Economic damage, really us with a strong recovery to the heroes act takes that wisdom to heart. It is the bold and transformative step we need to ensure our nation meets the challenge of the pandemic and the ensuing economic recession. Much of the bill is in the jurisdiction of other committees and my fellow Committee Chairs will tell you more how this bill meets the needs of the American People. By putting money directly in the pockets of workers, including our essential workers, supporting Small Businesses and nonprofits and further bolstering families, including their Health Security and workplace security. However, there is much in the appropriations to address the health and economic crisis for the people. First and foremost, the bill delivers nearly 1 trillion to states and local governments so they can keep our heroes, first responders, health workers, teachers and other Public Servants paid and working for us. I am incredibly proud that this bill will provide 67 billion to my h
You uphold the universe by the words of your power. Today, walk with our senators as they work. Help them to remember that there is no purity without vigilance, no learning without study, and no mastery without discipline. Give them the wisdom to be willing to pay the price to honor you. Provide them with joy in service and devotion in discipleship. Infuse them with a spirit of power, love, and selfcontrol. We pray in your mighty name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in the pledge of allegiance to the flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Mr. Grassley madam president . The presiding officer the senator from iowa. Mr. Grassley one minute in morning business. An oped i penned recently mentioned countries that still has laws on the books and it touched the nerve in bangladesh. I certainly didnt mean to imply that it was the worst off
I would say theres nothing that focuses the mind on the issue of Health Care Like the prospect of a pandemic, and that is what were facing now with the coronavirus. Americans should not panic and they shouldnt be pessimistic but we need to be realistic as the numbers start to increase over the world. And we take note of our vulnerabilities here in the United States of america. Were also, i hope, reflecting on what were counting on toest go us through this pandemic in a posse comitatussive fashion in america. The first thing is we look to two Major Health Care organizations of the federal government the National Institutes of health, which is the premier Health Research agency in the world, and the center for disease control, which again leads the world when this comes to preventing the spread of disease and threats to the Public Health of america. The question we should ask ourselves is how have we treated these agencies to date. The answers are mixed. The answer when it comes to Natio
A question to challenge any person in america to name the one thing this majority democratic has accomplished. Only internally are they asking. So what i thought i would do i would look at the numbers at this moment and at this time when last congress there was a different majority. First i looked at the bills coming out of committee everybody that has elected the representatives. The last congress there were 308 bills passed at this point democrats of neither the past 200 bills out of committee. So the final chapter through the American Public on the Mueller Investigation may say we dont know we have another hearing on this but listening to our leadership it with that election they dont like the outcome. To hold the American Public back. You can see from the sheer numbers remember those committees that they went to. And one third of the country believes immigration that is currently facing the nation. Only a handful of issues have become that prominent in the minds of america. They ha
Do in their states to address the Opioid Epidemics. This is just over an hour. Good afternoon, everybody. Those of you whore Still Standing who plan to set, set it and those of you who stand can stand. My name is charlie baker, governor of the commonwealth of massachusetts and im the chair of the nba health and Human Services committee and i want to welcome you all to this conversation about an issue the nga has been engaged in in a big way for the past several years and i think it is fair to say that every governor of every state has made dealing with this particular issue is significant and important priority in their work and thats certainly been true in the commonwealth of massachusetts. I did run for governor to work on this issue, but upon me because wherever i campaigned, i ran into people who talk to me about it in their stories frankly broke my heart. Over the course of the past several years, working on a bipartisan basis with our legislature and others, we have made some pro