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29 Jan 2021
Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) and Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO) introduced on Thursday the ‘‘Environmental Justice Mapping and Data Collection Act of 2021’’ to gather data and direct federal money to communities around the country they say face environmental injustice.
Those injustices, they say, include pollution, police killing black Americans and other minorities, and poverty, among others.
“Environmental justice is racial justice,” Bush, who was a Black Lives Matter activist before winning election to the House of Representatives in 2020, said at the virtual press conference.
President Joe Biden has said he would direct 40 percent of environment-related funding to communities with high numbers of low-income and minority residents. The funding, Biden said, could pay for clean energy and wastewater projects.
kentucky. mitch mcconnell and rand paul. these are not theoretical threats, mr. president. they are with us every day. we have to face up to them. we shouldn t be disarming unilaterally as our enemies grow more sophisticated and aggressive. the people who argue the world will end and we are overrun by jihadists. they want to take a little bit of your liberty, but they get it by making you afraid. reporter: in the end, by a vote of 77-17, the senate did agree to proceed to debate on the usa freedom act. they would keep the patriot act program going while reforming the phone data collection act.
lady spent time with the biden family on sunday. they spent about 30 minutes at their home in washington, d.c. john and christine. joe biden known as amtrak joe. he would go back and forth as his job as a senator after he lost his wife. he would go home to delaware every night. he said i realize at one point i needed my kids more than they needed me. he said that just last weekend at a commencement address. our hearts go out to the family. john kerry s doctor jumped on a plane to switzerland. he will accompany the secretary of state when returns to the u.s. today. kerry broke his leg on sunday. he was in switzerland to attend nuclear talks and now he faces up to six months of rehab for a broken femur. let s turn to senior correspondent nic robertson on the phone for us from geneva. how does this effect the issues