Legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material on the bill under consideration. The speaker pro tempore without objection. Mr. Neal madam speaker, i yield myself such time as i may consume. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman is recognized. Mr. Neal first, thank you. We are here today in these very trying and unprecedented times to act on an emergency interim funding package that i am pleased has strong bipartisan support. But we did not arrive here without significant efforts by our democratic colleagues. When we began negotiation was the senate, we were presented with an insufficient proposal that did not address the Public Health crisis that has now claimed the lives of nearly 48,000 americans. The measures that we fought for will now bring real leaf to the American People relief to the American People, and prioritizes resources to combat this virus. This means more funding for hospitals and Health Care Workers. It also means resources designat
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. April 23, 2020. I hereby appoint the honorable kathy castor to act as splote on this day. Signed, nancy pelosi, speaker of the house of representatives. 7 the speaker pro tempore the a prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. Merciful god, thank you for giving us another day. Send your spirit of peace and comity among the members of the peoples house. These are days of great political, social, and economic stress in our nation, and those whose work is to legislate through this pandemic are naturally under considerable pressure. Give us all patience, especially with one another. May all our citizens in the midst of great turmoil be filled with gratitude for those in our nation whose work must go on when it would be so easy not to assume their responsibility to do so. Continue to bl
Hey, connell. Cohn cohn were connell were getting hit grim milestones with the covid19 it would appear. Total number of cases will top 200,000 by end of the day. The in new york city the death toll has topped 1000. 43,000 plus infections, death toll at 1096. Now one of the issues here locally has been how to keep the firstresponders safe. If you look at the nypd, the new York City Police department, 15 of the workforce has called out sick. You know that adds up to about 5000 workers. So a little bit more than that. Over 1000 Uniformed Police officers in new york have tested covid19 positive. And some others told us they have had trouble actually getting the test or, you know, waiting a number of days to get the results back. They have to sit out on the job while they wait out the results in some cases. Similar situation at the fire department. Similar situation at ems. All of that is going on. While help is coming in on the medical side, we talked all week long about the huge hospital
Is the death toll surges again and more than 5000. 00 Health Workers are infected. Easing restrictions where the outbreak began in the chinese province of people will allow some people to start traveling again. And im paestum for the sport as you heard the 2020 games in turkey all will look at what it means for the athletes who will now have to wait until 2021 that a moment later this news out. To say then the worlds biggest sporting event has been postponed for up to a year the japanese Prime Minister for the Tokyo Olympic games to be put off saying when it happens itll be proof of victory over the coronavirus Alexia Bryant as this report. Theres been weeks of speculation about whether the tokyo games would go ahead the corona virus pandemic thats caused chaos the world over made the event increasingly unlikely now japans Prime Minister says tokyo 2020 will be held in 2021 i feel the money as the host of the Tokyo Olympics taking into consideration the Current Situation for the athlet
Of under spread of the currents iris and globalization and in the in the case of the European Union without without borders so that is a dangerous assumption the 2nd reason why i do not believe it will result in the end its all good like station is that there is no alternative to globalization ever since the end of soviet communism capitalism has math test itself that has evolved in itself today to corporate capitalism and one of our mentions of corporate taxes and is of course globalization so there is no alternative in the well i know but a bit of if thats a very interesting common theme i mean i i im im not suggesting that dump globalization is going to go away because of the corona virus im not saying that what im saying is taking on board what marcus has said is that we have to take note of its weaknesses and how it needs to be adjusted i dont think we. Turn the clock back 40 years but at the same time this this horrible event that is affecting the world on a scale that is only in