and the maryland department of labor -- to help hard-pressed marylanders and small businesses, help them get through this difficult period. our unemployment insurance program is ramped up and is dedicated to helping employees and employers who have been affected by covid-19. if you have been laid off, you can immediately file a claim by phone or email or by submitting an application online. unlike other states, maryland has no waiting period whatsoever so claims can be filed right away, immediately. and, we are launching the covid-19 layoff aversion fund. as of today, an additional $7 million is available to help small businesses retain their employees during this crisis. maryland small businesses can apply for up to $50,000 in flexible funding to help continue operations and keep their employees on the payroll. these resources are available right now at businessexpress.maryland.gov/cor businessexpress.maryland.gov/cor through the maryland department of commerce, today, we are introducing the maryland small business covid-19 relief fund. a $75 million fund that will provide working

. >> earlier today, maryland governor larry hogan held a press briefing on maryland's he announced the first confirmed coronavirus a death in his state. gov. hogan: good morning. sad dutyt, it was my to report the first death in maryland as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. a prince george's county resident in his 60's with underlying health conditions, and no known travel history. this maryland or was infected with a virus through community transmission. and i know that all marylanders joined me in praying for his family and his loved ones. unfortunately, we are only at the beginning of this crisis. and while this is the first death here in maryland, unfortunately, it will not be the last. have this morning, we now 107 confirmed cases of covid-19 here in maryland, and 88% increase -- an 88% increase in the last 48 hours. among today's new cases is a five-year-old girl in howard county who has tested positive for covid-19. the first case of a child contracting the virus here in maryland. morning, there are more than 220 confirmed cases in the washington region here in maryland, was

and marylanders are a shining example of that. we have seen so many examples of compassion and generosity in recent days, and there are dozens of them. but let me just tell you a couple. a number of our distillers across the state are now, instead of producing alcohol, they are producing hundreds of bottles of hand sanitizer for the local communities. yesterday, the owners of pasadena boat works donated 14,000 respirator masks to the maryland department of health. and a group of baltimore city residents has come together to form a quarantine response network, to run errands and check in on their elderly neighbors. in places like hampden and charles village and winchester. in these times of anxiety and uncertainty, the people all across our state always look for ways to reach out and help their neighbors. to encourage that generous spirit, today, we are launching a new maryland unites website at governor.maryland.gov/marylandun governor.maryland.gov/marylandun ites to highlight the ways and opportunities marylanders and volunteer i

the gentleman from maryland is recognized. the gentleman from maryland reserves. mr. hoyer: reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas is recognized. mr. brady: thank you, mr. speaker. i'm pleased to yield one minute to the gentleman from kentucky, mr. guthrie. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from kentucky is recognized for one minute. mr. guthrie: thank you, mr. speaker. as all of our colleagues came in yesterday and this morning and make an effort to get back, it is important that we were all home last week. i was home last week and got to talk to a barber. he has his own shop. had to close down because of the order. now he's going to have an income. i talked to a businessman who said, i'm going to have to lay people off for the first time in 40 years of business and almost in tears. after this bill passes, he will not have to do that. or the businesswoman that says i have a rent payment due at the end of the month. after this bill passes, she'll be able to pay her rent. mr. speaker, i'm humbled that today i'm going to vote for the largest bil

the gentleman from maryland is recognized. the gentleman from maryland. mr. hoyer: i yield 30 seconds to the gentleman from new york. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. espaillat: i rise in support of the cares act. mr. speaker, it would be criminal to not support billions of dollars for our hospitals and health care workers. it would be criminal not to support millions of dollars for small businesses that will be struggling. it would be criminal to not support help for working families, $1,200 for individuals, $500 per child. but it's crit ka to leave out immigrants. they clean our houses and take care of our children and elderly. -- criminal to leave out this is our future. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from maryland reserves. the gentleman from texas is recognized. mr. brady: proud to yield one minute to the yell from florida, mr. mast. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. mast: mr. speaker, i would rather die than see my country stumble or fall. and by god, i mean that and i i don't think i'm the only o

