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Protection program and businesses of all sizes have started to use the tax tools that we provided for their liquidity. But in that time the critics have also done what they do best. They criticize. The need came has seized on an opportunity to perpetuate every negative story that critics can manufacture. You can imagine my surprise when democrats criticized the net operating loss carryback provisions in the cares act. Because oddly democrats previously supported the last three bills where we expanded the net operating loss carrybacks in 2002, 2005, and even in 2009 with all democrat rule. So i...

Recognized, those of us in the senate and the house, recognized that we had to take special effort to protect the economic viability of the Small Businesses in our country. They did not have the reserve capital. They did not have the resiliency in order to deal with this prolonged downturn in our economy. Eight weeks ago we came together, democrats and republicans by a 960 vote and passed the cares act. I was proud that a significant part of the cares act responded to the needs of Small Businesses. We had a working group, a bipartisan working group. Senator rubio, the chairman of the Small Bus...

Delivered. Bonds are performing a bit better now, a tightening of the spread, 2004150 is where we are trading right now. In the u. S. We are seeing gains in spite of the initial jobless claims figure that put shivers down your spine. Stocks are just going the other direction. The s p 500, up 1. 4 . The nasdaq, running away with things once again today. All but three sectors in the s p are higher. You can see that there is definitely a risk. Belowoil is still well 18 per barrel. Gold is continuing to is the dollar, although it is off the highs of the session. The dollar, miss versus the other c...

The presiding officer the senate will come to order. The clerk will read the communication to the senate. The clerk washington, d. C. , april 9, 2020. I hereby appoint the honorable roy blunt a senator from the state of missouri, to perform the duties of the chair. Signed chuck grassley, president pro tempore. The presiding officer the majority leader. Mr. Mcconnell i ask to be recognized, notwithstanding the previous order, for a session today. The presiding officer is there objection . Without objection. The majority leader. Mr. Mcconnell our nation continues to battle the coronavirus pandem...

Rural areas. May not have broadband, so i worry about those communities who may be low resource or under resourced. Those are just a few of the things that i worry about. Thank you, our time is up. Dr. Patrice harris, we would like to present you virtually with our notable National Press club coffee mug along with our hope that we can share a cup of coffee here at press club in person in the near future. Thank you for joining us today. Dr. Harris thank you for having me today, and thank you. I will enjoy that mug. My thanks to our National Press announcer tonight at 9 00 eastern, netflix direc...