The presiding officer the majority leader is recognized. Mr. Reid i ask unanimous consent the call of the quorum be terminated. The presiding officer without objection, so ordered. Mr. Reid mr. President , i would renew my request that was just denied. I would also add to that that i be recognized at 7 30. The presiding officer is there objection . So ordered. A senator mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from ohio. Mr. Brown thank you, mr. President. I ask unanimous consent to dispense with the quorum call. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Brown thank you, mr. President. Its with pride and humility i thank my colleagues for passing senate bill 381 last night. Once passed by the house and signed by the president this will bill award congressional gold medals to the surviving world war ii heroes we know as the doolittle tokyo raiders. The effort to pass this bill has been a personal one for me. I thank 78 of my colleagues who have cosponsored the resolution. It
Defense which is not crazy to think because if you turn on trump tv every day, youll see them covering reopen the country and let us work protest all over the u. S. And so, you can understand why Governor Kemp would think there is some Great American awakening happening as he sees americans on his tv screen rise up to say lets get back out to work and sacrifice our bodies to the virus in pursuit of economic growth. Guess what . There is not. That is not where the American People are at at all. We live in an extremely polarized country where americans are split on just about everything. Everything except the need to take drastic precautions to stem the spread of the coronavirus. Polling by huff post shows despite the president s bluster and all the talk on trump tv the need to socially distance have been strikingly consistent over the past month. Look at the pink line. 36 of americans are very concerned that they or a Family Member will contract the virus. That line is almost the same a
Lets get back out to work and sacrifice our bodies to the virus in pursuit of economic growth. Well, guess what . There is not. That is not where the American People are at at all. We live in an extremely pol polarized country where americans are split on just about everything. Everything except the need to take drastic traugfstic precautp the spread of coronavirus. Despite the president s bluster and all the talk on rightwing tv and talk radio americans attitudes about the need to socially distance have been strikingly consistent over the past month. Look at the pink line. 36 of americans are very concerned that they or a Family Member will contract the virus. That line is almost the same as it was at the end of march. Now look at the navy blue line. 50 of americans are very concerned about the spread of coronavirus in the u. S. Also pretty consistent from a month ago. Now look at this. The orange line. 78 of all americans, that is, democrats and republicans, say state stayathome orde
Billion at the recent summit to develop a vaccine. And im very proud the work that dfid is doing. Yes, of course, we will make sure that we guarantee the dfid budget, but what will happen within your department. What will happen now is that every single person, working in that every single person, working in that department in the new whitehall Super Department, the foreign and commonwealth and the Development Office, every person in that department will now have all the idealism and a sense of mission that comes from dfid, but also the understanding of the need to project uk values, uk policies and uk interests overseas. This is a long overdue reform and he should support it. I would like to associate myself with the comments the Prime Minister made regarding jo cox and our colleague from east dunbartonshire. I very much welcome the Prime Ministers Statement Today. Can he confirm this is a merger, not a ta keover confirm this is a merger, not a takeover and actually this has the poten
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