The 111th Congress begins its work with a war against an enemy that is as intractable as it is illusive and with an economic crisis that borders on historic in its severity and complexity. It is clear that the 111th must rise to levels of policymaking that few Congresses have had to achieve. While it does so, the new Congress must also be more aware of its limitations than those predecessors who were less challenged.
chip factory touting his nick policies potential rail strike. here to react is john james. congressman elect, great to see you. your reaction to the president taking a bow with governor whitmer yesterday? does he have things to crow about? look i haven t even sworn in to the 11th congress taking a victory lap for something he hasn t done. joe biden has been in washington since 1970, his policies have sent our jobs overseas. his policies are the ones forcing supply chains to break not bend. and by paying people not to work. joe biden has done more to hurt our economy than help it. people like me were sent here to help create jobs by making sure we have pro-business policies, make our community safer and joe biden started his campaign way too early. yesterday you know, bringing chips back. he said we invented the chips and we got lazy. did we get lazy? it was his policies that forced our jocious overseas.
the miami herald reports half of them died in the last two weeks. in the last week, the herald calculates the state has added 368 deaths each day, the highest ever reported. florida has recorded 52,000 deaths from the total virus. while deaths are increasing, cases are dropping. it s the lowest since mid-july. just over 56% of eligible floridians are fully vaccinated, which is about 12 million people. democratic congressman tim ryan of ohio has become the latest covid breakthrough case on capitol hill. he tested positive despite being vaccinated. he tweeted this. while i ll currently experiencing mild symptoms, i m grateful to have the protection of a safe vaccine. i know without it, this illness could have been much, much worse. he s now the 11th congress
member to experience a breakthrough case of the coronavirus. now to the showdown of the nation s debt limit. democrats are planning to attach an extension of the borrowing limit to a bill that funds the government. both pieces of legislation need to pass quickly. congress has until september 30th to fund the government or reach a shutdown. it could disrupt the u.s. economy. despite democrats new plan, republican minority leader mitch mcconnell is doubling down on his insistence that democrats handle the debt ceiling themselves, even though democrats worked with republicans to raise it during the previous administration. since democrats decided to go it alone, they will not get senate republicans help with raising the debt limit. this isn t about the past. it s about the future. and democrats want to build a partisan future without our
legislation, a path to citizenship for those and documented at this time and the bipartisan legislation included infrastructure support, the fact that it didn t get there was not the democrats but the republican-controlled house. that is a completely ridiculous bill that was thicker than two new york city phone directories full of bad ideas. people crossing let andrew go first. what they expected to do was going to get better in the house of representatives but never was. it was full of bad ideas and the 2013 legislation, you know in 111th congress would serve majorities in both houses,