Good afternoon, everyone. As we all know, we have been gone for six weeks. Necessarily gone, i might add. The has stacked up since senate is in the personnel business and the house is not. Onare working diligently getting nominations out of committee. They are important for the country, they have been languishing for six weeks. Oversight is beginning already. Senator alexander is going to have dr. Fauci and others before his committee next week, related to the coronavirus epidemic that we are all working our way through. We will continue to discuss with the administration a way forward. Many people are asking for additional legislation. Conference for our by saying, we are not ruling that out, but if i could pause here do a good job of evaluating will we have already done. It was encouraging yesterday that the secretary of the treasury issued a guidance that provides some flexibility on the state and local front, where we 150 million. You. Ank he covered well what the senate is doing.
They are important for the country, they have been languishing for six weeks. Oversight is beginning already. Senator alexander is going to have dr. Fauci and others before his committee next week, related to the coronavirus epidemic that we are all working our way through. We will continue to discuss with the administration a way forward. Many people are asking for additional legislation. Conference for our by saying, we are not ruling that out, but if i could pause here do a good job of evaluating will we have already done. It was encouraging yesterday that the secretary of the treasury issued a guidance that provides some flexibility on the state and local front, where we 150 million. You. Ank he covered well what the senate is doing. To the past several iterations ofrelief, done a lot coronavirus legislation. Much of which is now being implemented. I think part of our job is to make sure it gets implemented in the right way. A lot of our committees will be conducting oversight hear
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105 in iowa, that is a lot for us. Just a couple of hours ago i was on a call with iowa state leaders who are at the state Emergency Operations center. Let me say that again. Emergency operations center, an e. O. C. You just dont set those up for fun, folks. You set them up when your state is in crisis. They gave us a picture of whats going on with our workers and our Small Businesses on the ground in iowa. Within three hours the state received over 11,000 calls for Unemployment Insurance. 2,000 of them are selfemployed. They wont qualify for Unemployment Insurance. You know what would relieve their hurt . This package, phase three. Meanwhile my democratic colleagues are holding this bill up that would actually deliver the relief that is necessary for these workers that i just mentioned for things that have nothing to do with a crisis. Senate democrats are stalling funding for hospitals and Small Businesses until they get to jam through their Green New Deal. Mr. President , you tell me
Gain of about 170 points, after the biggest oneday gain since 1933. That was yesterday. Today might be a different story. At the moment we are looking at a gain of 166 for the dow, a drop for the nasdaq, maybe down 34 points, and the s p down about 11. Mixed picture this morning as investors try to get to grips with this new package and what it means for the economy. Also influencing the market, the president s statement that he would love and he used the word three times, he would love to get the economy back up and running by easter. Thats just two and a half weeks from now. It is a goal rather than an absolute. Critics say its just too soon and many state and local governments reject the president s time frame. Meanwhile, the call for Domestic Travel restrictions keeps on growing. Some officials at the white house suggested that anyone leaving the new york city metropolitan area should be confined to 14 days quarantine. As of now, lockdown, stayathome orders are in place for well ov