Even before inauguration, we had seen a historic financial crisis, irresponsibility on wall street had spread out to main street prayed we had to move fast not just in 100 days we had to move in the first month to get the recovery act passed. We are now in a situation were not only driven economic crisis, we also have a Public Health crisis to boot. Tell me a little bit about how you are seeing the current economic crisis and how you are think about the economy right now. So well mr. President theres three pieces i see. One, weve got to sustain and keep people from going under forever. There are already 10000 businesses not likely to open up significant a number of Small Business and minority business number two, when they are able to come back they are not only able to keep their folks employed on the payroll, but they are able to cover overhead, cover the additional expenses paid for the example you can open without social distancing, masks, test all these things cost a lot of money.
We love you all over the state and just really appreciate your presence here today. Thank you so much. Dr. Biden thank you. Rep. Veasey absolutely. And congresswoman Eddie Bernice johnson. The congresswoman is one of our committee chairmen. Shes the chairperson of the science and Technology Committee and she represents the 30th Congressional District. I will be introducing her a little bit later, but i want to open up by saying over the past five months, the lives of working parents have really been turned upside down, especially our working moms. Daycares are closed, summer camps are closed, vacation bible schools arent open and mothers are out there multitasking. Theyre trying to do Conference Calls and zoom calls, just like we are today, and trying to take care of the kiddos. And we know that when school suddenly switched to distancelearning, that they had to drop everything that they were doing, including working, so they could help their kids on assignments. Look at our essential
Guest yes, we are. Passed away last year. Yes, we have an affiliation and are proud of that affiliation. When it comes to affiliation, the Coronavirus Relief package, various price tags being thrown around by the senate and house side. You have some concern about what is being suggested . Guest we do. The congress has appropriated the president to sign into law trillions of dollars in spending already. Much of that was needed, by the way. This is an unprecedented situation we are facing with the pandemic that has an economic toll that is unprecedented in our nations history. Much of that was needed, it. Ssary, and we support at this point, it is difficult to justify another multi dollar spending bill, especially if it includes what the house version included in late spring which is trillions of dollars for bailing out states and localities that has nothing to do with the pandemic, but more to do with irresponsible spending and pension policies for many years. Host states will say in so
Congressional district. I will be introducing her a little bit later, but i want to open up by saying over the past five months, the lives of working parents have really been turned upside down, especially our working moms. Daycares are closed, summer camps are closed, vacation bible schools arent open and mothers are out there multitasking. Theyre trying to do Conference Calls and zoom calls, just like we are today, and trying to take care of the kiddos. And we know that when school suddenly switched to distancelearning, that they had to drop everything that they were doing, including working, so they could help their kids on assignments. Look at our essential workers. The majority of them are women and disproportionately women of color, and they stayed on the job and they still managed to be the glue for their families. While really helping us try to get through covid. And this crisis im talking about with working moms existed before covid. But this fire is really cast a broad spotli
Make sure its accessible to all americans across the landscape. I cant imagine as a member of congress how we would have functioned in this pandemic without the ability to use a variety of conferencing and communications technologies, not just the traditional phone calls we use for our Republican House conferences but zoom and webex and a whole variety of platforms to move information back and forth. Thats not just in politics. Not just in the legislative process. Listening to my friends and industry its been a necessity because many have spent a minimal amount of time in the office in the last 90 days just as i sped a minimal amount of time in my office in the last 90 days. Host so whats the role of congress in advancing that or is there a a role . Guest we are a facilitator. This is something that going all the way back to the telecommunication act of the 1930s, things that essentially everyone in the country is going to have the best technology and if its going to be widely availabl