Might want to put your phones on silent. Phones on silent. Everybody have their phones on silent . We all ready . Let me welcome all of you, and thank you for being here. This has been a group thats been in labor of intense effort and i know every one of us want to thank our staffs because theyve done yeomans work. As you can see, we have with us a bipartisan, Bicameral Group of people that have been working diligently for the last 30 days or more trying to get to a conclusion and a template, if you will, or a framework. This is covid emergency relief framework, its exactly what it is. Take your mask off. You cant hear me . Okay. Back off. Let me just say that this is an intense amount of work that the staffs have been doing for quite some time and every senator, every congressperson here has put in an enormous amount of time on this in person and on the phone. This is a covid emergency relief framework. Weve worked in the best interest of what we believe is great for our country, is g
Debate. Phones on silent. Everybody have their phones on silent all right. Let me welcome all of you. Thank you for being here. This has been a group that has been in labor of intense ever intense. Bicameralbipartisan, group of people working diligently for the last 30 days trying to get to a conclusion and a framework. This is covid emergency relief. That is exactly what it is. You cannot hear me . Ok. Back off. Let me say that this is intense amount of work that the staffs has been doing for quite some time. Every senator, every congressperson here has been an enormous amount of time on this fund. This is a covid emergency relief framework. We have worked more on the best interest of what we believe is great for our country, our state and we can go home knowing that we have worked diligently to make sure that the unemployed, the Small Businesses, the state and local findings, student loan forbearance, everything is going to come to a halt in december because of the timing, that is no
America, the director talked about covid19 trials, the virus impact on minority communities and issues with politicizing the cdc. This is 30 minutes. The cdc had guidance not that long ago about a vaccine with the state healt Health Agency ay said it was on track for government review imager not had talked about phase three trial in september astrazeneca talked about vaccine in october. Against the backdrop and this happened from astrazeneca what is your best estimate with a safe vaccine being available. One thing i learned is a cdc director, im not in the opinion business im in the data and science. When does the data suggest. Based on whats going on with pfizer imager not that it is conceptual and they will have enough data to present it to the fda for evaluation somewhere before the end of october and the end of november. The reason i cannot be more specific is these trials are event driven trials in the really 100 dependent on how much covid occurs in the volunteer population. If i
Plan to get historic amounts of additional money in the pipeline for kids, for jobs, for schools. And democrats just point fingers, call names and keep blocking American Families from getting any more help before the november election. In july republicans put forward a serious framework, but Speaker Pelosi and the democratic leader refused to talk unless the starting point was their literally absurd 3. 4 trillion far left wish list that even House Democrats called a stunt. In august, with those talks stalled, republicans proposed narrow agreements on specific urgent policies to help families. Unemployment benefits, the paycheck protection program, democrats refused again. This time their invented excuse was anything short of their entire wish list was to piecemeal, to piecemeal and not worth doing. If democrats didnt get their diversity studies for the cannabis industry, stimulus checks for illegal immigrants, tax cuts for blue state millionaires, theyd make sure millions of americans
The republican senate. We are living through one of the greatest failures of president ial leadership in our countries history. Did you hear that donald trump . You have created one of the greatest failures of president ial leadership. We are going to this last portion of the conversation because the senate is about to gamble back in after their weekly caucus meetings. Senators continue work on the 2021 Defense Authorization bill with votes scheduled later this afternoon for five Senate Coverage on cspan2 a senator madam president. The presiding officer the senator from wyoming. Mr. Enzi madam president , i rise today to discuss our federal finances and the need to address our unsustainable fiscal debt and deficit. The federal budget has already been on an unsustainable path before covid19 reached our shores and before the pandemic and our governments response to it, which has accelerated what i believed is a coming day of reckoning. I recognize the unprecedented crisis presented by th