Bill with a final vote scheduled for this morning. Theyll also work on the nomination of Justin Walker to serve on the u. S. Court of appeals. Live Senate Coverage here on cspan2. The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Black, will lead the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Lord, god of heaven and earth, today teach our lawmakers to do things your way, embracing your precepts and walking in your path. Lord, make them powerful instruments for goodness in our nation and world. Remind them at the narrow and difficult road leads to life and few find it. You honor those who honor you. As our senators receive guidance from you and following your leading, replace anxiety with calm and confusion with clarity. Give them attentive hearts and open minds as they seek to find in the diversity of ideas what is best for our nation and world. We pray in your great name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to o
Lord, were grateful that though wrong seems strong, you continue to rule. Fill our lawmakers with reverence and trust in your prevailing providence. May that reverential awe keep them on the path of courage, integrity, and wisdom. Lord, remind them that you have invited them to seek and discover your might. You declared in psalm 50 15 call me in the day of trouble, and i will deliver you. We praise your holy name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to our flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Mr. Grassley madam president. The presiding officer the senator from iowa. Mr. Grassley one minute for morning business. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Grassley the house of representatives has passed a bill thats kind of like a onesizefitsall for elections. That everything ought to be run out o
The new world and is stored with low economic data, wall street reversing in just the last hour, we have been down in some cases triple digits but now we have the Dow Jones Industrials just down about six points, s p down to, the nasdaq has punched into positive territory. What is this mean, market legend mohammed is about to tell you if he thinks the worst for the market has finally passed. Plus ill go oneonone with Energy Secretary, just as oil pushes back about 29 per barrel. We mentioned nascar, nascar about to drop the green flag once again this weekend, nascar president is here as engines begin to rub when nascar becomes the first major sport to get back to action since the Coronavirus Crisis began. But what will change prewe will tell you. Even the april retail spending collapse, there is one piece of clothing that saw a triple digit jump in sales, with an allstar lineup this friday on less than one hour to the closing bell, lets start the claman countdown. Liz breaking news, Ho
This on top of slight gains yesterday at 4 00 oclock. Markets were up. As you see dow industrials up 33 points and nasdaq up 139. Getting america working once again. President trump announcing plans to reopen the economy in phases. The president went through it yesterday. The Small Business aid program has run dry on capitol hill. The battle is waging on how much money, how much to add to funds to help business and American Workers now. Coronavirus is taking a toll on the chinese economy. It has contracted 6. 8 in the First Quarter. First ever quarterly contraction and wuhans death toll revised up 50 adding fuel to questions of beijings actual reporting on the virus. Secretary of state mike pompeo live at 8 30 a. M. Eastern on the possible origins of the virus as more people focus on the lab in wuhan, something that ive been putting the spotlight for months. What actions can be taken to china for lack of transparency. Mornings with maria begins now. Positive news on gilead. You saw the
Not a surprise if you look to see whats happening with the shutdown of the economy, the forced shutdown because of coronavirus. Taking a look at the tenyear this morning, it looks like that is yielding about 0. 735 at least on the last time i looked at the boards it was. And then wti is the other big story today. Joe also mentioned opec plus deal it was an historic one opec and other nations agreeing to cut Global Oil Production by onetenth. Well talk about this in a few minutes. Wti is up by 1. 5 to 23. 11 a barrel. We have a huge lineup of squawk newsmakers including Mohamed El Erian, Richard Preston and dr. Scott gottlieb starting in a few minutes. Andrew thanks, becky hope everybody had a great weekend. Lets bring everybody an update on the pandemic. Of course, the number of confirmed cases in the United States now more than 557,000 and the death toll is more than 22,000 there are 190,000 cases in new york state with more than 9300 deaths that means new york alone has reported more