Inaugural getting to the point by zoom, we have an absolutely phenomenal first guest and it is chairman richie neil, chairman of the house ways and Means Committee. Chairman neil is not only a great friend to this institute, he was a wonderful, marvelous friend of senator kennedy. We are so thrilled to have him. Is involved not only in the code response but through his health house ways and Means Committee on every thing that impacts families and the compassionate response to the Covid Response to working families in the commonwealth and around this country. He has been working diligently on the cares act that was recently passed. He will talk to us about that today and we cannot wait to hear about it. We are so thrilled to have Stephanie Murray with us today. We open our inbox and read stephanie and politicos playbook every morning. Thank you for being here. I could go on and on about chairman neil. I want to kick it over right now to hear from him and hear from stephanie and think yo
Working families in the commonwealth and around this country. He has been working diligently on the cares act that was recently passed. He is going to talk to us about that today. And we cant wait to hear about it. Were so thrilled also to have Stephanie Murray here with us today. Readl open our inbox and stephanie on politico playbook first thing every morning. Stephanie, thank you for being here. Aboutd go on and on chairman neil and im not going to because i want to kick it over now to hear from him and hear from stephanie and thank you all for joining us today via zoom. Stephanie good afternoon. Thank you so much to the Kennedy Institute and for everyone who is joining us this afternoon. In q2 congressman neal for being so generous with your time. My name is Stephanie Murray. Im the author of the political massachusetts playbook. It is my pleasure to be here, especially to kick off this new version of the institute form as we get used to our live online. Im glad to be here with you
Dr. Schaffner we will have to end it now. We will take it to the floor now. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc. , in cooperation with the United States house of representatives. Any use of the closedcaptioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u. S. House of representatives. ] the speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. The clerk the speakers room, ashington, d. C. , march 27, 2020. I hereby appoint the honorable anthony g. Brown to act as day. Ker pro tempore on this signed, nancy pelosi, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore the will be offered by the guest chaplain, reverend dr. Dan capitol worship, washington, d. C. Me. Chaplain come pray with heavenly father, this morning, humblee to remember your servant, 91yearold holocaust rabbi kahn who lost his this week and just two dais ago at
Sale of oil from the Strategic Petroleum reserve through 2022. Included in this package, improvements to expand access to care through telehealth, including 200 million for the f. C. C. For Telehealth Services and devices, and expansion of Telehealth Services in the medicare program. It extends vital medicare, medicaid and Public Health programs, including Community Health centers, among many others, until november 30 this year. We mobilized the Nations Health work force by providing Liability Protections to those who provide volunteer medical services during the pu bl Health Crisis and by standing up the ready reserve. And we take steps to protect our medical supply chain, something i Hope Congress will continue to work on after we pass this legislation today. Todays phase three approach is the most comprehensive and robust response to covid19. Together were going to win this war and i yield back. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. The gentleman
Because they dont know who is a citizen without the virus and who is a citizen with the virus. The most basic decisions have become a distraction across the country as americans have become afraid of a stranger and of a friend. This is a huge shift in where we are as a country. And what this demands is immediate action. Three weeks ago this senate and the house passed 8. 3 billion, and we did it with overwhelming bipartisan support to be able to add additional funding for diagnostics, for testing and for rapid work on a vaccine. All of that work is advancing quickly. We have human trials in a vaccine happening right now. Weight came together and there werent extra things added to it we focus in on the virus. Theres no question theres lots of moments to be able to debate the things we disagree on. But this is a moment we understand to focus in on what is the problem. The problem is zealing with covid19. There was a bipartisan bill put together in the senate. A week ago today, senator sc