Died. Warrens brother died. That is people we know, but people we dont know are having same terrible grief in their families. Our prayers and thoughts are with those who lost their loved ones. Our prayers are with those who are diagnosed, over 900,000 approaching 900,000 people diagnosed. 26 million having lost their jobs. Staggering numbers. Grief. Snow and family the conversation going on now is if we were to open government, how and when . Should be signs based sciencebased, testing holds the key to opening the door to taking us from home into the economy. Testing, scientists agree that testing, contact tracing, and isolation are the path to opening up our economy. Three times in march and then yesterday, congress has passed to bills in a bipartisan way address the coronavirus crisis. The first one, march 4, it was written in february and came to testing, in march, testing, testing. That is what we talked about at that time. A month and a half later we dont have anywhere near the adequate testing or plans for it that we need. Wet is why we are so glad had this provision in yesterdays bill which i will talk about in a moment. It is hard to even explain white we dont have the testing. We dont have the sufficient kits, and we dont have the reagents and the rest. Yesterday rod hope, because we have brought hope, because we have money in the bill and we have a large amount of money for Small Businesses. We were pleased we were able to get it set aside, 60 billion , smallll businesses businesses, mom and pop, women and minorities, veterans, urban and rural areas and tribal lands, native americans, all who were not first in line in the first round of this. I just want to say this, because i see something out there and i want to give life to it you saw on the floor the members of the floor sing we should have done this to weeks ago. We agree. And the person who led the debate, the Ranking Member of the ways and means committee, he said specifically, it is just so stunning. He said we could have a grade on this in extinct minutes, it got held up for all sorts of extracurricular stuff. Hundred billion dollars for 120tals and testing, billion for Small Businesses. 60 billion in a set of signs and 60 billion more for grants and loans. It is used for Small Business because it is faster to get them and you have a longer time to pay them off and a low interest rate. To over 300aged billion in loans. 10 billion in grants. That is in addition to a previous 10 million. We need more. 120 billion more for Small Business in addition to the 250 billion that we all support and all helped create the ppe. We certainly support it, but we want to be sure we are not hardening the disparity in excess to credit that exists in our society by spending hundreds of billions of dollars of taxpayer money to not have access for everyone. So when they just say that thatcurricular stuff, extracurricular stuff was by and large what we put most on the floor of the senate. Remember the timetable. Secretary mnuchin called me and said i need a quarter of a llion dollars in 48 hours ppp. Lets support it. How is it working and i will get back to you. The next day we got back to him with a plan. Democrats in the house and senate put together a plan that had just what were talking about now, a set aside for the smaller under bank community, funding for hospital and testing , and that was when Mitch Mcconnell took to the floor two weeks ago and said then that this is it. He would not hear the objections raised. Request made to a and offered an amended version that contained what we passed byterday and will he passed unanimous consent on tuesday. But for one more week, they resisted until the beginning of last, when they agree to negotiate. Here we have a bill that has the setaside and the carveout for the smaller businesses, the increase in the loan and grant program, 100 billion for hospitals and testing, toracurricular stuff, vital the life, label it, and livelihood, and success of the American People. I heard mitch say all the things that he asked for, but you rejected. The president is asking people to inject lysol into the rooms and mitch is saying that states should go bankrupt. It is a clear, visible, within 24 hours of how the republicans reject science and reject governance. If you dont believe in science and governance, that is their approach. We know that governance has a role and we know that science has a role without science in the decisionmaking, we are not going to be on a very successful path. So what did we do yesterday . Program and itpp went from 252 310. 310. 50 to to overased leverage 350 billion dollars in loans and 10 billion more in grants. 75 billion dollars in resources to the front line including ppe, and providers for hiders hospitals and 25 billion for testing we were pleased we were able to get language that called for National Testing strategy. Capacity andcrease address disparities. This is an interim bill aired we were not planning interim bill. We were not planning on this. This followed the path of cares one in one ticket away. We had 150 billion for state and local. We call them our heroes. Estate and local state and local paid the wages and police and fire, emergency services, First Responders, teachers, transit workers who enable people to get to work. Again we have to see what it means to the food workers, whether in Grocery Stores are carrying out work team stores or whatever. Ar on the front line and visibly they are on the frontline and visibly exposed to the virus because of where they are. We have to do something about that. My viewo something in is morally wrong and mentally disastrous. We cannot defeat this pandemic if Mitch Mcconnell is letting our Health Care Workers get fired. Mentioned the other day that hundreds have been fired from hospitals in new york already, public hospitals. Seeingnately, we are comments made with zero connection to science and facts. Lets put that kind is and go forward