does early voting, windmills, and tax breaks to millionaires have anything to do with this coronavirus . The answer is it doesnt. Alone inm not believing that depending on how our battle on the virus goes, we could see the government go to a strong thirdquarter rebound. Similar statements have been made about it as well. Thats why i think this bill is so crucial. So much of that cash flow directly into the businesses to keep the workers on board in this crisis. Thats the reaction we are getting back home here as well. They want to rebound, they want to keep their workers and provide those crucial tools. Speaker mccarthy mchenry, there are three things i would highlight here. One, the system of relief in the package. That is set upty to support Municipal Bonds in order to keep that functioning and for Municipal Bonds to continue. Additionale will be regulatory relief so that municipalities can get their debt service through a variety. F different means you did say there was 150 billion in funding. You go through the State Government to go down into the other cities. You found that california does have a Rainy Day Fund that we could look to work with in the future. Leaststate is getting at 1. 2 5 billion in direct million in direct cash and thats on top of increasing all of the other assistance and help we are providing. Operator, next question. Next question comes from Leeann Caldwell from nbc news. Your line is open. One moment. [no audio] one moment please. The next question comes from paul kane from washington post. Your line is open. Mccarthy. Thanks for doing this and thanks to the rest of you. Just to clarify here in terms of this select committee. Not being ablet to be here to vote on this. Have you actually spoken to Speaker Pelosi about this . Staff speak to your senior staff or was this all new to you based on her Conference Call with us a few minutes ago . The speaker called me this morning 30 minutes before. Herd not get to talk to before it was announced to you. Say, andthing i would i will be calling the speaker back after our call here, we just created three new entities. We get appointments on one of them. The Inspector General is overseeing that. Im not sure what this is supposed to do. Im not sure what she thinks the Oversight Committee itself that she not trust preowned chair . It does concern me that she would select clyburn after the comments he made during the coronavirus, that he felt it gave him an opportunity to restructure government into their philosophy. Know whatever select committee speaker like to announce, you have to vote on it by congress. State intent and responsibilities like we have always done before. Im not sure when this would ever be up and running. Our focus should be implementing the trillions of dollars we have already passed. Sure with these entities that we would want oversight. Its above what we already have our committee. With our committee. Everything before seems to be bipartisan, this is not, so i dont know if they are going in a different direction. I watched what adam schiff has said. Thats the only thing that would concern me. Next question . Next question comes from Leeann Caldwell from nbc news. Can you guys hear me . Speaker mccarthy yes. Thanks for having the call. A couple questions. The president seems open to a phase four, talk about infrastructure and hazard pay. Out . Oes that play with the 6 million unemployment number today, does that change her position on a phase four . 600 you support extending plus in Unemployment Insurance . Can you talk about those dynamics bit . The number that concerns me greatly is the 6 million. I wonder if some of that could be a lesser number if they had not held up that bill. We could already be talking about having a stress call on how these trillions of dollars are going out, how its helping Small Businesses key people employed and hire people back in. Unfortunately, politics was played and we are where we are today. But the president says aboutface for he does not say about today. He wants it targeted and timely and he wants the data behind it. One thing we see is that the care act was right. We want to keep people employed, so the first thing we are going to do is provide for a small business. If we look at the retention about, its all talking this two month time frames to get the economy back. It theloans for multiplying on the Financial Committee and then you look at the critical parts of that money to hospitals. Week ofirst unemployment, people dont have to wait. Another 600 on top of what they are doing. Thats what i think it is so critical with these numbers we get the money out now. We could always come back after this is implemented. Remember what we are talking about. America the history of we seen this much employed at such a rapid pace. When this gets done, it always now at something, but right , it only goes to show that we ,ere right the action we took that it should have been sooner. Pelosi onp by nancy that sunday before. Unfortunately, they could have already had out. Does anyone else wants to comment on that as well . Its mchenry. Would say we have had very few dollars go out the door. Smaller businesses have gotten relief yet. They have yet to put the change found out the door. So lets give it a few weeks before we have some rush to have another piece