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Mr. Portman mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from ohio. The presiding officer mr. President , im here on mr. Portman im here to talk about the steps congress should take with respect to the coronavirus pandemic. Im start with the legislation that majority leader senator Mitch Mcconnell introduced yesterday, one of the aspects of it that hasnt gotten much attention and i think is very positive and an effective way to get the economy moving in a safe way is some tax legislation. These are tax credits and Tax Deductions that help to encourage the hiring of new workers but also to...

Distributed. Weve worked closely with the department of energy and others on this legislation and they agree this is important. It also allows the state department to deny visas to foreign researchers seeking to access sensitive u. S. Research when there is a threat to our economic or national security. This may surprise you, but they cant do that now. Career Foreign Service officers, employees at the state department have begged us for that authority. Our bill also requires Research Institutions to have safeguards in place to prohibit unauthorized access to Sensitive Research because weve fou...

Senate to talk about how the tragic spread of the coronavirus around the world underscored the need for us to focus on the persistent challenge of china not playing by the rules. Now, in the case of coronavirus that was about china not telling the World Health Organization, not telling other countries, not telling their own people what was happening in terms of the coronavirus, not taking steps to stop International Travel early on. That wasnt playing by the w. H. O. Rules, the World Health Organization rules, and the result has been devastation. It has been the spread of the virus and so much...

Persistent challenge of china not playing by the rules. In the case of coronavirus, that was about china not telling the World Health Organization, not telling other countries, not telling their own people what was happening in terms of the coronavirus, not taking steps to stop International Travel early on. That wasnt playing by the who rules, the World Health Organization rules and the result has been devastation. Its been the spread of the virus and so much of that devastation weve seen around the globe in my view could have been avoided. Had they played by the rules. Unfortunately, not pla...

Trillion. So its actually more than the previous four combined. And the legislation that shes proposing has a lot of items that arent directly related to the covid19 crisis, they are, as someone said, a wish list of priorities and others have said in the media that its more of a messaging bill. So well see. Among other things it says as an example that they want to change the current law which says that youre limited in terms of how much of a federal Tax Deduction you can take for state and local taxes, thats called the salt issue, and they want to repeal that. That cost, by the way, is about ...