Force sham votes that will not pass and will not answer the anguished cries for help that are coming from so many of our fellow americans. On the other hand, over the weekend and yesterday Speaker Pelosi and i continued on negotiations with the white house on the next phase of covid relief legislation. After a week of stalled talks because republicans could not articulate a position on re hardly anything i believe we are making progress. We came closer together on several issues. However, we remain far apart on a number of issues but were finally moving inthe right direction. Reat the moment, the gap between our two parties in the negotiations is about priorities and about scale. As this huge crisis angles our nation, democrats believe we need a whole strong and vigorous response from the federal government. It will take a lot of resources but if we dont commit those resources now , for sure the cost will only grow in the months to come. Democrats are fighting to meet the needs of a de
Resume on Unemployment Benefits that expired last friday and talks on the on a larger package. Live coverage here on cspan2. The chaplain let us pray. Eternal spirit, to whom we must give an account for all our powers and privileges, guide the members of this body so that they will be faithful stewards of your will. Lord, open their minds and hearts to know and do your bidding, teaching them to rely on your strength and to serve you with honor. Help them to discover in their daily work the joy of a partnership with you. Use them to bring good news to the marginalized, to comfort the brokenhearted, and to announce that captives will be released and the shackled will be freed. May our senators depend upon the power of your prevailing providence for you are the author and finisher of our faith. We pray in your great name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for whic
Donors he would get rid of most of trumps tax cuts. That wouldnt be good for stock prices or your 401 k . Right now we see the dow losing maybe 90 points at the opening bell, 25,400. The s p will be down and the nasdaq is off about 20 points. No serious selloff at this point. But we do have dramatic stories breaking this morning. Overnight, a young black man, 16 years old, shot and killed in the seattle chop zone. Its the fourth shooting there in nine days. Democrat mayor durkin said the zone would be removed. It is still there. In new york city, the city votes on taking a billion dollars out of the budget the police budgets. Mayor deblasio calls it real redistribution. This follows a devastating blow, the citys 15 billion theater industry will stay closed until next year. The democrats trash the president and mt. Rushmore. A tweet from the dnc says the president will be quote, glorifying White Supremacy when he attends a fireworks display there on july fourth. But its okay. They took
Today. As many of you know, once you learn is a program where we invite Community Experts to share their knowledge of interesting aspects of history, culture and art. This program was started on the suggestion of one of our members, one of you all and it fit into the institutions history for nearly 200 years our Historical House served as an Important Community Gathering Place for prominent cincinnati families such as those of martin home, nicholas longworth, david, and of course charles and anna taft. Each resident played an Important Role in shaping the history, art and culture of cincinnati and this celebrates their legacy is as well as the new wave city continues to devolve and change. The complete schedule of all of our programs including our upcoming lunch and learn sort of rebuttal on the website which is taft museum. Org and i would like to tell you about the talk today. Today we have the author of newly released book the bourbon king of the life and crimes of george remus, pro
Culture and art. This program was started on the suggestion of one of our members, one of you all and it fit into the institutions history for nearly 200 years our Historical House served as an Important Community Gathering Place for prominent cincinnati families such as those of martin home, nicholas longworth, david, and of course charles and anna taft. Each resident played an Important Role in shaping the history, art and culture of cincinnati and this celebrates their legacy is as well as the new wave city continues to devolve and change. The complete schedule of all of our programs including our upcoming lunch and learn sort of rebuttal on the website which is taft museum. Org and i would like to tell you about the talk today. Today we have the author of newly released book the bourbon king of the life and crimes of george remus, prohibitions of evil genius. Bob is here with us today to share the story of george remus the criminal mastermind and bootleg kingdom to build a kinga bo