Todays hearing on had committee of Small Business and entrepreneurship will come to order, and i want to thank everyone for joining us here today. I want to thank you both for being here though far away. And all the members for being here today. This is our first opportunity to hear from both of you about the enactment of the cares act in particular as it applies to Small Business. The cares act is landmark legislation. In less than 2 Weeks Congress passed the largest Economic Relief package in our nations history. And now after the passage of two further reforms the Paycheck Protection Program is the largest component of the Economic Relief enact by the cares act. Opthat point i just want to say a couple of things. First of all, it was the extraordinary work of many people, staff, of course worked tirelessly to make this possible. The partnership we had from both the sba and the treasury was extraordinary. Members on this committee, every single one participated. Obviously the leaders
105 in iowa, that is a lot for us. Just a couple of hours ago i was on a call with iowa state leaders who are at the state Emergency Operations center. Let me say that again. Emergency operations center, an e. O. C. You just dont set those up for fun, folks. You set them up when your state is in crisis. They gave us a picture of whats going on with our workers and our Small Businesses on the ground in iowa. Within three hours the state received over 11,000 calls for Unemployment Insurance. 2,000 of them are selfemployed. They wont qualify for Unemployment Insurance. You know what would relieve their hurt . This package, phase three. Meanwhile my democratic colleagues are holding this bill up that would actually deliver the relief that is necessary for these workers that i just mentioned for things that have nothing to do with a crisis. Senate democrats are stalling funding for hospitals and Small Businesses until they get to jam through their Green New Deal. Mr. President , you tell me
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His 448page report on russian interference in the 2016 president ial election in front of two separate congressional committees. And frustrating lawmakers on both sides with his refusal to stray from the report or make any conclusions as to whether the president should be charged with obstruction of justice. What exactly if anything did we learn from former special Counsel Robert Mueller . Lets ask former Justice Department official and former counsel to the Senate Judiciary committee, greg nunsiata. Welcome, sir. Mess your t. Pleasure to have yo. Let me ask about the issue that was raised by the congressman which is the claim in the report that Robert Mueller issued which was that the president was not exonerated by the report. Is that a violation of traditional prosecutor prosecul behavior and discretion. Yeah, certainly in contrast, in tension with our general an glow american principles of angloamerican principles. Kind of a creation of special counsels statute. Theres been problem