For democrats. 202 7488001 for republicans. Independents. For if you want to text us, you can do so at 202 7488003. Post on our twitter feed at cspan wj. Mcmanus had aing back that took place yesterday before todays vote, adding it was the House Rules Committee voting along party lines to send a rule for consideration of the three choi in dollar coronavirus three choi in dollar bill. The rule, 3 trillion bill. It would provide almost 916 and additional funds to testing. It would provide the sweeping measure would provide another round of Cash Payments to families, housing assistance, medical Research Funding and the extension of expanded unemployment benefits, tax breaks and more. Lowyerspective came from so they can keep their first responders, healthcare workers and other Public Servants paid and working for us. That is in rollcall. If you want to read more of the on thedforth, it was senate that senators, particularly on the republican side offered criticisms, particularly for Mitch
Today address as number of important issues related to ovid19 testing. One issue we examined in this work, i hope we talk about today, is how we can make sure that we are best prepared for potential overlap of covid19 and influenza cases in the fall. Im looking forward to the conversation we are going to have today. I greatly appreciate all three of our witnesses and governors for taking time from their extremely busy schedules to be here. Made a lot of improvement over the last few months, our work is not done and as we continue to work on drafting more legislation responding to covid19 pandemic, it is especially important to hear state perspectives. I thank you. Yield back. Ms. Degette i thank the gentleman for yielding back. I would advise members in case you are unaware of this, there is a window on your screen that says one, two, three clock. This will count down from five minutes for each other statements or questioning. And then it will start going over. If thats not working for
I just wanted to tell you that i feel very safe going into my stores. I wear my mask, and i take good afternoon. In february, sadly we learned that the first known coronavirus death in the united states. Since then, over 80,000 americans have died and nearly 1. 4 million have been infected. 33 million americans have filed for Unemployment Insurance. We all know these numbers. We face the biggest catastrophe in our nations history. Setting aside how we got here, we must approach this tragedy with the deepest humanity as we go into the future. All of our hearts are broken by the loss of life. The number of 33 million americans who have filed for Unemployment Insurance is almost unimaginable. This is a moment when many millions of our fellow americans are in deep suffering. We must have empathy for our heroes. The Health Care Workers for how exhausted and how stressed they are in doing their jobs. Add to that, they may lose their jobs in this economy. We must also empathize with the pain
The house of representatives prepares to reconvene on friday. We would love to hear from you. Ou live begin as we always do. The numbers are courtesy of Johns Hopkins university, which has been keeping track of this pandemic since the beginning. 4. 3 million cases worldwide. The confirmed cases around the globe, 296,000. We will get to your calls across a moment. Joining us from nashville is dr. William schaffner. Preventivefessor of medicine as Vanderbilt University school of medicine. Guest good to be with you. Host i want to begin with some news for the president from the president. Andsenate Health Education Pension Committee hearing, Anthony Fauci said he had concerns about schools reopening potentially too soon. Today, the president had this reaction. Trump to make, donald trump it is not an acceptable answer. The only thing that would be acceptable is professors, teachers, etc. Of a certain age. I think they have to be careful. Because this is a disease that attacks age, that at
Under george h. W. Bush, working on financial institutions, the treasury, and between that and his joining the board of governors in 2012, he was a visiting scholar at the department of policy center. At the time when fiscal policy is as much or more critical, it is hard to imagine we could have anybody better than jay powell. Thank you for coming back to the peterson institute, chairman powell. Chairman powell thanks. Its great to be back. I have some brief remarks, then i look forward to our discussion. The coronavirus has left a devastating human and economic toll as it has spread. This is a Worldwide Public Health crisis and healthcare workers have been the First Responders showing courage and determination and earning our lasting gratitude. So have the legions of other essential workers who put themselves at risk every day on our behalf. As a nation we have temporarily withdrawn from many kinds of economic and social activity to help slow the spread of the virus. Some sectors of t