the gentleman from maryland is recognized. the gentleman from maryland. mr. hoyer: i yield 30 seconds to the gentleman from new york. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. espaillat: i rise in support of the cares act. mr. speaker, it would be criminal to not support billions of dollars for our hospitals and health care workers. it would be criminal not to support millions of dollars for small businesses that will be struggling. it would be criminal to not support help for working families, $1,200 for individuals, $500 per child. but it's crit ka to leave out immigrants. they clean our houses and take care of our children and elderly. -- criminal to leave out this is our future. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from maryland reserves. the gentleman from texas is recognized. mr. brady: proud to yield one minute to the yell from florida, mr. mast. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. mast: mr. speaker, i would rather die than see my country stumble or fall. and by god, i mean that and i i don't think i'm the only o

the gentleman from maryland is recognized. he gentleman from maryland is recognized. mr. hoyer: thank you, mr. chairman. i would now like to yield to a member of the house and a debbie from florida, wasserman schultz for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from florida is minute.ed for one ms. wasserman schultz: thank you, mr. speaker. as a proud floridian, i rise to workers, health professionals, small businesses and veterans from this grave face. we senate republicans drafted a corporate friendly bill that failed to meaningfully support who are losing their jobs. instead, democrats secured a invests $2 trillion in families, hospitals, and small businesses. massive ill get investments in unemployment benefits and added 13 weeks of benefits which republicans deny. to working class families will get as much as $3,400 for a family of four. mall businesses will get help to make payroll, rent, and utility costs. i'm proud that the ppropriations committee spearheaded nearly $20 billion to ensure veterans' health needs re met, whether at the v.a. or local e.r. a

speaker i am proud to yield one minute to the gentleman from maryland. >> the gentlemanhe from marylandinute. >> mr. speaker we are here are weak too late, not because we did not know what our citizens and businesses needed but because too many in the congressional swamp felt that you over the serious crisis go to waste, building this peel with pork and earmarks like 25 million to the kennedy center, 75 million to npr, 75 million to the national humanity. instead of more masks and ventilators. but mr. speaker, many americans do need our thanks, thank you to the frontline healthcare workers who selflessly and compassionately care for the victims of the wuhan virus. thank you to president trump for his leadership in his transparency with the american people in this time of crisis. thank you to my anesthesiologist colleagues who stepped up to the challenge, they're trained in intensive care in the vienna leaders could prove critical if this fight escalates. finally, thank you to all of those americans that have followed the president's recommendation on 15 days to slow the spread. >> gentl

states like my state of maryland, cities like baltimore city, and other cities and towns in maryland, they are on the front lines in many respects, and they're facing huge pressures, which is why we received a letter, an emergency plea, from the national governors association just the other day, and this is a bipartisan plea from governors larry hogan and cuomo. they point out that medicaid is a major source of federal help that they use to provide for the medical needs of people in their states, and they're asking for an increase in fmap. we provided some increase in fmap in one of the earlier bills we passed, but they desperately need more, as the health impact of the virus continues to spread. as you can imagine, transit systems, whether paid for by states or local jurisdictions, are essentially seeing all her to revenues dry up as people, understandably, don't get on those crowded systems. and so no revenue means that they're in a world of hurt. so we need to provide emergency help. the national league of cities has also sent us a letter talking about similar kinds of needs. and w

state education association, the maryland parent-teacher association and maryland family network. in addition to the members of the commission, the commission actively sought input from the public with numerous meetings soliciting public comment held across our state. in january 2019, the commission unanimously released their interim report that found maryland students scored in the middle of the pack on the national assessment of educational progress known as the nation's report card that is given to representative samples in the fourth, eighth, and 12th graders in every state. the gaps in achievement between social and economic children with disabilities were far too large in a state like maryland that has established policies meant to provide a world-class public education system. the commission also reported that less than half of the kinder gardeners entering our school system are ready to learn and fewer children are graduating college or career ready. this is in spite of the estimates that by 2022 nearly two-thirds of the jobs in maryland will require at least a postseconda

