And bridging the gap of trust, particularly with communities of color across our nation . Sen. Scott i think Congress Plays a role in that, even a significant role, but the most important is the one on the local level, the mayors and county chairwoman, those folks have the most direct path towards Police Reform, not those of us in congress. I have shared this many times. I have been stopped by officers years. S in the last 20 seven times in one year as an elected official and all of my 18 stops were either by city, county, or state Law Enforcement, never by federal Law Enforcement officers. Literally while we know the president ial election is important this year, another very important one. The truth is your election for your mayor, a lot of citizens dont participate in, election every city council members, those are the folks directly in positions of power to determine the local Law Enforcement you have. When we dont vote in those elections, we are actually taking a step back from th
On twitter or facebook. Lets start with yesterdays hearing. Chairman of the house judiciary antitrust subcommittee kicking off this hearing in the opening remarks saying that he believes these Companies Need to be reined in. The practices have armful economic effects. They discourage entrepreneurship, destroy jobs, and degraded quality. Simply put, they have too much power. This power staves off new forms of competition, creativity, and innovation. While these firms produce individual products, the dominance is killing Small Businesses, manufacturing, and dynamism that our engines of the american economy. Several firms harvest and abuse peoples data to sell ads from everything to new books and dangerous miracle cures. They cant run away fast enough. There is no escape from the surveillance because there is no alternative. People are stuck with bad options. Open markets are predicated on the idea that if a company harms people, consumers, workers, and Business Partners will choose anoth
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With Democratic Leaders in the house to extend relief payments. , asre negotiating right now we speak. We will see how it works out. If democrat leaders put partisan demands of side, we would reach an agreement very quickly. It would happen very quickly. Meantime, my administrations executive actions to provide protections against you actions. Eviction is a big problem and unfair to a lot of people. The virus came from a faraway land. Towell as additional relief those who are unemployed as a result of the virus. Very importantly, i am also looking at a term limited suspension of the payroll tax. Something that has great support from many, many sides. Especially some of our Top Economists and people that we have Great Respect for. So we are looking at a suspension of the payroll tax. The democrats are primarily interested in a 1 trillion bailout of the poorly run states. We have some states and cities, you know them all. Run over been poorly the years. We cannot go along with the bailou
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