[inaudible conversations] is a todays committee will come to order and i want to thank everyone for joining us here today and want to welcome the secretary and the administrator and thank you both for being here and all the members for being here. This is the first opportunity to hear from both of you about the enactment of the act in particular as it applies to Small Business. It is a landmark legislation and less than two Weeks Congress passed the largest Economic Relief package. They worked tirelessly to make it possible every single one participated on the leadership of the Ranking Member, senator cardin, senator shaheen and senator Collin Collins isnt a r of the committee that was part of the task force and it was invaluable in helping craft a lot of this and i want the record to reflect dot. We have invited senator collins does it and participate and rightfully so because of the extraordinary contribution. As every member thats been involved, the administrator has an incredible a
Asked about the effectiveness of the Paycheck Protection Program referred to as ppp. [indistinct chatter] a todays committee will come to order and i want to thank everyone for joining us here today and want to welcome the secretary and the administrator and thank you both for being here and all the members for being here. This is the first opportunity to hear from both of you about the enactment of the act in particular as it applies to Small Business. It is a landmark legislation and less than two Weeks Congress passed the largest Economic Relief package. They worked tirelessly to make it possible every single one participated on the leadership of the Ranking Member, senator cardin, senator shaheen and senator Collin Collins isnt a r of the committee that was part of the task force and it was invaluable in helping craft a lot of this and i want the record to reflect dot. We have invited senator collins does it and participate and rightfully so because of the extraordinary contributio
U. S. Senate when they return here on cspan2. Next a house ways and means subCommittee Hearing on efforts to provide tax relief to low income workers, minorities, women and families affected by the coronavirus pandemic. Witnesses include representatives from the National Womens law center, Georgetown University poverty and inequality center, the American Enterprise institute and Childrens Health watch at Boston Medical Center. We are ready to go now. Take it all for joining the first remote hearing of the subcommittee on select revenue measures. We find ourselves in challenging times as evidenced by this new method of conducting Community Business in accord with the Public Health and safety recommendations. But the challenges we encounter here in congress are small compared to what i hear and see and what i am sure all of you here and see in our communities. Im glad we can move forward into the work that our constituents need given the difficult economic situations in which so many fin
Todays hearing on had committee of Small Business and entrepreneurship will come to order, and i want to thank everyone for joining us here today. I want to thank you both for being here though far away. And all the members for being here today. This is our first opportunity to hear from both of you about the enactment of the cares act in particular as it applies to Small Business. The cares act is landmark legislation. In less than 2 Weeks Congress passed the largest Economic Relief package in our nations history. And now after the passage of two further reforms the Paycheck Protection Program is the largest component of the Economic Relief enact by the cares act. Opthat point i just want to say a couple of things. First of all, it was the extraordinary work of many people, staff, of course worked tirelessly to make this possible. The partnership we had from both the sba and the treasury was extraordinary. Members on this committee, every single one participated. Obviously the leaders
[moment of silence] [moment of silence] [moment of silence] [moment of silence] [moment of silence] [moment of silence] [moment of silence] [moment of silence] neil we have just completed what is one of the longest moments of silence ever recorded on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, 8 minutes, 46 seconds to indicate aicers knee before he ultimately died two weeks ago. This being simultaneously recognized around the world as exchanges in towns, protests all stopped in their tracks to honor the victim who is now become a cause and a big cause at that. Already we heard from new York Governor Andrew Cuomo says hopes to move rapidly on legislation that will reform the Police Forces in the state of new york. There is a similar move afoot to do the same on the federal level. Some going so far as to advocate totally defundings Police Forces all together. They are a minority of the Progressive Movement but a powerful and vocal element within that call to change business as usual within