Can you start by reminding viewers what the American Public Health Association is . Guest we are the National Nonprofit of people who practice Public Health and, quite frankly, many of our people who are out chasing this virus each and every day. Soughthat role have you to play in the coronavirus pandemic and what is your group that has your group in doing . Guest we have been doing a lot of education of policymakers, of the public, advocating for resources, and generally trying to push a prohealth agenda based on science. The we found out yesterday number of reported coronavirus cases in this country past the 5 million mark. That is a doubling of u. S. Cases since the end of june, the last million happening in just the last 17 days. Your reaction to that milestone. Guest the challenge is that a lot of this is preventable. We are just not paying attention to what we know works. When you look at other nations in the world, they have been able to get their hands around this terrible, ter
Bill despite talks on capitol hill last week. Senate Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell says lawmakers will be given 24 24 hours notice to return to capitol hill to vote if a deal is reached. The presiding officer the senate will come to order. The chaplain will lead the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. O god our refuge and strength, give us reverence for your greatness. Guide our senators around the pitfalls of their work, enabling them to have hearts sustained by your peace. May they surrender their will to you, as they trust you to guide their lives. Lord, give them the wisdom to receive your reproof with the understanding that you chastise those whom you love for their good. Make their lives productive for the glory of your name. Mighty god, protect the oppressed and helpless, preserving them from evil. We pray in your great name, amen. The presiding officer join me in reciting the pledge. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic
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Affiliation. This is the first opportunity on the senate floor to offer a word about kamala harris, one of our colleagues in a historic move was asked by another former Senate Colleague of the Vice President joe biden in his preferred nominee to be Vice President of the United States. Ive come to know senator harrison or four years in the senate through her service on then Judiciary Committee and the intelligence committee, her publicservice track record is a significant one worthy of praise from her work as a District Attorney in the line prosecuteds no untrained and in San Francisco where she focused on trying to keep her Community Safe to services, California Attorney general running the portfolio toe include Environmental Justice and Consumer Protection and her work tin the senate since 2016. What i find so compelling about senator harris to her track record of Public Service during her long career as her personal story raises the child into immigrants and jamaican father and india
2. 6 for that particular index. The tbi data, many of the underlying elements where it seems like telephone usage and so on that were higher than anticipated in terms of inflation. Lets get to our first guest. We are going to be speaking with megan crane who joins us from washington on the choice of joe biden to pick Kamala Harris for his running mate. Harrisobviously kamala is one of the top names for some time. She is someone who has changed her position, particularly her economic positions several times over the last few months and during the campaign originally. What type of box should be put her in when it comes to an megan economic platform, that is a little hard to pin down with Kamala Harris. That is definitely one of the challenges she faces going forward. On healthcare she had changed her position about medicare for all and healthcare and came up with a hybrid plan that included private healthcare so that is something that they will be trying to outline and defined in the com