I want to particularly thank Mr. Phillips and Mr. Roy for working together on this important legislation. When the President signed the Paycheck Protection Program nearly 2 months ago, it provided a real lifeline to our small businesses…

I join my colleagues in mourning the staggering loss of 100,000 Americans to this wretched disease.

I rise today to pay special tribute to the Michigan heroes who have given their lives for their country while serving in our military. This is an especially fitting time to do so as we commemorate the 75th anniversary this year of the end…

I was unable to attend the vote No. 93 on May 18, 2020, on the nomination of Scott H. Rash to be the United States District Court for the District of Arizona. Had I been able to attend, I would have supported the nomination…

I first want to give a thank-you to everybody who is working right now and all the folks who are required to be here with the Senate in session. I wish we were focused on those things right now that are directly related to making sure…

I had an experience just last week, in a virtual hearing, when it came my turn to push the ``mute off'' button on the microphone, it didn't work. I was passed over. Then, when I texted in to find out why, I was told, basically: That is too…

May I respond. Education and Labor Committee last week. Mr. McGOVERN. Not a hearing.

I would also like to thank my colleagues for adding additional funding for our nation's tribal governments. This bill adds $20 billion to aid tribal governments who have been devastated by this pandemic, including tribes in my home state…

We, in Michigan, have been devastated by this virus. We were third for the number of cases in the country for weeks and, until this week, remained third in the number of deaths. Two million people are unemployed, and lives have been…

Access to clean water and to affordable water is essential to saving lives and stopping the spread of COVID-19. No one deserves, Mr. Speaker, to die because they are too poor to afford water. In my district alone, thousands of low-income…

I think we are here today because COVID is real.

I think we need to be making a lot more in America.

So people died because you weren't listened to?

the fact of the matter is, Ford Motor--you may not know that--is now producing N95 masks in my district in Flat Rock, Michigan.

But, Mr. Bowen, you talked about previously that you had ramped up production of masks and hired over 150 new workers during the 2009 H1N1 pandemic to meet the increased demand.

If Americans died driving those cars, the companies would be sued, and they would be charged with criminal negligence.

But I want to ask you a question. Do you have any sense of how many more N95 masks would be on the market had the Federal Government has taken you up on your offer to reactivate N95 manufacturing lines in January?

Well, I think we have got to bring the supply chain back to this country, period, so we don't have to chase them.