From washington. Of blake, we start with you, my friend. Reporter connell, the headline over here in washington is that the white house has increased its offer for a revised covid19 relief package. A Senior Administration official telling me the new number is, give or take, 1. 8 trillion. The white house has come up from the 1. 6 trillion range that it was previously at. Larry kudlow revealed the news on fox business earlier this morning saying there was an oval office with President Trump, treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin and chief of staff mark meadows in which the president gave the green light on the new offer. Mnuchin held a phone call with nancy pelosi this afternoon to go over the offer. However, the goalposts for President Trump have been shifting, because as that employees i pelosi hi mnuchin phone call was happening, the president was on the phone with Rush Limbaugh saying he wanted even more. Listen here. I would like to see a bugger stimulus package, frankly, than either th
Cspan radio area cspan, your unfiltered view of politics area. This week cdc director doctor Robert Redfield took questions from senators on the us Coronavirus Response and how soon a vaccine might be available to the public. He said a vaccine might not be widely available until next year and that facemasks are an effective way of fighting the disease. Afterwards President Trump contradicted doctor redfield coronavirus treatments on timing for a vaccine. Heres a look at thatsenate appropriations hearing from wednesday. Appropriations subcommittee on labor health and human services, education and related agencies will come to order. Ri want to thank our witnesses for appearing before the subcommittee today. To provide an update on where we are on the areas that they are so involved in on the covid19. As we continue to be challenged by this pandemic in the country we know that 195,000 961 americans have died as part of the pandemic and 6. 6 million have tested positive during the process
Response efforts have not instilled much confidence either. Testing kits were notg probaby sent to the hospitals, and medical labs around the country, political personnel has overruled the recommendations for the cdc. In the administration was slow to appoint any single official for the Public Health expertise to coordinated our governments response. Even now, President Trump seems to be spending one of us time blaming commedia and blaming the democrats and being constructi constructive. Infective blades everyone. He is downplaying, the virus to a dangerous degree. His chief of staff amazingly said to americans, turn off your televisions. They know the history of how these viruses spread and work. Winnie to deny them, you dont let people know what is happening and what to do about it. Things getd worse. And if the president , being self centered as is only cares about himself and his image any tribes uas usual instead of solving te problem, blame somebody else. The deflection and finge
City county task force on opiates that was done across the u. S. We had 20 elected officials at the city and county levels, intensity officials intent county officials. The mayor of little rock, arkansas, it was a cochair on the city side and i was a cochair on the county side. Youll be hearing from one of those Panel Members today when greg speaks. But our work that was done, seems like ages ago. Well be talking about that. I want to thank those of you here in person as well as those f you that are here virtually. We know this is being broadcast live stream and a special thank you to a. R. C. For your partnership. What we do in county government is all about partnerships. We partner with each other. We partner with various agencies especially great partners like aoc, we are thankful for that. This event is the culmination of a year Long Partnership to strengthen the local response on the opiate epidemic across the 13state region. A. R. C. Is a unique federal, state and local partnersh
Older workers against discrimination, a very bipartisan bill which will correct the law passed years ago to protect Older Workers from discrimination. We know this is a problem, i hear about it in oregon, particularly from Older Workers in the tech sector. We know its a problem across the country, the aarp did a study showing that three out of five workers over 45 have seen or experience themselves age discrimination in the workplace. Ago,at happened 10 years there was a case, a gentleman named jack grose who came to our which brought a case of age discrimination when all the way up to the Supreme Court, and the Supreme Court changed the test that an older worker needs to show to move forward with the case. This bill simply corrects that, right now its a very it has been hard to prove cases of ages, nation. This puts the law back to where it was 10 years ago, to allow workers to seek a remedy. Host why is it hard to prove . Guest the test imposed by the court, which is inconsistent wit