Rep. Sherman the committee on Foreign Affairs will come to order. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare a recess in the committee at any point, and all members will have five days to submit statements, extraneous materials, and questions to the record subject to the length and limitations of the rules. To insert something into the record, please have your staff email the previously mentioned address or contact the full committee staff. I see we that have a coram and before i go forward i understand the speaker of the house, ms. Pelosi, will be stopping by, and i ask unanimous consent that she participate at any point she arrives. And there she is. Madam speaker, would you like to make some remarks . Rep. Pelosi thank you very uch, mr. Chairman. I thank you and mr. Mccaul, mr. Eliot engel for having this hearing today. It is with Great Sadness that i come here because we had such optimism and such hope. The u. S. Congress has always spoken in a bipartisan house and senat
Extremely that would send an already sagging market even lower to the weekend when President Trump spoke, he was so mad that the market was able to make a comeback, now ultimately dipping just 18 points the nasdaq surging 1. 29 lets understand our idea of measured response is not chinas idea of a measured response. I think theyre going to see this as a real provocation, and theyll feel compelled to respond, which brings us to the game plan for next week. Mondays all about retaliation from china at this point, we all know how this story goes, right it always is tit for tat every time President Trump lands a blow, its met with a counter blow we have to presume china escalates things, if only to show they understand the end game, which seems like containment or isolation except this time maybe were the ones being contained. For decades we refused to recognize the peoples republic of china and our government treated them like an outlaw or the outlaw that they were. Then president nixon in
Legislation before us to turn this economy around and help out in our battle against the virus. While were waiting to vote on that, i come to the floor for a couple points that i would like to make. The first one is to honor a famous iowan. This month is called iowa history month, so i come to the floor to speak about one of iowas favorite sons, dr. Norman borlog, whose birthday is today. Hes considered the farmer of the green revolution. Raised on a farm near cresco, iowa, he is credited with saving more lives than anyone in history with his breakthroughs in agronomy. It took him several years to accomplish what a lot of scientists do now in a laboratory in regard to fighting diseases in plants, and he did this in mexico and india. His work helped to overcome malnutrition and famine across the world, saving over one billion lives in the process. His achievements won him the nobel peace prize. But not only that famous prize but also the president ial medal of freedom and the congressio
Business closures as well as layoffs. We will show you how markets are reacting as well. Eugene scalia and richard will join with me about the jobs picture, what they have to say about the jobs market, stimulus package and what lies ahead for the u. S. Economy. Twoday rally for the dow and s p 500 poise to come to an end today, future pointing to losses, down 200 points. Down 93 on the nasdaq after gains of wall street yesterday but markets did close off of the highs of the day, in fact, the nasdaq as you could see finished negative. Dow industrials yesterday up 409 points at the close and the s p was up 28. President trump says parts of the u. S. Could be going back to work in a few weeks participating in a Virtual Conference with g20 leaders today working on a coordinated response for the coronavirus pandemic. Plus americas biggest music star coming together for iheart living concert for america. Special feature includes elton john and alicia keys. Mornings with maria is live right n
Quorum call a senator madam president. The presiding officer the senator from new mexico. Mr. Udall thank you very much, madam president. Are we in a quorum call . The presiding officer we are in a worker. Quorum call. The presiding officer we are. Mr. Udall i wish to vitiate the quorum call. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Udall today we face a pandemic the likes of which we have not seen in over 100 years and today the Senate Must Act to pass the largest relief package for the American People in our history. First id like to extend my thoughts and prayers to everyone who is personally affected by this coronavirus pandemic. I thank the Health Care Workers who are working long hours and risking their own health to save lives. They are performing a national service. The numbers of infected individuals and the rapidly rising death toll with staggering. If we do not follow Public Health experts advice, the totals could be truly horrifying. In new mexico we have over 100 diagn