Economic damage, really us with a strong recovery to the heroes act takes that wisdom to heart. It is the bold and transformative step we need to ensure our nation meets the challenge of the pandemic and the ensuing economic recession. Much of the bill is in the jurisdiction of other committees and my fellow Committee Chairs will tell you more how this bill meets the needs of the American People. By putting money directly in the pockets of workers, including our essential workers, supporting Small Businesses and nonprofits and further bolstering families, including their Health Security and workplace security. However, there is much in the appropriations to address the health and economic crisis for the people. First and foremost, the bill delivers nearly 1 trillion to states and local governments so they can keep our heroes, first responders, health workers, teachers and other Public Servants paid and working for us. I am incredibly proud that this bill will provide 67 billion to my home state of new york which has been hit so hard by this crisis. Second, we will only eat this disease with a Robust National strategy where testing, tracing and treatments. In this doll we build on the cares act with an additional 100 yen dollars from the Health Provider relief fund and we provide 75 ilion dollars for a nationwide testing and Contact Tracing strategy. Third, we must meet the challenge that the economic effect of lock downs and stay at home orders are having on families. As a mother, a grandmother, i am deeply concerned about the effects of coronavirus on children and their education. We are including 100 ilion dollars to support k12 and higher education. These systems we hope will respond to this crisis. To address rising hunger, this bill funds and expansion of s. N. A. P. Benefits and other nutrition programs so that children and families have enough to eat. Working with the authorizing committee to prevent a housing crisis we are deploying new funds worth nearly 200 billion to help struggling families pay rent or pay their mortgages. Finally, to stop this crisis, from weakening our democracy we have included funding to hold safe elections, to carry out a fair and accurate census and to ensure that the Postal Service can continue safely delivering mail to american households. These are just a few of the highlights of this bill and im so proud of the hard work of so many to ensure that includes the health of so many families, businesses and communities need. Mr. Chairman the heroes act will meet the challenges this pandemic poses to our nation. I request an appropriate rule to bring it to the floor. I yield back rates thank you very much. Mr. Pallone. Thank you mr. Chairman and members of the committee. I am not going to talk much about the appropriations part but rather the authorizing part that relates to the energy and Commerce Committee which of course is health Telecommunications Energy and environment. In terms of the Health Provisions of the bill as ms. Lowey said, chairwoman lowey said the heroes act continues our ongoing commitment to providing the Health Care Resources needed to combat the virus. Most in my opinion is the way the original cares act that we had pretesting. We are now expanding that to free treatment drugs and ultimately a vaccine. What i mean by that is no one should be afraid that if they seek treatment or seek drugs or seek a vaccine ultimately they will have to incur a pocket costs whether its the dockables, copays for the cost in general. I think thats the most significant thing. Second, we add 75 billion to the 25 billion that was provided in the last bill. Specifically for national testid isolation plans. I think the responsibility has fallen mainly on the states but i dont think that should be the case but i think in terms of providing a comprehensive plan of building out capacity the federal government needs to morph to help the states. This not only adds money but add specific plans and and of benchmarks with clear timetables to achieve Testing Capacity and make it significantly more robust at the same time provide for very specific ways to increase contact testing in isolation particularly for those who cant isolate at home perhaps because their apartment or home is not big enough for that. In addition to that and i cant stress enough, we have built a supplychain with a czar or someone who is clearly in charge of the supplychain. One of the faults of whats going on now is that many times supplies were not delivered for treatment, translators, gowns and masks and deferred the long list over the last month and a half. We want to make sure there is a supplychain with someone in charge who we can go to with web sites and portals specifically indicating what supplies are needed, what supplies are going out and not only what supplies are being manufactured soda more extensive use of the defense production act and manufacturing here in the United States. Its not only for the personal Protection Equipment but also for the drugs and the testing and building out the capacity for all that. We need a large supplychain. We also asked that ms. Lowey, chairman lowey add another 100 million to the Provider Relief Fund for hospital and Community Health care centers and Health Care Providers but the aunt of money since energy and commerce is the authorizing committee we specifically say this has to be for lost revenue leak links to the covid virus. So