in a way that gets the job done for the American People. I mentioned the president and his saying we can kill the virus by injecting disinfectant, like lysol, into the body. Noty, this president is listening to medical experts. I dont know which ones he is listening to, if any. As i said a few days ago, i set america must ignore allies and start to listen to scientists and other professionals in order to protect ourselves and our loved ones. If you wish, i can go over what we are hoping to do in cares tw o. I appreciate faxing many members 5 was the vote. I am appreciative for the members and a staffs of the committees. They did airmobile terrible job didetting this done they a terrific job in getting this done. The Physicians Office and the sergeant at arms who gave us regimentation and how we could come to the floor and away that had close to zero interaction with each other as possible, enabling congress to take the vote, which was the republicans insisting on and we were there. We had 210 democrats who voted for it. We are proud so many people made the effort to come, though it was clear it would be a very big vote. We had four bills, all bipartisan, that the cares will be bipartisan. I was pleased we passed legislation to establish the select committee to address the coronavirus crisis. Yes, maam. You mentioned majority leader in c. Ell mentioned to a lesser extent, other republicans have been making similar arguments and have little appetite for increased spending. How do you plan to balance state and local governments giving them the funding they need one making sure it is targeted and not going to answer for fiscal irresponsibility of the past . Pelosi everything we have done in these bills and what we do are connected to coronavirus. It is about the dressing the states addressing the states and made us a pallet is on the coronavirus as well as revenue lost because they have no cash flow. The same thing with the hospitals. They dont have patience paying who are sent the charitable work that they do. In the hospitals, as with the state and local, directly related to coronavirus and revenue lost. It is indicative of the fact that they dont believe in governance because they dont really see the connection between the transit worker, the Public Health personnel, police, fire, and the rest who are essential to meeting the needs of the American People. Jobs. Ct is, it is about this is a Small Business initiatives. It is about jobs. So many jobs depending on it. Teachers are being fired here custodians with children and grandchildren. Vote by mail nonnegotiable . Would you agree to a package that doesnt include vote by mail . I dont intend to negotiate while im in this room. Thank you. You talked about some of the president s medical suggestions last night but there are also some Government Experts who say they were retaliated against because they didnt back up some of the president s medical ideas. Doctoru spoken to the and what should the congress do about it . I havent spoken to dr. Bright but im familiar with his work and i respect him and normas lay. Chair of theas the house subcommittee of energy and commerce. Her legislation created the department, the entity he is the head of or had been until a couple of days ago. The allegation, shall we say, that the administration was encouraging those with responsibility to quicken the approval process for, shall we say, friends, not based on science, but im relationships is a devastating charge. It has to be looked into. The congresswoman has said she would have a hearing on this. Given the back log of the surveys we have seen, they will be a lot of Small Businesses that are not able to secure funds in the next round either. What do you say to them . It appeared to be a good thing to enable the banks to facilitate the loans rather than have a go through the whole sba process to facilitate the loans. I heard people who said otherwise that the banks have to look out for their own no, they dont. We look out for them. These are guaranteed loans by the sba. This is like an atm machine. They put the money in and the lender takes it out. It isnt any of their money. Fed hasf that, the assumed the loans. That is to say, taken them off the books of the banks so it is nothing to do with their Capital Requirements or anything like that. They are just a facilitator. All of a sudden in some cases, it looks like they made themselves decisionmakers about relationships they had. I think that requires some close scrutiny. This shouldnt depend on what your Bank Relationship is. The bank is covered, they are protected, it should depend on your application that you make in terms of how youre going to pay your employees, your rent, your utilities, etc. In order to be able to obtain the loan. Did the banks do everything right . Many smallbeen so business that apply that they will likely run out. We want to see the data. From the very start, when we , we have to see the data, we have to see the data. The data we saw through the some, shall wead say, disappointments. But lets see how we go now. Comesically said, first first serve was the attitude. Some people knew that they would never be firstcome, first serve because they didnt apply in others applied and did not hear back. There is more money in the system so lets see. This is about protecting jobs. Businesseszing small as a source of job creation and Wealth Creation that comes with the optimism and entrepreneurism and the vitality of our economy. They need customers. You can keep the place open, you can pay the rent on the utility bill and the staff but if youre door is open and no one is coming in, you are still not getting ahead of the game. Thats why we need the other job piece which is one of the reasons we need for the that employees serve in terms of First Responders, healthcare workers, teachers etc. , the post office and the rest. It is disappointing that in the first tranche, people had some disappointments. We