mr. clyburn? rep. yburn: when we look at states, i am from a state that in large measure was talked about by the governor of new york. i am from a state that did not expand medicaid. therefore, so much of the burden of trying to meet the challenge of this pandemic goes straight to small communities, local governments, irrespective of what may be happening at the state level. if you are the mayor of a little town of 8000 or 9000 people, i think you ought to be eligible to get direct aid from the congress. and so i have been advocating for a long time and will be advocating very strongly that, whatever we do for state and local governments, do not leave the locals out. and make sure that the small communities get their fair share. haveer pelosi: we may three challenges. thee, county, and then municipalities that mr. clyburn mentioned. in addition to that, we want to expand medicaid and other things that help the states over and above this. how much the states are putting together? $500ave heard the figure

mr. clyburn -- whip of the house mr. clyburn. rep. clyburn: thank you for your leadership and guidance in this important issue. in spite of what attempt may have been made to the contrary, my vision for this great country is drawn from the pledge of allegiance. that pledge, when i was a kid growing up, in south carolina, we used to say the pledge every morning. itemember getting to perfect because i was in school when we changed the pledge to insert the words "under god." i remembered how many times i would have to keep repeating it for failing to put those two words in it when i recited it. pledge with aat phrase that means a lot to me, "with liberty and justice for all." that is what has enlightened me in my service here in the congress. i have always said that my vision for this great country is making its greatness accessible and affordable for all. all over on billboards my congressional district. i believe strongly in that. this country is great, but the greatness is not accessible and affordable for everybody. to me, that is wh

mr. clyburn. rep. clyburn: it is very important for us when we talk about state and local, remember, it is state and local. and the fact that we have had so often is that we get hung up at the state level, then forget that the cities, the counties, even local public service districts, are local governments. and we ought to pay close attention to if they are getting what they need as well. i have beend local, pressing my caucus for years to remember, it did not say all local, it's and local. conscious of that as we have these discussions. spkr. pelosi: if i make, again, more for tomorrow, but since you asked, what our plan is now is to have two separate, maybe even three, state, county, and municipality. and we can take it all the way down, we think to 10000 and fewer. this is a big issue for all the members. the governors have a big problem. they have a big problem in terms of the coronavirus. many of the space -- states that do. meet theiro budget needs, and the community does as well. we expect govern

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mr. clyburn the head of it.g to go after the president as they have been doing for four years. lou: is there a strategy, an opportunity for the republicans in the white house and capitol hill to stop this committee and end its nonsense? this is outrageous? >> no, it's going to happen. lou: just by a stroke of the pen in the house? >> it's going to happen. we just have to call it and describe it for what it is. it's another attack on the president. we can communicate the truth and that's what we have been doing for four years every time the democrats attack. they saw the mueller investigation turned up nothing. the impeachment investigation showed there was nothing wrong. the footnotes that have been declassified in the last few weeks showed us that effort was ridiculous. it was based on russian disinformation. they knew they were getting played. each time they tried it backfires on them. let's call it for what it is, this is another attempt to go after the president of the united states. lou: another sickening e

mr. clyburn, select committee. i'm very proud, mr. clyburn, i had the privilege of naming him then to oversee what was happening in response to katrina. he just was magnificent in his precision of thought and objectivity. isn't about assigning blame. it's about taking responsibility and be able to answer tore what we have put forth. -- and to's for what we have put forth. so the committee will ensure historic investment of taxpayer dollars are being used wisely and efficiently and nobody is ripping us off. where there's big money, we know this, people will come up ith a scam of some kind. whip clyburn's leadership is essential to the work and his review of the response to hurricane katrina, which i mentioned and so many issues critical to working families. i'm proud he's accepted the opportunity to serve our country in this role now. our republican and the administration's join in respecting this oversight that we can save lives. deliver relief, and protect our economy. i say this with all the hope that i can muster that we can do this

mr. clyburn. yes, ma'am. >> the senate majority commented about bankruptcy. other republicans have been making arguments and have little appetite for increased spending, how do you plan to violence to t going to answer for fiscal irresponsibility of the past? ms. pelosi: this is all coronavirus. thank you for your question. everything we have done in these four bills and what we will do are all connected. it's about addressing the outlays and what they have made on the coronavirus as well as the revenue lost because they haven't cash flow. same thing with the hospitals. they dope have paying patients who offset the terrible work that they do. in the hospitals as with the state and local directly related to coronavirus outlays and coronavirus revenue loss, but it is indicative of the fact that they don't believe in governance because they don't see the connection between the public health personnel, police and fire that are essential to meeting the needs of the american people. the fact is, it's about jobs as it is small business, it's about jobs, job, job, jo

mr. clyburn, select committee. i'm very proud, mr. clyburn, i had the privilege of naming him then to oversee what was happening in response to katrina. he just was magnificent in his precision of thought and objectivity. isn't about assigning blame. it's about taking responsibility and be able to answer tore what we have put forth. -- and to's for what we have put forth. so the committee will ensure historic investment of taxpayer dollars are being used wisely and efficiently and nobody is ripping us off. where there's big money, we know this, people will come up ith a scam of some kind. whip clyburn's leadership is essential to the work and his review of the response to hurricane katrina, which i mentioned and so many issues critical to working families. i'm proud he's accepted the opportunity to serve our country in this role now. our republican and the administration's join in respecting this oversight that we can save lives. deliver relief, and protect our economy. i say this with all the hope that i can muster that we can do this

