Democrat house of representatives is not even in town. The senate is here doing work. And important work i might add. Deceptive passing legislation heard well the week before memorial break we passed the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act reauthorization, a critical piece of National Security and intelligence legislation that all our Intelligence Experts tell us is critical to fighting the war against terrorists. Pretty important legislation i and he pointed out the agenda for the month of june does not atinclude much. Thats only if you dont think the National Defense authorization act is not important, funding the military, authorizing the weapon system, paying personnel, the technology, the intelligence, although things are going to protecting the country seem to me very important. To the National Defense act as a peach ofio demonstration will process in the upcoming weeks in june. Ill probably take a good week to move across the floor of the senate, typically does and we have to do it on an annual basis is nothing more important or critical to the National Security for authorization act. Will pass a major parksville this next week will help fund the backlog in the National Park something is been a priority for Many Democrats in this chamber for a long time its a great bipartisan bill. I think out of the democratic caucus, there are somewhere on the order of 43 of the 47 democrats who are cosponsoring the piece ofll legislation. That will be called up this week it on the floor most of next week ill be a major legislative accomplishment will be a bipartisan accomplishment when it passes. And so come up madam president , i would just say the fact that the democrat leader we are not doing the things he wants to do, does not mean the senate is not very busy. The thing he wants to do, the things he talks about wanting d fewer things we are doing. We are dealing with the coronavirus on a daily basis around here. I am a member of the Senate Finance committee. Yesterday the Senate Finance committee had a hearing in which officials from the fda for examples, critical agencies when it comes to particularly pharmaceuticals in the country and the purpose of the subject of the hearing was pharmaceutical supply chain. What we need to do to assure that up and make sure in future pandemics, Lessons Learned from this one, we are not dependent upon unreliable supply chains and places around the world that frankly, it may not be dependable. That is a pretty important issue when it comes to dealing nwith the effects and impact of the coronavirus. Today, the Senate Commerce committee another committee which i serve, will be examining the impact of the coronavirus on our transportation infrastructure and how important transportation has been throughout the course of the coronavirus and ensuring we keep commerce going, we keep people, food in the Grocery Stores were going to be looking at the highway a aspect, the rail aspect, all of those and how they are impacted by the coronavirus and what we might need to do to ensure they continue to be able to provide the services that they do going forward. And so, madam president , we are consistently looking at on a daily basis the coronavirus impacted is having on the economy, the impact on the health of this country, health of people in this country, the Health Emergency putting measures in place that would deal not only with that Health Emergency but with the economicre crisis created by it. In the meantime we are seeing the economy start to open up magain. Which i think is a very good thing. I am hopeful we see the economy opens up people will get out, consumers will spend, investors will o invest. We will see that economy start to grow again, jobs to come back obviously we have very high unemployment right now which is a major concern. We have a major Unemployment Insurance piece of legislation thatpl was moved by this Congress Earlier to provide assistance and help for those, through no fault of their own, have had to go on unemployment. But madam president , to suggest, for a moment that we are not focused on the coronavirus completely misses the point. Dy to suggest also we have not done a lot already, we passed four major pieces of legislation totaling almost 3 trillion. That is 3 trillion if you do not include the amount of leverage that we gave to the Federal Reserve and the treasury to extend credit to create liquidity out there. With the power of that leverage it somewhere on the order of more like 6 trillion in assistance we have put out there through different legislative vehicles to the American People. Youve seen that translated into the Paycheck Protections Program which is keeping people employed, keeping jobs in this country, keeping businesses functioning andyo successful program. You see it direct existence with state and local government, 150 billion has been put out there, much of was not has been spent. Thats on top of the leather other assistance with state and local government which totals somewhere on the order of 500 billion, half a trillion dollars so far, the sum total, has gone out to state and local governments. Much of that asn ive said is in the pipeline and has not been spent yet. It can be used as a treasury is pointed out given the state inflexibility for emergency personnel, First Responders, police, all of thele things a senator from the air talked about. That flexibility that the states goave now to be able to meet the needs that they have and work with their local governments to meet the needs of local governments. There is a lot of money in the pipeline not to mention of course first and foremost the money we put out there for investments and therapeutics, and vaccines, and diagnostic testing, all the money that is gone out to hospitals and nursing home providers, longterm care facilities to help them get through this crisis. Thats in the form of direct assistance a lot of money in the pipeline, madam president about 2. 