Interacting with the public to wear masks. I am also encouraging a up anytime to mask you are not around people or your immediate household. , you arewear a mask protecting others, when others for terror masks, they are protecting you when others wear masks, they are protecting you. When he to do this along with the social distancing and the hygiene so that we can make sure into phase one of makeeopening so we can sure we move into phase one of the reopening. We have been working to share information with louisiana ands louisianans. Many households received a phone call from me earlier today. That was real. We make those calls to landline and the messagess and the people who walked in we make those calls to landlines and the people who opt in on their cell phones. Where reporting 710 new cases of covid 19 or a total of 9711. That is a larger increase than we have reported in a number of days. It is somewhat startling, but i want people to understand that 381 of these new cases came fro
Critical program for a week and a half now. At this hour our democratic colleagues are still prolonging their discussions with the administration, so the senate regretfully will not be able to pass more funding for americans paychecks today. However, since this is so urgent, ive asked that the senate meet again tomorrow in a new session that was not previously scheduled, and the democratic leader has agreed to my request. Colleagues, its past time, past time to get this done for the country. A senator mr. President , if i may . Mr. Mcconnell the senator desires to speak for a few minutes . A senator yes. Mr. President , thank you. The presiding officer without objection, the senator from washington is recognized. Ms. Cantwell thank you, mr. President. Im here this afternoon to speak about the critical aspect of the paycheck act as it relates to businesses, particularly in the newspaper and broadcasting business. It is so important to us to address this issue because these are the peopl
It wasnt a robo call but it reminds us of the fact that our cell phones are treated differently than our home phones. I have unplugged my landline because i get these robo calls from the person who had my landline 10 years ago who is in a Government Debt collection agency. Callperson continues to because those calls are authorized on land lines but they are not authorized on cell phones. The essential question in this case is whether it was a form of content discrimination for congress to say you cannot make those Government Debt collection calls on cell phones but you can on land lines. By aase was brought Political Action group that said their political speech was being discriminated against by not being able to make those calls. Respondentmara, the goes first here so tell us how you see the central issues in the case and how you believe the court was framing them. The central issue in the cases that congress has made a generally illegal to make robo calls to cell phones which all of
[inaudible conversations] we are going to get started. Thank you. Good morning. The hearing will come to order. I thank everyone for joining us this morning and i want to especially thank my colleagues for joining us today for the House Committee on business hearing the response to covid19. We have had a hard stop act once again. We will move as quickly as we can but should we not be able to accommodate every member in person today, we will be accepting statements for the record until thursday, april 30. This important hearing i want to mention the chairwoman has been in our thoughts and prayers we wish you nothing but the best as you recover. Small businesses and entrepreneurs play a Critical Role within the american economy. Not only do they employ half of the nations workers but created two out of every three new jobs in the nation. You only need to take the poll from main street america. It is demonstrated Small Businesses and employees and the Response Congress created with a Payc
Us, as well. Our condolences go out to the American People. Specifically, we are here to discuss the administration and femas response to the pandemic. While the entire nation has been certain states, such as new jersey have been hit particularly hard. Im grateful to the fema employees i know are working hard to help us get through this. However i think there is serious concerns about the leadership coming from the white house during this pandemic as well as a need for greater level of transparency around new initiatives of fema. Here today to discuss the , administrations response, my colleague from the Homeland Security committee, representative val demings. Representing florida and being a former First Responder herself, representative demings is no stranger to disaster. Additionally, we have a special guest online today, the former fema administrator under the obama administration, craig fugate. Before leaving fema, he headed the Florida Division of Emergency Management. Before tha