Certainly china is to blame and has to be held accountable. View, doesr point of the sovereign immunity act need to be amended at all to allow you to move forward . We are moving forward because we believe that is how we proceeded on our lawsuit which we filed in the United States Federal District court of mississippi. That onportant to note the foreign sovereign immunities act, the commercial activity section is an act based on commercial activity in china that has a direct effect on the United States and they may not be immune. A reference to the nature of the court of conduct and a particular transaction or act. China was engaged in commercial activity, including the production, purchasing, import and export of ppes. Even essentially nationalizing the manufacturing. We believe this exception is workable and that is why i am proceeding with our lawsuit. Now, certainly the amendments of the Foreign Policy immune act would be helpful. Providing additional exceptions provides us broader
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And allowing the government to negotiate medication Prescription Drug prices. And for residents and homers to stay in their homes during the pandemic. Live coverage of the house. The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. God, thank you for giving us another day. Those who omfort suffer from coronavirus. Healing. Bless and comfort those who mourn the loss of loved ones in wake of covid19. Psalmist, we turn to you. Have mercy upon us, o god, for treated harshly. Harshly all t us the day. Attackers. Re our almost high when we are afraid place our trust. We praise the word of god. Not fear. N god and do all the day our enemies foil our plans. Their every thought is of evil against us. Lie in wait for our lives. Our threats are many, o god. Unrest in Police Reform, aggressive russian and policies, a struggling economy. Our time of need. Bless the peoples house and may that is done be for your amen. R honor a
Today ill talk about three specific actions. One increasing vaccine supplies. Two, providing more places for people to get vaccinated. And three, supporting state and local partners in their efforts toll get needles in arms. Let me start with vaccine supply. As i know, this is top of mind for all of us. Last week, we took steps to increase the amount of vaccine going to states, tribes and territories by 16 . Today, we are further increasing that weekly allocation by an additional 5 . So for the next three weeks, we will provide a minimum of 10. 5 million in total dose esper week across all jurisdictions. That means we have increased supply by more than 20 since we took office. And we have succeeded in our efforts to secure the equipment required to extract a sixth dose from pfizers viles. Vaccine kits shipped to states, tribes and territories require the syringe to have a 20 increase in the pfizer doses. To be clear, this is on top of the 10. 5 million doses we will ship this week. We
Actions taken on pandemic and how money is being spent today. Getting america back to work today, larry kudlow will join me today at 8 30 a. M. Eastern live on the reopening of American Economy and rebound hes expecting and what if any additional stimulus is needed. We will also get into china. Turn into markets this morning. Futures are turning direction this morning. We are expecting weak opening this morning for stock prices, s p futures down 10 and nasdaq futures lower by 12 this after positive news from moderna on vaccine trial help fuel strong rally for stocks. Dow industrials up 911 points yesterday almost 4 . The nasdaq was up 220 points and s p was up 90 all the major indices up 2 and a half and 3 and a half percent. A closer look at the Pandemic Impact on retail this morning, this morning we will get walmart, hem depo who remained open reporting earnings. More stores and malls are reopening even in the face of bankruptcy elsewhere. Who would be held responsible . Attorney gen