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 rooms, washington, d. C. May 15, 2020. I hereby appoint the honorable Diana Degette to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, nancy pelosi, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore the prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. Compassionate and merciful god, thank you for giving us another day. Send down your spirit upon this chamber. May your protective energy banish all malicious elements, and your healing presence inspire the members of this peoples house to recognize and accept the awesome responsibility that is theirs. N this difficult time. Continue to bless all those whose lifes work is in bringing your healing to all those stricken by the coronavirus. Finally, on this peace officers memorial day, we give you thanks for the men and women in blue who stand watch every
Because they dont know who is a citizen without the virus and who is a citizen with the virus. The most basic decisions have become a distraction across the country as americans have become afraid of a stranger and of a friend. This is a huge shift in where we are as a country. And what this demands is immediate action. Three weeks ago this senate and the house passed 8. 3 billion, and we did it with overwhelming bipartisan support to be able to add additional funding for diagnostics, for testing and for rapid work on a vaccine. All of that work is advancing quickly. We have human trials in a vaccine happening right now. Weight came together and there werent extra things added to it we focus in on the virus. Theres no question theres lots of moments to be able to debate the things we disagree on. But this is a moment we understand to focus in on what is the problem. The problem is zealing with covid19. There was a bipartisan bill put together in the senate. A week ago today, senator sc
105 in iowa, that is a lot for us. Just a couple of hours ago i was on a call with iowa state leaders who are at the state Emergency Operations center. Let me say that again. Emergency operations center, an e. O. C. You just dont set those up for fun, folks. You set them up when your state is in crisis. They gave us a picture of whats going on with our workers and our Small Businesses on the ground in iowa. Within three hours the state received over 11,000 calls for Unemployment Insurance. 2,000 of them are selfemployed. They wont qualify for Unemployment Insurance. You know what would relieve their hurt . This package, phase three. Meanwhile my democratic colleagues are holding this bill up that would actually deliver the relief that is necessary for these workers that i just mentioned for things that have nothing to do with a crisis. Senate democrats are stalling funding for hospitals and Small Businesses until they get to jam through their Green New Deal. Mr. President , you tell me
Verge of a major eruption and some residents living the near the town of volcano in the philippines are reluctant to leave. And the new climate data which changes the decade was the hottest on record. And it will begin on capitol hill where House Speaker nancy pelosi is about to sign the articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump after the u. S. House of representatives voted to send them to the senate it also passed a resolution authorizing the appointment of 7 manages for the trial earlier House Speaker nancy pelosi announced the Prosecution Team name the House Intelligence Committee chairman adam schiff as the need to trump is accused of threatening to withhold military aid to ukraine in exchange for an investigation into his political rival joe biden impeachment trial is expected to begin properly next week the task before us is a grave one but one demanded by our oath the impeachment inquiry undertaken by the house of representatives found that president donald j. Trum
Speak, they are welcome to. And ill sort of reiterate the speakers have two minutes. We ask you state your first and last name clearly and speak into the microphone. If you have a written state, leave it with our files. You have to avoid repetition of the previous statements. Sucati shaw, sarah lee, jordan davis, roma guy, alexander post, Steven Naylor, Courtney Hansen, diana black, jose bernall, megan swartz and if folks could line up at the right side of the chamber from your perspective. Megan swartz, carrie lambrecht, marty jay. Weve been doing this for a long time and we think the new supervisors who are joining in in. Roma guy from taxpayers and were a member of the new jail coalition. So one of the surprises of today, and not to repeat what everyone else said is this renewed polarization from 2015. So i just want to point out that some of the alternatives like pretrial or whatever have really been effective. One that wasnt effective was one of the partners who should be here who