Vote vote the presiding officer are there any senators in the chamber wishing to vote or change their vote . If not, the yeas are 71, the nays are 21. The nomination is confirmed. Mr. Mcconnell mr. President. The presiding officer under the previous order, the motion to reconsider is considered made and laid upon the table, and the president will be immediately notified of the senates action. Mr. Mcconnell mr. President. The presiding officer the majority leader. Mr. Mcconnell on monday, republicans introduced a 1 trillion proposal to give American Families more Coronavirus Relief. Most urgently, the republicans want to continue a federal supplement to state Unemployment Insurance which is set to expire, as we all know, tomorrow. If our democratic dleetions had acted colleagues had acted with the urgency struggling people deserve we could right now be finishing up a major bipartisan package for kids, jobs, and health care. If our democratic colleagues had acted with urgency, unemployed
Could right now be finishing up a major bipartisan package for jobs in healthcare. If our democratic colleagues at act with urgency, unemployed americans would not be facing a total elimination of the structure of health. But instead, jobless americans are staring down this cliff because Speaker Pelosi and the democratic leader have refused to negotiate. They refused to move 1 inch from the speakers far left proposal that was so absurd and so unserious that all moderate democratic members began trashing it in the instant it came out. This is a multitrillion dollar that would tax involvement provide a massive tax cut rich people in blue states. Fund diversity studies of the legal pot industry and a thousand other things with no relationship whatsoever to the crisis. Just a few minutes ago are calling from wisconsin tried to get consent to continue the unemploymentnc assistance, to prevent it from expiring tomorrow. In the democratic leader objected unless he got to pass the entirety of
Moving west, the strawberry fire in southwest utah is holding at 15 contained. Lightning sparked the flames, which have burned more than 40 acres. The heat continues across the east coast with heat advisories and excessive heat warnings from South Carolina all the way to maryland. Now to the coronavirus and so Many Americans asking if theyre safe even eating outdoors. It comes amid new speculation that the Coronavirus Infection rate could actually be as much as 2,000 higher than reported. I spoke earlier with dr. Gharahbaghian. As we reported, the cdc is now saying there could be 10 times more Coronavirus Infections across this country than reported. In some areas, that number could be 20 times more. What does this say about the spread of the virus, and does this mean the death rate is lower than we thought . Its not surprising, actually, that the number of cases are actually more than what is reported, for a variety of reasons. We had changing testing algorithms. It used to be more st
Do. Another package would need to be bipartisan to pass the senate. Tso the question before the country is quite simple. If we aree going to see the versions of the house and Senate Democrat that helped us pass the act back in march, or instead are we going to see the same democrats who decided to block Police Reform in june and lashed out at senator tim scotts proposal instead of working with him to make law. In other words, madame preside president , the speake speaker oe house and the democratic leader believe that the americans deserve an outcome or the want to stay on the sidelines and recite talking points. Yesterday before the democrats had seen the legislation, they began attacking it. Releasing a proposal that wants to give schools even more reopening money than House Democrats which would continue additional benefits at eight times the dollar amount democrats establish in the last crisis. We were informed on the floor those republican hard right money people dont want the fed
Adding that zte and huawei are required to turn over data and information that they collect to chinese intelligence. Fccs designation comes as beijing tightens control over hong kong, putting into effect a sweeping National Security law that completes beijings takeover of hong kong. Hong kongs leader, carrie lamb, supporting that takeover and the end of civil rights in hong kong. Prodemocracy groups say this is the end of the hong kong the world once knew. On monday secretary of state mike pompeo announced the United States is stopping the exports of defense equipment to hong kong. The state Department Also imposed the same restrictions on defense and dualuse technology. Last year the United States exported more than 75 million of military equipment to hong kong, most of which was in the form of engines and turbines, 3. 5 million though marked as tanks, artillery, missiles, rockets, guns and ammunition. Secretary pompeo said, quote we cannot risk these items falling into the hands of t