Debate managed by part of the ways and Means Committee. Might consume. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from massachusetts. Mr. Neal im pleased to join with the speaker and other Committee Chairs to have introduced the Patient Protection and Affordable Care enhancement act and welcome consideration of the measure in the house today. Hearing the former chairman of the Energy Committee a few minutes ago, decent guy, he said that there was room for bipartisanship. In the health care debate. I mean, ive been here for a long time. Where was the bipartisanship, and im going to submit something republicans in all the years i have been in this house they have not agreed amongst themselves on health care, never mind agreing with democrats on health care. So for years, weve worked to expand access. Thats what this argument about is about today. We want to make sure that Affordable Health care exists for the American Family and to build on the coverage gains of the Affordable Care act. The c
And allowing the government to negotiate medication Prescription Drug prices. And for residents and homers to stay in their homes during the pandemic. Live coverage of the house. The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. God, thank you for giving us another day. Those who omfort suffer from coronavirus. Healing. Bless and comfort those who mourn the loss of loved ones in wake of covid19. Psalmist, we turn to you. Have mercy upon us, o god, for treated harshly. Harshly all t us the day. Attackers. Re our almost high when we are afraid place our trust. We praise the word of god. Not fear. N god and do all the day our enemies foil our plans. Their every thought is of evil against us. Lie in wait for our lives. Our threats are many, o god. Unrest in Police Reform, aggressive russian and policies, a struggling economy. Our time of need. Bless the peoples house and may that is done be for your amen. R honor a
We were up 1,000 points on the d dow. The s p 500, 3202. Nearly 3 there. Theres the nasdaq 9817 200 points to the upside josh brown, the dow is now 50 higher than it was its up 50 from march 23rd intraday lows its remarkable. It really is. I think the story here, and aye be ive been hammering thanksgiving is broad participation. Every sector youll see the Smaller Companies out pacing the larger ones. Very big story this week is Small Cap Value which had been absolutely left for dead made a 30 recovery in the last month. I think the bottom may have been when baa rrons called into queso whether dimensional funds would be a fund giant for much longer given thats one of the factors they weighed toward. Small value up 13 this week we talked yesterday about the equal weight nasdaq being twice as good as the nasdaq on the week you can find that all across the board. I think its so important. If you want people to really buy in to this recovery then it couldnt just be amazon, microsoft pushing
A term we have heard talking about essential frontline federal employees. Give us an idea of who some of those employees are. What are their jobs . Guest some of those employees would be tsa. Some of our Veterans Administration workers. Would be some of our prison workers. Some of those would be essential personnel. Guest what are you hearing from those frontline workers during the crisis . Guest more than anything is , protection. They feel that they are inadequately protected. While they have to and they want to do their job, just want to be protected. Our main concern is making sure that those employees that we represent are protected. Host do you have any idea of how many of your members have contracted covid19 . Guest i dont really have an accurate number. I do know that within the tsa is about 170 so far and in the Veterans Administration, i think the last count i had was about 189. Can i give you a little background of why we feel so strongly about the fact we need the protectio
The threat tobout biodiversity from covid19. Tell us what we mean when we say biodiversity. We are talking about the abundance and diversity of nature, the wildlife and plants and animals that exist in Natural Systems and how they coexist and how healthy those ecosystems they occupy our. We are seeing a collapse of biodiversity. Scientists are calling it the sixth mass extinction. About one million species around the world are at risk of disappearing. Biodiversity is in rapid decline around the world. Highlights onthe the threats to biodiversity, one million species are at risk of extinction worldwide. Half of all rain forests in the world are gone. Two thirds of wetlands have disappeared. 60 of the planets wildlife has been lost since 1970. The headline said the destroyed creates the perfect conditions for coronavirus to emerge. Scientists have been warning us that this is increasing the risk for Infectious Diseases to make the leap from the Natural World into the human world. Mers, h