one thing, christine, the reason the white house was concerned about the numbers is exactly what you addressed, a lot of people were home. positive covid tests and couldn t work or were taking care of people who couldn t work. and yet you still had this growth. does that mean that the next month points in a more positive direction? if you got through a month like that, or are they just having trouble measuring how many jobs are actually out there? i think it shows resiliency in the recovery. but i think it also shows the difficulty in getting our hands around just the historic churn happening in the labor market. we know so many people are quitting their jobs for better jobs. that is a real hallmark of this. i heard it yesterday called the great upgrade, not the great rez ignition. people are on the move in a way that we have never seen before, and we re trying to capture that accurately. i think here bottom line that absenteeism, we saw the second week of january, some 12 million
franken s rez ignition. listen. senator franken is entitled to the senate ethics investigation process. but i don t think congress is equipped, i don t think they have the tools to do the kind of accountability that the american people are searching for. that is a huge problem. that is a stinging indictment. we have lrned from the revelations about the secret settlements or lawmakers accused of sexual harassment is that lawmakers are playing by a separate set of rules and that there is a process that not only undermines women and tries to discredit their allegations but provides no incentive for them to come forward because they re beholden to the confidentiality agreements, forced to seek counsel and immediate case against potentially against their will and so i think that gillibrand is a sponsor of legislation to overhaul that process.