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Authorizing highway, bridge, aviation, and waterway projects. Members are working on 170 amendments. They plan to complete work on those amendments around midday today. That will be followed by a vote on final passage of the package. Live coverage now here on cspan. The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. Loving god, thank you for giving day. Other we ask your continued protection empowerment of those who tend to the sick and those who medical solutions to this dangerous pandemic. The work of the house these last few days to votes. Wo upport for the department of agriculture. During these times Food Production and delivery and the many e been among challenges facing our nation. Whatever the particulars of this may it proceed through the legislative process ultimately help the benefit of all americans. We ask, also, your continued p ....
That was almost a bad situation right then. Good morning, everyone. Take iq for your presence here. We had a very robust discussion at the caucus meeting, at the growing threat that is presented by the coronavirus. The coronavirus, its clearly a national emergency. It requires an all hands on deck approach. It requires engagement from everyone, democrats and republicans, from the house and the senate, the white house, and the administration. It requires engagement of the city, state, and federal level. House democratic caucus, great leadership from Speaker Pelosi and steny hoyer, and our members are committed to making sure that we do Everything Possible to both contain the virus and mitigate it as it emerges in jurisdiction after jurisdiction. We heard from chairwoman nita lowey and our goal is to make sure that we do not leave washington this week without an allocation ....
Secretary wilbur ross on budgetnt trumps 2021 request and he talks about the 2020 census, space commerce and trade relations. Held by a subcommittee, this is two hours. Sen. Moran good morning, everyone. The subcommittee will come to order. Welcome to our first Budget Hearing on commerce, justice, and science and related agencies for this fiscal year 2021. Today, we have the honor of hearing from secretary of commerce wilbur ross about the president s fy 21 Funding Priorities for the department of commerce. Welcome, secretary ross. Thank you for your appearance. We look forward to hearing from you this morning. The department of commerce executes a broad range of activities for our nation, things that are important to every american. Range of critical activities for our issues that we care a lot about. Research and development, cuttingedge technology, predicting the weath ....
Mr. Biden i want thank my sister, valerie and my soninlaw, dr. Howard krien here. Folks, look, we were planning a big rally in cleveland tonight. But the governor of ohio asked the president ial campaigns to cancel their indoor Public Events in cleveland with large, large crowds of people and thats what we did, due to the coronavirus and he was concerned about that. And as ive said all along that we would follow the guidance of the cdc, state and local officials and Public Health officials with respect to our campaign events. Well continue to do that. This is a matter, this whole coronavirus issue as a matter of president ial leadership, and later this week ill be speaking to you on what i believe the nation should be doing to address this virus. But tonight, i want to speak to you from philadelphia, where we announced our campaign at the front end, where we did our final annou ....