The united states. Since then our nation has come facetoface with this fullscale pandemic. Families have hunkered down, changed their routines, bustling main streets have come to a halt. Essential workers have taken new precautions to keep supply chains running and of course brave Healthcare Providers have stretched the limits of their supplies and their stamina to prepare for patients. All the while even with the entire country doing its best to fight this disease it is still in the lives of nearly 70,000 of our fellow americans so our nation is facing the most severe pandemic since 1918 and quite possibly the worst economic shock since the Great Depression and we are facing them at the same time. This is a historic challenge. The senate is helping the country need it. In early march we passed an additional response to help communities handle the outbreak. We spent billions of dollars to enhance the Public Health response to promote development of vaccines and treatments and help Heal
Come facetoface with this full scale endemic. Families have hunkered down, change their routines bustling main street have literally come to a hault. Essential workers are taking the precautions to keep supplyee chains running. Andh of course brave Health Care Providers have stretched the their supplies and their stamina to care for patients. All the while even with the entire country doing its best to fight this disease it is still in the lives of 70,000 of our americans. Madam president or nation is facing the most severe pandemic since 1918 and quite possibly the worst economic since the great depression. And we are facing them at the same time. This is a historic challenge. The senate is helping the country made it. There was an initial response to help communities handle the outbreak. Billions of dollars to enhance our Public Health response and promote development of a vaccine and treatment and help the Health Care Providers and small as this is in places that were bearing the br
Heavens fall. Remind them that evil prospers when good people do nothing. May our senators also use the gift of intercessory prayer to unlock your storehouse of blessings so desperately needed in our nation and world. In hours of hardship, provide them with your peace. Lord, give our legislators the wisdom that enables them to hasten the coming of your kingdom of justice and peace. We pray in your sovereign name. Amen. The presiding officer please join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of americ, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. The presiding officer the clerk will read a communication to the senate. The clerk washington, d. C. , july 25, 2019. To the senate under the provisions of rule 1, paragraph 3, of the standing rules of the senate, i hereby appoint the honorable cindy hydesmith, a senator from the state of mississippi, to perform the duties of the chair
And have mercy upon our nation. May our lawmakers work to do your will, remembering that you have set apart the godly for yourself. Provide our senators a refuge in you, enabling them to shout for joy, blessed by your righteousness and favor. Continue to supply their needs, teaching them how to abound and abase. Lord, keep us all from slipping, presenting us one day before your throne with great joy. We pray in your majestic name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in the pledge of allegiance. 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 july 20 marks the 50 years since Neil Armstrong took one small step for man and for the first time in Human History walked on the moon. The Apollo Missions should be remembered for generations to come as a triumph for innovat
The gavel comes down next right here on cspan. And to get us to the top of the the u. S. House, a portion now of a washington journal segment from this weekend with Newt Gingrich. We welcome back former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, out with a new book. We will talk about that in just a moment. And your wife and her new posting. Lets talk about president george w. Bush. Politicsh, he says seems to be more vulnerable conspiracy theories or outright fabrication. He took aim at the present without mentioning him specifically. Your reaction. Guest i think there are very real differences between president bush and senator mccain, who also had a tough speech this week, and President Trump. Part of the republican primary fight in 2015 and 2016 is which of those two worldviews did Republican Voters want. By a decisive margin, they thought the past was not to their advantage, and they want to change. I can appreciate trump was not recruited by the establishment. He won a hostile takeover. I can