To boost your news i q. Starting today the trumpet ministration is pulling federal agents out of Portland Oregon after striking a deal with state officials on a plan to address violent protests the government there calling the move to deploy federal agents political theater by the trumpet ministration this as violent clashes between demonstrators and Police Continue nationwide and 1st a warning some of the video youre about to see may be disturbing heres arties Trinity Chavez with the story. Today nationwide protest against Police Brutality and racial injustice. Just hours after oregons governor announced a phased withdrawal of federal officers from portland this is a gradual withdrawal from portland. And dozens of officers filled city streets in the largest visible response by the federal government to downtown demonstrators. Chaotic confrontations caught on Camera Department of Homeland Security and c. B. P. Officers seen firing tear gas and rubber bullets protesters gathered near th
Now recall, back in the cares act there was an extension of a federal supplement to Unemployment Insurance. So we put in place a 600 federal benefit on top of the state benefit. At the time there were concerns about whether that would lead to people on Unemployment Insurance getting more money than they would at work, and there was actually an amendment here on the house floor, on the senate floor regarding that. And although it did not pass, i think pretty much every republican supported it with that concern. In fact, thats whats happened. If you look at whats happened over the past couple of months, as the 600 has been put in place, it clearly has led to people making more on Unemployment Insurance often than they can make at work. In fact, the congressional budget office, which is a Nonpartisan Group here in the United States congress that analyzes some of these economic issues, has said that if someone is on Unemployment Insurance today, they are likely to be making substantially m
To boost your news i q. Starting today the trumpet ministration is pulling federal agents out of Portland Oregon after striking a deal with state officials on a plan to address violent protests the government there calling the move to deploy federal agents political theater by the trumpet ministration this as violent clashes between demonstrators and Police Continue nationwide and 1st a warning some of the video youre about to see may be disturbing heres arties Trinity Chavez with the story. Today nationwide protest against Police Brutality and racial injustice. Just hours after oregons dozen are announced a phased withdrawal of federal officers from portland this is a gradual withdrawal from portland. Dozens of officers filled city streets in the largest visible response by the federal government to downtown demonstrators. Chaotic confrontations caught on Camera Department of Homeland Security and c. B. P. Officers seen firing tear gas and rubber bullets protesters gathered near the f
Funeral to remember them by. Protective gear waved goodbye from across the hospital room. 150,000 americans have died. More than any other nation on gods green earth. More than our allies and more than our adversaries, more than the most populous nations inan this direction of our wealth and power and more, so many more in the nation where the virus originated. We will debate the reasons for this truth. We must if we are to avoid compounding the errors keeping so no one thought of as the virus continues to rage throughout the country. But now we spend a moment to acknowledge how much the country has suffered already. Weve lost friends and neighbors, brothers and sisters, fathers and daughters, mothers and sons, the beloved professor at howard university, civil rights pioneer, renowned psychiatrist, brooklyn doctor 62 on the verge of retiring in the early weeks of the crisis in new york work day shifts and night shifts at the hospitals across the street before finally succumbing to the
Resume on Unemployment Benefits that expired last friday and talks on the on a larger package. Live coverage here on cspan2. The chaplain let us pray. Eternal spirit, to whom we must give an account for all our powers and privileges, guide the members of this body so that they will be faithful stewards of your will. Lord, open their minds and hearts to know and do your bidding, teaching them to rely on your strength and to serve you with honor. Help them to discover in their daily work the joy of a partnership with you. Use them to bring good news to the marginalized, to comfort the brokenhearted, and to announce that captives will be released and the shackled will be freed. May our senators depend upon the power of your prevailing providence for you are the author and finisher of our faith. We pray in your great name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for whic