Twitter shut down 32,000 accounts tied to china, russia and turkey for manipulating the platform. This after joe biden called out facebook for failing to curb misinformation and not taking a stand on political speech, oed i many who watch the by many who watch the social network. The company spends a lot of time outlining Community Standards they are supposed to enforce against all users, and when one particular user comes along who happens to send his posts from 1600 pennsylvania avenue, theres a different standard. In a lot of ways, facebook is too big to fix right now. Facebook has 2. 5 billion users around the world constantly posting in more than 100 languages. That is a system too big to govern. You have one young white man who has one experience in this life who has the control of billions of people, what they see and view. It is wrong. I dont know if he is drunk with power or simply just in a bubble. Us is someone else who has an opinion, roger an author. Ive got to get your te
The presiding officer the senate will come to order. The clerk will read the communication to the senate. The clerk washington, d. C. , april 9, 2020. I hereby appoint the honorable roy blunt a senator from the state of missouri, to perform the duties of the chair. Signed chuck grassley, president pro tempore. The presiding officer the majority leader. Mr. Mcconnell i ask to be recognized, notwithstanding the previous order, for a session today. The presiding officer is there objection . Without objection. The majority leader. Mr. Mcconnell our nation continues to battle the coronavirus pandemic. More than 400,000 americans have tested positive. Nearly 15,000 have lost their lives. Nurses, doctors, and e. M. T. s are fighting this disease literally day and night. An important public and important Public Health measures are creating an economic catastrophe. This morning, we learned that 6. 6 million more americans filed for unemployment in just the last week. That means, mr. President ,
Rural areas. May not have broadband, so i worry about those communities who may be low resource or under resourced. Those are just a few of the things that i worry about. Thank you, our time is up. Dr. Patrice harris, we would like to present you virtually with our notable National Press club coffee mug along with our hope that we can share a cup of coffee here at press club in person in the near future. Thank you for joining us today. Dr. Harris thank you for having me today, and thank you. I will enjoy that mug. My thanks to our National Press announcer tonight at 9 00 eastern, netflix director and former u. N. Official michelle fix. Ith her book, the that was something i discovered in my research that there is a believe everybody is the same because everybody is treated in the same way. If people do not have experiences, with that logic, we are not only denying difference but any quality. Afterwardstch tonight at 9 00 eastern on cspan two. Announcer congressional efforts are underwa
Conversation through our washington journal program. Cspan, created by private industry. As a Public Service and brought to you by your television provider. The u. S. Senate gaveled in this morning. Mitch mcconnell attempted to approved by unanimous consent and increase to the Paycheck Protection Program. The ranking democrat on the Small Business committee objected and said the majority leader had not negotiated with democrats on this package. Senator Chris Van Hollen also the floor and tried to call up another Small Business bill. This is about half an hour. Our nation continues to battle the coronavirus pandemic. Americans have00 tested positive. Nearly 15,000 have lost their lives. Emts areoctors, and fighting this disease literally day and night. An important important Public Health measures are creating economic catastrophe. This morning, we learned that 6. 6 million more americans filed for unemployment in just the last week. That means, mr. President , more than 16 million amer
Than 16 million americans have lost their jobs in only the last three weeks. A tragedy that is hard to even comprehend. As one journalist put it, were facing a Health Care Crisis with an economic crisis strapped to its back. That is why two weeks ago, the Senate Passed the largest rescue package in american history. The bipartisan cares act funneled more than 2 trillion into bold programs to help households, fund hospitals and Health Care Providers, and keep paychecks coming. Before we adjourned, i said the senate would stay nimble and prepare to react quickly as the legislation came online. So, mr. President , thats why we are here today. Much of the cares act is still being implemented. But one key program, one key program is already up and running. Its the Paycheck Protection Program from chairman rubio, chairman collins, senator cardin, and senator shaheen. It gives Small Businesses emergency capital so that workers can keep getting paychecks instead of pink slips. Just a few days