Morning for all of these lawmakers. Bring us up to speed on whats going on now and what it means for americans who need help in the pandemic. Reporter i thought when i woke up this morning i thought it would be over and its still going on. Voterama is still going on. Marathon session to try to pass amendments for budget reconciliation. First step that needs to happen so that they can pascoe individual 19 relief without any support. Now the senate doesnt do this very often. It shows how important it is. There was one amendment that all senators agreed on except for rand paul. Targeted stimulus checks for the next round of covid19 relief. This comes as 10 senators were clear with biden they want to continue this dialogue. They want to continue talking about covid19 relief. They have concerns about his 1. 9 trillion package. They want something smaller. They want something more targeted. They sent a letter to him hoping to continue that conversation, but janet yellen has been clear, she s
Here to talk about the new documentary. Remind viewers when and why fresh water was contaminated. And 2014 the plant one the city of flint decided to have a new Water Pipeline coming from lake huron surrounding counties and cities. In the interim before the pipeline is fully constructe constructed, state officials in charge of the finances at the time decided to switch the city onto the river and turn off the t treatment water to the plant that was barely operational over the last 50 years. So what needed to happen for that to be successful and whatn didnt happen to make withat switch to the flint river quick. There were a lot of upgrades that needed to happen at the plant, tens of millions of dollars worth o that i guess was not operational in this way and half a century. There is a lot of things that needed to be done and equipment that needed to be replaced and staff adequately trained and what we found is before they made the switch , there is not enough. They didnt have the adequa
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Michigans contom mated water supply. As always well take your calls and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter as well. Washington journal is next. Host good morning on monday, september 16. Well begin this morning with calls from some democrats to Impeach Supreme Court Justice Brett kavanaugh after the New York Times over the weekend corroborated, they say, previous allegations of Sexual Misconduct and revealed new allegations. Those allegations raising questions about whether Justice Cavanaugh perjured himself during the confirmation hearings last year. Democrats, 2027488000, publicans 2027488001 and independents, 202748800 it 2 2788003 or go to twitter and post comments on facebook. Com cspan. Well get to your thoughts in a minute. Lets begin with the new york piece that ran over the weekend and the headline was Brett Kavanaugh was one of the privileged kids and she didnt fit in with the privileged kids. A story about Deborah Ramirez and her allegations that surfaced