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Statistics. The United States now leads the world in the number of confirmed cases of the coronavirus with more than 1. 5 million. Another 2. 4 million workers filed jobless claims this week, joining the more than 38 million americans have applied for unemployment assistance since the crisis began. Veryl soon our country will reah another grim milestone. We are fast approaching the day when more than 100,000 american lives will have been lost to covid19, the size of a small city erased from the map. Speaker pelosi and i have sent a letter to President Trump this morning requesting that the Ame...

Majority leader has announced the senate will be in recess through the memorial day traditional recess but let me urge our colleagues that before we leave for the recess , we need to act on the challenges that covid19 is imposing on state and local governments. It is irresponsible to go into recess not the state and local governments are so much impacted by covid19 they make decisions now they would adjust this years budget and alwhat is in the balance is for municipalities and law enforcements and Emergency Rescue and with so many different issues for the state have the resources to respond t...

The isle. I will yield back the for. The voting to confirm the nominee is the director of National Intelligence. Today i want to discuss congressman radcliffes confirmation as director of intelligence and congratulate that congressman on a job welldone. Witwell done. With this new position comes great responsibility. He will have tremendous power to do good and to be transparent. I would like to remind him that as ive reminded many heads of department before, transparency brings accountability. And the public business ought to be public by its very nature the Intelligence Community is a secret...

50 billion to make people feel confident and safe that they can go back out and they can say reopen, reopen but if they are afraid to go out there i want to start by acknowledging the horrific tragedy in minnesota of george floyd that is absolutely tragic. That video that we saw that i saw in them asap saw and that the president saw in the president put out a Statement Last night that at his request the fbi in the apartment of justice are already well into an investigation as to the very sad and tragic death in minnesota of george floyd. I have asked this investigation to be expedited and grea...

As you just heard, we had a good discussion for the last hour or so. The only news i have to report beyond what you have already the chairman of the Intelligence Committee for the rest of this period of time during chairman burrs current dilemma. Eliminated, to be he would come back. Marco rubio will continue to chair the Small Business committee through the end of the year. You are familiar with the work we are doing on floor, hearing on a variety of different subjects that are coronavirus related. We have had some preliminary discussions about what comes next. The president has indicated and...