3, 2, 1. This hearing will now come to order. Is in a hybrid format and the hearing room has been configured to maintain the recommended six foot social distancing between senators, witnesses and other individuals in the room necessary to operate the hearing, which we have kept to a minimum. , a those joining remotely few videoconferencing reminders which you should be familiar with at this point. Once you start speaking, there will be a slight delay before your display on the screen. To minimize background noise, click the mute button until it is returned to speak or ask questions. Issue,e is a technology we will move to the next senator until it is resolved. I remind senators and our witnesses the fiveminute clock still applies. Those remote should have on your screen one of the boxes labeled clock which will show how much time is remaining. Weve had some trouble getting those boxes to everyone screen or at least getting everybody to be able to find them and follow them. We are going
Listen live with the radio app. Lawmakers held a News Conference to unveil a bipartisan covid19 emergency relief will. Ae measure would provide liability provision. This is about 40 minutes. Phones off. [laughter] you might want to put your phones on silent. Phones on silent. Everybody have their phones on silent . Let me welcome all of you, thank you for being here. Intense effortn and we want to thank staff for doing this work. As you see, we have with us a Bipartisan Group of people working diligently for the last 30 days or more to try to get to a conclusion. This is covid emergency relief framework. This is exactly what it is. Can you hear me . Ok. Back off. Let me just say that this is an intense amount of work the staff has been doing for quite some time. Every senator, every congressperson here has put an enormous amount of time on this inperson and on the phone. This is a covid emergency relief framework. We have worked in the best interest of what we believe is great for our
Investors are shrugging that off as stocks look to rally at the open. One name that may not rally is zoom. Shares of zoom are sinking yeah, in the premarket, work from home stock taking a hit from a rising free user base and increasing cloud costs and we have vaccine optimism, moderna and pfizer filing for emergency use and Vice President pence says vaccine rollout expected to begin in two weeks carl all right jim, i guess the question of the morning is whether that rotation, that worked historically well in the month of november, still applies. I think were running out of gas in terms of the oil and gas and focusing on exxon. Stock may not go down, giving the dividend, it says, look, were at wits end and the big Exploration Development period for exxon, market leader, u. S. Leader, is i think now over. We are following were following europe and japan and i think that we forget that you come in today, and you look for all sorts of reasons why were up and up strongly except we dont look
Would have a disadvantage in putting together a covid19 plan unless there was a proper transition process with the trump administration. Look, thanks for doing this and for being willing to share what youre going through, because i want to know firsthand. I dont want to know about reading about it in the press. This crisis has shown the nation we couldnt survive without now. I mean that sincerely. You have always been essential, even if most of america hasnt learned that term until recently. Youve been protecting our communities for months and being called on once again as the virus surges across the nation. In each of your areas, i think its basically doubled. Its not enough to praise you. We have to protect you and pay you. You deserve leadership that listens to you and works hard for you, because you are in your own communities, you know the people youre caring for. So i want to hear from you today, whats on your mind, what you think is needed most, what i can do as your president t
It could take away protections for more than 100 and people with preexisting conditions. And hurt the millions of americans who have come to rely on the Affordable Care act, getting rid of the Affordable Care act will take us backwards. To a time when people could charge a woman more for her health care than they could charge a man simply because she is a woman. To a time when pregnancy could be considered a preexisting condition. It will take away free Birth Control and contraceptive coverage for women. This is all happening at a moment when our country is suffering to a pandemic that has claimed more than 238,000 lives. And we all know that if the Affordable Care act is struck down, communities of color would be hit particularly hard. Asians, hispanics, native americans. They are at a greater risk of preexisting conditions. They are three times as likely to contract covid19 and twice as likely to die as others. I know we all know that we had election whered health care was very much