The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Menendez madam president , i rise today to engage in a colloquy with senators cassidy, collins, and my fellow senator from new jersey, senator booker, and i ask they be acknowledged in that order and they be allowed to complete their remarks. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Menendez as our nation grapples with the covid19 pandemic, our state county and miew in municipal governments have been on the front lines taking the lead role. They have been squeezed on both sides of the ledger, spending billions of dollars in unforeseen costs on Emergency Response while watching as revenues dry up due to necessary stayathome orders, and the closure of nonessential businesses. The emergency protective measures have been effective at flattening the curve and have no doubt saved thousands of lives but they also came with a cost. All Revenue Sources are down. Sale tax revenue has plummeted with businesses closed. Highway trus funds wont have t
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Reporter there are many concerns from superintendents, teachers, and custodians they say they need support if schools will reopen with new guidelines. We understand that you need flexibility and pp. Reporter california superintendent of schools Tony Thurmond said that schools cannot reopen safely without more money for social distancing. This is a result after 7 billion was cut for education. We hear you loud and clear and agree that we cannot ask schools to do more with less. Reporter teachers and superintendents saying that they need money from the state rainy it takes a village to educate a child, how do we uplift and support that village . Our children have been through so much. Truck safety is top party, but many questions remain like how to use social distance in a confined classroom, theres a possibility the kids will have to wear masks and schools, which could be difficult for small children and those with health problems. Instead of layoff theres a push to have a nurse and cou
Pentagon to allow his cruiser leave the infected warship. Greece quarantines a migrant camp after 20 Asylum Seekers test positive for the virus. And a Pakistani Court overturns the magic conviction of a man accused of killing wall street journal reporter daniel. Im joining us though with the sports top tennis players say they devastated out of this years Wimbledon Championships a cancelled but the delay in the season is also leaving many players financially. Now spain has just recorded a record jump in daily deaths from corona virus anywhere in the wild 950 people as weve been saying have died in the past 24 hours bringing the toll there to more than 10000 with another 8000 people infected in the last day the number of confirmed cases its now surpassed 110000 these latest numbers put spain on par with italy well now most are rare is joining me live from madrid even more sobering figures today not only a new record for spain but the while too. 150. 00 coronavirus dead in spain seems yes
Rules for florida debate on a resolution to impeach donald trump for abuse of power and obstruction of congress which the full house is expected to take up on wednesday. Colorado senator and democratic president ial candidate Michael Bennett visited the Edward M Kennedy institute for the u. S. Senate in boston to talk about his campaign and take questions from a noddy and of mostly High School Students. [inaudible conversations] hi, senator, how are you . Very nice to meet you, thank you for coming, nice to meet you. Come on in. Senator bennett will be joining us. Great. So. Have you had a chance . I have been next door. We have a school fullscale replica of the Senate Chamber which is where we will be today. We will walk you this way. A lot of our programs, we have a Senate Emerging module, an English High School students coming for the program today. A little hot water. That is the plan. A little reminder. This is dedicated. Can i have 99 people come up here, that would be useful. It