in maryland courts had pretty much decided that. so ann bell potentially, from 1824 to 1834, 1836, if she has been living as a free woman for more than ten years, she could file a freedom suit and claim for once and for all the court -- and the court might determine that she is free. so we have three different pathways. right? here. well, so, after daniel bell negotiates the deed, this is what sets everything in motion, includes james ash's seizure in 1839 by gerald t. greenfield and his attempt to suddenly sell him. this is a whole family. it's a little complicated. let's wrap our minds around it. susan armstead clearly is attempting to subvert the will -- sorry the deed. she is in touch with the gre greenfie greenfields. she essentially tells them that daniel bell has been manipulating robert armstead, her dead -- her deceased husband and that daniel bell needs to be dealt with. the first step that she takes in order to possibly make this deed of emancipation unfounded, unsound is to attempt to sell daniel. get daniel out of the p

maryland, under its law, had allowed hearsay testimony. but when the supreme court in queen v.hepburn, ruled in 1813 that hearsay was inadmissible, that in a way, doesn't it, shuts down a certain line of freedom suit, claiming freedom on the basis of an ancestor became so much more difficult to prove if you couldn't use the kinds of depositions that, or the kinds of testimony, oral testimony, family lore, in lieu of written documents, right? and so mia mcqueen did not win her suit in 1813, but as we're going to see, hundreds of other enslaved families and enslaved people did win their freedom suits. dred scott did not win his. but hundreds of others did. and so if we, if we compare, just for a minute, this, what are the similarities between queen v.hepburn, and dred scott v john sanford? what are some of the similarities? well, the first, you all had mentioned it is, that dred scott's claim in a way was similar, like queen's right? he said he was free because he had set foot on free soil where savely savely slavely in ooel in llegal in ill

we have been advising a lot of large counties, for example, in maryland. montgomery and prince georges, which are right on the border with d.c. and are very populist. governments. we are advising them on day-to-day responses as issues come up on this. county,ard, howard which is between d.c. and baltimore and is a very prosperous, well-run county government, last friday, we ran goingetop exercise through what a coronavirus would call upon the public schools to do and testing public school officers on how they would respond. we have other exercises we have been asked to do that are being lined up. that we have a lot of existing contracts with counties and state governments and cities that had asked us to do projects, which now, do not have the immediacy that coronavirus has. we have been essentially told, put the other things aside, throw your full weight behind dealing with the coronavirus. we will get back to those other issues when we can afford to do it. we are dealing with department of health, department of emergency management, hospitals, nonprofits,

the gentleman from maryland is recognized. mr. hoyer: mr. speaker, i now yield four minutes to the gentlelady from connecticut, one of the leaders in this congress on protecting families and children, ms. rosa delauro. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from connecticut is recognized for four minutes. ms. delauro: mr. speaker, i rise in support of this historic bill. this is the biggest economic and health crisis the country has ever faced. nurses and doctors are in intensive care units trying to save our humanity against this awful pandemic. and this is the biggest governmental response the country has ever seen to rescue people, the economy, and our health care system. it is necessary. the united states is now the epicenter of a global pandemic. cases of the coronavirus are rising exponentially. and to slow the spread of the contagion, serious measures of social distancing are under way. schools are closing. businesses are shuttering. and last week more than three million filed for unemployment. so the hour is dark. but tod

we had 678% increase over the weekend in maryland. we're taking many of the same steps you were talking about in new york. fema is opening up a 250-bed hospital in our convention center in baltimore. we're doing everything we can to not only take steps on social distancing but to really ramp up and deal with this massive crisis we're going to have with providing health care to all of these folks. and we're also trying to address the impact to the economy that you were just talking about. we announced a number of steps today to help our small businesses and those people who are losing their jobs, which is kind of a dual attack at the same time. how do we save lives and how do we also help people economically? >> right. maryland has had -- i believe these numbers are the latest-288 confirmed cases of coronavirus and three marylanders have, strategy ical tragically, died. do you think that by not ordering a shelter in place, even though you've taken other aggressive measures, that there might be marylanders that have not gett egotten the

