Thoroughly. Ive listened to the other side. When you look at what we accomplished in those 14 days of loans, we saved 30 million jobs. We all could have put a tweet out today, not having to have been here, and said we saved 34 million jobs. But no. Four million more lost because somehow people felt good with politics. I listen to debate on the other side. Some said they didnt want to be here today. Have folded and come together. Leverage, ave used political leverage to hold people up. ve even some people on the other side of the aisle said they loved to see it when the price of oil dropped when no one before. It and the idea that millions in our Energy Industry are going to too. Aid off about politics. There will be republicans, emocrats, both that get laid off. Hen, i listen as we come back here, madam speaker, and i tried to listen to the other side. Tried to understand why would you hold it up. Different . I listened to the debate, i leadership talk, it was amazing to me. Only thing it, the i could think what shakespeare deth proteste lady too much, me think. Explain as hard as you can and spend with as much political might as you can laid 4. 4 Million People better to you felt tell Mitch Mcconnell in a out and saved t 30 million jobs that you are a ng to hold it up to prove point, thats not what id want history. N adam speaker, as i said earlier, its our responsibility to act, to put our differences for and do whats right the american public. Now more than ever, the American People deserve a congress that with leadership, dedication, and resilience. Chamber we do in this that deals with covid should be bipartisan. Legislation to deliberation voting. Yeah, i stayed up to 2 00 a. M. To see what the majority wanted forward. We all work hard to get mr. Speaker. Almost have about the same size districts whose every to ears we take a census figure that out. And our constituents make a decision every two years to lend their voice to the person they them. O represent they did not lend their voice to give that proxy to somebody else hold accountable. That voice to nd wait until 2 00 a. M. To change 200 years of history ecause somebody wanted to have more power than the job of the majority themselves. Were living in one of the reatest turning points in history. This is not a time for ndifference, selfishness, or division. Were going to help america get through this. Together. G to do this and in the end, were going to be stronger, helpedier more united than ever before. Why . Because we are americans and are. S who we debates. Will raise this body plays politics many times. Moment for ot the politics. To say, t the moment lets hold something up even if somebodys going to be publicished, because somehow i will get a political advantage. Inally, when people come together, the question should not be, lets hold more its ok. Because when we come to the floor, well not us. And say it was gone, n were long history will write about this day. Theyll write about that day on 7 when america witnessed something theyve never seen before a one stood chamber in the senate and requested to add exactly what doing today to a program hired in all the places we know and love in our neighborhood. Sent two people in the middle of covid onto the simple hand to say they object. That was the only Thing Holding money up between the and those 4. 4 million who unfortunately went to a different job today, the line. Oyment i dont know how anybody could that. Ud of but madam speaker, im always an optimist. I know whats been before us. Challenge. Today, were going to display to can merican public that we work. Just as those Truck Drivers, professionals, the hecker at my local vonns or the paramedic who comes when the call is requested. Theyre essential. This k its essential to country to show we can do our way. Not in a partisan so when the moment comes, youll have two votes. Voted all of us here into chambers to add three are committees that bipartisan for the accountability of this money forward. The country is asking you to keep that together. A choice. Have now you can cast a new vote to partisan that g weve never seen before. An individual who is one of the best political minds around, virus is more is about restructuring government nd their view than solving a problem. Hen, youre going to have another vote, a vote to continue the funding that we already weeks ago. Than two we this time, after twice holding up money for the just ask all c, i in this chamber to learn from this. Again our old up ability to help and work in a bipartisan manner to not only this chamber, work for the american public, and solve this problem once and for all. Yield back. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from massachusetts is recognized. Mr. Neal thank you, madam speaker. Reminder that our job here is ever to acquiesce to the other chamber. By any objective measurement, this is a muchimproved piece of legislation. With that, let me yield to the gentlelady from washington, expressions on behalf of her constituents this week were well noted. For howker pro tempore much time . Mr. Neal 30 seconds. The speaker pro tempore the gentlewoman from washington is 30 seconds. Or ms. Jayapal madam speaker, in we will lost more american lives than we lost during the vietnam war. Unemployed mericans from covid. Body bags piling up and testing and p. P. E. Democrats took a bad republican better, and we made it but this is far from enough. Meet the scale of this crisis with a bold paycheck uarantee that stops mass unemployment and essential workers an essential workers and state and local government funding. Every minute, madam speaker, is family devastated, a business shuttered. We must think and deliver better. The speaker pro tempore the entleman from texas is recognized. Mr. Brady thank you, madam speaker. Im proud to yield one minute to the gentleman from pennsylvania, fitzpatrick. