In the house today work on two veterans bills and recommendations for modernizing congress. You are watching live coverage on cspan. The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by our guest chaplain, reverend erin keys, capitol hill presbyterian, washington dis. The chaplain let us pray, god, we ask you blessing upon all those gathered here today and upon our nation as we along with countries all over the world face the anxiety and fear currently surrounding the coronavirus. Though much about how the situation will continue to unfold is unknown to us. We trust that it is known to you. From the beginning of time, your spirit has hovered over the chaos of our world bringing order and life so we pray that your spirit continues to do so now. We pray for the safety of all people and we pray for the wisdom of our leaders as they guide us through this time. Amen. The speaker pro tempore the chair has examined the journal of the last days proceedings and anno
80. The cdc has sent out almost 32,000 tests. Clinical labs have put out an additional 20,000 tests. More drivethrough test sites are being set up nationwide, such as this one on long island. These are blossoms all over the country by individual states. The ones that we are heavily involved in, and really pushing equipment to, we expect over the next few days to begin setting up these in approximately 12 states. The possibility gone said it will give five million ventilators and respirators to the department of health and human services. There are only 15,000 in the federal stockpile for the entire country, and 160 thuacross the country. The sandis Construction Company in san jose donated their supply of safety masks. They say the virus has hit home with the mother of one of their employees testing positive. The Trump Administration today urged all u. S. Construction companies to give their inventories of n95 safety masks to hospitals. The state department of Public Health said today t
That have implemented this. Live coverage now in concord with more on the economic fallout is the federal government now plans to issue checks to Many Americans trying to help out. Reporter checks and also some tax relief here. One of the things the president said today as he is extending the deadline for the taxes by 90 days. With no penalties or late fees and no interest up to 1 million. That does help keep some money in peoples pockets for now, but many of the people i talked to around here say they are really struggling and facing an immecash crisis. The Trump Administration accelerated its response tuesday to triage the damage the coronavirus has done to the nations economic health. Americans need cash now and the president wants to get cash now. I mean now the next 2 weeks. To make a shot and therefore some American Families but the administration did not say whether checks would reach 1000 the senator met romney has proposed. We must 1st prioritize Economic Solutions that are fo
It was being called the christmas protest. Three big hours for you. Buckle in. Merry christmas. Varney company about to start right now. Charles huge gains for the markets this year. The calendar year, in fact, has wall street looking extraordinarily well. Want to bring in market watcher Rebecca Walser on these gains and of course, at this point in time, we always look ahead. What do you make overall of this market, considering all the negative headlines, all the negative speculation . First to have this kind of market is really remarkable. Charles, it is. Merry christmas. Im having such a great retail season high. I dont care what the retail experts, you know, were expecting. We got 3. 4 growth and Super Saturday, charles, the biggest shopping day ever. 3. 4 billion on Super Saturday. Thats what happens when you have a short Christmas Shopping season, right, from thanksgiving to christmas. Charles yeah, no doubt about it. And i got to tell you, its anecdotal but as i looked around at
Having a 20 or, 22yearold body, but no excuse for you not having a 5000 year old mind. It is at your fingertips. But lets continue to look back so we can see forward, im pleased to introduce you pat lock, who will moderate the next panel, he is the first African American woman to graduate from the United States naval academy, in 1980. She will bring forth a group of women that have an unheard story, of Unsung Heroes that played an Important Role in american history. Im pleased to introduce pat lock. [applause] good morning everyone. Good morning and now i have a lot of friends at the naval academy, but i am not the first african woman to graduate from the naval academy, on the first African American woman to graduate from the military academy, so i want to have that as an admin correction. So, with that, i would like to say that i am honored to be in the presence of this history. I remember reading about these ladies 40 years ago in a department of defense publication, and noticing eve