Tim Kaine: “I rise to discuss the next steps the Senate should take in dealing with the COVID-19 global pandemic. I applaud the…”

“I rise to discuss the next steps the Senate should take in dealing with the COVID-19 global pandemic. I applaud the bipartisan result Congress has shown in passing four important pieces of legislation to provide trillions of dollars of aid to Americans in the midst of this catastrophe. My heart goes out to people who are suffering. When we were last here voting sort of near midnight on March 25 or early in the morning on March 26, 675 Americans had then died of coronavirus. Now, more than 72,000 have. In the few weeks we have been away, the number of deaths has increased by more than 70,000. Millions have been diagnosed. Those numbers are rising every day. The crisis has been the most severe economic shock our Nation has experienced in decades, even more severe than the economic collapse of 2008-2009. Madam President, just a personal privilege. I know four people who have died of coronavirus. Jeanette Galliano, my brother Steve's mother-in-law, died in a senior facility in New Orleans in the last few weeks. Lois Shaver. Lois is the mother of one of our closest friends, the godmother of our middle son. Lois died in a nursing home in Fairfax County in Northern Virginia in the last few weeks. Gerald Glenn was a minister, a bishop, and pillar of the Richmond faith community. He was somebody I appointed to boards when I was Governor. Senator Warner did the same. Bishop Glenn passed away of coronavirus right after Easter. Dolson Anderson was a longtime friend.…”