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Critical program for a week and a half now. At this hour our democratic colleagues are still prolonging their discussions with the administration, so the senate regretfully will not be able to pass more funding for americans paychecks today. However, since this is so urgent, ive asked that the senate meet again tomorrow in a new session that was not previously scheduled, and the democratic leader has agreed to my request. Colleagues, its past time, past time to get this done for the country. A senator mr. President , if i may . Mr. Mcconnell the senator desires to speak for a few minutes . A senator yes. Mr. President , thank you. The presiding officer without objection, the senator from washington is recognized. Ms. Cantwell thank you, mr. President. Im here this afternoon to speak about the critical aspect of the paycheck act as it relates to businesses, particularly in the newspaper and broadcasting business. It is so important to us to address this issue because these are the peopl ....
Night that we have them and our thoughts and prayers. Certainly was not nearly as bad as the weekend before, but nevertheless we had folks who had homes damaged and other tragic things happen along with loss of power. We will certainly keep them and our thoughts and prayers and certainly appreciate the whole georgia team working with locals on the response overnight and this morning. As of noon today, we now have 18,947 covid19 cases in georgia, with 733 deaths. The state lab has processed 5362 tests, and commercial vendors have processed 78,966 tests. We understand that these are more than just numbers. These are georgians that we are talking about. There are families and communities impacted, and certainly all the victims and their loved ones continue to be in our thoughts and prayers. We lift all those up who are battling this terrible virus. We remain focused on the safety and wellbeing of every person who calls georgia home. Last week the white house issued guidelines for it state ....
The increasing demand for basic items in the face of this pandemic. Bins ners finding themselves in financial limbo with the governments rescue loan fund out of money. At this point ive got no faith left in the federal government. Whats the holdup over the next relief package . New study results. The testing done in one county in america. Diane sawyer talking to the researchers. What were seeing is a tip of a big iceberg. What it could reveal about this hospital saved his life do. Twic herd we continue our efforts at social distancing this morning. Eva and i, as you can see, are right here in the studio while whit is at home. Whit, good morning, sir. Dan and eva, good morning from studio wj, as i like to call it, reporting for duty once again. Yes, we are doing our part working from home trying to keep people safe, like so many others are doing across the country. But we have a lot to cover on the pandemic. Some states are starting to ease restrictions or starting the process of that a ....
U. S. Senate is about to gavel income of today is expected to be a pro forma session with no photo schedule, it is possible progress could be made on additional Small Business pundit. Now lift the senate floor on cspan2. The senate will come to order. The clerk will read a communication to the senate. The clerk washington,d. C. , april 20, 2020. To the senate under the provisions of rule 1, paragraph 3, of the standing rules of the senate, i hereby appoint the honorable mike enzi, from the state of wyoming, to perform the duties of the chair. Signed chuck grassley, president pro tempore. Mr. Mcconnell mr. President. The presiding officer the majority leader. Mr. Mcconnell i consent to be recognized notwithstanding the order for a pro forma session today. The presiding officer is there objection . Without objection. Mr. Mcconnell its now been four days since Paycheck ....
That have. Had the virus attack them while they were forming their functions trying to get people back and we have a number of state Department Officials who have who have covered 1000 now and are working their way through in fact weve had 3 fatalities of local employees not us direct hires but local people who were working for the state department and embassies around the world weve had 3 fatalities so far. So there are some calls on the long haul reconciliation for a leadership change there i was wondering what your thoughts are on that number itself for example as for dr rice to resign. Today i think i dont want to look at this this is not the time to be to be. Doing that kind of change therell be a lot of time to look back and see how the World Health Organization performed in the meantime what our task is is to preserve and protect the american taxpayers ....