We are in a time of great sadness, 60,000 people have died, more than 60,000 from the coronavirus. Americans have applied for Unemployment Insurance. The lives and livelihoods of the American People are at stake. And we have to make some decisions about times. The time we would go forward to the economy. That is the question at hand. I firmly believe there are three steps that we must take in preparation for what comes next. Aboutf us have talked testing, testing, testing. Our first bipartisan bill, which we wrote in february, pratt passed on march 4, was about testing, testing, testing. The impression that was given is not everybody can be tested because we do not have enough tests, masks. Lets get it. Lets get it all. The tests were reserved for those who reach a certain threshold and that was almost two months ago, and we should be creating more tests. Confidenceive people to go into the workforce is if they know their coworkers have been tested and cleared to be there. What will give people more confidence to know that will we go into the workforce they are not bringing something home to their children because the other people have not been tested. Vaccine,aspire to a and that is our hope and prayer, and science, science, science, and we aspire to a cure hopefully they will be soon. The vaccine may take longer or onre might be illumination the horizon close by. We do know we can make the tests, and we should make the tests available to everyone and have the subsequent care that might follow that if someone tests positive to be free so that it is not menacing to someone that i cannot take a test because i cannot afford what comes next. I cannot take the test because if im positive i will not be able to go to work. Is getting a handle on how big this challenge is and how necessary it is for us to know who. Mr. Khyber and has talked about and will again testing, contact tracing, isolation, and treatment. He will tell us more about that. Is also important is come as he has suggested, we have a mobile unit going out so we reach a whole other market of people who might not be aware of how they should be tested. If we do get a cure for a vaccine, murray or a vaccine, we have to be prepared to manufacture it. The defense production act should be geared to this. Had a vaccine tomorrow, we do not have the syringes and vials and Everything Else that goes with vaccinating people. Ets get that done as we wait for a vaccine, lets make sure we are ready when it comes. Again, we can stockpile it until it is ready. Third, we need to have in place taskhical, whether a force, whatever it is, of to scientists and others, and ethical approach to how a vaccine or therapy will be distributed. Everybody in america would know when that happens i will have access to it. My family would have access to it. , shoulds we discussed be open up, should we not open up, there is a path. , ifs take it lets not say only we had started sooner. Now. Start i am sure you have questions and what ise do happening in meatpacking plants, so i will proceed and talk about the fact that i am proud to have announced with mr. Clyburn the members of our Oversight Committee on the coronavirus. Maxine waters, chair of the Oversight Committee , congressman bill foster, and congressman andy kim. I am proud of that and i want to put their names out there. Today, we are here to talk about the issue of fairness again and how our sense of community and humanity in america is served by what policies we present, what legislation is included, and what action we take to make that possible. I want to commend mr. Clyburn for being in the lead for such a long time on expanding broadband in america. Im going to have him speak more specifically to it, but just to commend him for the champion he has been, the understanding that he has about it. I also to commend chairman frank commercef the committee. Energy and commerce committee. He has been working on this issue, meet a proposal for infrastructure bill based on the task force that mr. Clyburn has chaired here and i also want to acknowledge the leadership role eshoo forwoman anna the proposal. Ant to thank mr. Colon rep. Pallone for what he is doing on the testing issue and tracing and the rest, what they are doing on ppe and the rest, and what they will do on oversight of the committee of jurisdiction that has so much jurisdiction. The appropriations committee. They say, if the sun shines on anything, it is a matter of the energy and commerce committee. ,hey have a broad jurisdiction and i thank the gentleman for anyways. Rship and so with that, i want to present mr. Clyburn to talk about this important initiative. We are talking about distance learning. We are talking about telemedicine. We are talking about people buying things in a way they had , and yet it is not available to everyone. This is about fairness and equity in every way, access to care, access to credit, access to whatever opportunities come along in terms of testing rapies or vaccines testing, therapies come over vaccines. Pleasedt, i am lead to yield to the distinguished chair of the committee and democratic width of the house mr. Clyburn whip of the house mr. Clyburn. Rep. Clyburn thank you for your leadership and guidance in this important issue. In spite of what attempt may have been made to the contrary, my vision for this great country is drawn from the pledge of allegiance. That pledge, when i was a kid