Chaplain conroy let us pray. God of the universe, thank you for giving us another day. Throughout the country people mourn those whom they have lost. People lament the loss of businesses of normalcy. 100,000 have now died of covid19. They were democrats and republicans, they lived in urban areas and now more and more in rural areas. They were the desendents of men and women who were colonists or founding fathers, and immigrants who had recently become citizens. They were disproportionately people of color, but not only of color, and of every religion and culture in this nation. , when o lord, will we come to understand that we are all in this together . If we do not stand together we risk falling together. Heal the divisions within our body politic, within this chamber so that your healing power through our actions and good will can be manifest in our United States. May everything done this day and in the days and weeks to come be for your greater honor and glory, amen. The speaker pro
Meeting, we had one special chair for him. Chocolate s wanted crispy zone yuts and eat three, four in a meeting. I remember one day we had new staff and i heard sam Say Something about it. And i quickly called a staff member to bring them on down. I snuck in a couple of them for sam. When you looked at his face and smiled, you knee he deserved it. A number of ress sams books. I remember reading it as a freshman. Anyone who has tried to read this book, you will become emotionally upset knowing what he had to go through, telling of him being shut down, the treatment, the broken arms, the number of times as a prisoner being put in, he would tell a story of the north vietnamese putting a rifle out to his head. And in that moment came when he is telling the story, he would almost smile and say, you know what . Your gun jammed. He could find happiness in the most unbelievable times. Reading his book, it brought me to tears. And i walked up to him as a freshman and i said sam, i just finished
Weeks agenda and reopening the u. S. During the pandemic. Mr. Hoyer i ask unanimous consent to speak out of order for one minute. The speaker pro tempore without objection. Mr. Hoyer thank you, madam speaker. As we face the crisis that covid19 has confronted with us, the house must do so in a way that contributes to the safety and welfare of our people and not that harms it. There will be no votes expected in the house next week. Members are further advised in an updated 2020 legislative calendar will be released in the coming days. I expect conversations to continue on additional legislation addressing covid19 and the legislation we passed honoring our heroes. In the event that an agreement is reached on a bipartisan or partisan bill, then we will make sure that the house has 72 hours before they need to come back to vote on that legislation. Im disappointed that leader mcconnell said when asked about the next phase of the next coronavirus relief, he said that is a decision to be made
Pelosi held her Weekly Briefing today and talked about why she pulled the bill that would continue expiring Foreign Surveillance positions and what congress is working on in response to the coronavirus pandemic. Rep. Pelosi good morning, everyone. Thank you for being here. A very sad time as we observe over 100,000 people in our country dying of the coronavirus. So sad. Well always carry them in our hearts, that big number of people. It is a scar on our nation that we could not save them. It is sad for their families and they are in our thoughts and prayers. On top of that, 1. 7 million have been diagnosed. 1. 7 Million People have been diagnosed. There has to be a stop to this. The answer is testing. We have in our heroes act a plan for testing. Testing to open up our economy. Testing to open up our schools. Testing to heal. But in order to heal, we have to know the gravity of the problem. You know, we talk a great deal about a vaccine and a cure and god willing we pray that that will
Rep. Pelosi good morning, everyone. Thank you for being here. A very sad time as we observe over 100,000 people in our country dying of the coronavirus. So sad. Well always carry them in our hearts, that big number of people. It is a scar on our nation that we could not save them. It is sad for their families and they are in our thoughts and prayers. On top of that, 1. 7 million have been diagnosed. 1. 7 Million People have been diagnosed. There has to be a stop to this. The answer is testing. We have in our heroes act a plan for testing. Testing to open up our economy. Testing to open up our schools. Testing to heal. But in order to heal, we have to know the gravity of the problem. You know, we talk a great deal about a vaccine and a cure and god willing we pray that that will be soon. But we dont have it yet. And we do have testing. And you notice in countries that have controlled the spread and the deaths from the virus, they dont have a vaccine. They dont have a cure. But they have