Woodruff and its friday, mark shields and Michael Gerson are here, to analyze the weeks news. Those are some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. Lincoln financial committed to helping you take charge of your life and become youre own chief life officer. Supporting social entrepreneurs and their solutions to the worlds most pressing problems skollfoundation. Org. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff february was a solid month for americans looking for work. The latest job numbers from the Labor Department show employers added 295,000 jobs last month. That helped push the Unemployment Rate down to 5. 5 . But it also fell because more people stopped looking for work. Well
Woodruff and its friday, mark shields and Michael Gerson are here, to analyze the weeks news. Those are some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. Lincoln financial committed to helping you take charge of your life and become youre own chief life officer. Supporting social entrepreneurs and their solutions to the worlds most pressing problems skollfoundation. Org. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff february was a solid month for americans looking for work. The latest job numbers from the Labor Department show employers added 295,000 jobs last month. That helped push the Unemployment Rate down to 5. 5 . But it also fell because more people stopped looking for work. Well
Million dollar. Whats the difference between those two and is that hypocrisy . Its completely different. The sgr is an expense that we have. Its not going to go away. The longer we prolong it the more expensive it is. It is an investment in people in that bill. We not only have the doc fix, i call it a remedy for our seniors. We all invest in the health of our children. One of the first bills we sent to president obamas desk we had been passing it but couldnt get it signed until we had a democratic president and president obama signed it in this legislation. We extend that and investing in the health of our children is a very positive investment. Some of it is paid for. We have an initiative to help poor seniors, very low income seniors. Thats paid for by increasing calls to the very top well to do seniors. Some of it is paid for. Some of it is not. All of it is an investment. Thats an expense with no value. Do you see any issues in which the example of the sgr episode may be replicate
Quorum call the presiding officer the senator from alaska. Ms. Murkowski mr. President , i request proceedings under the quorum call be dispensed with. The presiding officer without objection. Ms. Murkowski thank you, mr. President. We are on the measure again, the shaheenportman Energy Efficiency, also known as Energy Savings and industrial competitiveness act. An efficiency bill, mr. President. This shouldnt be this difficult for us. When we talk about the benefits of an alloftheabove Energy Policy, the benefits that can come to us as a nation when we are more resilient with our energy sources, when were able to access our Domestic Energy sources, whether they be our fossil fuels, whether they be our renewables, whether they be nuclear, we all talk about it in good, strong terms because, quite honestly, energy makes us a stronger nation. Abg stows our Energy Resource access to our Energy Resources. Ive defined a good, Strong Energy policy as one that allows energy to be more abundant
Biden has called upon us to summon now, the courage to see beyond crisis, to do what is hard, to do what is good, to unite. Seeing Kamala Harris is going to mean so much to so many millions of little girls and little boys. We saw the 15 executive orders and executive actions that have been signed by the president. The world is watching us and i think were saying to the world, this is the america you believed in. Welcome to our viewers in the United States and all around the world. This is new day. It is thursday, january 21st, 6 00 here in new york. And the sun not even up on the first full day of the Biden Administration and already we have breaking news, as President Biden wakes up for the first time in the white house, were getting word from officials about the staggering lack of coronavirus vaccination plan left behind. This morning, we are told they have to start from scratch. Also breaking before dawn, minutes ago, the white house just released this new National Strategy for coro