of legislation. Is,s see how effective this how it combats the virus and how we get back to work area those things are the vital questions and we should be attentive to those needs. Operator, next question . The next question comes from jennifer peppercorn with los angeles times. Thanks for taking the question. We do mccarthy, im curious how you feel about the idea of opening up a special enrollment for people dealing with coronavirus who do not have insurance. President trump yesterday indicated the administration is looking at it. I would wait and see what the president does. Its one thing im very concerned with. We made sure in the second bill that we paid for all of this testing. I dont know if you want to take any of this. Sure. I would say i know some of the administration is looking at it. We have to take into consideration the effect that would have on existing plans. We would not want to trigger increased premium costs for those who are on it. There are questions about the high deductibilitys or coplays and some of those plans. It would be a whole new look at how the Exchange Works in the middle of trying to manage a lot of other things. We want to make sure people get access to clear to care and coverage. Rateve increased the fmap for coverage in all kind of additional coverage to the hospitals to make to take care of people coming in. Have a lot of new cases coming in to take care of this population group. And to help people on this payroll, one of the goals of what my colleagues said is to keep people employed, even if they are not working getting paid by their employer and extend that to be able to use that loan, which can be forgiven in large measure, to pay for continuation of the Health Insurance and those sorts of things. We tried to create several safety nets here as well as a bridge on the side of the steep economic chasm below us. Can i make two points on that as well . This is kevin brady with the ways and means committee. First, we recognize the Affordable Care act is very expensive to families. Big outofpocket costs. Narrow Networks Often cannot go to the hospitals you are used to. Our belief is the best health care most people get is at work. Thats why so much of this bill is focused on keeping workers attached to their local business. Thats where they get the best benefits and care. Second, President Trump has taken action which was opposed by democrats. Now, there are shortterm plans for people with this situation for people who were and were designed often for small as this is to help before returning to a full plan of work. Thats an option we ought to revisit and make sure people are aware of. Operator, last question. I apologize. Our final question comes from the new york times. Thank you for doing this call. I wonder how you feel about remote voting and what thought you have given to how congress will operate with all of this gathered. How will you debate legislation . How committees work . Primarily, i want to talk about remote voting. Thank you for the question. We are not in the majority. Dont get to determine that. Remote voting, its not like something you can just turn on. How the democrats change caucuses and others. We did a lot of that Committee Work telephone. Calls and others that we were able to do and then we went back and voted on it. Accepting the speaker and i have talked about. Its something people look at. Right now, to even change something, you have to go back and vote. I dont think banks should be passed by you see, they are very large. Andke that we had the bait were able to put across the desk had you stood on the bill. How you stood on the bill. People will put better study into this. When we get through this, this will not be the normal way of life for the future. We have been through things that are larger than this and we will i believe weom will have a normal life weve been through world war ii and others. I just hope we dont have the same frame of mind when it comes to allowing china tabs such control over our supply chain. We will have to focus on. Thank you all for being on the call. I want to thank the ranking members for their service, and if i could say one thing, the bills we just passed, looking at the numbers of more than 10 million american, we have got to take care of them, get them back to work and keep the country healthy. We will supply the resources needed and look at them in the future. The most important thing right now is getting that money to the people who need it. That will continue to make a stronger. I appreciate your time and i look forward to talking to all of you. Cspan has roundtheclock coverage of the federal response to the coronavirus pandemic. Its all available on demand on cspan. Org. Watch white house briefings, updates for governors and state officials. Track to spread throughout the u. S. And the world with interactive maps. ,atch on demand any time unfiltered, on cspan. Org karen coronavirus. Cspans washington journal, live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. Morning, ariday professor of epidemiology and discusses the latest in the u. S. Response to the coronavirus pandemic. Then, thomas frank talks about how federal agencies like fema and the army corps of engineers are responding to the pandemic. 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