Mr. President , this is a commonsense piece of legislation. It does not saddle Small Businesses, American Business with a new mandate that they dont have a great deal of confidence and then they would actually be funded 100 by the federal government. By the way, the house bill doesnt fund this 100 , it leaves gaps, and it would definitely be temporary and utilize an existing program in the states, sitting on top of it providing federal support for the workers that are going to actually need it as we go through this unprecedented event in our nations history. With that, mr. President , i yield the floor to the senator from pennsylvania. The presiding officer the senator from pennsylvania. Mr. Toomey thank you, mr. President. And i want to thank the senator from wisconsin for leading on this effort. I rise in strong support of this amendment, mr. President. The two of us, and i expect most everybody in this chamber, fully support the idea, the goal, the need to provide relief to workers
Locations as we put social distancing into effect here at cnbc as a precaution were going to start squawk alley this morning with bob pisani with an update on todays markets. Bob . And jon, the important thing here is i want to show you the futures because a lot of confusion overnight here we were futures down overnight, then we hada big rally at 8 00 a. M. Eastern time as the Federal Reserve announced new programs and yet the open was a real disappointment and it shows you that liquidity is fairly thin preopen. A lot of people were surprised we opened down so much but were off of the lows right now. Sects here, banks have had a tough time throughout the morning, most down 4, 5 or 6 . Energy stocks also had a tough morning. Everything else, 2 lets say, industrials, technology also down about 2 . Semiconductors started strong but have been weak for a while now. Boeing, one of the few stocks on the upside, only three or four up today, an upgrade goldman sachs. Home depot on the upside, c
In december of 2019, and infection startedhi in china and is spread rapidly through the wilpon region and by january, there were thousands of people affected to the foremost before the most of the world knew it existed and now almost every country in the world has infections. Hundreds of thousands of people that if in contact with this virus. And unfortunately we have lost thousands of people worldwide. In United States numbers continue to increase and the number of people that we can actually test. Fortunately the vast majority of the people get this virus have little to no symptoms. Cold or mild food to them but for a vulnerable population our elderly population, hard to among issues, smokers diabetics, can be a very serious thing. The challenge that we face in our healthcare, is that for every person that walks in and gets tested, the facetoface their healthcare workers especially in rural areas are saved that may be the only healthcare professional for that entire county. And if th
Long distances to their home villages. And mali pushes ahead with a long delayed election despite the coronavirus conflict and the kidnap of an Opposition Leader. And install chinas top Football League is aiming for a quick return to action it seems of back in training now and hoping to kick off this season. We begin this news on in europe where 2 countries have released concerning new numbers about the krona virus pandemic lets look 1st at spain it has seen another 832 people die in just 24 hours brings the total there to nearly 5700 deaths since the outbreak began and britains death toll has surpassed 1000 having risen by 260 from the day before or than 17000 people are known to have been infected while in india hundreds of thousands of people have lost their jobs in new delhi a walking long distances as you can see here packed together to get to their home villages public transport like the rest of the economy is in lockdown and lets take a look now at the Johns Hopkins University T
Dollar the latest on the covert 19 pandemic. Us President Donald Trump says hes considering and posing a quarantine on 3 states including new york. And belize that mass exodus Migrant Workers left jobless by india shot down a walking long distances to their own that it is. Very good in europe where 2 countries have released concerning new numbers about the corona virus pandemic spain has seen another 832 people die in just 24 hours that brings the total there to nearly 5700 since the outbreak began and persons death toll has a past 1000 having risen by 260 from the day before more than 17000 people are known to be infected. If we can keep that little interest we can very well wish that it well to be actually true there will be this we are so lucky it will be the same follow she is acting in this country differently from any other country it will be because if we sit in this country rich folk with hostile ploy with the instructions that we go with it. Based on the best scientific gauge