growing up, in south carolina, we used to say the pledge every morning. Itemember getting to perfect because i was in school when we changed the pledge to insert the words under god. I remembered how many times i would have to keep repeating it for failing to put those two words in it when i recited it. Pledge with aat phrase that means a lot to me, with liberty and justice for all. That is what has enlightened me in my service here in the congress. I have always said that my vision for this great country is making its greatness accessible and affordable for all. All over on billboards my congressional district. I believe strongly in that. This country is great, but the greatness is not accessible and affordable for everybody. To me, that is what we should be about. Im often reminded of when we the coops, the electric coops paused to celebrate the 50th the ruraly of electrocution. Electrification. They wrote a tabletop book i keep in my office and my home. It is called the next greatest thing. Let me read for you what gave rise to that. Was a gentleman in a rural Tennessee Church giving testimony one evening. He said, brothers and sisters, let me tell you what is the , is to have the love of god in your heart. But the next greatest thing is having Electric City electricity in your house. , believe in that testimony which is great for the 20th century. The greatest thing for the 21st century to me would be having broadband in every house. , is what is going to be necessary and made even more necessary by this current pandemic that we are trying to respond to. We cannot get testing done unless we have broadband because, when you test, what then . , itomebody shows a positive is time to do two things. Number one, do tracing. Isolate. You have to then you have to treat. How you doe effective testing without broadband. If we are going to have effective treatment, you have to because ournd federally qualified must be equipped with the ability to do isolation and treatment. To do that, you have to have broadband. Experience,ing to as the experts say, another virus, ouris will be out of school again next year. If that happens, the only way you can have Online Learning is with rod bent broadband. Twocannot afford to allow thirds in many communities that that means over 60 of children are not going to be able to receive Online Learning. Some of them will fall behind for a second year. To have started my professional career as a Public School teacher. I can tell you what happens if a child falls two years behind in school. School aduate high that child will never graduate high school and become a productive citizen as a rule. There are exceptions to the rule. As a rule, that is what will occur. This broadband deployment is very necessary. I want to thank the speaker this afternoon. Later today, we will be rolling out our broadband program. When wey pleased that had our first infrastructure meeting at the white house the president said he got it. He understood. I conclude with this. Were tryinghen we a legislative manynse to the disasters of our farmers were experiencing, they came here. I met with farmers from all over the country. They were telling us what we need to do because this was the second year they were going to be unable to get their crops out of the field. One man sat across from me in the commuting in the meeting can when it came time to speak, he said this. He said, i came here to talk to farm and theut my disaster that has been visited upon me, but that is not what is on my heart. He said, what is on my heart today is the families that live in my community who go to work every morning, come home in the evening. They load their children and automobiles and take them down to the parking lot of a local library so they can do their because they are not tied to the internet. The only place they can do that homework is in the parking lot of the library. When i shared with my friends what i had heard and what it was doing to me, they looked at me it. Said, you do not get in my community, two of them children go to the parking lot of a local fast food place so they can get on the internet to do their homework. Shared this with the president , and he said he got it. Senator schumer said, in new are city, 25 of children not tied to the internet. Speakero applaud the for making this a priority for our caucus. I want to thank the president for agreeing that this is something we ought to do. Notpe we can Work Together just to make broadband accessible but to make it affordable. Rep. Pelosi thank you very hip, mr. Chairman. You are right. There are urban deserts for this. California. Even if we give every child in california, and there is an inclination to do so, if we give they area laptop, still not into the system. In some communities, to make it establish, they can their own system. This has a lot of want to renew entrepreneurship connected with it. It is directly related to the coronavirus. We would hope that, well we have a big bill that mr. Pallone has helped shape into our thatstructure proposal, the task force on infrastructure and broadband might be able to , as it is sof this necessary. Telemedicine, distance learning, so many other ways it is important for people to be connected. With that, i would be pleased to take any questions you may have. I want your question at the end. We are here to Say Something very important for how we fight and a way ofus addressing