Quorum call quorum call mr. Sanders madam president. The presiding officer the senator from vermont is recognized. Sorry. Mr. Sanders thank you. Madam president , since last week the senate has been quote, unquote, debating the presiding officer senator, were in a quorum call. Mr. Sanders i would ask that the quorum call be vitiated. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Sanders madam president , since last week, the senate ostensibly one of the great deliberative bodies in the world, supposedly, has been quote, unquote, debating the 740 billion National Defense authorization act. Its been a very, very silent debate because of the 700 amendments that have been filed to this bill. There has been no roll call votes on any of them. I do understand that in the managers amendments have been accepted, and thats fine, but weve had a vigorous debate but nobody in the world has heard that debate because theres not been one amendment here on the floor. And knowing the way the senate does
Governor grisham we are working on a system that respects the instructions to stay at home. Its very clear about social distancing but we want to provide direct updates and today is an opportunity to do things a little bit differently. It will take a little longer. I really believe that the benefits of this kind of conversation with everyone in new mexico who has the opportunity to do now or later will be incredibly beneficial because in fact, we are all in this together. We will do a format that starts about where we are so you will get a case update from me. I want to talk about what we have done, kind of an accomplishment so you get a sense that things are happening all the time. And are still doing what to expect, what is the next several weeks or months and what to they look like and how do we know that . And then we are going to talk about any of the questions, we will have a dialogue and move got folks who provided questions in advance. I think there is an opportunity to ask que
How do you enforce that . We have put into place a series of orders in making it clear what a stay directive is. As ive mentioned, we have had a number of orders put in place and we have asked our residents and businesses to abide with them all. What you see from residents and. Hey continue to be concerned we are asking shoppers to limit your trips, maintain social distancing in those stores, and of course to wear a face mask. Critical ofvery that 2. 2 trillion tax, saying people were once again being shortchanged. How so . For the first time in the purposes of federal, the district was treated like a territory. We are not a territory. We are in fact a in the american system. The governor, and the county executive all at once d. C. Residents pay taxes, federal taxes, unlike the territories, in fact, we pay them at a rate thats the highest per capita in our system and more than 22 states in total. So this bill very curiously did not give us statelevel funding like we get for education a
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