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 moving swiftly and moving wisely and to put together a package of this size with no hearings and no Committee Proceedings and would note detailed ledge later process means it is rough and there are rough edges and there will be mistakes in this bill. Is it perfect . F no. 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 and of anxiety and when will it happen in just a few weeks ago the vast majority of our country was reading about coronavirus and about covid19 as something happening in distant countries on our shores and they read about and concerns about its alarming and rapid growth in asia and europe and things started changing as the stories got more dire and is Public Health officials began to predict a Global Pandemic and as the World Health Organization announced it a Global Pandemic as scientific leaders began to say the United States would inevitably be touched by it as our colleagues from the Pacific Northwest told us about how their communities were being affected and as extended contacts and trains and acquaintances on social media and the press shared how they are members of their community have become affected. As it began to move across our country and began to impact a remarkable range of institutions from baseball to broadway the closures of all sorts of treasured american institutions, every major sports league, every major public gathering and as now state after state has issued edicts as city and county alike all all over our country have asked people to close the restaurants and bars with Small Businesses as hotels have no occupants and as airplanes fly with no passengers and its become haunting, eerie and the sense of an imminent disaster. Just before coming over here i read an article in the New York Times about how, in my region in the mid atlantic it has hit. In the borough of queens and the city of new york and Public Hospital known as elmhurst yesterday 13 patients died. In a riveting account the nurses and the doctors described a catastrophic situation. Public Health Officials trains, health aides stressed to their limit tested as they had not been before struggling to get personal protective equipment to have enough ventilators and to have enough icu units and i will tell you is over the last couple of days i had talked with the heads of each of our major hospitals, folks who run nursing facilities, nonprofits, Community Health centers as i have heard from nurses and doctors i know the level of alarm and concern has steadily risen in recent days. Folks, tonight as i stand here on the floor of the senate i am mindful that our nation is suffering. There are people all over the world buthe particularly here in the United States in the states we represent who are anxious and unemployed and uncertain and in some cases now too many who are infected and hospitalized and il has come home to this chamber is one of our colleagues has tested positive and one of our dear colleagues husbands, spouse is hospitalized. We know members of the house and the senate and our staff in immediate communities have been touched by this threat of disease. We are now at a critical moment in our modern history and simultaneously a public outcry says an economic crisis. Ive heard too many people face unprecedented but it is not unprecedented in the United States and nation have made it through tougher times than this and to say the Great Depression in the Second World War and the civil war and the revolution and the hard work and labor organizing and desperate work of throwing off the shackles of segregation and of jim crow to say that those werent tough and difficult struggles misses the significance of our history and the things we have overcome. For most of us and for most of our families and most of our community this wave and this pandemic and this virus and the combined health and Economic Disaster that is upon us may be the greatest test we have faced. So how would the answer . Thousands of businesses already closed, millions of people already unemployed. A nation fearful of a pandemic swamping their resources of our hospitals and health system. Let me be briefly in Broad Strokes to what is in this bill which we have finally ultimately hammered out after days of disagreement and in advance of our getting the final official text. In the broadest of strokes the health that will be delivered to the iraqi people by this bill starts with individual assistance, something the president has a champion and the democrats have supported we had different versions of it but we roughly have agreed on 1200 to every adult citizen, making below 75000 and it phases out to those making below 100,000 and with 500 a child your average family might well see three, 4000. These checks will come out in weeks delivered directly to those with direct deposits through the irs or by check to those harder to find who have not filed recently but are eligible. This is a remarkable direct support to help millions of americans and have cash in their family checkbook to get through the unexpected hardship of these next few months. There is more than 100 billion in this bill to support our Health Workers on the front line and the hospitals that make our Public Health possible. You heard that story about elmhurst hospital in my own home state hospitals rural and urban, large and small that without this support will struggle to make it through this time. The heroes of this time are those folks who are working and folks that are cleaning offices, trains, hospital rooms and often without enough protective equipment and often without healthcare themselves and often without adequate pay and the folks who labor and night here in the capital and our offices to make sure they are clean and safe from this virus we can to see. The folks who work in Public Hospitals and worked long all it orderly and nurses. They are the paramedics and ambulance drivers who deliver the surgeons and the doctors who direct their care. One of the things i am proudest ofer that is in this now that ws not in this several days ago, 150 billion to states and counties and cities. The ten years i spent in county government i came to deeply respect to the men and women who help keep our county governments afloat and our communities stronger, safer and healthier. This support, this direct support to the state and the counties on the front line oft. This epidemic to help them gethe through. Theres a 500 billiondollar bond, a subject of much discussion and debate. That as initially written and proposed would help sustain some of the Iconic Industries like the airline but with almost no transparency. In terms of the terms of the loans for the grants that would be given and almost no restrictions on how the company is to receive them or might use them for what purpose. Broadly speaking after days of fighting we come to agreement that i support and embrace. Restrictions on buybacks and dividends and executive compensation, guaranteed against layoffs and against the destruction of collective bargaining agreements and broadly speaking transparency and accountability. One of the things im most proud of is that there will be now an accountability board, a Pandemic Response accountability committee, both in Inspector General and 80 million in this bill for the operation of that accountability. Let me move since i see i am number of collies to join me on the floor to just a few other points, if i could. There are three in a 50 billion in this bill for the Small Business administration too disperse to Small Businesses into nonprofits all over our oountry with an incentive structure to change from a loan to a grant to those who would retain or rehire their workforce. As i have heard from Restaurant Owners and from hotel owners and from those