guest: we do give advice to the state of maryland and we have a close working relationship with -- maryland emergency agency , which is headed by a former staff member of mine. we were not consulted on that. the importance of what you're saying is that is an example of the extraordinary powers a governor can use when an emergency is declared. i was called by the baltimore sun yesterday because they are allowing people who are in default on their leases, they are not letting them be evicted during the emergency. personnel are saying, "you are taking our property away!" "how can thesaid, governor do that?" that is a minor thing the governor can do, stop evictions during the outbreak of the coronavirus and not putting people on the street when infections are rampant if there is no social distancing. that is an example of power the governor has. if you go down the list of powers, the powers are much more extraordinary than that. i will be quick to say that there is all -- also available in maryland for complainants to at -- to complain if countermeasure is arbitrary and capricious. we saw that

so i am pleased that in our state it's team maryland. our congressional delegation is working very closely with governor hogan and his cabinet, and we're working very closely with our county executives and our mayors and our private sector to do everything we can to protect the public health of the people of our state. we've done what we can locally to make sure testing is available so we understand the dimensions of this problem. and the governor has taken extraordinary steps in order to increase our medical capacity in the likelihood that we're going to see a significant increase number of those people that have the coronavirus. yes, we need to stay at home unless it is an urgent reason for us to be outside of home. and i'm frequently asked by my friends why don't we do as much as we can in the united states senate remotely? i think we should, including voting. so we need to distance ourselves and minimize social contact in order to prevent the spike of this disease which would test our medical capacity to handle it. so i was pleased t

66 residents of a nursing home, and have 10 people have died in maryland.hat state's governor, larry hogan, who's also chair of the national governors' association. governor, maryland was one of the first states to shut down all the schools, then all the restaurants, then all nonessential businesses, and you just extended school closures for another four weeks until april 24th. if the president and his task force start sawing this week that certain -- saying this week that certain low risk areas of the country including some perhaps in maryland can reopen, do you follow that guidance, or do you just ignore it? >> look, i think the virus is going to dictate the time frame, and we're going to follow the ad vice of the scientists and doctors like dr. inglesby who you just had on a moment ago. he's on our task force. no, we don't see any way that we're going to be opening back up in a couple of weeks. the washington metro propoll tan area has quadrupled in the past week, and we see that continuing to grow exponentially, and we think in two weeks we're going to

the washington metropolitan area has maryland, d.c. quadrupled in the past week and we see that continuing to grow exponentially, and we think in two weeks around easter we are going to be looking a lot more like new york. >> chris: so you think two weeks from now it's going to be getting worse in maryland, not better? >> governor hogan: there's no question about that. in spite of the fact that we've taken some of the most aggressive steps in the country on social distancing and we were out front ahead of nearly every state on some of these things we've been taking unprecedented actions every day for the past three weeks, it's continuing to grow it really kind of frightening cases and we think it's going to be worse in two weeks, not better. >> chris: do you worry that this talk -- and it got a little tempered as the week went on about reopening, about "we don't want the cure to be worse than the problem." it may be getting some people not just in maryland, but around the country, a false sense of confidence that, you know, maybe i don

maryland officials including the governor of maryland pointed out the fact it took about three weeks maryland, virginia area to reach 1,000 cases, and just three days for that number to double to 2,000. fred. >> sarah westwood, keep us posted on that. >>> meantime, california preparing to be the next state to near the 5,000 mark. the "usns mercy" helping eve possible overcrowding at area hospitals treating non-coronavirus patients. cnn's paul vercammen is in los angeles for us. paul what other steps are under way to prepare for this potential influx of coronavirus cases in california? >> reporter: well, fredricka, as you look at the "mercy" behind me which hasn't taken cases yet but in communication with hospitals, hospitals are shifting. a massive redefining of roles. at ucc medical center, tech usc, telling the surgical residents to go ahead and jump into this problem. surgery residents are now taking on jobs that are normally reserved for nurses. they're going to be administers i.v. bagging, for example, and drawing blood. i talked to the chief resident here and i talked to him ab

brown of maryland. the chair: pursuant to house resolution 877, the gentleman from maryland, mr. brown, and a member opposed, each will control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from maryland. mr. brown: thank you, mr. chair. i yield myself such time as i may consume. i want to recognize the hard work of chairman bennie thompson on the underlying bill and the entire homeland security committee. my district, maryland's fourth congressional district, has the fifth largest number of federal employees in the country. these public servants go to work every day to make the country safer and a better place to live for our families. for years transportation security officers have not had basic workplace protections such as collective bargaining rights, whistleblower protections, and paid leave. since 2011 transportation security officers who make up 70% of t.s.a.'s work force have had labor union representation but because of limitations imposed by t.s.a. have been denied full collective bargaining rights. t.s.o.'s were most severely impacted during the last government shu

