unemployment benefits to workers who are already off the job. and an injection of cash into our economy and a propup on a loan basis with interest that could be repaid to keep the airlines and related businesses afloat. i hope we pass it. i know americans are hoping and praying for this tonight, and perhaps by the early right of -- light of morning, we'll have good >> at the end of sunday's senate session, mitch mcconnell and chuck schumer spoke about the next steps of the economic relief package. during the exchange, senator schumer had an objection which caused senator mcconnell to change the start time for the session with no agreement on when the vote would be. proceedings under

the quorum call be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. mcconnell: i ask unanimous consent >> i ask unanimous consent, when the senate completes its visit 9:00, that it adjourned a.m., the morning our be deemed expired. prayer and pledge the time for use later in the day and morning business be closed. further following leader remarks the senate resume consideration of the motion to proceed to h.r. 748. the presiding officer: is there objection? mr. schumer: reserving the right to object. the presiding officer: the democratic leader. mr. schumer: thank you, madam president. i know the majority leader likes to talk about partisanship, but we're not here for that reason. the bill we're voting on will affect us for not just in the days to come, but in the months and years to come, and we need the best bill possible. we democrats have seen some real flaws in the bill that was put on the floor by the republicans

and what it has is, for instance, a giant, giant corporate bailout fund with no accountability. you wouldn't even know if the loans were made until six months later. what we have seen is a cutback in what we asked for, for hospitals, doctors, nurses, masks, equipment. we need more money than the republican majority proposed. what we have seen is no money for state and local governments. they're going broke. they have huge, huge new expenses. we need to make those better. and so the bottom line is very simple. we are fighting for a better bill because this bill will have an effect for a very, very long time. i've been working with secretary mnuchin, the president's congressional liaison eric. they have been in my office about six times tonight.

we're making progress. i think there's a good chance we'll have an agreement. but we don't need artificial deadlines. we will get this done. we will come in at noon and hopefully we will have an agreement by then. so i object. the presiding officer: objection is heard. mr. mcconnell: madam president. the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. mcconnell: as i've said repeatedly and i think all 100 of us know, we had a good bipartisan bill developed on a bipartisan basis with members in the senate over the last 48 hours until the democratic leader and the speaker of the house decided to blow it all up and play russian roulette with the markets. the futures market is dramatically down going into tomorrow. the asian markets, i suspect, i haven't checked, are probably rattled by all this. nothing would have been lost by allowing us to get on the bill because they could have used 30

more hours -- not that they could have but they should have -- used 30 more hours to continue to negotiate. but alas every single one of them has been on record preventing us from taking the next step toward getting an agreement the american people are waiting and waiting and waiting for us to get. so the result of what the majority leader, the democratic leader just did was to prevent us from voting right after the markets open in the morning and allow the markets to be rattled until noon, further evidence of the reckless behavior we've witnessed on the democratic side in the senate over the last hours. so, madam president, i ask unanimous consent that when the senate completes its business today it adjourn until 12:00 noon monday, march 23.

further following the pledge the morning hour deemed expired, the journal of proceedings be approved to date the time for the two leaders be reserved for use later in the day and morning business be closed. further, following leader remarks the senate resume consideration of the motion to proceed to h.r. 748. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. mcconnell: if there is no further business to come before the senate i ask it stand adjourned under the previous order. the presiding officer: the senate stands adjourned until noon tomorrow. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2020] the senate adjourned for the weekend without moving forward on a relief package. continuing tions into monday morning, they will return at noon eastern to debate on the bill.

no votes are scheduled but it's voteble this will be a new to move the legislation forward. atch live senate coverage on c-span 2. c-span's washington journal live every day with news and policy impact you. coming up monday morning, we'll discuss the latest congressional fforts to address the coronavirus pandemic with reporterjournal senate zack cohen. and we'll talk with the chief adviser about the u.s. coronavirus response. washington 's journal live at 7:00 eastern monday morning. join in the discussion. >> president trump along with embers of the white house coronavirus task force, including vice president pence, discussing the latest federal government's response to the outbreak.