Tonight, eugene the debs v. D ebs. Nancy pelosi held her weekly news conference. She provided an update on Coronavirus Relief negotiations with republicans. She also reacted to senator Kamala Harris being named to the Vice President ial running mate. Speaker pelosi good morning. How are you all . Stay well. I will begin and end that way. 90 days ago, congress past the heroes act. 90 days. When we passed that legislation, which was designed to meet the needs of the American People in relationship to the coronavirus crisis, it was based on science, economics, and institutional expertise, as what was needed to address the needs of the American People. At that time, Mitch Mcconnell said we need to pause. He hit the pause button, and since that time, since that 90 days, 3,750,000 americans have become sick, have been added to the infected list. Tens of millions more people are out of work. Clearly the virus did not take a pause. When sometimes some of you reporters ask why cant we resolve o
Candidate. Joe biden and his running mate senator Kamala Harris spoke to the press after receiving a briefing from Public Health experts on the coronavirus pandemic. Their remarks were delivered at the hotel dupont, a Historic Property in wilmington, delaware. Vice pres. Biden good afternoon, folks. Im going to be brief. I have been getting a briefing on average four times a week since march from a group of Public Health experts on the state of coronavirus and all aspects relating to it. Again, whichtoday is the normal briefing i get with experts on the call, about a range of issues. We talked about school openings. We talked about a distribution of a vaccine if and when one arrives. We talked about the racial howarities that exist and covid19 is affecting different races differently. And we talked about the continued lack of ppe protective equipment and Testing Capacity and the like. Plan out a comprehensive over the last three months on each of these things. Today i want to talk abou
Peopleave more than 300 registered for this Virtual Meeting and we will try to get through as many questions as we can in the second half of this discussion. I want to note the entirety of todays session is on the record. Our discussion now and later on, the questions and answers. Mr. President , welcome. It is a pleasure to see you again. A great leisure to be with you. My prayers and wishes to the and to allrticularly the civilians that served with you. It is a great honor to be with you. Let me say how much i and many other people in this country value our partnership with you and the Afghan People over the past years. Now is at a prehistoric threshold or at least potentially so. People the afghan through the loya jirga have made the decision to release the final prisoners the taliban had and opening the pathway to negotiations which reportedly would start and the next couple of days. That is an extremely important threshold to cross, one that i know you addressed with great serious
On cspan, online at cspan. Org and listen live on the free cspan radio app. The commissioner of the irs testified before the Senate Finance committee on the impact of the coronavirus on the 2020 taxis and including efforts season including efforts to help taxpayers and Small Business. This is just over two hours. [gavel] sen. Grassley commissioner rettig, thank you for agreeing to testify on 2020 tax Filing Season and the irs handling of challenges that are posed because of the pandemic. The 2020 Filing Season got off to its typical start at the end of january. However since then, this Filing Season has been anything but typical. As a result of the National Health emergency stemming from the ongoing pandemic, almost all regular tax filing and tax payment deadlines have been extended. This includes the individual and Corporate Income tax filings and payment deadlines which were pushed back from the normal april 15 to july 15. There is some rumors it might be extended again. I dont know.
Filing season and the irss. Andling of challenges at the 2020 Filing Season got off to a typical start. Since then, this Filing Season as been anything but typical a result of the National Health emergency stemming from the ongoing pandemic. Almost all regular tax filing and tax payment deadlines have been extended. This includes the individual and Corporate Income tax filings and payment deadlines, which were pushed back from the normal april 15 to july 15. There are some rumors they might be extended again. I dont know. I have heard that at least once. Extendedhese deadlines, the tax Filing Season continues with many taxpayers still filing taxes as usual to get their tax refund. At the same time, consistent with the Government Shutdown orders and cdc guidance, the irs limited much of its work to essential services, closed a number of facilities, and instituted telework policies where practical. Shortstaffed irs during the busiest time of the year. Understandably, that meant to taxpay