far a lot of the money has gone out from hhs has been based on 2018 and 2019 revenue that has absolutely nothing to do with the covid virus. It may be that a hospital for example has selective surgery and they can save thats the link obviously to the covid irs but this money when it goes up to the Provider Relief Fund has to be linked to whats happening now during this covid virus period and not before. We also take accelerated advance payment programs that many hospitals have used money from great Interest Rate is too high at 10 . We are reducing it to one and giving them an extra year to pay it back and we are taking the money from the general revenue so we dont deplete the Medicare Trust fund. We also have major medicaid provisionals and an additional plus a 50 for fmat for their program an increase of 2. 5 for share hospitals and increases by 10 for state Medicaid Services to keep patients at home in communitybased care rather than Nursing Homes and finally with regard to the Health Provisions i wanted to say one of the most important things in the biggest concerns we have a nine chairwoman lowey has seen it in my state the majority of the deaths are Nursing Homes. We want to improve care at Nursing Homes, have a strike force that could be deployed to help Nursing Homes, have incentives on safety and quality protections and Infection Control and requiring the Nursing Homes to report information related to the covid19 cases are more transparency. I wanted to mention also the telecommunications and energy and environment related issues. I cant stress enough and all of you know having the ability to access the internet and use the internet is so important during this period so we are including i believe its 1. 5 billion under the fcc program, and increase essentially to facilitate the emergency. An additional 4 million during an emergency that goes to the low income americans who perhaps cannot pay their internet ills so they dont get cut off and finally a specific row addition that providers cannot stop service to consumers unable to pay their telephone of their broad and service. Last but certainly not least with regard to utilities no shutouts and a fund that gives 1. 5 billion to the Utility Assistance Program again for low income. You want to mention two other things mr. Chairman im trying to summarize but there are two other things i need to mention better in this bill. Pricegouging. We have heard so much about increased pricegouging. We provide the ftc authority to rousseau civil engaged in pricegouging and members including some on this committee have asked about what we are doing with regard to mental health. Again i know that ms. Lily has set up significant funding to samhsa. We also have to provisions in authorizing provisions of the bill paid one provides grants to Community Service organizations that deal with mental and Behavioral Health and unauthorized provision specifically for Health Care Workers who are facing those types of problems during the crisis. Again mr. Chairman i probably spoken too long but i cant express my enthusiasm for this bill. This is the heroes act in the sense that is helping everyone but particularly helping those who are on the frontline, our Health Care Workers and emt workers. We have got to do more. I know that in the beginning mr. Colson suggested that somehow what is in this bill is not directly related to. I respect the Ranking Member and as a person but in all honesty as you can tell from the things ive mentioned these are all directly related. These are not psychological or ideological provisions. These are practical ways of dealing with the crisis right now and thats what this bill is all about and i want to stress that mr. Chairman. Thank you very much and its my privilege to yield to the distinguished Ranking Member of the rules committee and a member of all kinds of taos forces, mr. Cole. Thank you very much mr. Chairman. The Ranking Member couldnt be here tonight so i regret that and i know she would have been here if she could. Mr. Chairman that pandemic we currently face is on like anything we have experienced in modern history so2 has been a response. Im very pleased with how congress has Work Together and quickly to provide urgent aid to those on the frontlines and those struggling with the Economic Impacts of the efforts to slow the spread. Each of the four bills that were enacted up until now was ultimately the product of cooperation and bipartisan support. Its very disappointing to me personally to the come before you today in this bill which has been crafted behind closed doors and without any republican input whatsoever. This is not in the spirit of cooperation that the American People expect from their leaders during difficult times and because there has been no cooperation this bill ultimately will become law. I know what can come from members working across the aisle together produce what led to the creation of the historic Infectious DiseaseRapid Reserve fund that allow the administration to respond immediately to the emerging threat from this new coronavirus as we work to understand where resources are needed. I was proud to work with my counterpart on the labor health and Human ServicesCommittee Chairwoman delauro on that fund and even prouder to see it used so effectively. Knowing what we can achieve when we Work Together i am very disappointed to be before you today to testify against the bill