Secretary with the procedural vote later this afternoon. Off the floor negotiations are continuing on a coronavirus aid package. Now to live Senate Coverage here on cspan2. The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Black, will open the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Our father, as we think of those so desperately in need of legislative action, give our lawmakers the wisdom and courage needed for these challenging times. Use them to empower all americans, particularly those on lifes margins. Lord, help our senators today to discern your voice, as they seek your will in all they do. Give them the ability to differentiate your guidance from all others, permitting you to lead them to your desired destination. Speak to them through your word, guide them with your spirit, and sustain them with your might. We pray in your great name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in the pledge. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States
Ground in new orleans right now . Guest as the governor said in the clip that you played, we are factg a pretty heavy the heavy effects from coronavirus here. Rateve the highest death by far on a per capita basis. Are pretty intense down here. Much fully inetty lockdown. They have shut down the bars and restaurants. Everyone is just trying to figure out how we are going to handle this. Host what is different about new orleans and louisiana . Quickly . Spreading so guest that is a very good question. I dont think anybody has a solid answer to that. There have been a lot of theories about some underlying conditions within our population that make people eventually more susceptible to having extreme illness when they get the virus. Thatinly there is the fact any federal were warnings, we had mardi gras. That is something some experts think might have helped the virus spread more widely. What has been the response from local officials in new orleans and the governor for people who have bee
This week on the communicators we want to introduce you to the Senior Vice President for Public Policy for a site called yelp. What exactly is yelp and what you do . Thank you for having me on today, peter. Populara website and consumer application that allows people to connect with rate local businesses. It is a service that empowers and protects consumers, allows people to discover rate local tos, at a way for consumers warn fellow consumers about not so great businesses. Host how many visitors a month to have . Guest depending on how you break it out, there are folks who access it via mobile web, the website, the app, it is north of 100 Million People then we have 200 million reviews that have been submitted. Host how to make money . Guest yelp is a vertical search engine, not unlike google if i do a search for a dentist in san diego, there are handful of totists who are paying basically have a sponsored, clearly labeled as such, link, that lives above your organic search results. T
[captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2023] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] good afternoon. Now, i want to thank everyone for coming. Special thanks to senator murray and senator padilla, but particularly senator butler for joining us today. We are thrilled. Just thrilled. Delighted. Feel great to have senator butler join us here today. But as a Senate Democrat at lunch and as a vital and active member of our caucus, we sat down, we knew each other before from emilys list, but we sat down and talked for 45 minutes and boy, was i impressed senator butler is going to be a great senator. And before we get more to senator butler, i want to speak a bit about her predecessor, my dear friend who we deeply miss and love and that is senator feinstein. As we all know diane was such a force in the senate. She came during the year of the woman 1992 right alongside patty murray. Di
They paid tribute to the late senator Dianne Feinstein of california will be laid to rest of this week. They highlighted significant moments in her career, including passing the 1994 assault opens bank assault weapons ban. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2023] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] good afternoon. I want to thank everyone for coming. Special thanks to senator murray and senator padilla, but particularly, senator butler for joining us today. We are thrilled and delighted to have senator butler join ice here today. As a Senate Democrat and vital and active member of our caucus. We knew each other before from emilys list. We talked for 45 minutes and boy , was i impressed. Senator butler will be a great senator. I want to speak a bit about her predecessor, my dear friend here we deeply miss and love, senator feinstein. Diane was such a forth in the senate.