Lord, inspire our senators to know that you are still on your throne working for the good of those who love you. Listen to our prayers and give us wisdom, courage, and integrity that will enable us to glorify you. We pray in your wonderful name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to our 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 i ask permission, one minute in morning business. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Grassley too often americans are cynical about our political system when all they see legislative gridlock. Yet, iowans were able to set themselves apart working together on Law Enforcement reforms in the wake of George Floyds murder. Every step of the way the iowa process was fueled with input fro
I have been told i need to stay close to the microphone, so i will do a lot of pointing. Each bar represents the cumulative number of cases on a given day during this past month. The blue portion of the bar represents the newest cases. I think, just eyeballing this, everyone can see this does not represent linear growth but this is termed exponential growth. We dont know what the days to come hold, but we can anticipate everything will get higher. I want to remind you it was only two weeks ago, we had one case in vermont. We have in excess of 100 now. 123 to be exact. The last day on this graph is the 23rd. But in my hand, i have the most updated data which came after midnight last night, and there is now 123 and the blue portion is 28 new cases. The appearance of the graph is more important than the numbers. The other perspective is that it has only been about two weeks that we have been involved with coronavirus at this level in vermont. And in that period of time, we have experience
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