Like in the fall. And mothers messages. New moms tell us about living throsi a their hopes for the future. Mothers never give up hope, but first, heres todays effe vaccine and unless something very unexpected happens, our viral enemy will be with us for many months and possibly many years. The former head of the cdc warned the scope of this pandemic is unprecedented. The worst thing that can happen is three to four weeks from now we see the numbers are really going up and then we have to decide whether or not were going to reverse course and ask people to stay home even more. Nearly 3. 17 Million People filed for Unemployment Benefits last week. It brings the total to more than 33 Million People over the past seven weeks as lockdown orders started. The president is taking heat for not wearing a mask during his tour of a mask factory in arizona. I actually did have one. I put a mask on i had a mask on for a period of time. We didnt see you in a mask. I cant help it if you didnt see me.
Im not celebrating until i can hug my grand babies. Waiting for that day. Hopefully that will be soon, but thank you. Last night as you know the Senate Passed important legislation. Were very proud of the product. We think it is we did jujitsu on it. It went from a corporatefirst proposal that the republicans put forth in the senate to a workers first democratic workers first legislation. First, lets back up. As i was coming here, i saw nearly 1,000 deaths in the united states. 900 yesterday. I dont know what the numbers are today. But theyre saying nearly 1,000 deaths in our country. Tens of thousands of people are we have tens of thousands of cases. This is a pandemic that we havent even since for over 100 years in our country. Its really such a tragedy, so we had to take important action. Had to take action that puts Families First and workers first and thats what we did when we did our first legislation. The first two bills were about addressing the emergency directly. 8. 3 billion
Dr. Schaffner we will have to end it now. We will take it to the floor now. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc. , in cooperation with the United States house of representatives. Any use of the closedcaptioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u. S. House of representatives. ] 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 room, ashington, d. C. , march 27, 2020. I hereby appoint the honorable anthony g. Brown to act as day. Ker pro tempore on this signed, nancy pelosi, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore the will be offered by the guest chaplain, reverend dr. Dan capitol worship, washington, d. C. Me. Chaplain come pray with heavenly father, this morning, humblee to remember your servant, 91yearold holocaust rabbi kahn who lost his this week and just two dais ago at
Sale of oil from the Strategic Petroleum reserve through 2022. Included in this package, improvements to expand access to care through telehealth, including 200 million for the f. C. C. For Telehealth Services and devices, and expansion of Telehealth Services in the medicare program. It extends vital medicare, medicaid and Public Health programs, including Community Health centers, among many others, until november 30 this year. We mobilized the Nations Health work force by providing Liability Protections to those who provide volunteer medical services during the pu bl Health Crisis and by standing up the ready reserve. And we take steps to protect our medical supply chain, something i Hope Congress will continue to work on after we pass this legislation today. Todays phase three approach is the most comprehensive and robust response to covid19. Together were going to win this war and i yield back. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. The gentleman
Lets think of it that way, endless number of ventilators. Just to name one thing. But everyone, the farmers, the grocers, everyone thats keeping america fed, our truck drivers, postal workers, people, everyone who is aking this survival possible, we thank. Again, we thank our scientists cure. Riving to find a so tomorrow we will go to the floor for this legislation, but said, there are so many things we didnt get in any of these bills yet in the way we eed to so the next step would be, among other things, we want to have more better qualifies for ho family and medical leave. I can give you some examples, if you wish. Stronger osha protections for essential, essential to life. Ensions, we had a proposal on pensions in the legislation that my understanding was, as i trust true, that the president supported, but senator mcconnell but said well do it in the next bill. That. Re ready for increase snap. One disappointment in the bill is they would not increase we for a 15 increase in food st