And freedom. Inspire them to be stewards of your will as you answer their cries for help. Lord, listen to their fervent prayers as they wait expectantly for your deliverance. Keep our senators on the right path of your prevailing providence and surround them with the shield of your love. Defend them with your heavenly grace and give them the courage to face perils with total trust in you. We pray in your sovereign 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 one minute for morning business, please. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Grassley you watch the news or read the newspapers and you know that theres a lot of deliberations going on to help with the problems that we have of
Assistance labeling protection and schools act, this bill was a 1 trilliondollar piece of legislation focused on getting americans back to work, getting kids in College Students back to school and providing Healthcare Resources to help defeat the virus. As the title says, the Health Economic assistance Liability Protection and schools act, it does have Liability Protections li there. I just listened to the senator from illinois attack the idea of including those protections in the legislation, i think its really important matter president to point out that those types of protections are critical if we are going to get the economy reopened again. Businesses who are doing all the right things, following the cdc guidelines, adhering to all the laws, all the guidelines and restrictions that are out there, should not have to worry about lawyering up and spending thousands in some case millions of dollars to try and defend themselves against frivolous lawsuits which are being filed as we spe
Back up from the coronavirus lockdown today, we have a lot coming up, will meet the owner of a Construction Company in a few minutes who is finally back on the job and very happy to be back. Will check in with local retailers who have more freedom to operate today than they did yesterday, will also introduce you to the owner of the north brewery which is the location from where we are blood testing today. All of that is coming up, stay with us that our better top stories and fox Business Team coverage set up with Lauren Simonetti watching the markets for us and from President Trump, hillary bond reporting on rising tensions between the u. S. And china but we start with edward. President announcing operation warp speed, there is a new head of that the chief scientist who in the private sector develop vaccines, he will be partnered with general from the army to help not only make the vaccine but distributed in the President Donald Trump says he will begin distribution of the vaccine the
May recall i taught economics at the College Level for 20 or years. And i went to seminary before that. So now the politics up up here is pretty toxic right so everybody is talking about civility and ethics and virtue all of this kind of thing, and, of course, everything we do around here is economic and politic. So i just wanted to highlight a book that ive been looking, i got a couple of them with me but one is called dignity by didra chicago trained economist, ph. D. But her thesis in this book she goes through about 20 noble prize papers by folks who have written on Economic Growth. And so Economic Growth short review course start ised about 1800. All Human History was a hockey stick flat as could be everybody in the whole world made a thousand a year per human capita in history and 1750 explosive exhibition growth and now 50,000 per capita. Chinese opened up and theyre growing. They used to be 1,000 in the last 20 years up 9,000 per capita why did that happen and starngd economic
The bay but usually by 9 00 some of that moves out but it could be tough from oakland to San Francisco. Things are looking mostly good inland just a few clouds. We have a lot of low clouds continuing to push inland but the lows are much warmer in the upper 50s near 64 some at the coast so not long until we get hot with some clouds areas pushing near 90 and 100 degrees. For the baseball game tonight mild at 65 and mostly clear. Oakland in the 60s, alameda 62, San Francisco in the 60s. Temperatures have come up and it is not as cold as it was but there is a good surge in the fog. 59 halfmoon bay, 61 concord, 60 livermore, fremont 60, 61 san jose and brentwood 62. Inland temperatures are marching up and the coast and bay are getting near average and slightly above. 7 02, sal tells us the traffic is moderate. We have some slowing at the bay bridge but i am encouraged because there is not a huge backup. There is a small backup waiting on the bridge but the ramp from 880 is not as crowded as