People hunkered down at home have power. Because of pharmacists manically counters come americans been able to keep Getting Better medicines they need so this Health Crisis does not compound itself. And then of course theres been the selfless work of so many doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals. Likely, even the work the word essential does not do full justice to the american heroes. In my home state of kentucky we have met people like leilani crouse, she is a 30 year veteran who now oversees a care at a Senior Living facility in louisville. A few weeks ago she contracted the coronavirus herself. Even as she stayed home to recover she never stopped working. She still did all she could to coordinate her patients care over video calls, and as soon as she felt better and doctors gave her thehe all clear, she checked right back in to work right on the front lines. Some want to thank all of my Senate Colleagues as we continue to perform our essential responsibilities to serve citizens like ms. Krause and so many other american heroes all across our country. Of course much of the work before us relates to the pandemic itself. Our committees of jurisdiction are attacking covid19 and its effects from every angle. This week chairman alexander and our colleagues on the h. E. L. P. Committee will hold a major hearing on smart and safe ways for americans to get back to to school. Ack they will to expert testimony from the very top leaders, dr. Fauci, dr. Redfield, doctor hahn, admiral gerard from hhs. Chairman crapo and the Banking Committee letter from representatives of the Federal Reserve and the fdic on financial regulations. Obviously that is an essential topic as the government continues to push out billions and billions of dollars in emergency liquidity following the cares act. With huge numbers of americans working, teaching and learning from home, and with telemedicine than ever, the commerce will hear from experts from access to Broadband Internet during thecr crisis. And did the Jewish Community cn make you hold an important early on issues of legal liability during this judiciary committee. Its crucial that has a continue to fight the pandemic itself, we ensure it is not followed up by a second job killing epidemic of frivolous lawsuits. This would be just about the worst time in living memory to let trial lawyers lined their pockets at the expense of the rest of our country. The senate is going to play a strong roledo in ensuring that does not happen. While our committees are working on the floor we will start this week by confirming two more qualified nominees to important posts that should not remain empty at this time. Well begin with Don Montgomery of texas named by President Trump to Service Deputy secretary kent housing up until then turn to california has to be chief Financial Officer at the department of homeland security. Now, trying to understand some of my distinguished democratic colleagues complained that the full senate should not have to spend more time on these sorts of uncontroversial executive branch nominees. I agree. I agree. But as long as the democratic leadership continues to hold important post images long as possible in order to despite the white house, as long as the minority continues to break from Longstanding Senate president took to obstruct even the least controversial nominees, then my friend love to continue to show up and vote on them. There floor votes they said they dislike our direct result of their own tactics. We will take up important legislation this week while covid19 rightly dominates headlines around the world, the United States of america also faces miniseries threats before us, threats before this virus began to spread. And they are still with us today. Ck so later this week we will turn back toward reauthorizing important authorities under the foreign Intelligence Surveillance act. This is urgent because the house refused to take up the senate shortterm extension ofte important counterterrorism and counterintelligence authorities before they left town. House democrats let the tools expired so we must act quickly to clean up the mess and renew these authorities which our government needs to fight terrorists ando check the agents of china and russia. The wipers and will take up negotiated the gaunt are exhaustively the House Republicans and the attorney general of o the United States, determined advocate for reform at the shameful abuses in 2016 shutdown with determined defenders of the good part of these tools and they hammered out a strong compromise. The legislation will introduce more daylight and more accountability into the fisa process where appropriate. But will ensure the embarrassments of 2016 do not jeopardize their essential nationals security tools altogether. I hope the senate will be able to dispatch the amendment that we consider and pass this important legislation on a bipartisan basis to keep the American People safe. The United States as well over 1 million confirmed cases of covid19. We will quickly unfortunately approaching 80,000 fatalities. Alongside this this great crisis of publics