I thank amanda for that. I thank amanda for the work shesing to and trying to do sthees doing and trying to do, but in too many instances, members of congress are not aware of the reality out there. The stories go on and on and on. Now that the 600 a week in Unemployment Benefits has expired. Now that the moratorium on evictions has also expired, this crisis is only to get worse and worse and worse. In my view, we need to extend the extra 600 a week in Unemployment Benefits for the 30 million measures who have lost their jobs. I think that is a nobrainer. People are hurting. People are desperate. People cannot feed their kids. People are going to be evicted from their homes and their apartments. We have got to respond to that pain and extend that 600 supplement to normal unemployment. I would go further. I believe that we need to make sure that every workingclass person in this country receives 2,000 a month until this crisis is over so they can have the security that they need, that t
Good morning. The Senate Health education labor and Pensions Committee will please come to order. Todayerer holding a hearing on our nations growing Mental Health and Substance Use disorder crisis. I will have an Opening Statement following by senator murkowski. Then we will introduce our witnesses. I believe Ranking Member will join us a little later as well. After the witnesses give their testimony, senators will each is have five minute farce for a round of questions. While we werent able to have it open to the public, live video is available on our Committee Website and if you are in need of accommodations, you can reach out to the committee or office of congressional accessibility services. We continue to see a high number of new covid cases, so we are having this hearing in a larger hearing room where we can be socially distanced limiting the number of people who are in the hearing room, experience depression, anxiety and other Mental Health disorders. Drug overdoses were on the
Good morning. The Senate Health education labor and Pensions Committee will please come to order. Todayerer holding a hearing on our nations growing Mental Health and Substance Use disorder crisis. I will have an Opening Statement following by senator murkowski. Then we will introduce our witnesses. I believe Ranking Member will join us a little later as well. After the witnesses give their testimony, senators will each is have five minute farce for a round of questions. While we werent able to have it open to the public, live video is available on our Committee Website and if you are in need of accommodations, you can reach out to the committee or office of congressional accessibility services. We continue to see a high number of new covid cases, so we are having this hearing in a larger hearing room where we can be socially distanced limiting the number of people who are in the hearing room, experience depression, anxiety and other Mental Health disorders. Drug overdoses were on the
Votes will be conducted as fiveminute votes. The Unfinished Business is on the vote on the motion by mr. Roe on which the yeas and nays are ordered. The clerk will report the title of the bill. The clerk h. R. 3562 a bill to amend title 38 to authorize the secretary of victory affairs for residences of veterans in rehabilitation programs and for other purposes. The speaker pro tempore the question is, will the house suspend the rules and pass the bill. Members will record their votes by electronic device. This will be a 15minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc. , in cooperation with the United States house of representatives. Any use of the closedcaptioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u. S. House of representatives. ] the speaker pro tempore on this vote the yeas are 400, the nays are zero. 2 3 of those voting having responded in the affirmative, the rules are suspended, t
Is this hour in the nations capital. Chris jansing is on the north lawn of the white house. Hans nichols at the pentagon and in d. C. , a former u. S. Ambassador to rusa and a nato deputy secretary general. A lot to talk to him about. Chris, lets start with you. Whats the latest from the white house on this possible Troop Deployment . We thought we might get an answer quickly because the president is going to that big meeting next week and the early word had been that he would make a decision by then. We heard from sean spicer there is no timeline. He asked for a comprehensive review to look at what their options are. The reports are he wants to start winning again. Heres what sean spicer said about that. One of the things he has asked his National Security team to do is to actually rethink the strategy. What are we doing to achieve the goals that you are asking about. How do we win . How do we eliminate the threat . I think doing that is not just a question of throwing money or people