Ms. Pelosi thank you. Im not celebrating until i can hug my grand babies. Aiting for that day. Hopefully that will be soon but thank you. Last night as you know the Senate Passed important legislation. Were very proud of the product. We think it is we did jujitsu on it. It went from a corporatefirst proposal that the republicans put forth in the senate to a workers first democratic workers first legislation. First, lets back up. As i was coming here, i saw nearly 1,000 deaths in the united states. 900 yesterday. I dont know what the numbers are today. But theyre saying nearly 1,000 deaths in our country. Tens of thousands of people are we have tens of thousands of cases. This is a pandemic that we havent even since for over 100 ears in our country. Its really such a tragedy, so we had to take important action. Had to take action that puts Families First and workers first and thats what we did when we did our first legislation. The first two bills were about addressing the emergency dir
Over republican concerns which is expected on the house floor later. Ms. Pelosi good morning. St. Patricks day. We have the Prime Minister of ireland here for our traditional lunch in the capitol. In the meantime, the day job always goes on and today we are continuing our conversation with the administration on legislation that puts Families First. We are very proud of the work that the congress did last week with 8. 3 billion legislation to meet the needs of social and Health Services organizations, state and local government, testing, all the rest of that. Testing, testing, testing, so very important so we can have an idea of the size of the challenge but also that we can meet the needs of those who test positive. Today we will bring today, well bring to the floor our Families First legislation, which is what we talked about as soon as we finished the appropriations bill. Listening to our constituents, listening to health care professionals, listening to governors, mayors, etc. Famil
Ms. Pelosi we are continuing our conversation with the administration on legislation that puts Families First. We are proud of the work that ongress did last week with 8. Billion to meet the social and health organizations, state and ocal government, testing, today, well bring to the floor our Families First legislation, which is what we talked about as soon as we finished the appropriations bill. Listening to our constituents, listening to health care rofessionals, listening to governors, mayors, etc. Families first legislation together, it has free coronavirus testing. By and large for almost everyone in the country. Were having some discussion about that with the administration of maybe some people they want to pay but by and large free corona testing so that everyone will be tested and no one will say i cant afford it so i cant and thats not a good idea when it comes to Public Health. Paid emergency leave with 14 aid sick days. Very essential as we deal with this challenge, Public
Unusual session but critical. Mr. Speaker, this legislation represents a bipartisan and resolve to meet the coronavirus challenge head on. It represents a focusnt on families and workers with the objective to make them safer and economically supported. That will protect workers as we all doo our part to flatten the curve. Public Health Officials have made it clear the only chance we have c to prevent our system to be overwhelmed with the pandemic it is threatened to be for his as Many Americans to stay home as possible. It is however necessary for us to be here, to pass legislatio legislation, to respond on behalf of the American People through this daunting challenge. The closure the large parts of the economy must be temporarily shutec down cause severe disruption for businesses and workers we saw the impact of this yesterday when new Unemployment Insurance claims increased by more than 3 Million People 3 million individuals. Those that rely on them for support of their families and
Bloomberg. John lawrence reports. Joe biden scores big on super the former Vice President is projected to win the most super tuesday states including texas and says he will strive to bring bipartisanship back to washington. We can have a never ending war between the parties. When president good fight. But may know make no mistake about i can fight, but look. We need is badly as badly someone who can heal senator Bernie Sanders also collected a healthy amount of delegates tuesday. And says hes not backing down to biden tell you with absolute confidence. Were going to win the democratic nomination. Or anyone else and we are going to the most dangerous president in the history of this country senator elizabeth warrens campaign is struggling she even lost her home state of massachusetts to biden asked to from your heart. Person you think will make the best president of the United States. Former new york city mayor Mike Bloomberg doesnt leave super tuesday empty handed he won American Samoa