Colleagues attentions attendance and participation. I welcome our distinguished panel of witnesses. Mr. Y we will hear from stephen barry, president and chief executive officer of the competitive cares organization and the chief executive officer of the Rural Broadband association. Mr. Gene kimmelman, Senior Advisor on public knowledge, who will be appearing, testifying remotely. Jonathan spalter, of u. S. T and ceo broad,. Covid19 crisis has changed life dramatically for almost every american. As the administration and the centers for Disease Control and prevention encourage social distancing to prevent spread of the virus, normal activities like work, school, Healthcare Services are increasingly taking place online. This has caused a huge uptick in the use of broadband. One estimate shows average Broadband Usage is up by 47 since the pandemic began. Good news is that theres been some progress in connecting all americans. The fcc has recently released broadband deployment report shows
That all roads lead to rome. If that is true, the United States army had taken the longest and toughest road. Arriving on the fourth of june, 1944, two years and six months after pearl harbor americas entrance into the war. Two days after general mark pratss fifth army captured the eternal city, dwight d. Eisenhowers envision forces hit the normandie beaches in a massive am amphibious assault. Despite bitter german resistance, we built up an enormous beachhead and finally broke through. Our seventh army commanded by general Alexander Patch landed in Southern France and pushed northward along the roanne river valley. Ten days later, paris is liberated. The army clipped on. In the pacific. General macarthurs forces invaded the island in a giant amphibious lead that put them within 300 miles of the philippines. The general was making progress in berma with his mixed command of hand picked american infantrymen and british and chinese units. The tide of war was turning against the aggressor
I think it is important to keep we actually havent seen a vote on the 100 billion stimulus. [indiscernible] now they are going to try to work on a much bigger bill. But keep in mind it has been difficult to get this package that is much more targeted past the goal line, so we need to keep our expectations and check in terms of both timing and scope. It is a big number that would be welcome by the market and by the. Conomy [indiscernible] , the could actually happen market needs to keep their expectations and check in terms might beickly this real stimulus. David we are talking about 1. 2 trillion. We have 100 billion the senate still havent acted on. Beyond that, do we have a sense of what it is going to go for . As i understand, some amount of money, maybe 1000, to peoples pockets. Theres also some talk about differing tax payments in the treasury. Is there going to be money for the airlines . Is going tonk this be very multidimensional. Because this is an unusual crisis in some ways,
Together. Mr. President , i yield the floor. The response to the coronavirus has made it clear that there are lots of things that other responsibility of individuals, things like staying home if you are sick, frankly staying home if you are more likely than others to be sick, practicing the kinds of hygiene are mothers taught us we should follow all along. Personally i may have set a new personal record for just washing my hands in the last two weeks. Ive never been adverse to wash my hands but but i dont know t ive ever watched them half a dozen times a day or more before, but those kinds of things are left up to us. And then there are things that are left up to the local level, things to determine in a local Community Whether things should be open or not, what kind of activities should be the activities where you draw the line in terms of crowds. Much likely to be better decided at a local level by even the state or even more likely by a mayor or account executive than by somebody he
Up to us. And then there are things that are left up to the local level. Things to determine in a local Community Whether things should be opened or not, what kind of activities should be the activities where you draw the line in terms of crowds, much likely to be better decided at a local level by the state or by a mayor or county executive then by somebody here in washington. And then at the National Level we are moving towards our third package and the last few days to try to deal with this. The first package was about 8 billion, really focused on the Immediate Health response, supplies, developing a vaccine, trying to figure out what the right therapies were, understanding the things we needed to do to further help hospitals get ready and to further help people encouraged to go other than hospitals, all of those things are part of the first package. The package we sent to the president that the set president signed last night about 100 billion by almost any standard, a huge amount