Have all day, as have many of my colleagues wondering what is taking so long, what is the delay, what are the remaining issues. And i am hopeful, prayerfully, that we will resolve what is left, move to this chamber, take up the text, vote it out, send it to the house, send it to the president , and send 2 trillion in support o to our nation. But let me tell you as i have waited today and yesterday, as ive taken phone calls from folks from delaware, for whatever reason they all say when will the senate act. And we faced a challenge over our last couple of days between moving swiftly and moving wisely, to put together a package of this size with no hearings, with no committee proceedings, with no detailed legislative process means it is means there are rough edges, means there will be mistakes in this bill. Is it perfect . No. In fact, in some pieces we will discover as it unfolds, far from it. But across the country, just as in this chamber, there is that sense of anxiousness, of anxiet
Hours ago today and recorded first thing this morning a video to share on social media with folks back home who have been eagerly asking what is up and whats happening and what is next. My message was simple, after days of this agreement and of tussling and fighting we have a deal and i am ready to vote. Lets move forward. Twelve hours later i stand in a largely empty chamber with an odd sense of foreboding as i have all day and had many of my colleagues wondering what is taking so long and what is the delay and what are the remaining issues . I am hopeful, prayerfully that we will resolve what is left to move to the chamber and take up the tests, voted out, send it to the house and senate to the president and send to chilean dollars in support to our nation. Let me tell you, as i have waited today and yesterday, as i have taken phone calls from folks from delaware for whatever reason they all say when will the senate act . We have faced a challenge over our last couple of days between
Quorum call a senator madam president. The presiding officer the senator from new mexico. Mr. Udall thank you very much, madam president. Are we in a quorum call . The presiding officer we are in a worker. Quorum call. The presiding officer we are. Mr. Udall i wish to vitiate the quorum call. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Udall today we face a pandemic the likes of which we have not seen in over 100 years and today the Senate Must Act to pass the largest relief package for the American People in our history. First id like to extend my thoughts and prayers to everyone who is personally affected by this coronavirus pandemic. I thank the Health Care Workers who are working long hours and risking their own health to save lives. They are performing a national service. The numbers of infected individuals and the rapidly rising death toll with staggering. If we do not follow Public Health experts advice, the totals could be truly horrifying. In new mexico we have over 100 diagn
Ago. S p down by 151. And the nasdaq would open down by about 435 points this is limit down, they cant trade lower than this. Declines at 5 across the board. If this holds at the open, heres what you can expect in terms of the nyse Circuit Breakers that kick in. If the s p 500 dropped by 7 during the course of normal trading, trading halts for 15 minutes to have a cooloff period if it falls by 13 , it halts for another 15 minute period if it falls by 20 trading halts for the remainder of the day since these were implemented many years ago, weve never seen the levels tested. If youre watching the treasury market this morning, the ten year, almost impossible to believe watching how quickly things have fallen the ten year is yielding 0. 487 . Its been less than a week since it fell below a 1 yield and we have seen it collapse. Thats a bounce from earlier. So much of this has been keying off to whats taking place to crude prices over the weekend. Well explain what happened but you dont see
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