About congressional operations during the coronavirus outbreak. Also, cq roll calls jennifer the coronavirus. Host President Trump signed the second of likely to be three coronavirus aid packages passed by congress, the third topping 1 trillion will get initial consideration in the u. S. Senate. Good morning and welcome to washington journal for this thursday. We continue our conversation hearing from you about the governments response to the. Oronavirus pandemic your lines are the same they have been the last couple days. Mountain and pacific, 2027488001. And medical professionals, 2027488002. You can send us a text. That is 2027488003. Make sure you tell us your name and where you are texting from. On twitter we are cspanwj and it is facebook. Com cspan for your posts. Legislation passing in the senate 908 yesterday afternoon and quickly down to the white house. This is the reporting of usa today with the headline in the papers. A measure to ensure paid sick leave to ensure testing f
the couch has been to a have you been to a renaissance fair? pete: many times. will: rachel and i have never been. pete: my mom loves the festival but we never wanted to go. because of it i like to say unguard. rachel: this segment kind of talk as lit the bit about biological dinses so before we even started, they were hitting each other with swords. i didn t grab my sword until, you know, the camera came up. now i m going to do what you guys were doing but i think it s interesting that swords were brought and immediately you guys start fighting. pete: absolutely. that s what they re for. rachel: that s what boys do. pete: look at those moves. can t take me. will: renaissance, fair, huh? pete: it s celebrating an era that doesn t get much love. like the vikings. rachel: it s not the vikings. rachel: beer. will: whatever they drink. will: what is mead? rachel: i don t know. it s some sort of drink. we ll see what they drink at the renaissance fair. will: attorneys for hunter
More days of flooding rains ahead. The worst far from over. Lives hanging in the balance. The race against time right now. And, good morning, america. You are looking live now at houston, texas, that is a neighborhood of meyerland. Entire neighbors under water as you can see. The rain still coming down. Thats drone footage of the city as well right now. The rain is coming down. Houses just about submerged. We have never seen anything like this. Incredible all the video and images coming in and, of course, harvey is still wreaking havoc on the fourth largest city in america and as beef been saying it is far from over. Much more rain to come. More than 2,000 rescues. Take a look at this video from overnight. That man just holding on to his car waiting to be rescued as the current threatens to keep him away. More rescues still going on right now. Well talk to the police chief about that in a moment. Take a look at some of these before and after images, truly st stunning. This is the inter
Hillsdale college in michigan, which he spoke a bit about his relationship with the late justice antonin scalia. [applause] Justice Thomas thank you all. Thank you. [applause] thank you. Thank you. Thank you all. Members of the board, members of the faculty, family, friends, most of all graduates. Im honored to be here. I am particularly honored because my bride is with me. We spent quite a bit of time together and we like to have memories together. This is a memory. I would like to thank dr. Oren for inviting me. I express my deep honor and gratitude to participate in these commencement exercises. Its been quite some years since for jenny and i have been here together. We been here on separate occasions but rarely together. Of course we have known dr. Larry and mrs. Oren for many years. We have been quite close to hillsdale throughout his tenure. We both admire the work that is being done here to educate young man and young women. I was fortunate to have had david morel, a hillsdale g
[applause] thank you all. Thank you. [applause] thank you. Thank you. Thank you all. Members of the board, members of ,he faculty, family, friends most of all graduates. Im honored to be here. I am particularly honored because my bride is with me. We spent quite a bit of time together and we like to have memories together. This is a memory. Orenld like to thank dr. For inviting me. I express my deep honor and gratitude to participate in these commencement exercises. Its been quite some years since for jenny and i have been here together. We been here on separate occasions but rarely together. Of course we have known dr. Larry and mrs. Oren for many years. We have been quite close to hillsdale throughout his tenure. We both admire the work that is being done here to educate young man and young women. I was fortunate to have had david morel, a hillsdale graduate, clerk for me. He was an outstanding law clerk and brilliant young man. Mass also one of my daily companions. Evening asnce las