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from pennsylvania is recognized for one minute. To fitzpatrick were here replenish the Paycheck Protection Program and thats a good thing. We should have been here last ofk when the program ran out money, and we will be back in the same position next week if p. P. P. T fix the there are over 700,000 pplications currently in the queue, and if the Treasury Department does not establish differentiate between wellcapitalized rokerage firms and undercapitalized pop and mop shops, we m and pop need to get these Small Businesses and nonprofits every single penny they need to we must hold china ccountable for every single penny. Madam speaker, this is not the time to be attacking each other. Crisis get through this together. We must have each others backs. Others backs. Lets think with our hearts and our heads, and lets march through this together. I yield back. The speaker pro tempore the massachusetts. Mr. Neal madam speaker, im pleased to yield 30 seconds to ohio, tlelady from congresswoman kaptur. The speaker pro tempore the gentlewoman from ohio is recognized for 30 seconds. Thank the i gentleman for yielding. Madam speaker, this economic boost is desperately needed as sits on such a dangerous precipice. The bill offers hopes to millions of americans, our Small Businesses, hospitals, those on the frontlines. Im troubled by the limited insight into how the last 2 spent and why so much has yet to be disbursed. Seems like those with access had their takings. Americasshortchanges local communities and First Responders as calls and pressure mound. En without data, its shortsighted. T offers no assistance to our postal service, whose jobs hang in the balance. Congress must move america a step at a time. Are at stake. I urge my colleagues to vote for this important bill. I yield back. The speaker pro tempore the entleman from texas is recognized. Mr. Brady thank you, madam speaker. Proud to yield one minute to the entleman from ohio, mr. Davidson. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from ohio is recognized for one minute. Mr. Davidson thank you, madam speaker. Appreciate the chairman for yielding. This bill is a bandaid and it the wound. N cover its better than no bandage, but it wont stop the bleeding in stop onomy and it wont this virus. In light of covid19 and the it, congress urgently needs to lead by xample and get into full session. Safely but fully functional, 24 7, in full compliance with the house rules or debate, amendment, and voting. Every one of us has a duty to balance and consider public economy, but every single one of us swore an oath to support and defend our to defend freedom and represent our constituents. Its time to support and defend it. Time for us to occupy this house and man our duty station win. I yield. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from massachusetts is recognized. Mr. Neal madam speaker, i yield the gentleman from South Carolina, congressman cunningham. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from South Carolina is recognized for 30 seconds. Cunningham thank you. Today, i will vote to extend a businesses, mall shore up our hospitals and expand testing so we can reopen economy. But its unacceptable its taken this long. Supporting hospitals and small is not partisan but, gain, politics is obstructing policy. This bill fails to ensure relief goes only to Small Businesses instead of most large corporations. Nor does it help states respond unprecedented crisis. We cannot wait until the next isaster forces both sides to the table. Our constituents deserve more from their representatives. Our come together and get country back to work. The speaker pro tempore the texas. An from ohio. The gentleman from ohio is recognized. Speaker. Eciate the id like to yield one minute to the gentleman from north carolina, mr. Norman. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from South Carolina is recognized for one minute. Mr. Norman thank you, madam speaker. Today to support a lifeline for our Small Businesses, for our first our hospitals. But i also rise today to say now to stop writing checks on money we dont have thats mortgaging the future of this great country. Was not sent here to bankrupt this country. Secondly, we get our businesses and do what doors americans have always been allowed to do, which is go to work. Time. The theres one person that can do that. Thats the speaker of the house. Urge her to get us back to work. We are getting paid. Many americans are not. Back. D the speaker pro tempore the gentleman from massachusetts. Mr. Neal madam speaker, pleased to yield one minute to the entleman from maryland, the distinguished majority leader, mr. Hoyer. The speaker pro tempore the honorable majority leader is recognized for one minute. Mr. Hoyer i thank the gentleman for yielding. People, d a number of including my friend, the majority leader, stand up and to act in a bipartisan fashion. Partisanstatement is a attack on one of our members. Schizophrenia or a lack of understanding of what this congress has been doing the last few weeks. Dont know about you, madam speaker, but i have been working the ours, seven hours on phone and another three or four ours reviewing the materials today. S gotten us here and why did it take so long . Took two weeks for my colleagues and this is a partisan statement, i understand it. Be i think we ought to all realistic. We are all trying to get to a place where america and safe. Ans are and where our economy is working. Statistics we see of pain and of fear, an anxiety about tomorrow. So what have we been doing . Weve been on the phone with one another. Minority ked with the leader numerous times over the last two weeks. Not only on this particular of legislation but on going forward. So if anybody on that side is aying that congress is not working, they must be speaking for themselves. Every one of these colleagues on my side of the aisle and i believe your side of the aisle have been working very hard. In touch with their local government. In touch with their governor. In touch with their Health Care Delivery people. Anybody who works in the hospital or Health Care Center or federally qualified health center. They are working hard. And let us not denigrate ourselves or this institution or our commitment to the American People. Because that is blatant partisanship. We waited two weeks, madam speaker, thats correct. What for . So that the proposal that we made two weeks ago, or three weeks ago, which has now effectively been accepted by the republicans, would be accept. Thats what we waited for. What did we get . 