Substance, feeble in fact. That the court notwithstanding that strict scrutiny virtually always ruled for the government. Were going to leave this recorded program at this point. You can watch it online at cspan. Org. We go live now to a joint Economic Committee meeting looking at the impact of covid19. Watching live coverage on cspan3. Senator peters from michigan and many others who will be joining us from the house and the senate. Before i deliver my opening statement, i would like to acknowledge that today the United States passed another sad milestone that weve lost more than 200,000 americans to covid19. Our hearts go out to their families, to the husbands and wives, mothers and fathers, children, grandchildren, even grandparents. Americans everywhere must fight harder to stop the virus from spreading so we can protect millions more from experiencing this loss. Members of congress and members of this committee, were all united to do our part. With that, let me turn it over to our
I will tell you i voted against the welfare bill, one of the proudest votes i have cast in the 26 years i served in the house of representatives. I need to set that record out there. Jared bernstein, i thank you for moderating this discussion and for the great work you do. One of the foremost leaders of economic policy. They do improve the lives of working americans. I want to recognize ron haskins and jane for the groundbreaking work on this topic then paves the way to so many conversations that were helped today. The Solutions Discussed today provide a constructive framefor members of congress. To approach the universal child allowance, the expansion of Child Tax Credits. It has been a productive and thoughtprovoking day. An opportunity to speak to you. It is a sitting book end to a Conference Held 50 years ago. And the school of social work, hold children allowance conference, expert in social welfare and economics with policies about makers to assure the issue of child allowance wa
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Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by lincoln financial committed to helping you take charge of your financial future. And by the alfred p. Sloan foundation. Supporting science, technology, and improved Economic Performance and Financial Literacy in the 21st century. Supported by the rockefeller foundation. Promoting the wellbeing of humanity around the world by building resilience and inclusive economies. More at rockefellerfoundation. Org Carnegie Corporation of new york. Supporting innovations in education, democratic engagement, and the advancement of International Peace and security. At carnegie. Org. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and individuals. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff the long, bloody battle for syrias largest city is finally over, with the fall of aleppo. The syrian army announced tonight its now in full c
Somewhere and thats not cool who works for aei and she is the timekeeper. Shes over there and she will be giving signs so that we can keep everybody on schedule. Im sorry to say that but thats part of what happens when youre trying to run a wellrun seminar. I want to say one last thing about seminars because roberta is from chautauqua county. Some of you may know that Chautauqua Institute is one of the earliest sort of institute of good thinking and sharing of ideas of the United States, and when president johnson was president , he would get frustrated with things that he would say we will have one of these darn chautauqua seminars. That didnt get a laugh i was hoping for but thats okay last night but the point is this is Something Like that. We want of a free and open discussion. And with that i will start with codel. Thank you very much. I do want to thank you all for coming. Its interesting we talk about it ever looks at the baptist preacher and said okay. Thats who we need to keep