Mcconnell announced a vote on the next covid relief package coming up tomorrow although we expect discussion on the matter today as well. Now live to the floor of the u. S. Senate here on cspan2. The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Black, will lead the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Faithful father, our refuge and strength, give us such lawmakers that their lives will enable you to be glorified by bringing healing to our land. Lord, provide our nation with physical, mental, social, and spiritual healing by the power of your grace. Sustained by this grace, may our senators seek to please you in all they do. Inspire them to give you cheerfully their highest be gracious, mighty god, to our nation and world. Intowr us all empower us all until the words of our mouths and the meditations of our hearts are acceptable to you. We pray in your sacred name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance i ple
The democrats reply with partisan cheap shots. The republicans develop a to get money in the pipeline for kids, jobs, schools. Democrats just point fingers, call names and keep American Families from getting help before the november election. In july, republicans put forward a serious framework but Speaker Pelosi and the democratic leader refused to talk unless the starting point was there absurd 3. 4 trillion farleft wishlist that even House Democrats called a stent. Talksust, with those stalled, republicans opposed no agreements on specific, urgent policies to help families, theployment benefits, paycheck protection program, democrats fused again. This time, there inventive was to piecemeal and not worth doing. If democrats did not get their diversity studies for the cannabis industry, stimulus checks for legal immigrants, tax cuts for blue state millionaires, it would make sure that millions of americans would lose their own Employment Benefits and ppp would close. That is what they
Had to assess the situation . Oh, no, it was the republican leader who said those things. Meanwhile, democrats in the house, supported by democrats in the senate, have passed a strong, comprehensive bill. We have just been waiting and waiting for our republican friends to get their act together so they might come close, even near coming to the moment that we need it. So after taking a pause on covid relief for four months, finally, finally, finally Senate Republicans are realizing the damage that their delay has done to our economy and the nations health. Yesterday, leader mcconnell announced by the end of the week, the senate would vote on a new slimmeddown version of an alreadyskinny republican bill. We know what happened here. The leader did nothing for months, but the American People are demanding action. Republican governors, local officials, hospitals, small businesses, everyone is demanding action. Restaurants. Performance stages in places are demanding action, not just of democ
Familiar. Republicans roll out yet another effort to forge a bipartisan compromise around Coronavirus Relief, and democrats reply with partisan cheap shots and threats to block everything. Republicans develop a serious plan to get historic amounts of additional money in the pipeline for kids, for jobs, for schools, and democrats just point fingers, call names and keep blocking American Families from getting any more help before the november election. In july, republicans put forward a serious framework, but Speaker Pelosi and the democratic leader refused to talk unless starting point was their literally absurd 3. 4 trillion farleft wish list that even House Democrats called a stunt. In august, when those talks stalled, republicans proposed narrow agreements on specific urgent policies to help families. Unemployment benefits, the paycheck protection program. Democrats refused again. This time their invented excuse was that any assistance short of their entire wish list was too piecemea
And is a historian who has contributed a couple of great books but lincolns last trial if you wonder why im interested in having him. [laughter] but he has written a book that fdr called my fifth cousin by blood and set it at the very trial that dan abrams has written about in this extraordinary book of a littleknown episode in Theodore Roosevelts life and that is an extraordinary legal episode at the defense of a charge of liable argued here in new york state. Welcome. Its great to be here and always honored to be interviewed by you and always intimidating. Its better when we dont talk about lincoln. This is all new. I promise. It will be considered new to everybody else. So start with the obvious why this book and case . In the context of working on the lincoln book with his last trial we used this transcript arguing from nine months before he got the nomination and david fisher my coauthor brought me this and set a fascinating transcript only discovered 1989 know it has written abou