120 additional billion dollars for Small Business. What we assured, we all talk about being for the Small Business. What this bill does is puts 120 billion in addition, in addition, 370 billion for mall business. Now, we talk about bipartisanship. The first bill we did dealing with coronavirus on this floor passed 4152. Doesnt sound like partisanship to me. It sound like we came together and agreed on how we could help. It wasnt enough. Then on phase two, which we passed on march 14, 10 days later, congress not working . 0 days later we passed 36340. Doesnt sound like partisanship to me. En phase three, we passed on 3 27, 13 days later. On a voice vote. With only one member in the. Enate or the house demurring it doesnt sound like partisanship to me. I dont think todays vote will be a partisan vote. I certainly hope it will not be. Why . Because for the last two weeks we have been working with one another to try to get to a place where we think we are giving the needed resources. Because we think the initial request was shortchanging hospitals. Shortchanging testing. And its still shortchanging our state and local governments. We need another bill to get there. Madam speaker, on tuesday the senate came together to pass this legislation in a bipartisan way. Now, unlike the house, no senators came to the floor except three or four. They did it by unanimous consent. We are not able to do that, although i think this bill will pass overwhelmingly because some of our republican friends wanted a vote. Fine, we are here. We are Wearing Masks. Im not wearing one speaking, but as soon as i do youll put a mask back on as i turn around to go among us. Congress is doing its job. I want to tell the American People one more time, members are working daily to respond to the coronavirus that is putting our people and our country and our economy at risk. Last month we enacted emergency legislation that included more than 2 trillion in assistance for workers, veterans, Small Businesses, Health Care Systems, and communities dealing with the spread of coronavirus. One of the programs we created together was the Paycheck Protection Program. Try to keep people on a payroll even if they could not go to work because Health Professionals say dont ongregate. The Paycheck Protection Program provides loans to Small Businesses that will be forgiven, that will be forgiven if they keep their workers on the payroll. The need was so great that the initial 350 billion, as been pointed out in funding, madam speaker, was exhausted in a matter of days. So today we are providing another 310 billion for that program. An additional 60 billion for the most atrisk Small Businesses. Critically 60 billion of that as i just said will be setaside for Smaller Banks with fee cuss on Community Development focused on community velopment and Financial Development and financial institutions, Rural Communities left out of the initial program. I bet if you ask your Small Business or rural people, your hospitals, or those state officials who say testing is essential, ill bet they say, im glad you waited because you got us resource that is we needed. That wasnt in the initial proposal that came from the administration. And it was oobd to objected to and the leader in the senate would not provide for such sums. More help is still needed for nonprofits as well as small and minorityowned businesses. Those in Bank Communities and selfemployed. Those must be, madam speaker, priorities in the next gill bill that clearly is going to be necessary. In addition to the increased funding for the Paycheck Protection Program democrats insisted on recapitalizing Economic Injury disaster loans as well. Providing an additional 60 billion for this program which can be leveraged to 300 billion. Yes, we asked for, we worked for, we negotiated with to get Small Businesses, minority businesses, businesses that couldnt get into the system that the other bigger businesses got in. Some so big they were ashamed and gave the money back. We are also providing an additional 75 billion for hospitals and concurrent resolutionly 25 billion for testing. And crucially 25 billion for testing. No governor or county executive or mayor or county commissioner or county Council Person will say, gee whiz, we didnt want that money for testing. We will not be able to return our economy to normal operations, madam speaker, without a robust testing system. In place to know we can safely go to work without putting workers at risk and to identify those who have coronavirus so we can take necessary steps to isolate them and trace those with whom they came in contact because thats how we win this battle. This bill is an interim step. The fourth interim step. As we continue to work on the next major piece of legislation. I hope we can include, by the way, madam speaker, the next bill provision that is unfortunately we are unable to secure in this bill. First of all we shortchanged, we are all in the nations capital. Millions of americans come here. And we gave wyoming and vermont small states, less popul