The members of the Coronavirus Task force hold a briefing with reporters at the white house. That will be live starting at 5 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan. Until then, we will show you more debate on the house floor and the to trillion dollar coronavirus economic package. Prevail. Thank you and i yield back. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from Texas Reserves. The gentleman from maryland is recognized. Speaker, at this time i yield to the gentlelady suburbs, ms. Hia susan wild from pennsylvania. One minute. The speaker pro tempore the gentlewoman from pennsylvania is for one minute. Ms. Wild thank you, mr. Speaker. S the representative of pennsylvanias seventh district, just an hour and a half from new ork city, i have a unique perspective on this crisis. The two worldclass hospital community, the Lehigh Valley network and st. Ukes university network, are also the biggest employers in my district. Hey anxiously await the spread of this disease to our frontlines. Community, our nurses
Greetings and salutation. Carnage catastrophe chaos and a host of other adjectives are springing forth this week as the unemployment numbers not only here in the United States but around the world begin to pour in and those were just the adjectives that started with the letter c. You see there was also some very specific adjectives starting with the letter f. That i cant really use on t. V. When people began to really look at those sobering statistics because how bad is it well here in the United States after just a few short weeks of stay at home orders being implemented across the country the Washington Post reports that according to the u. S. Department of labor more than 17000000 new jobless claims have been filed in the past 4 weeks and in fact last week saw 6600000 americans applying for Unemployment Benefits in just one week and all the tea leaves are reading that this is just the beginning my friends and that these numbers could actually be on the conservative side of things. B
Restarting public life in our state. How we are going to approach reopening oregon. This is only a framework. The timing is dependent upon several factors. Timing, thetrol the ds controls the timing. I want to be transparent with how we will approach this incredible challenge of reopening segments of our society while living with the virus and how we will maintain healthy communities. Of theearly days pandemic, i had to take action to protect the health and safety of oregonians from the disease. Now as we see these efforts are working to flatten the curve, we are analyzing how and when to reopen each part of our society and economy. I want to work collaboratively to do that. But we have to be careful. As this diagram from our modeling shows, we have to be cautious or it will backfire. We know a vaccine or an effective treatment may be months away. We willve too quickly, see a spike in cases that could overwhelmed Hospital System and unnecessary death. We all want to get back to work an
New new new new all around the globe jobs are being lost in record numbers thanks to the code 19 pandemic in fact the International Labor organization well they now estimate that working hours will decline by 6. 7 percent in the 2nd quarter of 2020 which is equivalent to 195000000 full time workers the aiello director general guy ryder sudden a statement to the media that quote this is the greatest test for International Cooperation in more than 75 years if one country fails then we all fail we Must Find Solutions that help all segments of our society particularly those that are most vulnerable or at least or least able to help themselves. And that that is the key my friends that is the standard that we must hold our leaders to in these dark times not only here in the United States but around the world as well the days of handing out pennies to the masses while the top 15 and 10 percent of the rest well its quickly coming to an end because history tells us that most often in the wake o
Unusual session but critical. Mr. Speaker, this legislation represents a bipartisan and resolve to meet the coronavirus challenge head on. It represents a focusnt on families and workers with the objective to make them safer and economically supported. That will protect workers as we all doo our part to flatten the curve. Public Health Officials have made it clear the only chance we have c to prevent our system to be overwhelmed with the pandemic it is threatened to be for his as Many Americans to stay home as possible. It is however necessary for us to be here, to pass legislatio legislation, to respond on behalf of the American People through this daunting challenge. The closure the large parts of the economy must be temporarily shutec down cause severe disruption for businesses and workers we saw the impact of this yesterday when new Unemployment Insurance claims increased by more than 3 Million People 3 million individuals. Those that rely on them for support of their families and