I yield the floor and note the absence of the quorum. Madam president , as our nations war against the coronavirus has waged on, the city has taken Decisive Action to provide the resources we need to win the fight. We have sent critical equipment to our frontline healthcare workers and with expanded testing resources nationwide we provided loans to Small Businesses in order to protect jobs and wesi sent direct Financial Assistance to the americans who are struggling the hardest to make ends meet. These four bills, now now laws, passed by congress have a part of thec pandemic and the ensuing economic fallout. Now with the states beginning to graduate reopen their economies, were staring down the barrel of a second epidemic in one generated by opportunistic lawsuits, crushing legal fees and drawn out court battles. According to a database compiled by the law firm hutton andrews kurtz, more than 950 such lawsuits have already been filed in the united states. Weve since its against healthc
In a forum talking about the Economic Impact of the coronavirus on Small Businesses. This event is hosted by x euros. Good afternoon and welcome to this axials Virtual Event. Its one of the biggest topics facing our nation which is Small Business in the path to recovery. We like to think into it for making these conversations possible and think the event team which is on the second half of todays doubleheader so thank you for these Virtual Events. We love for you to follow along at axios events. Can follow us on twitter at at axios. Our first guest today started a Small Business, sophia dickens, will be with us for my home state, orange county, california. Sophia created eQ Entertainment and she founded that in the brand to wander and this is a curriculum, among other things that helps people learn at home which suddenly has been in more demand. Sophia dickens, thank you for joining axios. Thank you for having me, mike. How is california . I wish i were there. California looks sunny bu
Coronavirus. Like all other efforts on the supplemental package, it has been bipartisan. Let me commend my colleagues on both sides of the aisle, including my friend and Ranking Member, congressman tom cole. Before you begin of what to extend a very warm welcome to our witnesses, dr. Tom frieden, president and ceo of resolve to save lives, and former director of the centers for Disease Control and prevention. The cdc, from 20092016. And dr. Caitlin rivers, senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins center for Health Security, and assistant professor in the department of Environmental Health and engineering at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Dr. Frieden in his testimony will provide a perspective based on 30 years of fighting epidemics including leaving the cdcs response to ebola, where we are and what we need to do to protect americans. Dr. Rivers makes a case why in the months and years to come will we need additional capacities and diagnostic testing, Contact Tracing an
Commitment to bringing you live gavel to gavel coverage of the u. S. Senate. You can continue watching this hearing online at cspan. Org. And now live to the floor of the u. S. Senate here on cspan2. The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Black, will lead the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Eternal god, we continue to depend on you to fulfill your purposes for our lives. You have told us that your purpose for us is that we live for your glory. As our lawmakers strive to do your will, bringing honor to your name, have your way in all they say and do. Send them your help from celestial portals, so that they will please you and be your ambassadors during these challenging times. Rescue them from anything that will keep them from remembering that nothing is impossible for you. Be exalted, o god, above the highest heavens. Let your glory shine in our nation and world. We pray in your loving name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me
Here on cspan2. The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Black, will lead the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Eternal god, your words are true. Guide our lawmakers with your precepts. Give them a passion for whatever is just, worthy, and honorable. Guide them to cultivate such reverence for your providence that they will repeatedly pray for your will to be done. Remind them that if they faint under pressure, then their strength is too small. Help them, therefore, to look to you, for you are able to doi am measurably, abundantly above all that they can ask or imagine, according to your power working in and through them. We pray in your powerful 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 presi