Vote the presiding officer are there any senators in the chamber wishing to vote or change their vote . If not, the yeas are 80, the nays are 16. The bill, as amended, is passed. A senator mr. President. The presiding officer the senator for wisconsin. Mr. Johnson mr. President , i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to a period of morning business with senators permitted to speak for up to ten minutes each. The presiding officer without objection. A senator mr. President. The presiding officer the senator for minnesota. Ms. Klobuchar mr. President , i come to the floor today to urge the senate to immediately take action to address the issue of elections. And specifically to address technical changes to the 400 million in electric security funding passed in the cares act and to talk about the coronavirus threat to our democracy itself. 16 states have already postponed their president ial primaries or transitioned that i primary their primaries to almost voting entirely by mai
Sixweek hiatus weve accomplished quite a bit in a bipartisan basis. Weve confirmed National Security nominees. Weve held hearings. States are getting back to work and stool and the impact of the pandemic on broadband. In short the senate has been working on a bipartisan basis to understand the challenges that this virus has created so we can rovide targeted reforms. It seems to be a different approach than the one taken by the house. Earlier this week the house released a socalled Coronavirus Relief bill, you could say they mailed it in because they havent been here for two weeks, but it has a staggering price tag. 3 trillion. With a t. Thats more than we spent on the first four Coronavirus Response bills combined. Mr. President , i tell my constituents when im talking to them on a Video Conference call or teleconference that two months ago i never would have imagined that the senate would be voting on trillion dollar bills. But now apparently the house wants to make this a routine way
South koreas governing party is projected to win a parliamentary election that required masks gloves and hand sanitizers. The crisis takes a toll on new yorks transit workers hundreds are getting sick. Theres global controversy over the u. S. President s decision to cut funding to the World Health Organization donald trump is accusing the body of mishandling the covert 19 pandemic but in the last hour the head of the World Health Organization says that his organization is vital for handling this crisis but other major health issues. We regret the decision of the president of the United States to order to hold in funding to the World Health Organization deadly choice of reviewing the impact of our work of any withdrawal of u. S. Funding and well work with our partners to feel any financial gaps we face and to eat sure our work continues and interrupted when we divided the virus exploits the cracks between us for an hour since we have 2 correspondents on the story kimberly how could a st
Their support for the w. H. O. A spike in corona virus related deaths in sweden 170. 00 people die in 24 hours sparking criticism of the governments soft approach but south korea it appears to be a mandate for the governments pandemic plan the ruling party is projected to win a general election where people voted Wearing Masks and gloves. And. A soldiers tribute for covert 19 warriors and 99 year old british war veteran raises millions of dollars for the countrys National Health service. The World Health Organization says it regrets the u. S. President s decision to cut funding to the Global Health body donald trump is accusing it of mishandling the covert 19 pandemic but the head of the w. H. O. Says that his organization is vital for handling this crisis and its performance is open to scrutiny. W. Chose performance in tackling this pandemic will be reviewed by w. Just Member States and the independent bodies that are employees to each will try to spot and see an accountability for th
Make wit it you know whatever you want of the situation it is a dire situation it is a global it let me just jump in here 1st so i can get as we have in stark relief and we have it slapping us in the face like that gift of the woman getting hit in the face with a trout during a storm that everything paul krugman has said about dead is false hes always saying its just we know ourselves and we are going to ignore it well what happened paul krugman is that suddenly the debt became a problem did in the few weeks ago and the globe goes into discounting and realizing all that future revenue and future that you decided it was not important and all those generations that you decided were not important suddenly everyones jobless and without food to eat in many places because of the economics espoused by charlatans like paul krugman ill say that and why this money particle why does that happen why. Does that keep on happening and why does every single time since 2002000 now 2202020 why is it tha