And its his decision one senator from one state can make the decision to walk away and failed to take care of the 12dollar an hour worker who is sick and has to choose between going to work and perhaps getting sicker andke infecting others and get up to 12dollar an hour job when she struggles with rent. There is no business leading. Ilwe shouldnt leave town untile passed the house package to help workers and support our communities. We need to do our jobs, paying rent, taking care of the children of schools close if they get sick. Its really, really simple. We know that hundreds of thousands, who knows, millions of people were going to get laid off and the airlines and the restaurants and hotels and communities where they depend on these businesses to pay property taxes. I am not alarmist or panicky. I think that we will deal with it right, but it we need to majority leader who sits right here and runs the senate and makes theis decision on whethere work or dont work, whether he sends us home or keeps us working, he needs to make the decision to keep us here as soon as the house passes the bill that the senate takes it up. Paid sick leave is one of the things we can do to stop the spread of the virus. We know already that the economy is going to get hurt and the president shoul judges the econy by the stock market. We know and the first president i have seen do that but thats beside the point, we know that the stock market is up and down and mostly down to the investors were on easy access. They want more predictability. Buthe most important thing, mr. President , is to deal with coronavirus. If we cant containment or do anything about that, if we cant stop the spread of this virus, the other stuff just doesnt matter as much. So you start with this and the best way to stop the spread of the virus is to say to people if theyta are sick you can stay hoe and get sick pay. Every other country in the world,ot every other rich county in the world provides sick pay for people who cant go to work because they are sick. It is as simple as that. If we dont pass the sick day policy, if we leave town right now or even if we come back next week which we are not scheduled to come if we are only o only go leak that is only five more workdays of sick people going to work when they shouldnt, getting sick, infecting others with coronavirus or the flu or anything else, or staying home and giving up their pay which they need to meet their payments. The house package takes care of this. They shouldnt be leaving until we get help for the people we serve. People in ohio, indiana and presiding officer states, people were scared and angry. Weve been sounding the alarm for years warning is a veteran bandleader mcconnell who always does the bidding as if he doesnt even represent a state. Wes have been sounding the alarm and warning the president but its less prepared to handle a crisis like this. We had the best Public Safety net in the history of the world and centers for Disease Control and National Institutes of health. Ciin cincinnati we have the Occupational Safety and health, the only oneofakind in the world. We have the Public Health departments in each of ohios 88 counties and over the country. We had the best in the w world until President Trump began to try to gut the cdc and nih. For the Global Health security, but he repeats that. For two years, President Trump left us without the team that is supposed to manage the pandemic. There were about 40, an admiral and also a doctor, his job was to survey the world and look around for potential illness outbreaks, look around for potential pandemics. It might have been sars, it might have been the ebola or the resurgence of polio. I sent a letter more than 600 days ago in 2018 telling them to stop dismantling the infrastructure. Now we are all paying the price for the decision. We see the realtime consequences. This was unilateral. We disarmed, we unilaterally disarmed against the world we know that International Tuberculosis is a problem. We know that international hiv aids is a problem and malaria is a problem. We work against those. One of the things im proudest about his book we have done about Public Health. We lead the charge to eradicate smallpox which kills hundreds of millions. We led the charge to eradicate. Then we led the charge to eradicate polio over the world. I am old enough to remember children,en not children anymore but the children i went to grade school but who had polio. We took on tobacco. They have had huge publichealth victories in this country and they had a president of the United States now and a Senate Republican leader, Mitch Mcconnell who certainly tried to help tobacco but we have a president and Senate Majority leader. They dismantled for Disease Control, the left of the president fired aa president firy team at the white house that looked out for. And now we have a Global Pandemic on our hands. President trump needs to stopp pretending he can put up walls at the borde border that he is y spread intong start making up fr the lost time hes wasted and so did senator mcconnell. We need to make sure we dont end up with a financial crisis on top of the publichealth crisis. For some of us, this feels like deja vu. Weve been in moments like this before. We are worried about the financial system. We bailed on the banks but we didnt do anything for the workers. I am certain that senator mcconnell will get around to and President Trump holding the corporations that have been hurt and damaged badly. Hotehotel chains, Transportation Companies particularly airlines. That part is going to get worse. Im sure that they will open a public check to make sure the billions of dollars for these industries, but w they shouldnt do it until we give a number of dollars to the airlines as wes probably should, we better get hemost of that in the pockets of the flight attendants and the pilots and ticket agents and mechanics of the baggage of all the people that work for the airlines that this body forgets about. They serve us and we dont even know their names. We probably know the ceos names and we always tell them that thethe off to be helping the workers. We have a chance to stop this from spiraling out of control. We dont have another 2008. We have to act now because senator mcconnell has some whatever it is. We need to act now and make sure we focus our efforts on preventing it from spreading and we dont have one crisis, the healthcare crisis stacked on top making the healthcare crisis work. We know the job is harder because of all of the ways President Trump and leader mcconnell has undone the many protections they put in place after the last crisis. They backed away from safeguards get ahead of this virus and other Public Health threats and he failed. He had the chance to get ahead of the financial risk andnd he failed but luckily senator mcconnell and the president having succeeded. Because of the work we did a decade ago here in a better position now than we were in 2009. One way we can do that is to suspend the stock buybacks. 70 of the benefits went to the wealthiest 1 . Everybodys pay is going to go00 up 4,000. Its going to trickledown. It didnt exactly happen that way but you know what did happen, after they got this tax cut, the executives started to do stockyb buybacks. Not exactly a shock to most of us. Wells fargo is in the midst of a 23 billion stock buyback as if they artheir executives and allf their criminality into bad decisions as if theyve earned it that money would be better spent in a medical research. They keep the communities of flow when we have crisis like this. Its time for all of this to come together in the senate, the white house, communities across the country and guess, on wall street. That means we dont leave this building until we have done everything we need to do to put the academic under control and to get the epidemic under control to get the communities attesting capacity and tools they need to manage the crisis and to support the workers that howere going to get hurt. The responsibility is i dont care how he votes in the end but to make the decision to put the house bill on the floor so we can vote on it. And the day that he gets it he needs to sign it. Lets give help to the people we serve, not next week or two weeks from now or tomorrow. Lets do it today. I note the absence of a quorum. Mr. President , last Week Congress provided billions in funding to address the corona virus outbreak. These funds will help support Virus Research testing and medical care. Congress is now looking at other measures thatea may be required including measures to address the Economic Impact of the virus. The house may consider an