For our nation and world. Help them to realize that the power of your providence will enable them to navigate through every challenge and tragedy. Trusting in your might, may they embrace your promise to do more for them than they can ask or imagine. Lord, inspite of difficulties, disappointments, as despair, reassure them that you are still in control. Remind us all that in everything, you are working for the good of those who love you who are the called according to your purposes. We pray in your loving name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in the pledge of allegiance to the flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one e nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Mr. Grassley madam president . The presiding officer the senator from iowa is recognized. Mr. Grassley i ask permission to speak for one minute in morning business. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Grassley
Floor speeches from the u. S. Senate, members continue to work on judicial nominations, senators came to the chamber to debate the federal coronavirus response. The economic impact, Internet Usage is in future aid packages. Week after week this capital has been a study in contrast. Call it a tale of two chambers. Over here in the u. S. Senate the lights are on, the doors are open and we are working for the american people. All month we have been in session. Is National Security legislation confirming key nominees and Holding Hearings on the Coronavirus Crisis and the effectiveness of the historic rescue package the senate wrote in the senate passed. We are heeding medical guidance and taking new precautions but we are showing up and getting things done. Across the rotunda crickets. Crickets. Their lights are off, the doors are locked, the peoples houses shown a grand total of two legislative session days since march. Two days in eight weeks, a blistering pace. Last week they flew into
3, 2010, president obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care act into law. On that proud day, we took a monumental step forward for the health and Financial Security of the american people. We expanded new Health Coverage to 20 Million People and delivered better coverage to more than 150 million americans with Health Insurance through their employer. We apassed the Affordable Care act because we believe in the United States of america, health care would be a right, not a privilege. The late ted kennedy made that believe the fight of his life. Thanks to the leadership of president obama who has dedicated knowledgeable and strategic determine to succeed, thanks to the vision of our Committee Chairs crafting legislation and the courage of members of congress, thanks to outside mobilization of patient the affordable, care act stands today among the great pillars of American Health and Financial Security. Medicare, medicaid, Social Security and the Affordable Care act. Now we
Good evening. Many outdoor areas in the bay area were packed over the weekend. Less than two hours ago both the governor and President Trump mentioned people not taking the orders seriously. The governor is already taking action. To make it easier for you we will shut down allstate parking lots. And that will go in the effective immediately. The governor also spoke about the urgent need to protect healthcare workers across the state. The numbers on what the state needs as far as hospital beds and medical gear. On the open market across the country for that matter around the world just scope out. Im going to be literal in these numbers 1 billion loves to procure. 500 million n95 masks. 200 million shields. Is that the state also needs another 50,000 beds to effectively treat infected patients. That is 30,000 more than an estimated a few days ago. At a White House Briefing President Trump focused on the economy stressed the need to reopen businesses sooner rather than later. We also have
Because medical care is o denied to those children. This should bring us together and i heard our colleagues on both sides of the aisle stand together for life. Every life, as a precious unique gift from god, every life with her child has a disability, whether the child is valued or not. That child should be valued. Should be protected because that child is precious. I feel the floor. Is must be a day that ends in y because once again, republican senators are pushing for backwards ideological bills to restrict womens Constitutional Rights to abortion. Once again, republicans are peddling a band that is blatantly unconstitutional. In once again, they are pretending we dont already t have laws on the books that protect infants and using that as a pretense to drama fear and misunderstanding about one of the most heartbreaking situations a family can face. Push for antidoctor, antiwomen, antifamily legislation aso once again i am here on behalf of women and men across the country to delive