that has a 300 has 309 billion of funding on her subcommittees jurisdiction but was created entirely without input or that of any other republicans on the appropriations committee. I want to pause for a minute. Normally the labor subcommittee on appropriations has a budget between 180 to 190 billion the four years i was privileged to be chairman and my Ranking Member worked with me in that process diligently and voted for final passage each time. Last year when she was chairman we did exactly the same thing. I voted with her on our first bill and its my hope we get back to regular preparations mr. Chairman and i can do that again. We have the 309 alien dollar labor portion of this bill and not to have been consulted about it and ask a question about it, that is not how i know my chairman chairwoman works pray she does all those things so that didnt happen because the speaker decided it wasnt going to happen. That means this bill is not going to happen. It doesnt mean everything in the bill is bad. There are some great things in this bill. There are some other things we dont think is great but a bill that comes out of this house with no republican votes is not going to pass the Republican Senate and is not going to be signed by a republican president. I suspect this is a lot more political messaging and political positioning than it is about bringing relief to the American People. I regret that because again we worked together for four bills in a rogue and had almost unanimous support in the house. Each team on each side working together to maximize the vote for bills. I think that can be recaptured but its not going to be recaptured when we offer bills that have zero input from the other side when the other side is not consulted and not included and not asked and when we put things in the bill that we know the other side cannot or will not accept. Thats what is going on here. With all due respect to my very good friend chairman lowey do i at meyer enormous enormous land who leads our committee, great professionalism and frankly great bipartisanship is my hope that they house will reject this measure and go back to the cooperative nature thats been the hallmark of our governmental response to this pandemic. The American People deserve that and my good friend mr. Pallone again i just disagree with you. Not everything in this bill has anything to do with coronavirus. You can hold a different opinion and thats perfectly appropriate that you are going to get the votes of the United States senate to prevail. Theres so much we could work on together. Im just sorry we are having this kind of disagreement here tonight. I look forward to debating the bill tomorrow. Its a pretty easy bill for every republican to propose. Not a single republican was asked for any input or proposal and we are going to send this with no Committee Meeting and i would suspect no amendment, know nothing. We want to have a political show on the for tomorrow thats exactly what we are going to get but it was designed to produce that. This wasnt designed to become law. This is a political messaging bill, pure and simple. And let me be charitable perhaps its a political negotiating thing. You didnt have to drag everybody back for that but again i just dont see this as remotely likely to become law number of remotely bipartisan and again i regret my friends who acted in a very bipartisan way on four consecutive bills working with everybody not always getting what they wanted but offering good suggestions. We didnt always get what we wanted either and we put some things in the bill so we didnt particularly agree with but we recognize their friends control the house of representatives and their priorities needed need to be included then they need to be part of the discussion and they made sure that they were part of the discussion. No complaint with that. Thats exactly whats going to happen to her the Republican Senate when they look at this in their public and president. They will decide they want to be part of the process to them this is not going to be anything like the final product. I feel we run the danger of cementing people into their spot when they vote for something we havent agreed to and make it more difficult to compromise and delay compromise. We have acted with extraordinary speed given the crisis that has overtaken us in both parties can be proud of that he did ministers can be proud of it. We put aside your differences and my friends have decided not to continue down that course which has been productive. Perhaps they will explain that to us in the course of the day. Forgive me for going on mr. Chairman but i feel very strongly about this. I feel its a missed opportunity to Work Together in good faith and instead we are going to have a partisan vote tomorrow that we did need to have and we are going to delay things that my opinion didnt need to be delayed. With that i yield back. And want to thank the Ranking Member for his comments and i want to begin by thanking all of our steamed chairman and chairwoman for being here with us. I am a bit surprised to hear that there is a feeling that there is no consultation on behalf of republicans on this bill because let me tell you there is a lot to hate from the mccrab exide on this bill that looks much more like republican proposals. Let me start to forget my statement and ask a couple of questions. Let me start like putting into the record a few