will see how it goes next. Do you still plan on having the house come back on may 4 and if so, do you expect to have the next legislation ready at that time . Any decision we have them we come back rests with the sergeant at arms and the capitals decision. Hopefully, things will get better, who knows . We will be ready soon with our next bill and the sooner we can pass it, the better, because our teachers, firefighters, our First Responders on the rest need the resources that the funding for state and local will bring. How much do you see is necessary to include in the next package . Probably a number of equivalent to what we have done for Small Businesses but i dont know. We are asking them for their evaluation of what is the need, what is the capacity, what can you spend in the rest. The money they are getting his money already spent on the coronavirus. So we shouldevenue be able to identify i have an idea about what the governors want. We get the numbers from the municipalities. They had a number but that was a couple of weeks ago and it may have changed, so we will see. We will do we need to do. Think yesterdays vote was evidence we could Bring Congress back to washington think thedo you demonstration is an unnecessary step particular on legislation . Not only yesterday but our first bill, cares 1, the first that we did since we have been here, cares 1 was predicated on the fact that we needed to show souorum to have a voice vote that we can function as congress and those who needed to stay was or for whom it unhealthy for them to come forward, they could be home. That was an earlier stage when there was more uncertainty if this would work. The capital physician on the sergeant at arms laid out a plan and i thought it was a beautiful sight to behold. I think we didnt get enough, shall we say, visibility for how we accommodated the use of the gallery and the rest of that people were very separated. For instance, less than one minute. I object because a quorum is not present. Designate counts the house and a corm is present, everybody leaves. Yesterday was almost easier because you didnt have to be in the place at the same time. That was the challenge because you have to be there in the room at the same time. Event, the timing how alphabetically or however geographically, people were kind of, shall we say, doing it their way but nonetheless, no more than x number of people on the floor the time and that was enforced by the sergeant at arms and the capital Physicians Office. It showed that on both occasions, when one of the republicans insisted on a quorum being present and wanting a recorded vote and we said no, we have a quorum or yesterday, according to what ive heard from the other side and i believe them that they were maybe 22 members who wanted a recorded vote. Withenate can do this unanimous consent with four or five members on the floor. You only need one but they probably had others that wanted to speak and we have to have the physical presence, as you said, because we know how this will turn out because we were in agreement that it was bipartisan. Yes, it was an example we can get it done. As you know, we had some discussion about where we go next with this in terms of proxy voting and the rest. A quick followup aside from the state bankruptcy comments from senator mcconnell, he said congress has to consider debt and deficits. Is this the same Mitch Mcconnell who let almost a 2 trillion tax break where the benefits went to the top 1 who was aen saying, deficit hawk without saying a word about the 2 trillion with no benefit, no benefit to the economy or our childrens future except a 2 trillion debt. Again, antigovernance, antiscience, thats who they are , extracurricular stuff. That is 100 billion to hospitals. If they want to make it like we held this up even though they agreed to what we offered two weeks ago, they held this up. Theres no use getting into that. Lets move forward. There will be a bill and it will be expensive. I look forward to doing it as soon as possible because jobs are at stake, protection of our people, the health and wellbeing of the American People are at stake and the sooner we get this done, the better. As far as 55 Million Students around the country affected by school,tside [indiscernible] but nowithout broadband of harvarde issue and other schools criticizing homeschooling. Over, willandemic is you see homeschooling continuing . I think homeschooling is an individual decision that people make. That we advocate or not. Its what people decide they want to do and god bless them for that. I have no criticism of that but its what their choices. Is. Ith her choice i think people want to get back to school. I think children value the socialization of being together with their friends and the rest. Ofre is a value to learning people hearing different ideas. I have three grandchildren who are in a great school were engaged inwho are social media learning. There are different versions so i dont say one or the other. Who arehree in college engaged, for in college who are engaged and Distance Learning and they seem to be doing ok but i dont think they think its a way of life. I think they want to get back to school. Three, four in college, three in grade school, fivee, one more of them in college with Distance Learning and they are almost finished. Its coming up in may and the same thing with the younger ones. One is graduating from college and just finished his masters coursework. I see it in different versions of the story. I know they want to be with her friends. Again, its going to school, its going to school. What we have to do is make sure that at times like this, every child has the same opportunity to learn. For example in california, if you gave every child the liveology who still dont in areas that have the service and so thats why we wanted we must have a Broadband Initiative to have highspeed always on, social media for everyone across the country and its