Safe and conducting what we believe is essential work for the American People. Additional of Coronavirus Relief is on the minds of lots of our members. You have spoken to probably senator collins, senator romney and others meeting with democrats about a possible way forward. Proposal through a pelosi and speaker senator schumer last night. Let me tell you where i think we are. Leader mccarthy and i have been in discussions with the secretary of the treasury and the president s chief of staff to ascertain what the president would actually sign into law. I think we have a sense of what that is. A call we hadt in just a little while ago. We will send that out to all the offices and get some back to see how our members react to a proposal we can say for sure would be signed into law. I think the one think we agree on is we dont have time for messaging games. We dont have time for lengthy negotiations. The issue is do we want to get a result . I would like to remind everyone the way to get
Subcommittee looks at marine readiness with a hearing on wednesday. Our live coverage but separate 915 eastern on cspan three, online at cspan. Org or listen live with the free cspan radio app. Earlier today Senate Republican and Democratic Leaders held news conferences to discuss the current state of covid19 negotiations. First move from Senate Majority leader mitch mcconnell. And Senate Republicans. Cnet. [background noises] [background noises] good afternoon everyone. We just had a lunch meeting, Conference Call this time, where the growing concern about the rise of coronavirus. And we adjusted our meeting to reflect our concern about being extra safe. And conducting what we believe is essential work for the American People. The subject of additional Coronavirus Relief is on the minds of lots of members. Youve already spoken to et cetera calls, send a romney and others who have been with democrats about a possible way forward. We received a proposal through a letter from Speaker Pel
Hospitalized on the 15th of november, more than the first wave, we have begun to see a gradual decline. The number of people in intensive care units due to covid19 went from 4900 to 4300 today. From this data we see the peak of the second wave of the epidemic is over with. Last time i spoke, we were worried figures would be even worse than this. We avoided those. Firstly because our efforts, yours efforts have paid off. The spirit you displayed was effective. Furthermore, we learned to better cope with and treat patients to avoid some of the serious forms that could have struck down our fellow citizens and weighed more heavily on our icu units. I would like to pay tribute to devotion of the hospital and Health Care Providers who cope with this in spite of the fatigue. I pay tribute to the associations, volunteers, professionals, who also provided assistance. All of us together have been able to save lives. We have been successful in slowing circulation of this virus, but we mustnt lose
Stuff in the news right now. But before we get to that, lets kick it off with a fun crime story thats out of this world. And now that i hear that, it probably sounded like it has something to do with outer space, which it doesnt. No, its not out of this world. Its pretty cool, though. A wild chase worthy of the big screen. The suspect in a multimillion dollar ponzi scheme tried to escape the feds under the water of lake shasta. The u. S. Attorneys office says mathew percy took off in his truck when the f. B. I. Showed up at his home and eventually jumped on a sea scooter, a device that propels people up to 100 feet under water. Well, agents eventually spotted his bubbles and waited him out. When he finally came out, they cuffed him. Trevor man, there is so much i love about this story. First of all, i love how the guy had the sea scooter ready, like, he knew he was going to have to outrun the feds at some point. Thats going to be a hard one to explain to the judge. Not guilty, your hon
[silence] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversatis] [audible conversations] mike check. One, two, three,our. Mike check. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations [inaudible conversations] a reporter with the wall street journal, it focuses on data and analyzing the numbers, the wall street journal yesterday, hundreds of companies that got stimulus aid has failed, ppp loans have filed for bankruptcy after the money ran out, thank you for joining us remind our viewers with the Paycheck Protection Program is. It was a form of stimulus the treasury in Small Business administration started Small Businesses april and they plan to forget the loans as long as the funds were used to fund payroll and other related expenses. How much money was left out and what businesses received the money . Is about 525 billion, i think. More than 5 million recipients of loans got some of the funds and it was all kinds of businesses, Small Businesses. Some larger business as well. The one that