So, right now negotiations are underway between the trump administration, republicans, and democrats to try to figure out a way to pass this legislation because democrats want some changes to the ways that Small Business loans are structured to make sure that money is getting to people and businesses that dont have those traditional longstanding relationships with big banks. They are really touting this, they want to make sure that the money is going to minority owned and women owned businesses. Thats a negotiation going on now. On the senate floor i believe we saw what was supposed to be a pro forma session. Ben cardin, senator warner, we to what wasecting being proposed on the senate floor. His more of that likely ahead in the senate . Guest we are not entirely sure that it will happen this morning at the pro forma 10 00 a. M. Session. We have not gotten good guidance about whether or not republicans plan to try to once again bring up this bill that would include additional money for the Small Business program or whether or not theyre just going to let this be the standard kind of session where they come in and they just sort of adjournment immediately. We are all very much trying to figure out what is going to happen this morning. We could see a repeat of last thursday whether our unanimous requests by republicans, democrats object. That is one of the things we are all trying to figure out this morning. What happensess of or passes in the senate eventually has to be passed by the house. Any word on how pelosi views this . Guest Speaker Pelosi and minority leader Chuck Schumer have put out duel statements this last week, saying that they are unified in wanting structural changes to the paycheck protection program. They also want additional funding for hospitals, as well as state and local governments. Thats another thing that republicans are resisting. They say that those programs that already received funding from the previous package are not set to run out of funding. They think those negotiations should hold over to the next bill. So, democrats want to have bipartisan for corner negotiations. On friday we heard from schumer and pelosi after they spoke with , that thechin administration was on board with negotiating. But then on saturday we got a statement from mitch mcconnell, Senate Majority leader, and house gop leader kevin mccarthy, say they hope democrats come around to the republican view of the package and that they want to support a clean funding extension. We are veryight now much in a stalemate heading into the week. Host the pandemic and congress being away has gummed up the works here. Proceed iny going to the house on this process . Guest the senate has been doing a lot of telework with staff. One piece of moving legislation on the house side is that the House Appropriations chairwoman has given the 12 subcommittees their allocation, total spending levels for the upcoming fiscal year. Start onposed to october 1. To draftlooking at how legislation and, potentially, fully could draft of the legislation remotely so that when the committees are able to come back and meet again, they could quickly move on the markup process. But obviously we dont have a timeline right now for when congress would fully returned to washington, d. C. Washington, d. C. We dont know when the various curves in the country are going to start to end and the social distancing will relax. Host we appreciate you covering this story. Jennifer shutt cspan has roundtheclock coverage of the federal response to the coronavirus pandemic all available ondemand at cspan. Org so coronavirus. House briefings, updates from state officials, track the spread throughout the u. S. And the world with interactive maps, watch unfiltered atime cspan. Org coronavirus. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2020] next, this mornings newgs on new yorks yorkss response to the coronavirus pandemic. Governor cuomos of the state is working on a reopening plan. Governor cuomo its monday. I hope people enjoyed the best we could this different weekend. This different easter celebration, for those who celebrated easter and passover. Everybody knows whos here. Doctors to my right. Dr. Zucker to my left, secretary to the governor, melissa derosa. And budget director robert mujica. Lets give you facts. Plain, true facts. Heres the good news. The curve continues to flatten. We talked all along, quoteunquote, the experts said that there were two possibilities. You could have a high point, a droppoff, or you could have a plateau. It appears that we have a plateau. Its flattening. Its the flattening of the curve. You the increase has slowed