Ladies and gentlemen, please Welcome Community leader Deandre Young. Good afternoon, everyone. Good afternoon. Thanks for having me and for joining todays car rally. My name is Deandre Young and i was born and raised here in the city of flint, michigan and have been active in the community my entire life, organizing and engaging people to fight for environment of justice and the fight for clean, affordable water and sustainable infrastructure. I grew up union strong, with my family members working at the general motors, proud members of the uaw. My mother was a Union Representative and liaison for Flint Community schools. My family and my community motivates me to stay committed to the fight for equity, which starts at the Grassroots Level. I always tell people that fighting for change at the Grassroots Level is more than just your typical 9 005 00 job. It is your whole life. Right now, we desperately need a president who recognizes that. This pandemic has shined a light on the inequit
Well, i can feel it. Im so excited to be here and im excited, because we have president barack obama ready to come out to greet us. [honking] we also have the next president of the United States, joe biden, ready to come out and greet us. And they are both here because and they michigan certainly love the city of flint. And we know they love this day because they have been here time and time again. But they dont just show up to visit and wave their hands and do some politicking. When they show up, get the business done. They have done that before, and they will do it again. They have shown stable leadership, thoughtful leadership, focused leadership. Man, do we need that again or what . I just want to talk again about how we saw them together and how it made a difference. It is personal to me. When we were facing the financial crisis, wall street agreed went wild and almost brought down the entire economy, it was a mess that barack obama and joe biden walked into. A mess created by the
As of this morning, there were over 27 million confirmed cases covid19, and over 800,000 deaths. Have 6. 3 million confirmed cases and we are approaching 190,000 deaths. We have seen significant economic disruption to businesses and families and normal daytoday activities have been vastly altered. Leading experts have said we need a vaccine to return to normal. Which is why the topic of todays discussion is so critical. We will also discuss the lessons we are learning and developing a learning now in developing a covid19 vaccine, and the implications for future Vaccine Development. We have a short amount of time and a number of really terrific speakers. So why dont we go ahead and get started . Mark, why dont we begin with you. We have all heard about vaccines under development from pfizer, astrazeneca and the university of oxford, all of which are phasing phase three Clinical Trials. You have been working to develop a process to fasttrack safe and effective vaccines. Can you tell us w
Mr. Mcconnell madam president. The presiding officer the majority leader. Mr. Mcconnell our nation has spent the last six months fighting the medical, economic, and social effects of this pandemic. The senates historic rescue package from back in march, the cares act, has gone a long way to help American Workers and families endure these incredible challenges. It delivered the extra federal Unemployment Benefits that helped laidoff workers make ends meet. It created a Paycheck Protection Program which has helped millions of Small Businesses keep their lights on and keep employees on payroll. It sent resources to the front lines of the health care fight. And it invested billions in the race for treatments and for vaccines. But, madam president , this relief is never going to last forever. Today enhanced federal Unemployment Benefits are only Still Available because of action by president trump. The Paycheck Protection Program has closed to new applications and the funds it has delivered
Nt lines of the health care fight and it invested billions in the race for treatments and for vaccines. But, madam, president , this relief is never going to last forever. Today enhanced federal Unemployment Benefits are only Still Available because of action by president trump. The Paycheck Protection Program has closed new applications and the funds it has delivered are being exhausted. And this last month has brought a whole new challenge, how to get teachers and students safely into a new school year. These are the challenges that people i represent are facing every single day. Kentuckians and all americans know this unprecedented crisis is not through with us yet. And so they expect that congress isnt through helping yet either. Senate republicans have been fighting for months to deliver another round of covid19 relief. In july, we proposed heals act. More than a trillion dollars would have lead to bipartisan talks, but Speaker Pelosi and the democratic leader said no. They said t