Outbreak of covid19 has led to an unprecedented Public Health crisis and a dire economic crisis. We have lost over 110,000 people to the disease, and 40 million remain unemployed. Back in february as the band that it was worse, we knew we needed to take action to help our Small Businesses survive the economic downturn. We started working with the sba and governors around the country to leverage the sba disaster resources available. Can you please mute . Anyone should be muted. Everyone should be muted. As the virus continues to spread, or state and local governments began imposing stayathome orders and business closures. We quickly realized Congress Needed to do more to meet the full scope of the problem, and that is when we started working on what ultimately became the cares act. To help Small Businesses and eligible nonprofits, congress created a new Paycheck Protection Program, expanded eligibility to the program and provided payment and interest relief for current sba borrowers. I
A recent Virtual Senate Committee Meeting kansas republican pat roberts said people are finally realizing that food doesnt come from a store and if you have masked up and browse the one way street aisles at the supermarket lately it is a creepy experience and you have seen some bare shelves is this the new normal lets ask the host of the American Family farmer radio show himself a working farmer doug stephan welcome back. And promote a mass crime just for you and i to going to. Whatever you know thank you it was nearly 3 years ago one of the very 1st shows i did when i came to r. T. America you said something that was a mouthful you said in 50 years we will not be able to feed ourselves and lately im thinking about that mythical Doomsday Clock that shows us how many minutes and seconds we are away from Nuclear Annihilation has the countdown clock to starvation ad fantz even during this pandemic. Well you make it dramatic because youre so good at that but you have also a great memory ye
Supermarket lately it is a creepy experience and you have seen some bare shelves is this the new normal lets ask the host of the American Family farmer radio show himself a working farmer doug stephan welcome back. And promote a mass crime just for you and i think theyre going to have. Whatever you know thank you it was nearly 3 years ago one of the very 1st shows i did when i came to r. T. America you said something that was a mouthful you said in 50 years we will not be able to feed ourselves and lately im thinking about that mythical Doomsday Clock that shows us how many minutes and seconds we are away from Nuclear Annihilation has the countdown clock to starvation ad fantz even during this pandemic. Well you make it dramatic because youre so good at that but you have also a great memory as needed to you know and ive been saying that to my Radio Audience and both on the American Family farmer and he j. V. Program for a long time my background having grown up around town has been on
Wish to seek recognition. Per House Resolution 955 resolutions and members are required to leave the camera on the entire time they are in an official proceeding. Even if they step away from the camera. Our roll call is not necessary to establish a quorum and official proceedings conducted remotely whenever there is an official receding with remote participation the clerk will call the roll to help make clear who is present at the start of the preceding. This time i asked the clerk to call the roll. [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] thank you very much. Pursuant to Committee Rule 7d Opening Statements are witnessed the chain the Ranking Member for this allows us to hear from our witnesses sooner and provide all members the adequate time to ask questions. Recognize myself a purpose of making an opening statement. Today we are examining how the covid19 pandemic is draining our Higher Education system and discussing what Congress Must do t
School district announced today that its 54,000 students will be getting their Education Online this fall. The district summit said the decision was made after reviewing evidence from Health Officials as well as getting input from staff, students and families. School administrators will reveal more about how this is going to work in the next few weeks. When im on zoom with my 18 students, there is only so much we can do. At least they can see each other and i can put them in breakout rooms and they can chat and have recess. But there is no substitute for being in school live with your students. The district still needs to get chrome books in the hands of students that dont already have a computer. Plus the sf unified is having internet hot spots around the city so students can connect with their teachers. The fall semester begins august 17th. And conditions have changed significantly in reason weeks with a spike in cases in several counties as we reported. He says safety is paramount h