that. I would hope you would have some interest in the in that. Any questions on the subject brings us together . Reopening. Tes are how critical do you think it is to get state and local funding within the next two weeks . Is that possible . Do you think that is possible . Rep. Pelosi i cannot answer to timing because we are at the. Ercy of the virus the this is important. I thank you for your question. Come our our Heroes Health care providers come our First Responders our heroes, our health care providers, our teachers,onders, our so many people working in terms of making sure we have food in the tape on the table, whether it is in shops or delivery. So much of how we function and meeting the needs of the people depends on state and local government having the resources. Some of these people, these heroes, are risking their lives to save other peoples lives and now they are they risk losing the statesbecause and how much they have had to spend makes it unsustainable not to have layoffs. Mr. Schumer was talking about hundreds of people being laid off by hospitals in his area, some of them Public Hospitals dependent on the Public Resources to keep open. So this is something that is of the highest priority. It honors our heroes. We are unworthy to thank them and honor them unless we are willing to support them in a substantial way. That way is to say this is strictly about the coronavirus. It is about what your outlays are for the virus and what your revenue loss is on that. Again, because, again, of mr. Clyburns leadership over the years, he has been a proponent for making sure that localities get resources. When we look at state thatm from a in large measure was talked about by the governor of new york. I am from a state that did not expand medicaid. Burdenre, so much of the of trying to meet the challenge of this pandemic goes straight to small communities, local whatnments, irrespective of what may be happening at the state level. If you the mayor of a little town of 8000 or 9000 people, i think you want to be eligible to id from thea congress. I have been advocating for a long time and will be advocating very strongly that, whatever we do for state and local governments, do not leave the locals out. Make sure that the small communities get their fair share. So state, county, and municipalities. In addition to that, we want to medicaid and other things that help the states over and above this. How much the states are putting together, you have heard 500 billion, counties have a similar figure. We want to related to outlays and lost revenue. We are not going to be able to cover all of it, but to the extent that we can keep the states and localities sustainable, that is our goal. That money is not just for one year. That could be for three years, maybe even four. It is overtime. Over time. [inaudible] rep. Pelosi state and local, i talked about almost 1 trillion right there. We have other issues we want to deal with and hopefully get something for broadband, other as a majorut not expenditure or investment for our heroes. They are risking their lives to save lives and now theyre going to lose their jobs. It is stunning, and we have to address it. Ers say, let them go great bankrupt care that is not a reason. It is an excuse. Said, wer over there are not bailing out past bad mistakes. The mistakes he mentioned were caused by a republican governor in illinois, but that is neither here nor there. This is not about any other budget issues. It is about the coronavirus. Thank you. Im two questions. First, what are you going to do paying taxes who have no jobs . They are in a difficult situation. Are they going to be in the next package or considered . Im a second question. U. S. Citizen i have a second question. Not receivingare checks because they are married to immigrants without Social Security numbers. What are you going to do to help them . Rep. Pelosi i appreciate your questions. Youother part of it that did not mention but alluded to is there are american citizen children born in america in a mixed family. Official parent is not , uptodate on documentation. I think that has to be addressed. In addition, we have been working to get tax identification numbers as a basis for how people would get direct payments. All of it speaks to the fact that we are well served if we recognize that everybody in our country is part of our community and helping grow the economy, most of what we are doing is to meet the needs of people but it is all stimulus. In addition to that, i am chairmanoday that the of the fed is saying he is going to include more terms of and outreach. We want to expand outreach opportunities to nonprofits, many of whom are there to meet the need of folks who might not be directly receiving help in that regard. What we said was we want to address the mixed family issue. We are supposed to have a call on that tomorrow. Tomorrow, we are going to have a call specifically on that subject with Chuck Schumer and the chair of the hispanic caucus. On the let you know mixed family issue. I myself cannot understand why the tax number is not the basis for how some of this money is distributed, so we will make that case as well. Thank you. There is concern that ppe funding is going to run out again. Are there negotiations past that next package . Concern that may be some businesses will have to start sooner there will not be ppe . Rep. Pelosi our distinguished chair of the