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victor joins us from silver spring, maryland. good morning. guest: good morning. i have been buying into the stock market and while others freak out, i have been buying in. i did this in 2001 and 2009. i know i'm going to come out of this ahead in the long run. but i would like to take a couple of minutes here to salute the truckers out there. wen i can't sleep, i call w l in cincinnati and they have a show called the american trucking network with steve sommers and riding the wave with son of the truckers i have spoken with personally on the ande, he hauls woodchips horsefeathers, propane to various places. there are others. , spaceman. grunt my handle on there is known as blind man. alex, good morning. caller: good morning. i'm actually not really affected by this economically at all. reason for this is that i am actually an essential employee. thettle over a week ago website fortune.com posted a short article with about 14 points of who is considered an essential employee, according to the united states government. couple of the usual suspects are on there. peo

maryland has been distinctly helpful. governor hogan and the state government -- stick government have been helping people deal with creditors to make sure you don't find people being kicked out of their homes or coming under credit card debt. they will also be some help from the package that is likely to pass in the coming weeks but i think it is on people like her that the federal support needs to be focused. the united kingdom has enacted a package of responses that includes what they call job retention. in return for employers not firing their workforce, the government is taking over paying 80% of the salaries of that workforce during the public health emergency. at significant cost, the national government is helping sustain payrolls. that support is provided through employers rather than around them, having lost your job. that would be expensive but what we are doing is expensive too and i think we have to think about how to take on the problem we face in ways that allow people to hang on. at the same time, this per

in maryland and california, the bar now set at 250. disneyland, california, now shutting down for the first time since 9/11. tomorrow jackman just arrived for a ten-day trip. >> very frustrating. >> reporter: more dominos falling. disney world florida, universal studios, smithsonian, seattle's space needle, l.a.'s 50th annual pride parade postponed and it wasn't scheduled until june. and sports, adding to that growing list of delayed or suspended seasons, the fabled masters golf tournament now postponed. the boston marathon, also postponed until september. >> the metaphor here writes itself. today we're on the first leg of a marathon on our own as we battle this very serious disease. >> reporter: at the western inside the texas medical center, they're now sanitizing rooms with a robot. >> we're the first hotel in the country to have adopted this technology. >> reporter: an american airlines pilot tested positive and two of four tsa agents at san jose airport who also tested positive were passing down passengers. >> i certainly wouldn't

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the union force at ball's bluff on the maryland side, montgomery county, maryland, had two brigades, about 7,000 men for most of the summer. now, the troops that we need to be concerned about, as far as ball's bluff, are mostly the 15th massachusetts, the 42nd new york, the tamny regiment, neither of which was brigaded. those were two independent regiments, and you'll often see them listed as being part of one brigade or another at the time of ball's bluff, and they were not. they were independent regiments. then you had two brigades, one that contained units -- let's see, i think the 1st minnesota, the 20th massachusetts was brigaded. you had the 7th michigan. those are -- except for the 20th massachusetts, those two units, minnesota and michigan units, the 34th new york, were not actually at ball's bluff. they were at edward's ferry, which is three miles down the road. then you also are some after literally. part of battery "b" of the 1st rhode island light artillery. they had brought some guns to cross over to ball's bluff. only one of them got there. you also had a couple of litt

university of maryland medical system. john hopkins. we're lucky in that we have some of the best health operations in the world located in our state. or right here surrounding the nation's capital. at this point in time, we have the necessary resources. i think we're about to double the number of test kits we have, but this is obviously an issue that dr. fauci talked about, that we have been hearing a lot about, ramping this up as the crisis escalates is a concern among all of the governors. >> you heard him say, he doesn't sound as if containment is going to work. we're probably in a mitigation standpoint, and he seemed to indicate, i gave him every opportunity to sort of give us good news, and he was being very cautious. it tells me it's likely this community spread is going to get worse. what does that mean to you now? >> the governors are really on the front lines. we have had -- look, i think there's been pretty good cooperation at the federal, state, and local level, but this thing is escalating so rapidly. information is changin

