you know the dark is afraid of chuck norris. well, we have our own chuck grassley now and covid is afraid. so, we are very thankful to have him back and in good health and continually working for iowans. he's such a tremendous asset to the great state and we wish him continued health. as we are approaching the end of the congressional session, we do have a number of things that need to be done and i want to address two of them some of my colleagues have already mentioned. one is making sure we have a coronavirus bill that's done. just earlier today the governor of the great state of iowa stated congress needs to come together and get a bill done. we have people across the state of iowa and across the nation that are hurting. we want to keep a strong economy and keep our citizens safe and healthy. and finally, we do have a national defense authorization act that is hanging in the balance. we need to work together to ensure that we get this completed. we have done this for many decades and in a bipartisan fashion we need to do it

many you have heard the chuck norris jokes out there. you know the dark is afraid of chuck norris. well, we have our own chuck grassley jokes to britain right now the covid is afraid of chuck grassley. so we are just very thankful to have him back and in good health. and continually working for iowans. he is such a term in this asset to our great state of iowa. we wish him continued health. as were approaching the end of our congressional session, we do have a number of things that need to be done. i want to address two of those that some of my colleagues have already mentioned. one is making sure that we have a coronavirus bill that is it done. just earlier today our governor and the great state of iowa, kim reynolds did say congress needs to come together and get a bill done. we have people across the state of iowa and across this nation that are hurting. we want to keep a strong economy. we want to keep our citizens safe and healthy. and then finally, we have the national defense authorization act that is hanging in the balance. we need to work together to ensure that we get thi