Hazel. Welcome. You are watching the Atlanta Press club loudermilkyoung debate series. This is the general Election Debate for candidates running for u. S. Senate to fill the seat currently held by senator david perdue. In order to ensure you once safety candidates and panelists participating from their home. The Atlanta Press club gives a special thank you to georgia public broadcasting for helping to organize the online debate. Lets meet the candidates. They are in alphabetical order libertarian shane hazel is a marine corps veteran and cohost and producer of the rebellion podcast which analyzes politics from a local to global level. Democrat jon ossoff has served as ceo of insight tw i come in Media Production company that investigates corruption and organized crime and war crimes for International News organizations. Republican david perdue has served as u. S. Senate since 2015. Before being elected to the senate he sat on the board of five major corporations and cofounded perdue p
Funding for the u. S. Postal service. Members of the House Rules Committee met on friday to consider the bill called the delivering for america act introduced by oversight and reform chair carolyn maloney. It provides 25 billion in funding to the Postal Service and returns Service Levels to those at the beginning of 2020. The rules committee voted to send this legislation to the house floor for debate. The rules committee will come to order. We are here today because this president has thrown our democracy further into chaos. We are just weeks away from early voting in some states. The Record Number of ballots are expected to be asked by mail. Are expected to be cast by mail. Sorting machines are disappearing. Delivery has been slowed. The postalle, service is still badly in need of Additional Resources. The house acted to provide more but nothinghs ago has been done. , this isy this clearly an assault on democracy. These actions call into question whether legal ballots will be counted
Right its time now to prove your use i use. The sparks are flying on capitol hill today as u. S. Attorney general bill barr is testifying before the House Judiciary Committee bar is being questioned on his handling of various legal issues including the federal response to these nationwide protests and his intervention in the mall or russia probe. Is live outside of congress and fair and things are still getting pretty heated there. All middle of heat it is an understatement when it comes to this hearing thats actually still going on right behind me in congress now it was the democrats on the House Judiciary Committee that called for this hearing a bill bar and it was originally to specifically asking questions on why the department of justice sent federal office. To the city of Portland Oregon where youre seeing a lot of riots and on rust but it quickly turned into questions about roger stone Michael Flynn Donald Trumps twitter why donald trump and it were a mask originally when corona
And iraq now committed to reduce the number of american troops in that country can we really expect that to happen though and if it does is it going to create a power vacuum in that region all right its time to move through news i. Q. Today marks the 21st consecutive day of nationwide protests following the death of george floyd over in minneapolis minnesota but now a Deadly Police shooting involving a black man in atlanta is triggering even more demonstrations all of this as new congressional legislation is being introduced to address Police Tactics across this country fronsac is outside of capitol hill with more on these developments there. Now and also in that building behind me Senate Republicans theyre getting ready to push out a package thats going to be all about policing. And what Police Officers can and cannot do now this is all coming forward from the only africanamerican republican in the Senate Senator tim scott of South Carolina which President Donald Trump has signaled hi
President trump authorized sanctions against the International Criminal court for its decision to open a war Crimes Investigation in afghanistan the u. K. Now lashing out against the u. S. All right its time to your news i q. Today marks the 21st consecutive day of nationwide protests following the death of george floyd in minneapolis minnesota but now another Deadly Police shooting involving a black man in atlanta is triggering more demonstrations all of this as new congressional legislation is being introduced to address Police Tactics in this country. Outside of congress with more on these developments fair. Some republicans are actually getting ready to bill bring forward a package thats going to be talking about what police can and cannot do now this bill is coming from the only african. American republican in the Senate Senate tim scott of South Carolina which President Donald Trump has signaled his support for many of the items in this bill that has many of the same goals as act