Sen. Dianne Feinstein(D-Calif.) urged Senate Bulk Leader Mitch McConnell(R-Ky.) to reconsider plans to reconvene the chamber next week, stating the nation was plainly still in a “crucial time” of the coronavirus pandemic.
” In the interest of public health and sending the right message to the nation, I ask that you allow the Senate to continue working from another location,” Feinstein wrote in a letter to McConnell and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer(D-N.Y.) on Wednesday.
McConnell validated today the Senate will reconvene as intended on May 4, stating the body would not “sit on the sidelines” as the nation reels from a bevy of stay-at-home orders and social distancing guidelines that have wrought economic havoc. Jobless claims have reached tape heights, and the U.S. economy shrunk by a nearly 5%annual rate in the first quarter of the year.
” We feel like if people on the cutting edge are willing to work during the pandemic, we ought to be also,” he told Fox News Radio. “Therefore the Senate will come back; we’ll be in session next week.”
But the relocation comes amid stark warnings from the country’s leading medical officials about the nation getting back to typical too rapidly. More than 1 million people have been contaminated with the coronavirus in the United States, and more than 60,000 individuals have actually passed away, num