Education, labor, and pensions will please come to order. I have one goal today and that is Accurate Information. Accurate information that can help americans understand what they should do about the coronavirus and Accurate Information to help members of congress to help decide what else we ought to be doing about the coronavirus. Around the world, the spread of the Novel Coronavirus alarming. 90,000 cases in 65 countries. 3,000 deaths according to the world health organization. But most people in the United States are at low risk. Heres what the New York Times said on its front page two days ago on sunday in describing the situation in our country. Quote, much about the coronavirus remains unclear. And it is far from certain that the outbreak will reach severe proportions in the United States. Or affect many regions at once. With its topnotch scientists, modern hospitals, and sprawling Public Health infrastructure, most experts agree the United States is among the countries best prep
You uphold the universe by the words of your power. Today, walk with our senators as they work. Help them to remember that there is no purity without vigilance, no learning without study, and no mastery without discipline. Give them the wisdom to be willing to pay the price to honor you. Provide them with joy in service and devotion in discipleship. Infuse them with a spirit of power, love, and selfcontrol. We pray in your mighty 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 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 in morning business. An oped i penned recently mentioned countries that still has laws on the books and it touched the nerve in bangladesh. I certainly didnt mean to imply that it was the worst off
Statistics will tell the story. Look at the eye in the sky with respect to Economic Growth and the performance of this economy under the tax cuts and the regulatory relief. Lowest unemployment in 50 years. Millions of job crease ated. More jobs than we have people to fill them. Historic growth in wages. And more growth on the low end of income spectrum than on the high end. More growth for the worker worker than the supervisor in terms of wage growth. Millions have moved off of out of poverty, off of dependency on government welfare to selfsufficiency. Enjoying the blessing and the dignity of a job. On average, americans are taking home about 5,000 more thanks to tax cuts. By the way, tax revenues are up. Now, politicians can be skewed in their perspective. Distorted. By politics. And so lets ask the American People because quite frankly, mr. Secretary, those are the folks that matter most to me an President Trump and im sure to my colleagues on both sides of the aisle. Lets find out w
And in one u. S. Territory join us at 7 00 tonight on cspan. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2020] 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. , march 3, 2020. I hereby appoint the honorable john a. Yarmuth to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, nancy pelosi, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore please be seated. Pursuant to thed orer of the house of january 7, 2020, the chair will now remember recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour detpwhafmente chair will alternate recognition between the parties with time equally allocated between the parties and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and minority w
It is my great privilege to welcome you to the ceremony to honor the life and work of our dear friend and colleague, chairman Elijah Cummings. First, i would like to recognize elijahs Family Members who are here with us today and thank them for sharing him with us. Please raise your hand when i call your name. Dr. Maya cummings, his wife. [ applause ] miss jennifer cummings, his daughter. [ applause ] mr. James cummings, his brother. [ applause ] mr. Anthony woodson, his nephew. [ applause ] mr. Carmen williams, his cousin. [ applause ] when i think of elijah, i think of what a friend of mine described him as a gem. That description resonated with me deeply. Like a gem, elijah seemed to have his own inner light, his own brilliance. He brought that light into this very room where he was a beacon of truth. He also brought his deep empathy and compassion and the shining power of his faith. He encouraged us to reach not only for Common Ground but for higher ground. He brought us together i