. >> madam speaker, i ask that all of ers rise for a moment ilence in remembrance of the lewis.le john robert the speaker: the chair asks that all those present in the members and ell as staff throughout the capitol, all who love john lewis, wherever you are, rise in a remembrancelence in of the conscience of the congress, the honorable john lewis. the speaker: for what purpose oes the gentleman from georgia seek -- the speaker: for what purpose georgia gentleman from seek further recognition? mr. bishop: madam speaker, i ask or a privileged resolution and ask for its immediate consideration. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the resolution. house resolution 1054, resolved that the house as heard with profound of the death of the lewis, a john representative from the state of eorgia, resolved, that the committee of such members of the house as the speaker may designate together with such senate as may be joined be appointed to attend the funeral. that the sergeant of arms of the house be authorized steps ected to take such as may be necessary for carrying out the provision

today on the floor of the house, we'll have a moment of ilence, to observe the loss of 150,000 americans. 10 weeks ago we passed the heroes act. more than 10 weeks ago. we passed the heroes act. which had a path to containing this virus with testing, tracing, treatment, mask wearing, sanitation. the republicans said they wanted to take a pause. well, the virus didn't. since then, 65 -- over 65,000 americans have died. 300,000 -- a huge number of americans have -- three million americans since then have become infected. so much for the pause. and now at the beginning of this week, the republicans in the senate came back with a piecemeal approach. clearly they and perhaps the white house do not understand the graphicity of the situation . 150,000 americans died. nearly half of them since we passed our bill. several hundred thousand -- three million -- know how it goes. the first million took 100 days. to get to two million, it took 43 more days. to get to three million, it took 27 days. and to get to four million, it took 16 days. we're now approaching 4 1/2 million. this is a freight trai

. >> madam speaker, i ask that all of ers rise for a moment ilence in remembrance of the lewis.le john robert the speaker: the chair asks that all those present in the members and ell as staff throughout the capitol, all who love john lewis, wherever you are, rise in a remembrancelence in of the conscience of the congress, the honorable john lewis. the speaker: for what purpose oes the gentleman from georgia seek -- the speaker: for what purpose georgia gentleman from seek further recognition? mr. bishop: madam speaker, i ask or a privileged resolution and ask for its immediate consideration. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the resolution. house resolution 1054, resolved that the house as heard with profound of the death of the lewis, a john representative from the state of eorgia, resolved, that the committee of such members of the house as the speaker may designate together with such senate as may be joined be appointed to attend the funeral. that the sergeant of arms of the house be authorized steps ected to take such as may be necessary for carrying out the provision