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The minority leader. Mr. Schumer thank you. Madam president , over the past few months, both parties have worked together to provide historic levels of funding to help Small Businesses retain employees, meet payroll, and stay afloat during the covid19 pandemic. The Paycheck Protection Program, the main instrument to help Small Business, received 349 billion under the cares act and another 310 billion in supplemental legislation. The public has know how this money is being spent. Oversight, transparency, and accountability are crucial because from the moment the administration began implementin...

The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. The clerk the speakers rooms, washington, d. C. April 23, 2020. I hereby appoint the honorable kathy castor to act as splote on this day. Signed, nancy pelosi, speaker of the house of representatives. 7 the speaker pro tempore the a prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. Merciful god, thank you for giving us another day. Send your spirit of peace and comity among the members of the peoples house. These are days of great political, so...

Going to those who needed it most. So today, we are not taking any other action on the floor dealing with covid19 so weak that we would take this opportunity to ask unanimousne consent, to get Something Real done should have bipartisan support on both sidesot of the aisle. Who can be against transparency. Who can be against accountability. Know where close to 700 billion that taxpayers money is going, to the right places. And impartially today at least 200 publicly traded companies have managed to secure pp e and most of those are not very small. Including some companies, as owners are large c...

Committee on Small Business member states, hearing on response, we had a hard stop, we could move as quickly as we can and could not accommodate every member in person today and we are accepting statements until thursday april 30th. Today is a chance for the committee to hear directly from members of congress about thoughts on the covid19 response for the next package to Small Business issues for the committee of jurisdiction. I would like to remind everyone we are practicing social distancing and taking other precautions for all in attendance. I appreciate your cooperation so that we can prot...

The auto prompts will look at callers entry. The questionandanswer time. But this is the Public Comment period. If you call in before Public Comment is called, youll be added to the queue. When you are called for Public Comment, please mute your device that you are listening to the meeting on, when it is your time to speak, youll be prompted to do so. Public comment during the meeting is limited to three minutes per speaker, unless otherwise established by the presiding officer of the meeting. Speakers are requested but not required to state their names. Sfgov tv, please show the office of Sma...