About congressional operations during the coronavirus outbreak. Also, cq roll calls jennifer the coronavirus. Host President Trump signed the second of likely to be three coronavirus aid packages passed by congress, the third topping 1 trillion will get initial consideration in the u. S. Senate. Good morning and welcome to washington journal for this thursday. We continue our conversation hearing from you about the governments response to the. Oronavirus pandemic your lines are the same they have been the last couple days. Mountain and pacific, 2027488001. And medical professionals, 2027488002. You can send us a text. That is 2027488003. Make sure you tell us your name and where you are texting from. On twitter we are cspanwj and it is facebook. Com cspan for your posts. Legislation passing in the senate 908 yesterday afternoon and quickly down to the white house. This is the reporting of usa today with the headline in the papers. A measure to ensure paid sick leave to ensure testing for coronavirus was headed to president Donald Trumps desk wednesday. Congress is drafting the next emergency relief package as well as a financial lifeline for businesses decimating the economy and upending daily life. Senators overwhelmingly supported a house bill that covers the cost of all coronavirus testing, expands andral food programs provides paid sick leave for workers forced to stay home. That legislation passing by a vote of 908. The headline from Jennifer Shutt of roll call, we will get more specifics about the program. Trump signs coronavirus aid package. We will read some of what Jennifer Shutt is reporting. She says work on the package, the third package has been ongoing for days with treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin proposing a trillion dollar package on tuesday. He has repeatedly emerged as a critical negotiator for the administration and continue talking with nancy pelosi. That package could provide direct Cash Payments to americans as well as grants and shutteredtruggling or businesses. To the office of management and budget sent congress a nearly 40 spending request to increase funding for dozens of federal agencies. Some specifics on that out of the Treasury Department being called a stage three proposal. This is the third package of legislation likely, certainly some initial discussion this morning or today in the senate. The Airline Industry would get 50 billion out of this. Other distressed sectors proposing 150 billion and here is the Economic Impact statements proposed in this legislation. It would authorize inappropriate funds for two rounds of direct payments to individual taxpayers to be administered by the irs and the bureau of fiscal service. 250 billion on april 6 and another 250 billion to americans on may 18. That legislation still ahead in the u. S. Senate and certainly in the u. S. House. Lets hear first from linda in orange, connecticut. Caller happy anniversary, cspan. Host thank you. Caller you are most welcome. We have to think outside the box , this is not normal. Boeing needs money. I was watching them on the stock market. The Airline Industry, they built planes with air filtration systems. We need ventilators. Maybe they can retool for that. We have Restaurant Industries laying people off by the hundreds. We can take Community Colleges and train people to be the people who run the ventilators we need. The president said this is a war and it is invisible. It is. We need to think outside the box. We are only stuck if we think we are stuck. Lets not be stuck. Another thing with these bailouts, they cannot do like they did before like the Airline Industry. They use profits to buy back stock and it did not go to the anders in an equitable way workers are the taxpayers that bail them out. The senate,thing the president , the Congress Needs to address and make sure we can do it thinking, we cannot stand here on lock forever. That is what i have to say. I hope it helps and everybody have a great day. Host i will tell everybody else, this is our 41st anniversary. 41 years ago today cspan came on cable broadcasting to 3. 5 million cable subscribers across the country. The tweet from howard workman and a picture of that very first day. House televised via cspan. First speaker, al gore. This Los Angeles Times headline, house prepares for tv debut. 4 months after house coverage began, this rollcall headline, house picks dont play in the. Ticks caller i did not realize anniversary, so happy anniversary. I have an Infection Control background as well as managed care. I look at this from a lot of. Ifferent perspectives i am hoping all the lineals who aboutot heard the message social distancing and millenials who have not heard the message about social distancing and quarantine, get the message from other millenials. We are seeing, of course it is across the country, a lot of supplies. We are also seeing supplies disappear that were there five minutes ago and it is really concerning because some of these supplies, people do not know how to use them properly and can cause more damage to their skin bank their skin. Host did you say the supplies are going missing . Caller yeah. A veryhem out yesterday white wipe and it meant it went missing. It is a surgical wipe, it cleans hard surfaces and we use them. They are across the country in hospitals and you have to wear gloves. If you dont wear gloves, by holding them, it can literally, not immediately, but it can work its way through your outer layer of skin and cause more damage, who came upon some things wherever they live, please reconsider how you use these things. The other thing i wanted to take this opportunity to say, if i could, is some of the measures people can use on their own. Ould be extremely helpful i am carrying a bottle of listerine in my car when i have to go out. The virus takes hold in your nasal pharyngeal area. The more you can rinse it to drink some fluids maybe every 15 minutes throughout the day, that will help wash the virus down out of that area. Where you get this you can get this annoying clearing of their throat. Drink frequently, sleep, make sure you get no less than 7. 