And physicians we have. Because over 1700 amy nearly 1600 people died tuesday in the United States from covid in the deadliest day of the pandemic in six months, we go to el paso, texas, where authorities have set up 10 words. Then to north dakota, the deadliest state in the world for covid. We will look at how the virus has devastated Indian Country. Black americans and latinas are three times as likely to contract covid than others and more likely to die. Native americans are more than four times as likely to be hospitalized as others. Amy we will speak to members of the Standing Rock sioux tribe in north dakota, the Oneida Nation and a navajo activist in arizona. We will talk about covid and the resident it voter turnout of native americans. Unprecedented voter turnout of native americans. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the quarantine report. Im amy goodman. Over people died in the united 1700 states tuesday from covid19 in whats been des
And physicians we have. Because over 1700 amy nearly 1600 people died tuesday in the United States from covid in the deadliest day of the pandemic in six months, we go to el paso, texas, where authorities have set up 10 words. Then to north dakota, the deadliest state in the world for covid. We will look at how the virus has devastated Indian Country. Black americans and latinas are three times as likely to contract covid than others and more likely to die. Native americans are more than four times as likely to be hospitalized as others. Amy we will speak to members of the Standing Rock sioux tribe in north dakota, the Oneida Nation and a navajo activist in arizona. We will talk about covid and the resident it voter turnout of native americans. Unprecedented voter turnout of native americans. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the quarantine report. Im amy goodman. Over people died in the united 1700 states tuesday from covid19 in whats been des
Educate people. You know, rather than fighting and yelling and hating, its more important to love, care and support. Were trying to really make a difference and create the foundation i mentioned before to stop all these racisms and xenophobias going on. It requires every one of us to reach deep and show care not only for our own family and our own neighbors and friends, but for the broader community. Thats how we get through this pandemic. Thats how we come out on the other side a stronger community. Abc7 presents race and coronavirus a bay ara conversation. And with that backdrop, a good afternoon. Really glad you are with us. Im dan ashley. And im kristen sze. Thank you so much for joining us for this special edition of abc7 news. Instead of our normal 4 00 p. M. Newscast, today were going spend an hour engaging experts and you, our viewers in a virtual town hall on the issue of race and coronavirus. You know, this is a vitally important onehour virtual town hall erring on television
For his nomination. In the House Democrats filed a bill to providefunding for the federal governments response to the coronavirus pandemic. Livecoverage of the senate on cspan2. May they not fear anything that may assail them on every side. Help them to remember that there is none holy like you, and nothing can compare to your majesty and might. We pray in your great name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in the pledge of allegiance to the flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Mr. Grassley mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from iowa. Mr. Grassley i ask to speak in morning business for one minute. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Grassley iowa has had 14 presumptive positive cases of covid19. My staff and i remain in constant communication with federal agencies to ensure that the federal government is pro
Legacy energy source. Senator udall of new mexico and i have an amendment that will close a loophole in federal Energy Policy. I want my colleagues to know, and i think they do, of my long support for renewable and alternative sources of energy and so i agree with the aims of the murkowskimachin murkowskiy bill. The amendment that senator udall and i have introduced is the same as the bipartisan bill we introduced last week. The title of that bill is the fair return for public lands act. Mr. Grassley this bill was introduced 100 years to the date of the mineral leasing act of 1920. This amendment would increase the royalty rates on federal lands from 12. 5 to 18. 75 . Everybody here knows that a royalty is what the oil company will pay to a mineral owner. In this case the mineral owner is the american taxpayer, and that royalty is paid for the right to extract oil and natural gas from the lands of the United States. The legislation modernizes the public lands leasing system and it does