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
Response efforts have not instilled much confidence either. Testing kits were notg probaby sent to the hospitals, and medical labs around the country, political personnel has overruled the recommendations for the cdc. In the administration was slow to appoint any single official for the Public Health expertise to coordinated our governments response. Even now, President Trump seems to be spending one of us time blaming commedia and blaming the democrats and being constructi constructive. Infective blades everyone. He is downplaying, the virus to a dangerous degree. His chief of staff amazingly said to americans, turn off your televisions. They know the history of how these viruses spread and work. Winnie to deny them, you dont let people know what is happening and what to do about it. Things getd worse. And if the president , being self centered as is only cares about himself and his image any tribes uas usual instead of solving te problem, blame somebody else. The deflection and finge
There was a flu outbreak bigger than we had seen a in long time. One year later were fighting the Ebola Outbreak in the d. R. C. Antibiotic Resistance Continues to be a global problem. And according to the director of the National Institutes of allergy and Infectious Disease, the flu were seeing this year is shaping up to be one of the worst in decades. There are several several,000 americans die every year from the flu. Usually at least 35,000, sometimes as high as 75,000. I think about 350,000 americans have died from the flu in the last decade. Were now facing a new danger, the covid19 danger. Thats the new coronavirus we havent seen before. As we learned from ebola, patient zero, who doesnt know he has it can board a plane or cruise ship and be in another country or continent in a matter of hours, and this lesson is reinforced. Like all other diseases it doesnt know any boundaries. Were no longer living in a world where our health can be separated from the health of other countries
The meat of the last recession and prior to it. So this panel is going to be a a bit of a History Lesson. Take this off depressingly wonderfully if we can say that as a phrase. Ive heard him speak a few times ive never had to be so negative so that is something to take into consideration. I cut it its got to be a bit of a History Lesson so i want to set the stage a bit for what was going on in the years in the months leading on so when the financial downturn started and so just a reminder of the Great Recession and thought it at the end of 2007 and i was the largest collapse in state revenue on record by 2010 states were looking at a loss of 191 billion dollars in total in revenue that they had lost between from the start of the downturn and of course when there are times of economic downturn hitters more pressure on social Safety Net Services and things that cost a more money and so you have that inverse effect of more budget pressure at a time where the dollars are disappearing and s
Vermont and they both serve between 2003 and 2011 are in the meat of the last recession and prior to it. So this panel is going to be a a bit of a History Lesson. Take this off depressingly wonderfully if we can say that as a phrase. Ive heard him speak a few times ive never had to be so negative so that is something to take into consideration. I cut it its got to be a bit of a History Lesson so i want to set the stage a bit for what was going on in the years in the months leading on so when the financial downturn started and so just a reminder of the Great Recession and thought it at the end of 2007 and i was the largest collapse in state revenue on record by 2010 states were looking at a loss of 191 billion dollars in total in revenue that they had lost between from the start of the downturn and of course when there are times of economic downturn hitters more pressure on social Safety Net Services and things that cost a more money and so you have that inverse effect of more budget pr