who work in bars and restaurants and hotels and in my community those are the folks that havent hit the first and hardest by their closures and this provision will allow those Small Businesses to reopen quickly and robustly when we get on the other side of this pandemic. I look forward to working with my colleagues and with the fda administrator and the lenders in my state and around the country to make sure it is done well and its done quickly. I wrote the bill that added 17 billion more so that 320 thousand current Small Businesses who are current fda loan holders get six months of relief. Move themhe off the agenda of te staff and lenders to clear the decks for them to administer this unit 50 billion. I supported senator cardin and his initiative to add 10,000,004 small rapid grants for the most severely impacted businesses and nonprofits with this section of the overall bill where senatorse rubio and senator collins, negotiated most of it, it struck me as the most bipartisan and most productive. There is so much more in this bill that i could speak to the ways in which resources and the Federal Reserve are going to be deployed to help medium businesses and Small Businesses. The ways in which the private sector in my home state has asstepped up to partner and to deliver n critically needed resources, whether refurbishing ventilators for donating surplus ppe from the construction sector that they dont need today or university that is closed its research that makes its Resources Available to our hospitals and there are some remarkable efforts and partnerships in our community and around the country. At the end of the day we had a critical question. Is this bill perfect . No. Could we improve it by arguing and debating further . Yes. He i badlyomething wanted that did not get in this final bill . Absolutely. We had nine major states delay their elections, delay their president ial primaries because of this pandemic. I urge that if a bill written by my colleague, senator klobuchar and senator biden that i joined the added to require every stage to have a plan to vote by mail during this pandemic if our troops could vote from the front lines in a civil war in Second World Wars by gosh, we should have a plan to vote even if the pandemic continues. I was disappointed that texas ultimately will not be in this will and 400 million will be help those statesos that want to vote by mail and to expand in strict vote by mail and i will be back and i will be back to insist on this provision in the next bill but as i have said too many colleagues in the last few days we cannot all get everything we hoped for and wants and believed to be important in this bill. We must put down the tools ofus partisanship and personal interest and sectional concerns and we must put down some of the things wehe most hope for we mut put down the tools with which we so often fight each other and we must come together and take up the implements of National Purpose and of compromise and of consensus and deliver these resources to a nation anxious, concerned and at times, even angry at all of us in the senate for what they see as too long a delay. With that let me just say to my colleagues, it is time for us to take up this bill, roughhewn as it is, pass it to the chamber, send it to the house and i urge my colleagues in the house to pass it promptly. Send it to the president s desk for signature and then let us all get to the hard work of making sure we do the best we can so that the people we stimulus package, this remarkable Corona Relief package that will deliver 2 trillion of y. Assistance and support for communities all over our country. Thank you, mr. President. With that, i yield the floor. Worcester president , thank you. Mr. President , i rise today to let all nevadans know that the important steps congress is taking to respond to the pandemic we are facing right now. Its a Global Challenge to the health and Economic Security of nevada and the United States and my thoughts today are with those in nevada that are ill or suffering with the virus and with the families of the six nevadans who had died because of this disease. I also want to thank the brave men and women on the front lines of this crisis, the First Responders and healthcare workers who are battling to save lives and putting their own health and the health of theno families at risk and i know there is fear and confusion in our communities right now. Please know this, i am working closely with the governor and the nevada delegation to ensure that our state get the resources it needs to stem the spread of the coronavirus and to treat those who need medical attention and address the needs of struggling families and businesses. I also note that we are nevada strong and i have seen over and over again that when things get difficult nevadans come together. When a gun man attacked the route 91 Harvest Festival in las vegas i saw how nevadans from ndall over the state worked heroically to help victims and support families and nevadans are uniting now and i tried to say that across the silver state people are doing their part to reduce the impact of covid19 and our governors has shown tremendous leadership in working to slow the spread of the coronavirus and as the governoro pointed out, if home means nevada we need everyone who can stay home for nevadaay and our nurses and doctors and Health Officials are working tirelessly to care for the sake and increase our capacity to deal with the cases in the future. First responders, local health authorities, sanitation workers and retail workers are on the job around the clock to make sure that essential services are available to nevadans. And that they are entertainment and Hospitality Industries leaders to unprecedented steps to stop the spread of infection, including by closing their doors. So many nevadans are contributing by working from home when they can, carried for schools age children, volunteering to help make masks or buy groceries for elderly neighbors and avoiding social interactions that could spread thene virus. Everyone, every single nevadans, each and every american has a role to play in this crisis. We need everyone to do their part by a [inaudible] taking practical common sense steps like washing hands and practicing social distancing. My colleagues and i in congress have done our part as well for the senate has come together in a remarkable and bipartisan address Key Healthcare priorities and protect workers and industries from the Economic Impact of the Public Health crisis. Earlier in march we set aside 3. 8 billion to support hospitals, Community Health centers, Public Health offices, medical supply and researchers across the country. Next we passed the bipartisan Families FirstCoronavirus Response act to provide free coronavirus testing, to expand Food Assistance and mandate a sick Family League for workers. I am proud p to have fought alongside my colleagues in nevadas congressional delegation including my friend and colleague senator jackie rosen to pass todays relief bill. We must pass this today. It is quite simply the greatest single investment in our economy in Healthcare Systems in modern american history. We need it. In 2007 our state was hit hard by the recession and through ictremendous effort we came through it but our economic recovery was slow. This time we want to make sure our economy springs back quickly after this crisis has passed and that workers have jobs to return to when it does. That is why we need to pass these farreaching measures to provide immediate relief to individuals, families and businesses, suffering from the Economic Impact of this pandemic. Nevada has an economy that is unique in the nation and our Hospitality Industry generates nearly 68 billion annually and supports one of 150,000 jobs acros