Small BusinessCommunity Committee is a champion on Small Businesses. Ralliedy for ppe for ppe because Small Businesses is a dream, an idea that people work so hard, sometimes refinancing their homes to do this. There is a lot riding on this and a lot of recourse to individuals beyond the professional piece. We are all for that, and we did we just did an intervention. We cannot put that off. We never anticipated this intervention. The interim bill we passed, we practically we passed with substantial support for Small Businesses. We practically doubled it. We share that concern. Our next plan would be you said earlier youre beholden to the virus. Rep. Pelosi im not talking about a long time. A week or two. We are not coming back this week. Our plan is to come back the following week. Do not come back for cares. The next bill will be cares two and how we address it. There are many people saying, with all the money we are spending on Unemployment Insurance and ppe and all that is needed to assist the states and the rest, why dont we ofsider some guarantee paycheck initiatives strictly for the coronavirus at this time . That is a tall order i have tasked committees to take a look at because this could be endless. Small businesses in the united states, 2 million have received assistance. That is 10 . There foroney is unemployment and the rest . Whatever it is, you have to think big. I said the same thing to him. You have to think big. In order to think big, you have to think small about small. Usinesses and nonprofits that is the announcement made today. I was pleased with that. The next bill will be here soon. You think big and you talk ut infrastructure President Trump tweeted he wants mcconnellture but does not want infrastructure in this bill. When youre talking about broadband, is that the only infrastructure you want here . We talked about this before, but the urgency of getting money into peoples pockets was so pervasive that it became the priority. We talked about Community Health centers. We talked about broadband. We talked about water. Key to this. Wash your hands for 20 seconds. Wash off everything. Us is a tallue for order for our big bill. Perhaps we should have something in here. Mr. Pallone has been talking provisions that would say jurisdictions cannot shut off your water if you cannot pay your water bill. There is a recognition of the need for people to have water. If that will be in this bill. Time is important. We should be able to do some piece of it. It is a 750 750 billion deal. Right now, putting money in areles pockets, testing the priorities. You are not going to come back next week. Is it not going to be ready . Rep. Pelosi that was not the point at all. A houseecause of position said, for 430 people to come back with what is happening in the district of columbia kind of changed the timing. People will be back next week. Mr. Clyburn, you want to speak to that. I will yield to you in a moment. The Small Business committee will meet next week. Small groups can come back. Maybe they had a full Committee Meeting or maybe a hybrid. About 60ad already meetings in this period of time, some of it oversight, some of it legislation and the rest from our committees virtually or otherwise. Two days ago, the Veterans Affairs committee had a successful meeting. I think today or tomorrow is Homeland Security. The chairs of the committees are making their decisions about how they go forward. Again, this whole issue of meatpacking, that is raising people saying i will yield to you on this, mr. Chairman. If you do not go to work, even though you have a concern, then you could lose your Unemployment Insurance. That is not what the intent of the bipartisan, nonpartisan bills that we passed. Inre are criteria agreed to the Families First legislation that said, if you have a child who is not in school because schools have closed, you can take family medical leave. If you have a parent or health care provider, the list goes on. It is not as complete as i would like. Nonetheless, there are criteria which give people the opportunity to have family and medical leave as well. We have to look at this in totality. This is about Families First. I am sure members will be wanting to come together on some aspects of that in terms of Unemployment Insurance availability. Mr. Clyburn has another take on that. Next week,n hopefully, the full committee will be able to gather here. In washington in some capacity in some manner. I will be on the telephone with them tomorrow as a committee. A couple things have already gotten our attention that we made think may need immediate attention from us. One involves Unemployment Insurance. It came to our attention yesterday that some states are applying policies to Unemployment Insurance that is relegated has relegated some people down to 95 a week. That was not our intention, as you know. The 600 coming from us to be on top of whatever thattate would be here in may be something we need to look at. I saw an account of this on a Television Show to indicate this may be a widespread application of a policy that goes afoul of what we intended. This committee will probably be working in addition to the testing, contact tracing, isolation, and treatments. That will be our primary focus, but we may have interventions taking place because of some of these policies. Remember, to me, we have to look at essential workers beyond health care. Essential