The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Barry black, will open the senate with prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Mighty god, you are the strength of our lives, our safe fortress and shelter from lifes storms. During this season of a raging tempest, speak your peace to our senators. Remind them that you continue to rule your universe through the unfolding of your prevailing providence and that your truth continues to march on in our nation and world. Lord, prosper the works of the hands of our legislators, as they strive to glorify you with their thoughts, words, and actions. May faith replace fear, truth defeat falsehood, justice triumph over greed, and love prevail over hate. We pray in your great name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance. 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
The representatives will act quickly to extend this important lifeline for the small employers as new loans cannot be issued until the bill that passed the senate last night is enacted and signed into law even approximately 130 billion. Senator marco rubio, ben cardin and jean shaheen for their continued work on this vital program. Back in march we looked at ways they could help small employers and employees survive this pandemic. We put forth a bold plan is Paycheck Protection Program to help small employers and their employees. It was straightforward and provides forgivable loans to small employers to help them maintain that vital connection with employees so both code rebounding five once the pandemic passes. In some cases thats meant that a Small Business could retain an employee that otherwise would have been laid off. In others it meant they could recallla workers that had alreay been laid off and get it allow employers to continue to safety checks to employees that had been furl
Number of positive cases and hospitalizations and icu patients and the like. We talked about the imperative of taking personal responsibility to wear a face mask and practice physical distancing and social distancing and we dont know how to mitigate the worst effects of this virus and we have to work our way through this first phase. We have reinforced that we are still in the first wave of this pandemic. We are not in the second wave. We have been successful in the state of california of bending that curve and i will get to that in a moment but we have stretched it out and elongated. Thats what we are experiencing here today. The purpose is to update you on our daily tallies as well and give you the latest numbers. As you can see from the slide and the id this slide represtivity rate and the of people you see on the side 41. 8 and 5. 1 represent the first four ddeeco heard positivity. Most of the people in the middle of this pandemic that went to seek testing were symptomatic so its n
So the food bank is now using the Emergency Action that could be taken while the pop up distribution tents. Investigation unfold. A team effort in berkeley a Bay Area School district is showing the spirit of how we debates how to give out grades. Are better together. Tonight the plea from a pair of kpix 5s Andrea Nakano shows us students on behalf of their the new program that is supporting the homeless classmates. Most concerning thing is community and local restaurants. Reporter founder of helping that the grading period is ending friday. And a bay area restaurant hands says it came together in shutting its doors for the rest less than a week. It uses restaurants and puts of the pandemic. Tonight, the owner explains why the kitchens to work to feed she believes customers were those in need. The chef is trying to find ways putting her workers in danger. Now at 11 00 p. M. To keep her restaurant afloat during the pandemic. And streaming, prosecutors she is signed up for the looking int
Of it is your fourth hearing yours with us. Today, as you know, we are going to examine the department of education budget request for fiscal year 2021. As i was reviewing the budget materials, this much was clear to me. You are seeking to privatize Public Education. I believe it is the wrong direction for our students and for our country. We need to be moving towards expanding policies like Early Childhood education, that we know helps students succeed. We see this in other countries around the globe. They are not shrinking public support but are expanding it. I will get more into the consequences that you are proposing, but i want to start by examining your privatization philosophy. The false premise on which it is built and the research. And the research that it ignores. Contrary to your claim, the Public Education system, which 90 of our children attend, has witnessed significant progress for all groups of students. Average mathematics scores have improved for fourthgraders by 14 .