5 hours of sleep. Now ismune system right the biggest asset you have. Virus o smoke, the it goes to attack your cilia, other areas. Smokers will have a hard time. Now would be the time to try to stop or cut back. Some good advice. Really appreciate that. That is why we set aside that line. 2027488002. She was talking about missing supplies. This is a report in the New York Times about ventilators at the top of the list. As the United States braces for an onslaught of cases, hospitals and governments are confronting a grim reality, there are not nearly enough ventilator machines to go around and there is no way to solve the problem before the disease reaches full throttle. Desperate hospital say they cannot find anywhere to buy the devices which help patients breathe and can be the difference between life and death for those facing the most dire respiratory effects. American and european manufacturers say they cannot speed up production enough to meet demand. Nytimes is where you read more. We go to bev in pennsylvania. Good morning. Caller good morning. I woke up thinking my main concern for the United States would be our electric grid. Without that, people in their homes would have nothing. Refrigerators, bathrooms, everything. What is the government planning on doing on that . People are spending every penny they have. How will they keep everything up and running . Host rick in tennessee, go ahead. Past 10, 12the years or whatever, 25, 30 years since ronald reagan, we have been hearing about these tax cuts we have got to have. Cut atere is your tax work. Everybody wanted to tighten and get stingy and we are paying the hard way. They could have been paying for this a little bit of a time over the years. Itr this time, we would have stocked up. They had a couple more dollars on their paycheck. Thank you. About theing legislation headed over to the u. S. Senate, this is the headline in the wall street journal, debate stirs over stimulus plan. Mitch mcconnell in the senate yesterday talking about what may be ahead in the proposed legislation. [video clip] while i will support the house bill to secure emergency relief for some american workers, i will not adjourn the senate until we have passed a bolder package that must include relief for Small Businesses across our country. As we speak, chairman rubio, senator collins, and others are assembling a level of assistance for Small Businesses across america. We want to help them survive this disruption, absorbed the mandate in the house bill and continue to make payroll and avoid layoffs as much as they can and emerge from this storm in the best shape possible. That means a historic injection of liquidity and access to credit and it means washington working directly with lenders who already work with Small Businesses to minimize the new bureaucracy so assistance can flow as fast as possible. We are going to pass the houses bill, but imperfections will make the more comprehensive package even more urgent. We are not leaving. Everybody understands we are not leaving until we deliver it. The center is not going senate is not going to leave Small Business behind. This will be just one component of our work as we speak, chairman grassley and others are determining the best pathway to put money directly in the hands of the American People. Those who are employed, those retirees, laid off, disabled americans, families, as quickly as possible. Chairman alexander and a number of our colleagues are working on further steps in our public fight against the virus itself such as getting more tools in the hands of health care providers, moving barriers to treat them and helping researchers develop develop therapeutics and vaccines and several senators are considering the possibility of targeted relief are Key Industries shouldering the burden from the publichealth directives and which our nation will need to be operational on the others of this. Host the u. S. Senate in session today noon eastern. Follow live coverage at cspan 2 and cspan. Org. Angle gle Richard Engel reports this. China reports no new domestic cases since the start of the epidemic. Here are the numbers from the Johns Hopkins center for systems science and engineering, total confirmed cases worldwide, 220,691. Total deaths, nearly 10,000. Budged number barely from yesterday. No new cases within the country. The u. S. Number jumping 3000 cases yesterday now at 9415 reported in the u. S. With a 106l of 150 deaths and recoveries. The u. S. House coming in today in a pro forma session. There are two members who have theed positive for coronavirus. Our capitol hill producer tweeting this, ben mcadams tested positive for covid19 today that was yesterday. He has been in selfquarantine at his utah home and he was on the house floor Early Saturday Morning voting in support of the second coronavirus Economic Relief bill. Goph term gop florida representative mario diaz pilar, the first member of congress to test positive, he selfquarantined friday after house votes and is feeling much better. Of thet vote in support economic aid bill. We will keep you posted on other members. Several are selfquarantined. We hear from maryland, this is miriam. Welcome. Caller hello. Host hi. Caller if anybody from Johns Hopkins is listening that is working on the virus, i think serum of to check the the host what is your point . Check that you should venom of from the snakes