That if government aid doesnt reach their small and midsized farms soon, it will make it nearly impossible for american farming to stay in the family. Its just hard, because ticking i worry about them all the time. Your good cholesterol is nice and high. Elizabeth ellis is a Nurse Practitioner. Come on. When we met her, she was tearing around her east texas farm with her fourlegged side arm named pistol. Social distancing is built into the landscape here and enforced by barbed wire, but the pandemic has reached elliss sparsely populated county, too. Im so sorry. And she finds herself administering covid tests ticking im lesley stahl. Im bill whitaker. Im anderson cooper. Im Sharyn Alfonsi. Im scott pelley. Those stories, tonight, on 60 minutes. ticking this portion of 60 minutes is sponsored by progressive insurance. Save when you bundle auto, home, or motorcycle insurance. Visit progressive. Com. Scott pelley as may begins, millions of americans delete another month of calendar events
Coming up in the next hour and 15 minutes we will hear from authors about this gateway city to the black hills. Located in the western part of the state. We will take it to the State Game Lodge. He spent his Summer Vacation in 1927. Then, in about 15 minutes the story of life inside an Indian Mission boarding school. As he talks about his first book children left behind. We visit downtown rapid city for a look at the correction of lifesize statues. We begin our special feature with the story of Calvin Coolidge in the black hills. We are here in south dakotas black hills. And we are at the State Game Lodge. It was constructed several years before Calvin Coolidge made his summer lake house in 1927. With the first lady stayed here for nearly three months from june through september 1927 while they were on vacation. They took office in 1923 when he was Vice President with warren harvey. They served out the last little bit of the term. And he was elected to his own term in 1924. He came to
Too often it is one party power and sticks it to the other party. And then secondly i know you mentioned geographic concerns. We try to putt some other limitations on the map drawing process by requiring districts to be drawn more according to county lines or natural geographic features rather than just these crazy districts that squiggle around. Thats not you know not easy to do but one thing it does is makes it possible impossible for people to be too key yative. Some of the districts are very, very creative and having little bit more limitation on the process, open process about how to redistrict we are for. We werent willing to go as some people say to go to california or arizona which have models which are more completely out of the political process. They have turned it over to citizens. They dont want the legislature or the parties involved. Our commission really believed that having both parties have a say in those maps made sense but we did agree with you in many ways redistri
We want to keep using our military do go into the other countries, take a bill with us figure out what its going to cost and tell them that you pay half when we get there and half when the jobs done. We cant keep affording to go and police the world and some of the social programs like Social Security so easy to fix. When the kid comes out of the Social Security on year one, start taking taxes out. Dont wait 18 or 20 years. Take a little bit out of earned Income Credit and not miss it. It would fix Social Security and probably give a little bit of money there for health care that the whole country needs. Okay. Caller i think those are a couple of good things to start with. All right. John fortier the budget. We with respect taking positions like wars and entitlement. Those are functions for congress to address. I think if youre getting at the budget process, thats something we made recommendations about and the Bipartisan Policy Center has additional recommendations out of an economic
Testifies before the House Agriculture Committee wednesday. This is two hours, 15 minutes. Good morning. This is a hearing on the committee of agriculture for oversight by the u. S. Department of agriculture will come to order. Ive asked Rick Crawford to open us with a prayer. Thank you mr. Chairman. Father, i bow humbling before you. Thankful for this country youve given us and, father, mindful of the great responsibility that youve charged us with. Father, just ask that everything that is said and done here today be pleasing in your sight and we ask that you help us to be civil in our discourse and discerning in our comments and dialogue. Father, i just pray it all in jesus name. Amen. Thank you, rick. I want to thank the secretary vilsack for coming to be with us this morning. He has a horde stop at 12 15. He has cabinet responsibilities to do. Mr. Secretary, thanks very much for being here this morning. Be careful on your knee there on your on the table. I want to say at the start