Responsibility. Speaking for myself and i hope others, healthy personal responsibility route will be the will we take. Staffing shortages due to the coronavirus exposure to the short supply of personal protective equipment to a lack of critical equipment like ventilators, are frontline healthcare workers have carried on this fight tremendous challenges. With cases climbing up parts of my state and around the country these heroes are in dire need of another line of defense. And the public, meaning congress on their behalf has the power to provide that help. The same simple steps weve heard about since the beginning of the pandemic we can stop or at least slow the transmission of covid19. Again it gets kiss back to the basics we have all been taught. More or less most of us have been employed. Washing her hands, wearing ain mask, practicing social distancing and dealt let pandemic fatigue win. We all need to remain vigilant committed to these basic practices until the experts threat. Lik
Information and hope says the professor at the roosevelt family estate. They would listen to the president explain what the government was trying to do. Reporter they were few in number but symbolic of a connection between the patrician, roosevelt and those suffering with poverty. Something the president understood because he suffered. I would say that the symbol of his presidency, of his life is warm springs, georgia. Reporter roosevelt was stricken with polio and never walked again. He built a facility in warm springs, georgia for other polio sufferers and took charge of the operation. It helped him to relate to all kinds of people that is leaving a life of kindness and of respect and responsibility for the people that we know as well as for the people that we dont know. That is the modern basis of democracy. Roosevelt unleashed a flock of programs. They went to work building the infrastructure of the country in ways that are almost unimaginable now. They built 39,000 schools. They b
Inessential workplaces and believe that they, too, should be protected by system of justice. Im going to stand with them and hope of the members of the senate will join me. Madam president , i yield the floor. Madam president , after a few weeks of working remotely to flatten the coronavirus curve were back in washington to continue our Coronavirus Response and address other important issues. Its been in public difficult couple of months for our country. In fact, for most of the world. More than 1 million americans have contracted the coronavirus and thousands have died. Our economy has taken a huge hit. Millions of americans are out of work and businesses are struggling to stay afloat. And americans are worried. They are worried about their own health. They are worried about the health of their families and their loved ones. And theyre worried about their finances. My colleagues and i know that americans are suffering. And our overriding priority over the past twodi months has been re
Here on cspan2. The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Black, will lead the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Eternal god, your words are true. Guide our lawmakers with your precepts. Give them a passion for whatever is just, worthy, and honorable. Guide them to cultivate such reverence for your providence that they will repeatedly pray for your will to be done. Remind them that if they faint under pressure, then their strength is too small. Help them, therefore, to look to you, for you are able to doi am measurably, abundantly above all that they can ask or imagine, according to your power working in and through them. We pray in your powerful name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to our flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Mr. Grassley madam presi
Finances. My colleagues and i know that americans are suffering. Our overriding priority for the past few months has been responding to the coronavirus iscrisis. We passed several major response bills and provided substantially more than 2 trillion. We have funded medical care, personal protective equipment for frontline medical personnel and Treatment Development hate sickly of Unemployment Benefits direct relief payments to american citizens, forgivable loans for Small Businesses and much more. Our goal has been to provide a comprehensive responses addressing not just the medical priorities but also the Economic Impact of viruses have on so Many American families. There is more work to be done. Right now a big part of the work is monitoring the implementation of the legislation we have already passed. We provided a tremendous amount of money and we need too made sure its getting word needs to go as quickly as possible and its being spent in the most effective way. Monitoring the impl