We are ready to go now. Take it all for joining the first remote hearing of the subcommittee on select revenue measures. We find ourselves in challenging times as evidenced by this new method of conducting Community Business in accord with the Public Health and safety recommendations. But the challenges we encounter here in congress are small compared to what i hear and see and what i am sure all of you here and see in our communities. Im glad we can move forward into the work that our constituents need given the difficult economic situations in which so many find themselves. The covid19 recession has laid bear the economic struggles of millions of American Families with almost no warning the shutdown claimed tens of millions of jobs, and American Workers and families felt the ground ball from under them. Many had been just barely scraping by and unable to save much for a rainy day, and the sudden loss of income has left them nothing. Food banks are Unprecedented Demand in the country
U. S. Senate when they return here on cspan2. Next a house ways and means subCommittee Hearing on efforts to provide tax relief to low income workers, minorities, women and families affected by the coronavirus pandemic. Witnesses include representatives from the National Womens law center, Georgetown University poverty and inequality center, the American Enterprise institute and Childrens Health watch at Boston Medical Center. We are ready to go now. Take it all for joining the first remote hearing of the subcommittee on select revenue measures. We find ourselves in challenging times as evidenced by this new method of conducting Community Business in accord with the Public Health and safety recommendations. But the challenges we encounter here in congress are small compared to what i hear and see and what i am sure all of you here and see in our communities. Im glad we can move forward into the work that our constituents need given the difficult economic situations in which so many fin
With support from our Comcast Cable partners this weekend we travel to lansing michigan. Coming up we will talk with authors base year as we first learn how the city was chosen as the state capital and then about 15 minutes the story of arby olds and the auto Company Founded in lansing and later we take a driving tour of the citys downtown. We begin our special feature as we hear about james turner and the founding of lansing. James turner was a pioneer. It wasnt until the state legislature designated this area that he came with these other folks and helped build the capital. He had a slightly more sensible approach, but we didnt do that. Wehad nothing here, there was no transportation. They had so much to build a castle city and that was the very interested and exciting and unique story oflansings beginning. The legislature established the state in about 1836, about a year before it became a state. They designated detroit as the capital but they were fearful that detroit could be easi
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