letters that have come from our friend in labor. One of them is from ibew in opposition of having to grow at added to the bill. The other one comes from bakery confectionery and green unions direct or guild of america and National Brotherhood of Boilermakers International alliance of stage employees International Machinists and Aerospace WorkersCome International longshore and Warehouse UnionInternational Union of trade and Pension Security and Pension Rights Center seiu united food and commercial workers International Union, united steelworkers western conference of futures and united steelworkers. Now while its good to see all of you today and its good to see that you are all in good health despite the pandemic raging around us i would like to take a moment to acknowledge why we are here. When i boarded my flight yesterday i was in a region with small as this is that are struggling to survive in an economy that has grounded to a hault. Its a place where families are waiting bumper to bumper in a seemingly endless line of cars for food banks because their funds have run out and their children are hungry. It is a place where donation drives are the only way some of our medical workers fighting to save lives to get the ppe to stay safe. This place, the reason that i call home is not a secure place across the ocean. Its the end land empire. Its in california the fifthlargest global economy. Those businesses i mentioned are the mom and pop shops that make our community what it is. Those people in line are not folks from far away laces. They are our neighbors. They are our friends. They are our family members and those donation drives are my communities way of stepping up because for all that this congress has done in previous bills its still not enough. They are calling 911. They are crying for help. We are here today and tomorrow to answer their call for help. That is why today when it has taken us five hours to take up this bill, this rule, the people we know we love need us to do more in this time of fun and precedented danger. The question before us has nothing to do with politics. The question before us is whether or not we support the very communities we live in and the people and businesses that make us call those communities home. The heroes act does exactly that. I made a number of specific requests for this package after many, many, many days and several hours on the phone with people in my community. I am happy to see that you answered their call for help and this legislation. I led more than 75 colleagues in a call to the pay for medical workers who are putting their lives on the line to keep others alive. Air protections against employer retaliation for any medical worker who is a whistleblower for an adequate ppe. This is personal. Three of my closest family members are nurses. They are on front lines of this pandemic jeff countless other doctors and medical staffers across our country. We are asking them to risk their lives right now and they deserve proper support. Im glad to see that these provisions are in this bill. I also pushed for virtual naturalization to help the more than 100,000 americans in waiting to take that final step to citizenship with an on line oath. These are people that have already proved and have been approved to become our fellow americans. The only thing standing in the way is the oath ceremony which is on hold to prevent the spread of covid19. While everyone agrees that we must prevent the spread of this virus including in our immigration process, in the age of the internet there is no excuse for a dachshund nationalization process and in my region of Southern California 10,000 people were denied this final step to naturalization in march. 10,000 more were denied in april and 10,000 more were denied in may. Thankfully the heroes act includes funding for virtual naturalization ceremonies to. Aside from fulfilling requests like these the heroes act continues the vital support started in the cares out. It expands Economic Impact payments for the American People. It has new investments for Small Businesses, Small Business support like the Paycheck Protection Program and a new Employee Retention tax credit. It extends Unemployment Benefits for the more than 20 million americans who are out of work through january of next year and much, much more. A profound provision honors the most sacred fundamental ingredient in our democracy and that is our vote. The reason why we have debated for five hours. The heroes act has new resources to ensure our election is safe in november and our census count is as accurate as possible. As i close i want to revisit something i said earlier. This is not about politics. It is not about supporting the American People. It is about supporting the American People in this moment. Its about the incredible need in our community and it is about answering their call for help. Our fellow americans dont go hungry or lose their homes, so are businesses dont falter in a freefall. One day when the coronavirus is behind us we will have a society to emerge too. With that i want to thank you again for being here and im going to now recognize dr. Burgess. Thank you and first off actually madam chairman, my remarks were not in my capacity here pretty were from the testimony so im the next person on the rules committee to be recognized. They make if i could deal to the Ranking Member. Its a upward i known im sorry. Let me