workers are those hourly employees, sometimes twice a week employees working only weekends in Grocery Stores and drugstores. These are the people that find withelves losing out Unemployment Insurance. I had a long talk last night with the chair of our Homeland Security committee, congressman thompson for mississippi. It looks as if mississippi is one of the states that is doing that. We may have to do something quickly as a committee. We will be on the phone tomorrow and my plan is for us to be up here next week. Rep. Pelosi i do not know why they would be opposed to looking into price gouging, profiteering, and the rest. And the implementation of the intention of congress and the interest of the American People, americas families and workers. Score. E thing on that question e this when will we be able to open up things . When will they be open . Everything, whether it is testing, economic sustainability, the states, it is all related to that and all related to the committee. Two questions. One will be the tribes. [inaudible] between the lower 48 tribes and forprofit corporations. Youou see that as something have made way into clarifying the eligibility issues . The judge ruled ansi should not be receiving this. Secretary of the treasury was supposed to, when the case was resolved, release the funds. They could have done it before, but they said we want to wait for the trial to be over. The court was emphatic in its decision about this, and i completely it is ridiculous that they would be getting in this. O get funds from heres the thing. It is important to note this. Distributed is supposed to be, and this is the standard, necessary for the sustainability of the business, the entity, the nonprofit. Necessary for sustainability. There are 26,000 entities that received loans of over 2 million or more. Many of them may be justified. Others whoo many want 50,000 or 100,000 who are not be attended to. Case, the 8 billion for the tribe, not nearly enough, and i want more because this is about states municipality states got me his apologies, and tribal governments emma i call upon the secretary of the treasury to disperse that funding now because the court has ruled in favor of the tribes. Again, to go back to the purpose that the funds that you apply for thenecessary sustainability of your business, that Stock Exchange is not what it is about. The ruling of the court. No,judge was emphatic about they should not be getting this. I would hope that immediately the secretary would release the funds. It was supposed to be yesterday, but lets hope it will be today. So necessary, so needed. Outlay ofabout the funds for the coronavirus, but also the revenue lost because of this. So very important. Again, a down payment. We need to do more for our tribes. I feel pretty good, but it will not happen. Everything. Ment is all of a sudden, we are not going to give money to the tribes . Really . I haveretary has been not had this conversation with him, but my most recent conversation with him was about how we can have many more small that the leader insisted will be in this bill. I am waiting to see what those businesses are. That money we put aside is already spent, so we want to see on whom. We will see what they are. He has said he was going to look into the 26,000 to make sure those millions of dollars went for where it was necessary for sustainability. To follow up on you mentioned the physicians recommendation was critical in your decision to not come back for a roll call vote. Leader mcconnell is making a different decision than what you made based on the same information. Believe calling people back is he putting his own Members Health and safety at risk . Rep. Pelosi that is a different question. We are 430 people now. Mr. Meadows is gone. The decision was made on the strength of our numbers of people coming together. Thought at the direction of the sergeant and arms and capital physician when we had to have a voice vote into the gallery and the rest and i wish that tableau had been seen because that was the start. Done for theb American People. The next time we did it was because those on the other side were demanding a recorded vote. They had planned for that. That worked beautifully. With social distancing and the rest as people came in. We could have done that again. The situation in the district of columbia has changed since then. Nd that may have had impact you would have to talk to the evenal physician here in from one day to the next, he said, i think it is better to wait. What they advised the senate, i do not know, but they are 100. We are four times that. They had some of their own members saying they should not , but i cannot speak for the senate. I know what our responsibility is in the house. In the meantime, by the time we do come back, we will be able to vote on remote voting by proxy. We will be able to have in place we have to have a vote to make these changes. We will have a vote for what mr. Clyburn referenced. They are having meetings in advance that would be validated and chairwomanhy lofgren and davis are working on in order to recommend a rule that enables Remote Committee work. The committees are smaller. Some can come back. We have an auditorium to spread a Larger Community in or we have. Ther rooms that are bigger it is alltical, but getting the job done. Everybody is working hard in that regard. I do think one of the things we share, mr. Mccarthy said