I know where you are coming from on this. We have a little difference of opinion about this. Mr. McCONNELL. I thank the Senator from West Virginia. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader. Mr. McCONNELL. Colleagues, here is an…

I have the floor. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from West Virginia has the floor.

Yes, sir. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader. Mr. McCONNELL. Even if cloture were invoked, there are 30 more hours.

I rise because my dear friend, I can tell, is very upset. I am upset that we are at this point. I really am. I am working with you on so many things in a bipartisan way. I always have and always will. With that being said, let me make sure…

I understand. Mr. McCONNELL. Here is the way it works, colleagues. We have been fiddling around, as the Senator from Maine pointed out, for 24 hours.

We should be able to get a bill that we can move forward on with unanimous consent. We really should. That is what I am hoping for. I think we can do it Let me go back to where I am coming from. My whole thing is based on the healthcare…

Equally divided? An hour on both sides? The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader. Mr. McCONNELL. That is fine. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The understanding of the Chair is that the request is that the hour of debate would be equally divided…

Well, truly, we are friends, and there is not a person over there I don't consider my dear friend. A lot of times, that is used in a very colloquial way, but I mean it. The Senator from Nebraska, let me--from Kansas--let me just say this…

I ask unanimous consent that the Senate stand in recess until 5 p.m. today. There being no objection, the Senate, at 3:18 p.m., recessed until 5:02 p.m. and was reassembled when called to order by the Presiding Officer (Mrs. Loeffler)…

I would like to just say a few words about what we are going through and what we are experiencing. I can only give you my experiences back home in West Virginia. I have been on conference calls because we are social distancing, as we all…

thank you. I want to thank my colleague from Oregon for his big heart and his compassion, continually always worrying about those being left behind and forgotten. I can assure you that Mr. Merkley does not leave anybody behind, and he…

I will tell you what we were able to do on that. I sent a letter last week immediately to Sonny Perdue, and he answered immediately. We were able to get all of the kids--because we have so many children in West Virginia who rely on their…

The economics of this whole thing right now is, first of all, we should know who is infected, where the infection is going, and how rampant this will be. We don't know yet. Next of all, who is the most vulnerable economically? The people…

Senator, if you have seen the map of the United States, West Virginia stands out and doesn't show anything. I think, how could that happen?

Exactly. We have to do some things and do them quickly. And if this thing doesn't come up, we should sit here and protest until it does come up. There is no reason we can't do it tonight.

I agree with everything that has been said. I agree that, basically, we should never have left here Thursday night. So many of us could, maybe, drive home. I was able to drive home and was able to drive back. Yet so many people were put in…

Well, today he recognized it and came forth and basically said today in that press release that I listened to--he basically acknowledged the threat of what we are dealing with and the enormity of what we are dealing with. It was the first…

Let's do it. No blame. No blame. Let's just do it. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Delaware.