Fear. We are still a country in crisis. The pandemic has affected more than 3 million americans. It has cost more than 135,000 lives and climbing and shows no signs of slowing down. In just the last few days, 19 states 19 states reported record cases, including florida, which saw more than 15,000 new cases in a single day. Hospitalizations and deaths, two of the most concerning indicators of trumps failed response, are already unacceptably high and they are rising. It has gotten bad enough that even donald trump finally decided to wear a mask in public. Im glad he made the shift. But mr. President , its not enough. We wont be able to turn the corner and get the American People back to work safely without president ial leadership. Mr. President , open everything now isnt a strategy for success. It is barely a slogan. Quit pushing the false choice between protecting our health and protecting our economy. All it does is endanger our recovery on both fronts. Mr. President , please listen t
Clean Energy Future but i have to start by speaking about what millions of americans know when they wake up every morning with worry, anxiety, and fear. We are still a country in crisis. The pandemic has affected more than 3 million americans. It has cost more than 135,000 lives and climbing, and it shows no signs of slowing down. In just the last few days, 19 states, 19 states reported record cases, including florida, which saw more than 15,000 new cases in a single day. Hospitalizations and deaths, two of the most concerning indicators of trumps failed response, are already unacceptably high and they are rising. It has gotten bad enough that even donald trump finally decided to wear a mask in public. Im glad he made the shift. Mr. President , its not enough. We wont be able to turn the corner and get the American People back to work safely without president ial leadership. Mr. President , open everything now isnt a strategy for success. It is barely a slope. Quit pushing the false ch
Energy and infrastructure development. His remarks were part of a series of speeches laying out his plan to safely reopen the u. S. Economy amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. He spoke from wilmington, delaware. Good afternoon. Today to talk about infrastructure and jobs and are clean energy future, but i have to start by speaking about what millions of americans know when they wake up every morning with worry, anxiety and fear. We are still a country in crisis. The pandemic has affected more than 3 million americans. It has cost or than 135,000 lives and climbing and shows no signs of slowing down. In just the last few days, 19 states, 19 states reported florida,ses, including which saw more than 15,000 new cases in a single day. Hospitalizations and deaths, two of the most concerning indicators of trumps failed response, are already unacceptably high and they are rising. It has gotten bad enough that even donald trump finally decided to wear a mask in public. Im glad he made the s
Theseard some of questions wrapped around the surging equity markets that we saw yesterday. Jon is going to do the data in a bit. We saw a pullback in the data this morning. Butee it in bonds as well, a most interesting day all in all. You centered your data checks on the mystery of the u. S. Dollar. We are going to address that in a bit, but it is still a remarkably resilient u. S. Dollar. Jonathan and a hugely divisive debate at the moment about geographical bias. A lot of people focused on that word divergence. What is the reopening we can depend on . Is it not the United States . That is the question that has come up continually. For this recovery, the reopening, it will be bumpy and we will see a lot of evidence of that today in australia. At theu mentioned this top of the last hour. To see melbourne on official relocked down, that was sobering. Of about 5ity Million People and a daily infection rate pushing 200. It is a different approach. It is about the science, yet the policy
Pandemic. We follow the advice of the attending physician and the sergeant of arms that were seated at least 6 feet apart. That means theres no room for the public or media here, but the media is participating we hope. And we hope the public is as well. Our website. Our witnesses are participating by Video Conference which is change for the United States senate and a welcome one because it makes it possible for us to attract witnesses to have busy schedules on the same day such as today some are participating by Video Conference senators may remove their masks since we are great thank yout a part to the press gallery and the architect in the capital police, Committee Staff for all their hard work to help keep us safe. Senator murray and i each have an Opening Statement then we will turn to our witnesses we think for being with usfoo today we ask that you summarize your remarks and five minutes to have time for the large number of senators we expect to iparticipate we will have one roun