this to wereos angeles times, we looking at it and maybe we could be, but everybody wants to open up the congress. Republicans want to open the congress. We do, too, but we want to do it in a way that people have to stay home because of this, whether it is about themselves or family members or transportation, which is more difficult now. Remote voting will enable them to do that. We just have to get enough people here to do remote voting. I feel confident. Do you agree . Rep. Clyburn i agree. We can effectively do a lot of Committee Work here and do that in preparation of coming back at some point in the nottoodistant future and have voting in order to have these things become effective on behalf of the American People. I do see possible legislation coming out of these hearings, especially to clarify something as regards to people not getting what we intended that they get from the congress. How do democrats square they are standing by biden but. Sing a different standard they demanded an investigation on mr. Kavanaugh when a similar allegation came out toward him. Rep. Pelosi i do not need a lecture or speech. For theomplete respect woman. There is a lot of excitement around the idea that women will be heard and be listened to. Process ando due the fact that joe biden is joe , there have been statements from his former employees who ran his offices and the rest that there was never any record of this. There was never any record. To sayever came forward something about it apart from the principle involved. The happiest day for me this week was to support joe biden for president of the united states. He is a person of great integrity, of great concern for the American People. He authored the violence against women act when he was the chair of the Judiciary Committee in the 1990s. He has been an advocate for funding it since then. Believe that he will be a great president of united states. He is the personification of hope and optimism and authenticity for our country, a person of great values. I want to remove all doubt in mind. s ivy great Comfort Level with the situation as i see it come out with all the respect in the world for any woman who comes highestand all the regard for joe biden. That is what i have to say. Thank you. Part of President Trumps schedule this afternoon include speaking about seniors. We plan to bring you that live when he starts around 4 00 p. M. Eastern here on cspan. Primetime journal a special edition of the washington journal on the response to the coronavirus pandemic. Washington governor jay inslee will join us to talk about the response in washington state, one of the first states to make widespread changes because of the virus. Also joining is the former health and Human Services secretary under president george w. Bush. He will talk about Public Health policy during the pandemic. Join the conversation tonight at 8 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan. All persons having before the Supreme Court of united states, give their attention for the court is now sitting. For the first time in history, here the u. S. Supreme court live here and in may, due to the coronavirus pandemic, the court is hearing oral arguments in 10 cases by teleconference. Cspan will provide live coverage of these sessions. On monday at 10 00 a. M. Eastern, the justices here the case of u. S. Patent and Trademark Office versus booking. Com. It can concerns the fight to trademark its website. Listen to Supreme Court oral arguments as they are heard by justices live monday at 10 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan, on at cspan. Org, or listen on the free cspan radio app. Senate leader Mitch Mcconnell announced the senate will return for work this monday and later in the week could work on coronavirus related legislation addressing lawsuits. House majority leader steny hoyer said come after consulting with members and the physician, the house will not return for legislative work next week. They will continue to hold brief pro forma sessions every three days. Bipartisan negotiations continue votingerent options for remotely. Follow live Senate Coverage on cspan2 and the house on cspan. David michael not only serves epidemiology. Of he served as former assistant secretary of labor from 2009 2017. From 20092017 and joins is now to talk fety, gg to you. Guest great to be on the show. Great to be on the show. A former agency you worked for, what is the role of osha when it comes to Workplace Safety . Is 50 years old this year. Its the federal Agency Charged with making sure workers can come to work and be healthy at the end of the day. Thathas requirements employers provide workers with a safe workplace and make sure that employers do better and that was true before covid19. Its still the case more than ever that osha needs to be involved in this. Host what should be the focus now with covid19 . Little different than other hazards and that the focus of osha is to figure out how to make sure the workplace is safe in the most effective way to do that is to have regulations and a standard where employers must protect workers. Osha has had standards for that for people who work on groups or people who dig trenches or people who are exposed to benzene or other carcinogens or even bloodborne pathogens like ebola or hiv aids. Not done in this administration is issue a standard to say employers must protect workers. They have issued some guidance