Decade with your love and sacrifice sore throats and first moments. Thank you to my staff in the chamber today who are in colorado and washington and made so many great things happen and whose difference will be felt for generations to come. You leave a mark on the country far beyond the etching of a signature and thanks to my colleagues, senator bennett thank you for the honor of serving along your side and serving to the Nations Capital to please the staff to the support staff inhe the senate wo make it all possible. But above all most importantly, thank you to this great and extraordinary nation for all that it means it represents. The optimism that for two centuries has led people around the globe to give up everything they had just to be here, to be part of this nation, to then turn around and fight through the political strife and pandemics to go to the war to save the union, to know how lucky and blessed we are that out of all of the billions of people through the thousands of y
Different colors. All woven and held together by a single precious thread of democracy. Paul has taught us so much and as students who followed him, worked with him, believed with him, loved him and now miss him, we could never, ever be more thankful. With that, mr. Trone and mr. Speaker, i yield back the balance of my time. Mr. Trone i recognize mr. Levin. Mr. Levin thank you very much for recognizing me, mr. Trone and i thank the majority leader for organizing this. Mr. Speaker, i rise to speak for mr. Sarbanes, senator sarbanes employees. And especially for my sisterinlaw milley freeman, who worked for Paul Sarbanes from december of 1989 to january of 2007. And im not going to talk about all the Amazing Things about senator sarbanes that his maryland colleagues have eloquently mentioned and john, im not going to talk about fathers and sons, but my dad who served in this house and my uncle carl levin who served in the senate, both loved him very much. Andlet me talk about nellie his
Safe and conducting what we believe is essential work for the American People. Additional of Coronavirus Relief is on the minds of lots of our members. You have spoken to probably senator collins, senator romney and others meeting with democrats about a possible way forward. Proposal through a pelosi and speaker senator schumer last night. Let me tell you where i think we are. Leader mccarthy and i have been in discussions with the secretary of the treasury and the president s chief of staff to ascertain what the president would actually sign into law. I think we have a sense of what that is. A call we hadt in just a little while ago. We will send that out to all the offices and get some back to see how our members react to a proposal we can say for sure would be signed into law. I think the one think we agree on is we dont have time for messaging games. We dont have time for lengthy negotiations. The issue is do we want to get a result . I would like to remind everyone the way to get
James copland come senior fellow with the Manhattan Institute for policy research and director of legal policy for the institute. Todays event casts is sponsored in cooperation with the Manhattan Institutes new policing and Public Safety initiative and we are pleased to welcome senator tim scott, republican of South Carolina. To discuss with us federal criminal Justice Reform. Senator scott is someone i look up to a lot. Hes a South Carolina senator. Im a North Carolina boy, and senator scott is somebody who in initial primary, those who watched him he defeated Strom Thurmond sent in the primary which is abuzz live in the south realize taking out in the primary the son of a long time leader is something that is quite remarkable. I dont care if youre white, black approval but senator scott of course is a black man in these only the fourth black man to serve as a u. S. Senator since reconstruction along with the great edward brooke, of course barack obama and my Law School Buddy cory boo
Subcommittee looks at marine readiness with a hearing on wednesday. Our live coverage but separate 915 eastern on cspan three, online at cspan. Org or listen live with the free cspan radio app. Earlier today Senate Republican and Democratic Leaders held news conferences to discuss the current state of covid19 negotiations. First move from Senate Majority leader mitch mcconnell. And Senate Republicans. Cnet. [background noises] [background noises] good afternoon everyone. We just had a lunch meeting, