Its, i mean, poor al roker. Every year, hey look, its garfield. Oh, the teletubbies. When i was a kid, my dad would wake us up. Every thanksgiving, hed come into our rooms. The only time i ever remember him coming into my room, hed come in and say, the parade is on and wed be like, who cares . I hate parades. Always have. To me, its just traffic with balloons. But every year, my father would force us out of bed at like 6 30 in the morning to watch it. And so what did i do on thursday . I got the kids, i said hey the parade is on youve gotta watch it they watched for about four minutes. They saw chase from paw patrol and said, put on paw patrol so i watched it alone. Macys did the parade a little bit differently this year. Because of covid, they couldnt have the usual amount of people under the floats. You know, people hold the ropes to the floats, but they couldnt assemble a group of people, so they had to find one guy to do this. This troop of picachu, dancing to the classic pokemon s
I am joined by my colleague paul clement its good to see you. Likewise it is good to see you. We served as Solicitor Generals Office during past transition so we should probably start by digging in a little bit what is happening on that front and how this transition might be different than past transitions. Maybe we will talk about the specific cases that could be impacted by the change in the administration. And given there is another impeachment trial about to begin maybe we should talk about thatouri also. Would you mind introducing yourself to the audience . I would be happy to. I will spare you the biography and just talk about two things that are relevant for todays presentation. First is the georgetown connection both m eo and undergrad and somebody who has been teaching at the law school since the clinton impeachment thats my first started teaching separation ofol power at the law school so that affiliation runs deep and i am delighted to be here. The second aspect of my bio th
Get to questions want to share a few updates with you President Biden signed two executive actions to restore and strengthen americas access to quality affordable healthcare specifically he directed agencies to reexamine rules and other policies that limit americans access to healthcare and consider additional actions for the Affordable Care act taking continue to provide access to lifesaving care for millions of americans as a result department of hhs will open healthcare. Gov for special enrollment. Every 15 to may 15 the administration only had ever six weeks this is double the length of time. Those without Health Insurance can sign up with Health Coverage too little or no cost the president rescinded the gag rule that prevents outputs of International Funding to provide abortion counseling referrals to receive your spending and directed hhs whether to resend under Title X Family Planning Program also built on the actions he has taken at the heart of the response to covid19. Second
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Im keeping this brief and to the point. Local leaders have been sounding at definite alarm for months about the need for direct fiscal assistance from washington as the virus rages in our city. Our budgets are under extreme stress. Arts fences are skyrocketing. Our essential lifesaving services are strained. The need for public assistance is through the roof. This has been going on since the beginning of the pandemic since march of last year. Today, only 38 cities have received direct relief yet mayors everywhere continue to do what we do everyday. We get it done. We run our cities with a balanced budget which we are required to do by law. So what does that mean . How do we possibly do that in the face of this tremendous crisis . It means the cut jobs. It means eliminating services and staff at the same time. Our First Responders have been on the job since day one of this pandemic transporting those with covid to hospitals with Public Health initiatives keeping social and family order