mr. clyburn. that is what this is about and is the ranking member and this is just one more attempt by the democrats to go after the president, one more chance for them to attack the president in an election year and the biggest supporter of the democrat nominee as the chairman of this direct committee where we already have a different oversight russ is in place doing the work of the american taxpayer. remember their first big hearing was michael cohen and that we have the whole trump fresh investigation and we have them all investigation and then the impeachment of here we go in an election year in the summer could we know what these hearings will look like this fall could help the big hearings seem to take place in this room. they will be calling in all kinds of people for defense so i strongly oppose ranking member i strongly oppose this legislation and i hope it doesn't go to the for tomorrow to help it doesn't pass. if thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak today and i yield back. >

mr. clyburn. thank you all very much. reporter: we go live now to a briefing with federal reserve chair jerome powell. we join this event already in progress. section 13.3 of the federal reserve act, it requires we be secured to our lendfaction, and we cannot insolvent companies -- it is clear these are lending bound to implement the laws that congress gives us. we can't make grants. that in my raised remarks is that i just want to be clear on that. ou know, we can do what we can do and we will do it to the absolute limit of those powers. it.l keep at and you -- i just want people to know that we will be at it with that we authorities have until we get through this thing. we will keep using our authorities. ut there are authorities that we don't have and there may be a need for those authorities to be used as well as ours. powell.hair it's heather long from "the washington post." i have two questions for you. timing. do you plan to launch the corporate facility and main lending facilities in may, early may, anything you c

mr. clyburn. the speaker pro tempore: the democratic whip is recognized for two minutes. mr. clyburn: thank you very much, madam speaker. i thank the gentleman for yielding me the time. madam speaker, i rise today in support of this emergency spending package. i believe this legislation moves ofa step closer to my vision making america's greatness accessible and affordable for all. the covid-19 pandemic has laid bare the inequities in our health care system. that are having dramatic negative impacts on health outcomes in minority communities. martin luther king jr. observed back in 1966, of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health is the most shocking and the most inhuman, because it often results in physical death. how prevalent. to know the full extent of how this virus is ravaging communities of color, we must test, test, test. that is why i am pleased there is $25 billion in this package for testing, which allows for my advocacy of mobile testing. we must make testing accessible and affordable for rural and persistent poverty communities facing obstacles due to a l

mr. clyburn has a record if his state of south carolina of doing these oversight kind of activities underic and republican governors to much acclaim. this is about waste, fraud, abuse, profiteering, price gouging. where there is money, there is mischief, no question about it. and, again, as we review all of that, to take us to where you began this conversation, how do we get to a place to open up the economy to, again, save lives, but also save livelihoods as we go forward. i'm very proud of it. it is modeled after something harry truman did when he was a senator at the beginning of world war ii. he said, world war i, they had 1 116 committees to examine how the money was specnt. he said i would like to have one during the war as we go forward and it will save lives and save money and it did indeed do both. so it is modeled on -- that was under a democratic president at the time. so it wasn't about the administration. it was about we don't want people that we have examples of people trying to sell masks that they don't have, trying to abscond with the checks of people who are -- need to r

mr. clyburn our distinguished whip, was very much about getting the mobility of -- out there to test and to trace and the rest. but, again, let's come back. science, science, science, testing, testing, testing, tracing, tracing, tracing. isolation. treatment, prevention for everyone because that's the right thing to do. but it is also the safest. >> indeed. hopefully it will also -- >> insist on the truth. give us the facts. insist on the truth and ignore some of what the president said. i'll tell you what the public wants us to see, they want to see our heroes protected and so that's part of our thrust as we go in for the state and local. they want their checks. their unemployment checks, their rent payment checks, their -- the small business checks. and they don't want any of our money. any taxpayer money being squandered by big industries who get this money, the money is to be spent, to keep people in jobs and not for enriching shareholders, dividends, bonuses, ceo pay or any of that. there are three things that in our -- what we're doing we try to -- we're very proud in c.a.r.e.s. on

mr. clyburn said he wants to use the coronavirus to restructure in liberal views.ctuary cities, she wanted to change election law and she fought for the national endowment for the arts. i do know that speaker pelosi has now held up small business from getting money. that's holding it up from democrats, green party, republicans and all. that is wrong. i don't know what your motive is but the one thing i do know, we will only defeat this if we work together. i've watched republicans sit in the table just as i have done before to make sure we work together. just last week i had a small business, ambulance business in my district, she called me so excited because she got the program for small business and you know what she said, i was going to have to lay off a number of people so when the 911 call comes now, i can actually deliver. that's what nancy pelosi is holding up. steve: all right. leader ken mccarthy. thank you so much. you bet. we all know that exercise keeps you healthy but a little as 30 minutes a day could prevent a deadly complication from coronavirus. dr

mr. mccarthy would join me in doing that. >> jim clyburn, thank you very much. stay healthy, stay safe.ate your time. >> thank you very much for having me. >> if i can take a moment, i would like to speak directly to one person known to watch this show or at least clips of the show, president trump. mr. president, i know you, like millions of americans, are eager to have the nation go back to some semblance of normal. one of the questions the american people need answered for that to happen responsibly, what's the plan? is there a plan for widespread testing of every american so as to isolate the virus the way other countries have done? when will there be enough tests for that to happen? how will they be administered? who will pay for the tests and the results? who will notify us as to whether we have tested positive or not? and what to do then. is there a plan to make sure doctors and nurses and health care professionals finally are able to get the personal protective equipment or ppe that they need? those health care workers are quite literally dying while they try to protect our soci