9 million or 2. 9 trillion that is already been authorized. I think about 40 maybe has been spent . Theres d still a lot of assistance going out there. My friend, democratic leader, would want to put a whole bunch more money out there without knowingi what the need is. I think at a time when we are already running a 21 trillion now 25 trilliondollar debt that we ought to be very circumspect and Pay Attention to what is happening in our economy, with the needs are, weha need to keep the economy opening up and responded what we need to continue to do who rte helping people who are unemployed. We can need to continue to do to help families are struggling through this crisis. But we ought to do that based on the need, not just somebody saying lets just throw a bunch more money out there and hope it has an impact. We have done that. We flooded with dollars for this are tremendous amount of resources out there right now some of which, a lot of which has yet to be spent strikes me at least as the eyes, most americans they would view it as pretty important that before we spend more tax money, all of which i might add is borrowed money that we see what we have done is working if is been effective and if it is having the desired impact. So, there is so much more going on around here deal with the coronavirus it is completely defies any sort of logic to what the democratic leader suggested is happening here in the senate. He made one other comment which i think you have to respond to. He said that the senate is in the process the Republican Senate is processing right wing judges to have antipathy for the various civil rights issues that we are dealing with right now. I dont know how you can make a Statement Like that. I dont know how you can ascribe motive or intent to judges. You dont know who these judges w are. We got a judge who will be processing here for the d. C. Circuit its a pretty important circuit in this country but he is a district badge from kentucky. He has been rated as very wellqualified by the american rbar association. The American Bar Association is not a right ring group at all. Many on our side think they drift the other direction. T yet they have said this judges a wellqualified judge trade you think theyll be saying Something Like that about a judge you had antipathy . That is what is is a reckless and irresponsible statements unless you have something to back that up and support it. So madam president , i thought it would be important to respond to some the things the democratic leader just said in respect to the agenda here in the senate which i pointed out earlier is a very full one. If you compare it to the agenda of our colleagues and a democratcontrolled house, which is zilch because they are not here for the entire month it seems to me the senate is getting a lot of work done. Some madam president when i came here to talk about, i came on the floor couple weeks ago to talk about how the coronavirus is highlighted how the internet works. Despite the surge weve seen internet traffic, the coronavirus has produced with americans using internet from work, school, family dinners, u. S. Networks have held up well. Theyve enjoyed the same speed ntd streaming quality they typically enjoy, something that is not happened and a lot of other countries prayed that is rude direct result of the United States light touch results which has encouraged American Companies to invest in infrastructure and technologies to make more use of spectrum. Our nation is currently preparing for the Widespread Adoption of the next generation of Internet Technology which is otis 5g. We need to make sure that our 5g networks will be strong, i should say as strong as our Current Networks but we still have some work to do to get to that point. I come down here frequently to the floor to discuss that work which includes paving the way for the widespread installation of small cells needed for 5g which is a handsome ability for the mid spectrum for deployment and investing in a 5g workforce. Theres also another aspect we need to think about when it comes to 5g, which are sometimes not talked about as much. It is Network Security. With this incredible speed and connectivity, 5g will usher in a new era of innovation, advances in medical care, largescale deployment of agriculture, safer transportation technology, 5g will bring all of these things, madam president , and more. W but like any new technology 5g will have new risk and vulnerabilities. Because that will mean a greater number of connected devices the risk is greater. That is white essential part of deploying as how to mitigate security risk. We need to ensure that our Component Parts of our devices and the critical parts of Telecommunication Networks like cell towers in small cells that will be required