We are keeping our distance. Sen. Schumer hi, everybody. Spread out. First, i am so proud to be joined by my friend, great speaker, great partner. We probably talked 20 times the last few days. And we are still not tired of each other, i hope. The bill we passed was greatly improved. Leader mcconnell simply tried to steamroll us. We tried to tell him it is much better to talk with us than steamroll us. Because we had input into the bill, it is a much better bill. Leader mcconnells bill was simply a bill for ppe. We werent against increasing it, but there was so much more to do. First, there were so many people in my state and throughout the country who were small, did not know a big shot banker, and that was because the ppp program , the way it was structured, help to those who had a friendly banker and those who were larger, more successful companies. We wanted to deal with the butcher and the baker and candlestick maker, the average Small Business person. We needed to get them help.
Democrats would block it. Heres a look at her comments now. We will show you as much as we can before todays White House Briefing. Pelosi thank you all if you are out here. Good day wherever you are in this holy week, passover. Approaching Easter Sunday and ramadan. The appropriate time for us to more deeply pray for those who have lost their lives and the families that are suffering and those who are sick with the virus. Its a very, very sad time as we awaken this morning to see that the totals are approaching 450,000 people infected. Approaching nearly 15,000 people 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 People is one of epic proportion and one that demands congress continue to take bold, urgent, effective action to bring rapid relief to the heal
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 directly. 8. 3 billion
Yielding around where it had been. 8 is roughly the mark weve been sitting at. It looks like the 10year is yielding as well i know people are short and anxious. These two days backtoback are we putting in a bottom these numbers in new york look promising like the numbers may not be going up as rapidly as imagined well see. We have a lot of big guests to talk about that. We want to get everybody up to date about what happened last night. The Senate Passing that stimulus bill it now goes to the senate. Steve liesman will cover the potential impact on the economy. First, well go to washington, d. C. Where eamon javers is this morning. I cant think of another major vote that was this unanimous, 960. It would have been even more if it hadnt been for the fact that so many members of congress are back home or suffering themselves from this virus we could of seen a 1000 vote yesterday. Buts that where it handed. What is in the bill . Just about something for everybody in the economy lets whip
Lets think of it that way, endless number of ventilators. Just to name one thing. But everyone, the farmers, the grocers, everyone thats keeping america fed, our truck drivers, postal workers, people, everyone who is aking this survival possible, we thank. Again, we thank our scientists cure. Riving to find a so tomorrow we will go to the floor for this legislation, but said, there are so many things we didnt get in any of these bills yet in the way we eed to so the next step would be, among other things, we want to have more better qualifies for ho family and medical leave. I can give you some examples, if you wish. Stronger osha protections for essential, essential to life. Ensions, we had a proposal on pensions in the legislation that my understanding was, as i trust true, that the president supported, but senator mcconnell but said well do it in the next bill. That. Re ready for increase snap. One disappointment in the bill is they would not increase we for a 15 increase in food st