We are still fighting for more money. We think the administration is coming in far too low for our heroes. I think we are close in terms of money, we are yielding on that quite a bit. Close on that except we have to see the language. One of the biggest differences is how we put money in peoples act theand in the cares republicans selfishly put in 150 billion for net operating losses benefiting a small percentage of people. Billion, a similar number in this legislation, the for poorer that is families. It is a refundable tax credit, a child tax credit, earned income tax credit. They have zero. 150 for the wealthiest, zero for the others. We are the reverse. 149, which we took down to 54 billion which we took down by shortening the amount of time it applies. As of yesterday they are still at zero. We are hoping they will come up on that, and we have great opposition in our caucus to the tax cut that is retroactive, having nothing to do with the coronavirus. Then we have issues that relat
You really look at what is happening. But a random act of kindness planted a seed of hope. Soledad i am soledad obrien. Welcome to matter of fact. Barriers to the ballot are not new for black and brown people in america. From poll taxes and literacy tests to intimidation and physical violence, all were blatant forms of efforts to suppress the vote. Today, Voter Suppression is the result of overly strict voter id laws, complicated rules for mailin ballots, extreme consolidation of polling places, and mass purging of voters from election rolls. Some examples, oklahoma, where state law requires absentee ballots to be notarized. Texas, where vulnerability to covid19 can not be used as a reason to get an absentee ballot. Kentucky, where just one polling place was open during the primary election in jefferson county, which serv roughly many people could be turned away from the polls in november or find out that their ballots did not count . Janai nelson is the associate director counsel of t
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Good morning. The Vice President of the United States is here, so good morning. All right, fantastic. As i said earlier, thanks for being here today and i want to thank kurt our for his remarks earlier. We are grateful today to honor the workforce and workers across the United States and im proud to say i am part of the dairyland family and want to recognize the team and their families that sacrifice every day to keep the lights on and industry operating 24 hours, seven days a week. Our next speaker is United States senator ron johnson. It is my honor to introduce him. D states senator ron johnson. It is my honor to introduce him. He was elected in 2010 and reelected in 2016. Senator johnson is a graduate of the university of minnesota. He started a manufacturing wisconsin. He is chairman of the Homeland Security Government Affairs committee. He also serves on the budget Foreign Relations and commerce finance and transportation committees. Please welcome senator ron johnson and thank y
The workforce and workers across the United States and im proud of thei am part dairyland family and want to recognize the team and their families that sacrifice every day to keep the lights on and industry operating 24 hours, seven days a week. Our next speaker is United States senator ron johnson. It is my honor to introduce him. He was elected in 2010 and reelected in 2016. Senator johnson is a graduate of the university of minnesota. He started a manufacturing wisconsin. He is chairman of the Homeland Security Government Affairs committee. He also serves on the budget Foreign Relations and commerce finance and transportation committees. Please welcome senator ron johnson and thank you for all the work he does for the citizens of wisconsin. [applause] sen. Johnson thank you. Thank you for hosting this event. On such a gloriously beautiful wisconsin day. I am here first of all to say thank you to be Vice President for coming here again. He is almost an honorary member. He and Preside