Blocking the commonsense multihundred billion dollars measure that republicans have been ready to deliver for months. Now come first, all of my colleagues had a fine a fine thanksgiving well know that across the country we celebrated a thanksgiving, all of us, every american, unlike any in recent memory. Too many loved ones spent this holiday alone unable to join with loved ones out of concern for their safety. As painful as it is to refrain from seeing family and friends, these are tough choices that we sometimes have to make it and we need to maintain a result more than ever while the hope of a vaccine shimmers on the near horizon, were living through the worst stretch of the pandemic right now. Last friday for the first time over 200,000 new cases of government were reported in ina single day. The United States is averaging over 1 million new cases a week. Some 20 of of all patients now hospitalized in the United States have covid19. The worst andpa most unalterable part of this pan
Country. There remains a compelling case. There remains a compelling case for regional tears in england. And indeed mr. Speaker, a compelling. The 70 a proposal for nearly one trillion dollars, no additional Coronavirus Relief is being rushed through the u. S. Congress. The aid package has support from democrats and republicans and includes around 17000000000. 00 in support for airlines. Irans parliament has passed a draft motion to hold under strict access by the International Atomic Energy Agency to its Nuclear Sites. The proposed changes could allow iran to resume uranium enrichment at levels of 20 percent. The United Nations has appealed see ethiopian authorities for access to thousands of eritrean refugees to grow a region. Prime minister claimed victory over the Peoples Liberation front on saturday. But that sepia left leader is warning that the conflicts between his forces and the National Army is not over. A whistleblower in china has leaked documents which show Health Official
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Decision to extend federal funding past the december 11 deadline to avoid a Government Shutdown. Your watching live Senate Coverage here on cspan2. The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Bay black, will open the senate with prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Almighty god, who in your wisdom has so ordered our earthly lives that we must walk by faith and not by sight, increase our trust in your sovereign care. Remind our lawmakers that no problem is too difficult for you to solve. Lord, give our senators a faith th triumphs over despair, love that triumphs over hate, and courage that triumphs over faintheartedness. Empower them to be bold participants rather than timid spectators in meeting the daunting challenges of these times. We we pray in our powerful name, amen. The president pro tempore please join me in the pledge of allegiance. I edge allegiance to the fla of the United States of erica, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under
Georgia democratic candidate for president. We thank you, president ford and we thank you, governor carter, for being with us tonight. There there are to be three debates between the president ial candidates and one between the vicepresident ial candidates. All are being arranged by the league of women voters education fund. Tonights debate, the first between president ial candidates in sixteen years and the first ever in which an incumbent president has participated, is taking place before an audience in the walnut street theater in philadelphia, just three blocks from independence hall. The Television Audience may reach a hundred million in the United States and many millions overseas. Tonights debate focuses on domestic issues and Economic Policy. Questions will be put by Frank Reynolds of abc news, james gannon of the wall street journal, and Elizabeth Drew of the new yorker magazine. Under the agreed rules the first question will go to governor carter. That was decided by the toss