Senate To Remain In Session To Fight Coronavirus
The U.S. Senate will remain in session next week to fight the coronavirus pandemic.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced Thursday afternoon that the Senate will cancel the scheduled recess and remain in session to focus on combating coronavirus. The announcement came as Congress attempts to pass legislation mitigating the outbreak of the disease.
“Notwithstanding the scheduled state work period, the Senate will be in session next week,” McConnell tweeted Thursday. “I am glad talks are ongoing between the Administration and Speaker Pelosi. I hope Congress can pass bipartisan legislation to continue combating the coronavirus and keep our economy strong.”
Notwithstanding the scheduled state work period, the Senate will be in session next week. I am glad talks are ongoing between the Administration and Speaker Pelosi. I hope Congress can pass bipartisan legislation to continue combating the coronavirus and keep our economy strong.
— Leader McConnell (@senatemajldr) March 12, 2020
The announcement came after Republican Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse called Thursday morning on the Senate to cancel its upcoming recess in light of coronavirus, issuing a statement in which he warned that the Senate has work to do.
“Nursing home operators in Nebraska are telling me they’re worried because they have patients who might have coronavirus, but they don’t have enough testing kits to find out,” Sasse said.
“Instead of going into recess next week, the Senate ought to keep working on the people’s business — both addressing the obvious deficiencies in our diagnostic testing pipeline, and debating the President’s call last night for economic legislation. ”
He added: “The Senate has work to do. Let’s get to it.”
Sasse’s statement came less than a day after President Donald Trump addressed the nation from the Oval Office and announced a near-total ban on travel from Europe to the United States.
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Actual Pandemic; 1918 – 1919 Flu epidemic that hit approximately 1/4 to 1/3 of the entire world population of about 2 billion soul (that would be in neighborhood of at least 500 million) and killed an unknown number said to be as much as 50 million and as high as 100 million; entire populations were wiped out and the virus could kill in as little as TWELVE HOURS! In the U.S. alone over 670,000 people DIED!!!
Modern Pandemic (we’ve become a bunch of wusses!!); 2018-2019 as many as 810,000 in the U.S. alone contracted the virus and 61,000 people died from the FLU! That is 7.5%! AND yet – ZERO hysteria! No main stream liar media hype! What?! WHY?!!!
Deep State anti-Trump Pandemic; The coronavirus. A crisis that ISN’T – just one more attack on Trump with a twist. The deep state is now attacking us as a flanking maneuver to take down a president whom they promised to remove, by any means, without relenting. Nothing has worked so far so now they are pouring out their WRATH on us!
If the CoronoFAUXvirus was really as dangerous as the “experts” say (experts; deep state operatives on the dark money dole) by this time on the 1918-1919 timeline at LEAST a million people world wide would already be DEAD! And 10s of millions sick – maybe more since the world population is at least 3 times as big! On the 2018-2019 time line 1000s in the U.S. would already be dead! We haven’t even 100 yet!!!! This “pandemic” is a MANUFACTURED CRISIS. STOP playing THEIR game!!!!!!! Stop looking for them to take care of you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The media – even some so called conservative outlets – LIE to you – and me. That is the REAL pandemic here! A virus of LIES to poison and sicken stupid minds who don’t know enough to take the time to wash their hands by investigating the TRUTH. They just take in all the “germs” they come in contact with – “OhmyGodWEREALLGONNADIE!!!
And Congress is just the over advertised, WAY out of constitutional bounds, Dog and Pony show that replaces reality TV!!
KNOCK IT OFF!!!!!!… And wash your hands (Like you should be doing for any number of bugs out there)