because that will kill the virus. Host noreen next in california. Caller good morning. How are you today . Host fine, thanks. Caller i believe this is what donald trump wants. He wants the government to look incompetent so people do not look to the government in the future. He wants the state to fail. That is what Stephen Bannon told him. Lets make the state fail so people do not rely on the state. Think byyou surrounding him with people like the Vice President , dr. Fouts he , and others, burks he is surrounding himself with people who want to fail . Caller now that his election is up in arms, yes. At the beginning, he did not. He sent ice people to travis air ande base without any pte they had to check in all those people who came in from china into Travis Air Force base and they let them disperse. Those people to california because he knew they were infected and he wanted to target california because he hates us. I believe he engineered this from the beginning and i believe donald trump is trying to play catch because he realized his reelection is at jeopardy. Host your thoughts on the federal response to the coronavirus pandemic. 2027488000 for eastern and central time zones. Guest 2027488001, mountain and pacific. Pennsylvania next, hello to harry. Caller that last lady was a trip. Good thing trump let the economy build up. Otherwise, we would be in a depression. This thing just happened. Everybody is blaming trump and now if you call it the chinese virus, you are a racist. A reporter told trump yesterday it was the kung fu virus. That was a reporter. We have been seeing trump, lets get rid of him, now we have the coronavirus. I am getting fatigue watching this on tv all the time. It is on all the time. Why dont you have a show about gillam being arrested with a gay guy with a bunch of drugs. This is getting kind of crazy. Host this is the editorial cartoon in the Washington Post from tom tolls, the republican. Lephant saying free money rand paul from kentucky on the floor of the senate yesterday arguing for his amendment to the aid package which would call for government budget cuts to pay for the package. Here is what he said. [video clip] highrise in support of my amendment to pay for this package by removing less important spending from elsewhere in the budget. I would ask every american if you were faced with a personal crisis on how to spend extra money and you had to spend extra money on food and medicine, money you had to borrow from a relative, wouldnt you prioritize resources and stop loaning money to friends overseas for their children to go to, for example, space camp question mark wouldnt you stop funding clown colleges in argentina . If you had a true emergency, wouldnt you stop building roads . Nd gas stations in pakistan if you had a true emergency, wouldnt you stop spending money, studying why drunk people fall down more than sober people . I asked my colleagues to stop wasting money, stop being a rubber for wasteful spending. Do your jobs and prioritize our resources. It is our job and responsibility to conserve these resources. Why is this important . Why shouldnt we just print or borrow the money instead of making cuts and things like foreign aid . Because next time may be in the nottoodistant future, our children may not even be able to borrow their way out of the crisis. Our dollar will be ruined because we were with our resources fools with our resources. Devon inwill hear from philadelphia, good morning. Caller good morning. I was looking at the new proposal going between the house and the Senate Negotiations and i was looking at different proposals between maybe 700 and maybe even up to 2500 per person in two tier payments. When you look at the 45 million Student Loans, which will be offset because the government will get return back 45 billion immediately. I think the package is not big enough because once you offset the amount people that owe Student Loans if they are given like 1000 times 45 Million People that owe Student Loans, that is 45 Million Dollars the government will get in return. I think the aid package should be much bigger to address economic needs. From the proposal out treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin in consultation with the house speaker, the majority rescuein the senate, of 50 billion prayed other aid, Economic Impact statements. First one, april 6 and the second one, may 18th. This is a proposal, a one sheet proposal. Out, we were is reading it this morning. I dont know if we posted on our website yet. It is just a one page document looking at what they call the stage iii proposal from the treasury secretary, that legislation in the pipeline to be developed as legislation read we will hear more today in the senate. Barbara in ohio, good morning. Say i i just want to wish everybody would get off Donald Trumps case. We should be happy he is the president he is and he is the businessman he is and he is able to negotiate all these bills and all the things we need to do to get through this with everybody and i wish everybody would get off his case and appreciate the man he is. Host dave in richmond, ohio. Caller i just wanted to comment sitting here watching the show, happy birthday, i appreciate the way you show both sides and let everybody speak. The lady from california, this is a huge problem in our country. I think she got hit on the head to accuse our president of doing what she is accusing him to do and i think it is ridiculous they expect everything is Donald Trumps fault. Obama run the country for the last eight years and the cdc was wrongfully taken care of. How does that become trumps fault . We should rally behind our president regardless of who it is to get through this time. Host how medical professionals line is 202748800