A summer without rodeos, a mule kick to rural america. And later, the concert that covid could not cancel. This is the cbs weekend news. , washington. This week marks a milestone in the evolution of our democracy. 100 years since women obtained the right to vote. It wasnt given. They fought for it for 41 years and the 19th amendment made it so. Election day this year is 79 days away, but earlier in states that allow absentee or mailin voting. Now, voting in a pandemic means an unprecedented number of ballots will be mailed. But there are worries the post office might not deliver all ballots on time. Toy the post office announced a 90 day moratorium on the removal of collection boxes. This has been seen in several states. President trump blames democrats, not his new postmaster general for concerns hovering over the verifiable handling of more mailin ballots. But today there is another issue, a deeply personal one. Late yesterday the president s younger Brother Robert died in new york.
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Federal highway administrators giving testimony on the implementation of the Infrastructure Investment and jobs act and other legislation passed by congress. Also spoke about emergency relief efforts to reopen am pleased to call this hearing. Welcome to the witnesses and to the guests and a special thanks to our colagues for being here for this important hearing. We are here to discuss the federal highw administration and implementation of the bipartisan infrastructure law and Inflation Reduction Act. I am enormously proud and i know senator ouppercaseletter is as well, the work the committee did providing the foundation of the bipartisan infrastructure law. People say to mand im sur to you, senator when you travel back toest virginia, whyant you Work Together to gettuff done and as it turns out in the committee thats what we do, the bipartisan infrastructure 20zip and proud to help lay the foundation for whats turned out to be one of the biggest investmentsver and hopefully we will co
Just Vice President , and shes also just a total disaster. Shes this craven and calculating political animal, but she spends all her time having to put out fires of her own making, fires of her staffs own making. Shes just a disaster. And one of the sort of signature production things in the show, one of the things that the show does to great effect is that they use every last second of the show, during the end credits of each episode, the image on the right side of the Screen Squishes down a little bit, and they highlight in this while the credits are rolling, they highlight these campaign screwups and their various pr disasters. The end credits are like the best thing in the show. It the end credits in one show might be her ranting to her staff after a puff piece Television Interview turned out to be substantive or her awkwardly trying to connect with High School Students who are visiting the Vice President s office. If you have seen the show, you know about this excellent trickn bas