For our nation and world. Help them to realize that the power of your providence will enable them to navigate through every challenge and tragedy. Trusting in your might, may they embrace your promise to do more for them than they can ask or imagine. Lord, inspite of difficulties, disappointments, as despair, reassure them that you are still in control. Remind us all that in everything, you are working for the good of those who love you who are the called according to your purposes. We pray in your loving 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 e nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Mr. Grassley madam president . The presiding officer the senator from iowa is recognized. Mr. Grassley i ask permission to speak for one minute in morning business. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Grassley
The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Menendez madam president , i rise today to engage in a colloquy with senators cassidy, collins, and my fellow senator from new jersey, senator booker, and i ask they be acknowledged in that order and they be allowed to complete their remarks. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Menendez as our nation grapples with the covid19 pandemic, our state county and miew in municipal governments have been on the front lines taking the lead role. They have been squeezed on both sides of the ledger, spending billions of dollars in unforeseen costs on Emergency Response while watching as revenues dry up due to necessary stayathome orders, and the closure of nonessential businesses. The emergency protective measures have been effective at flattening the curve and have no doubt saved thousands of lives but they also came with a cost. All Revenue Sources are down. Sale tax revenue has plummeted with businesses closed. Highway trus funds wont have t
Introduced your legislation today. Thank you, mr. President. Madam president , i rise today to engage inuy a colloquy senats cassidy, collins and my fellow senator from newnd jersey senatr booker. Ask that the dick knowledge in that order, a lot to complete the remarks. Without objection. As our nation apples with the covid19 pandemic, our state, county municipal governments have been on the front lines taking the lead role in responding to this crisis. As a result they been squeeze on both sides of the ledger, spending billions of dollars in unforeseen costs on Emergency Response while watching as revenue dry up due to necessary stayathome orders, and the closure of nonessential businesses. The emergency protective measures have been effective with flattening the curve and have no doubt saved thousands of lives. But they also came with a cost. All Revenue Sources are down, sales tax revenue has plummeted with businesses closed, Highway Trust Funds will not have the resources to do bas
The time we are meeting right now. And more than 22 million initial unemployment claims filed in the past month. Some regions of our country have lost as many jobs over the last month as they did during the worst year of the great recession. These statistics are not just numbers on a page, madam speaker. These are our neighbors. They are our family, they are our friends, their health is at risk and their economic reality has changed overnight. Since the start of this pandemic, congress has provided more than 2 trillion in emergency relief. To get Small Businesses the financial help they need to survive. To help hospitals and Health Care Workers on the frontlines. To expand testing. To provide every american access to an affordable vaccine when it is developed. I could go on and on and on. We need to make sure that these resources are going where congress intended. That they are helping struggling americans, Small Businesses without any rampant fraud or accuse and companies arent taking
The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. The clerk the speakers rooms, washington, d. C. April 23, 2020. I hereby appoint the honorable kathy castor to act as splote on this day. Signed, nancy pelosi, speaker of the house of representatives. 7 the speaker pro tempore the a prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. Merciful god, thank you for giving us another day. Send your spirit of peace and comity among the members of the peoples house. These are days of great political, social, and economic stress in our nation, and those whose work is to legislate through this pandemic are naturally under considerable pressure. Give us all patience, especially with one another. May all our citizens in the midst of great turmoil be filled with gratitude for those in our nation whose work must go on when it would be so easy not to assume their responsibility to do so. Continue to bl