Mcconnell announced a vote on the next covid relief package coming up tomorrow although we expect discussion on the matter today as well. Now live to the floor of the u. S. Senate here on cspan2. The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Black, will lead the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Faithful father, our refuge and strength, give us such lawmakers that their lives will enable you to be glorified by bringing healing to our land. Lord, provide our nation with physical, mental, social, and spiritual healing by the power of your grace. Sustained by this grace, may our senators seek to please you in all they do. Inspire them to give you cheerfully their highest be gracious, mighty god, to our nation and world. Intowr us all empower us all until the words of our mouths and the meditations of our hearts are acceptable to you. We pray in your sacred name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance i ple
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Live streaming and ondemand at cspan. Org, or listen live on the cspan radio app free. About the news that came out yesterday about the Unemployment Rate dropping adding and the economy for thellion jobs American Workers in july. The to give us context, have with us this morning had a long, the economic correspondent with the washington post. Good morning. Guest good to be here. Host take us through this latest job report. Was this considered a good job report, a fair job report, a bad job report . Give us some context on what we heard yesterday. Guest great question. Overall it was a good job support. Certainly every job we can bring back right now after we lost 22 million in the spring is welcome. Figure wasllion better than anybody had forecast. This is a big asterisk to report, and that is a quarter of those jobs added back for temporary jobs. Wererticular, 238,000 census worker jobs. Those jobs are not going to last. Those of those people who have been knocking on your door, askin