for 5g are secure. Primary work to do that is to ensure 5g clement comes from trusted vendors. Currently, one of the biggestne suppliers of 5g equipment worldwide is a Chinese Company which is supported by the Chinese Government. Chinas 2017 National Intelligence law requires Chinese Companies to support the Chinese Government intelligence activities. American Security Officials have raised concerns that much of their equipment is built with backdoors they give the Chinese Government access to Global Communication networks. We should not have to tell only one that we should be wary of their motives prayed their handling of the coronavirus is a current example of the Chinese Government prioritizing its own interest while pride over the public good the Chinese Governments initial handling of the epidemic allowed the virus to have a tenacious hold at critical moments critical they had secrecy and to avoid the growing crisis to avoid political alarm and political embarrassment. It is driven where the hubris of the communist party the communist state has for the wellbeing of its own citizens, china was not9. Transparent about the grave danger of covid19. It failed to release Accurate Information about the virus and check active steps to make sure the truth did not get out in other ways whistleblowersel were punished journalists were expelled. Despite the fact that its negligence undoubtedly had with the Global Pandemic china still is less than forthcoming about the virus but unfortunately this is runofthemill governing in w china which we south art sars outbreak in the early 2000 and we have seen in many other instances. Not content with its role and aggravating the spread of the coronavirus the chinese comets parties taken advantage of the pandemic just trip hong kong of its tawny and freedom. Chinas help is our nation is too preoccupied with this pandemic to notice its efforts to undermine what should be hong kongs autonomy under one state to systems constructs. Mr. Pride is that, we have noticed. Many of my colleagues that i have stressed we stand with hong kong. We must carefully consider it a response one that will rebuke the commonest economy of china without affecting wellbeing and their democratic aspirations. We did not need covid19 or chinas recent actions in hong kong to know that giving the Chinese Government a backdoor into american Communication Networks is a bad idea. But it certainly underscores the need to make sure 5g infrastructure is not made by companies beholding to the Chinese Government. The United States has taken a number of steps to prevent equipment from from other suspect Chinese Company from being used in u. S. Commit occasion networks for these Companies Still pose a risk to the United States. For starters, some u. S. Broadband providers often a rural area still have a limit in their networks. A number of our alleys and trade partners entity with with we spread information including sensitive National Security information have used or are using technology from that and z tep what we do were replacing suspect components m with trusted companies. The president signed the trusted Communication Networks act to help speed up this process. This legislation is geico sponsor will help small telecommunication providers with the cost of replacing Network Components that pose a security risk. Also in large i introduce legislation to address the other part of the problem thats theer use of that technology by our alleys and trading partners. We regularly Exchange Information including sensitive National Security, information with our allies and trading partners in this information can only be secure, can only be secure if networks on both ends are secure. That is why the u. S. Has called for other countries to reject telecommunication technologies theyve trusted other companies to build out their telecommunications but other countries are planning to make use of their technology. By trade acts would make telecommunication security a key objective whene negotiating future trade fields. We should be using trade agreements to push for enhanced Network Security globally which would benefit not only our country, but every country with which we do business. We recently opened negotiations on a new tradein deal with the United Kingdom which has been using this technology to build his 5g u networks. I am pleased that it now looks like the uk is reconsidering its use of those components. I hope they decide to reject the suspect technology i hope trade negotiations to use trusted companies to buildel out those imitations networks for the security of our communications with trading partners and alliesri particular those like britain need to be a priority. Mr. President has we move forward into the 5g future when each make sure our Technological Advancements are matched with those in Network Security. That starts with keeping suspect technologies out of our networks and if i do possible out of networks with the allied can do everything that i can to ensure that we have not only the infrastructure but the security needed to keep American Networks at the forefront of the telecommunications revolution. Mr. President , let me say one more word about china. As i said earlier chinas coronavirus deception is undoubtedly partly responsible for the fact this virus has now spread to every corner of the world. Chinas recent actio