when i consult with maryland and manufacturing companies, i.e. insist that they have att least three alternative sources for the products that they produce. this is something that is going to b be on the health crisis ino something that the fda can help make happen. i is created based on my experience with manufacturing companies that i'm recommending you direct the small business administration produce a nationwide list of companies, let themselves identify and at the forecast in the future of having supply-chain concerns. it would be a self identified list of made in america products and services. so they would be monitoring and this would be an opt in list. they've worked throughout the country currently as well as over the last ten years. this list would be compiled and it would be monitorewould be mol business administration. for example, if they find when you arthey are doing their outrh efforts hypothetically a company in miami that might be producing paper in its largest manufacturer might be china. it would be to replace that source. aga

i am a seventh and eighth grade middle school science teacher here in maryland. my wife and i are both teachers. this is our whole life right now, talking about how will we be doing this. for our county, we are in this transition period where they sort of - we have to follow the lead of maryland state laws, the governor declaring schools being closed. then we, as teachers, are waiting to hear from the county and what the county decides about continuing education. of course, we as teachers, we are there every day for our 150 kids. we are having one-on-one, human relationships, committed to their learning, every one of them, managing all of their social experience and all of these things. the biggest issue for us, i would say, is this profound uncertainty about where we are now. there is only a limited time left in what would have been the school year. of course, there are learning objectives. but we are professionals. we have a practice of being teachers in the classroom. it is just so hard for me to imagine how i will be able to be that effective educator for my

and we've got cases all over western maryland and the eastern shore and southern maryland. this is not restricted just to our urban areas and our suburban areas. it's something that's happening all over the state. we're faced with the growing numbers everywhere in our state. it's impacting everybody and i think all of these steps are necessary to try to save lives. >> yeah. where are you on your ventilator situation? are you at a point yet where you believe at your peak, you will have enough beds and enough ventilators? or are you not in that situation yet? >> well, chuck, i think we're in the same position that just about every other governor in america is. and that is that we're working with our hospital systems and talking with really smart folks about what happens if we're not able to flatten this curve. and if we have this spiked demand on our hospitals, nobody has enough ventilators or enough personnel or enough hospital beds and icu beds to handle this. which is why we're taking these kind of drastic actions and we're -- you know, we're all hoping and kind of shootin

states like my state of maryland, cities like baltimore city, and other cities and towns in maryland, they are on the front lines in many respects, and they're facing huge pressures, which is why we received a letter, an emergency plea, from the national governors association just the other day, and this is a bipartisan plea from governors larry hogan and cuomo. they point out that medicaid is a major source of federal help that they use to provide for the medical needs of people in their states, and they're asking for an increase in fmap. we provided some increase in fmap in one of the earlier bills we passed, but they desperately need more, as the health impact of the virus continues to spread. as you can imagine, transit systems, whether paid for by states or local jurisdictions, are essentially seeing all her to revenues dry up as people, understandably, don't get on those crowded systems. and so no revenue means that they're in a world of hurt. so we need to provide emergency help. the national league of cities has also sent us a letter talking about similar kinds of needs. and w

maryland officials said this morning to contain the outbreak they are not relocating anyone that has tested positive unless their symptoms are so serious they need to be hospitalize and even then spreading the number of patients out around different hospitals around the area to avoid overwhelming any one maryland hospital. there are those 66 positive cases. 11 hospitalizations have taken place so far out of this nursing home and unfortunately we learned this morning that one man a man in his 90s, with underlying conditions did pass away from the virus. this was brought up in context of discussions also about the life care center outside of seattle, washington. that was really the first major cluster of cases that we saw in the u.s. dozens died as a result of that outbreak and this appears to be the largest nursing home outbreak since what we saw at the live care center. it's a very serious situation. especially given that the populations of nursing homes are more vulnerable. they are older, tend to have medical conditions. so it's a much more serious situation for the people who beco

