Ms. Pelosi thank you. Im not celebrating until i can hug my grand babies. Aiting for that day. Hopefully that will be soon but thank you. Last night as you know the Senate Passed important legislation. Were very proud of the product. We think it is we did jujitsu on it. It went from a corporatefirst proposal that the republicans put forth in the senate to a workers first democratic workers first legislation. First, lets back up. As i was coming here, i saw nearly 1,000 deaths in the united states. 900 yesterday. I dont know what the numbers are today. But theyre saying nearly 1,000 deaths in our country. Tens of thousands of people are we have tens of thousands of cases. This is a pandemic that we havent even since for over 100 ears in our country. Its really such a tragedy, so we had to take important action. Had to take action that puts Families First and workers first and thats what we did when we did our first legislation. The first two bills were about addressing the emergency dir
Directive and information that we previously did not have and we would be happy to share that with the all. Before i get into my remarks, i would like to thank all of the folks who have been so helpful and supportive in staying home for nevada and doing Everything Possible to flatten the curve and protect as many people as we can, we appreciate your diligence in doing that. I asked them to continue what you are doing, and thank you for what you have done thus far. Have 2000 i do not know if the slides are going up . Are they on the screen . Individuals that have tested positive while 18,248 have tested negative. To date, nevada received 3000 reagents and 4000 test swabs. These numbers have not changed since we reported, i believe on monday. We appreciate whatever components we get from the federal government. At this time the reagent is not nearly the volume needed for the desired amount of testing we want to do and we are doing what we can to build our own kits moving forward. Expand
Who have lost their lives. That is the sad, sad part of it all. More than 17 million initial unemployment claims. Hundreds of thousands of jobs lost in the month of march. Now millions more expected in the coming months. The assault on the lives and the livelihood of the american proportionne of epic and one that demands congress continue to take bold, urgent, effective action to bring rapid relief to the health care workers, First Responders and others who are suffering, to Small Businesses, hospitals, state and local government and the rest. On tuesday morning, secretary mnuchin called. That would be two days ago. Secretary mnuchin called and asked for a quarter of a trillion dollars in 48 hours. With no data. Just quarter of a trillion dollars in 48 hours. Mcconnellng, leader honored that request i say honored. Really dishonored needs that we have with a stunt on the floor 250e Senate Requesting billion. No data as to why we needed it. When there are outstanding needs. Sit we offere
Ms. Pelosi thank you. Im not celebrating until i can hug my grand babies. Waiting for that day. Hopefully that will be soon, but thank you. Last night as you know the Senate Passed important legislation. Were very proud of the product. We think it is we did jujitsu on it. It went from a corporatefirst proposal that the republicans put forth in the senate to a workers first democratic workers first legislation. First, lets back up. As i was coming here, i saw nearly 1,000 deaths in the united states. 900 yesterday. I dont know what the numbers are today. But theyre saying nearly 1,000 deaths in our country. Tens of thousands of people are we have tens of thousands of cases. This is a pandemic that we havent even since for over 100 years in our country. Its really such a tragedy, so we had to take important action. Had to take action that puts Families First and workers first and thats what we did when we did our first legislation. The first two bills were about addressing the emergency
I am excited to be in the energy and Commerce Committee. It is at the forefront of americas competitiveness. That issues in front of the energy and Commerce Committee are going to determine americas leadership in the world. It is my goal to make sure we climate,ng on driverless cars, closing the digital divide. They can sure america is leading and the rest of the world is following. Peter one of the issues before your subcommittee right now is privacy. What do you want to have done . It is very Important Congress act. That we set a National Standard for privacy in the u. S. What is happening is we are seeing a patchwork of laws. California has led with the law that is going into effect right now. Other states are introducing their own laws. Washington state has introduced legislation. There are 80 bills being introduced at the state level addressing privacy because acting. Is not we need to have a standard or else we risk a patchwork of laws that are only going to cause confusion for c