. >> you have a resource in johns hopkins probably nice to have in the state of maryland. walk me through the testing kit issue, and do you feel as if you have gotten enough support from the federal government? >> we're also the headquarters of the nih. john hopkins. we're lucky in that we have some of the best health operations in the world located in our state. or right here surrounding the nation's capital. at this point in time, we have the necessary resources. i think we're about to double the number of test kits we have, but this is obviously an issue that dr. fauci talked about, that we have been hearing a lot about, ramping this up as the crisis escalates is a concern among all of the governors. >> you heard him say, he doesn't sound as if containment is going to work. we're probably in a mitigation standpoint, and he seemed to indicate, i gave him every opportunity to sort of give us good news, and he was being very cautious. it tells me it's likely this community spread is going to get worse. what does that mean to you now? >> the governors are really on the fron

i appreciate what you do in the maryland. the minority development business centers are women business centers. of contact e places connect toists could the companies that are out there provideestors to really new opportunities for small businesses. so i just really wanted to and get from you your reach out.day to we're going -- we already relief the disaster programs for small businesses that can qualify. going to be e knocking on your door saying, can we get help under this program? will help.f maryland they're going to be your offices are going to be called upon to this. do you have the capacity to take care reach to of the, for example, the suggestion you made on list?ping a >> well, it would start by data from the businesses so the s.b.a. is what i'm recommending start from the down, utilizing the small business development centers, agencies all of the that work along with the s.b.a. and find the businesses that products do produce here in this country that can be of assistance to other businesses. s. briscoe: that they

i know that maryland misses him every day. i personally miss him every day. some of you have heard me say, as long as we served together, elijah nominated me for office in this leadership every time i ran. god, thank you for giving us elijah cummings, to bless this country, to bless his family, to bless his colleagues, to bless this committee, to make us better than that which we could be, to be all we could be. john kennedy said, let us go forth to lead the land we love, asking his blessing and his help, but knowing that here on earth, god's work must truly be our own. elijah, you did god's work and you did it well. [ applause ] not following the clyburn example, i am going to introduce an historic figure, that when you and i look back and say we were serving with nancy pelosi, we worked with nancy pelosi, we heard nancy pelosi, you will be able to tell your grandchildren you served with an historic figure, a great speaker, a great person, nancy pelosi of baltimore, maryland. [ applause ] >> thank you, steny. clearly mr. clyburn didn't think you needed an in

metropolitan area has maryland, d.c. and virginia, quadrupled in the past week and we see that continuing to grow exponentially and we think in two weeks around easter we'll be looking a lot more like new york. >> there are more than 3,000 cases of coronavirus in the d.c., maryland and virginia area and sadly, more than 20 people have now died. >>> still to come here, keeping spirits high during these very unusual times, how teachers and students around the bay area are working to make connections while still keeping their distance. >>> and tracking the shelter in place order, coming up the new data that ders. north bay. darn nice. day will be pretty we talked about that. now we'll talk about the warm- up coming our way in the five- day. it's about taking care of each other. it's the small parts that make a big difference. at chevy, we promise to do ours. we're offering chevy owners complimentary onstar crisis assist services and wifi data. if you need a new chevy, interest-free financing for 84 months - with deferred pa

. >> holly brower is professor of history at the university of maryland. is also author of the book "by birth or through consent to go being here onyou c-span3's american history tv. a broadegin with question. how were children viewed in the 16th century, raced on your research, compared to those now in the 21st century? ms. brewer: there was not as much distinction between childhood and adulthood. not even close. children had the legal capacity to do a variety of things and be responsible for things in a way we would not be today. it is almost beyond how we can imagine. for example, i found an example of a five-year-old putting his mark at the bottom of an apprenticeship contract that -- binding himself to labor until he turns 24. it was considered legally binding. i found an eight-year-old executed for arson. i found children marrying as early as two or three. in a fundamental way, there was not the same notion of what we take for granted now, that children had to have, people had to have meaningful consent to be bound. so childhood and adulthood, there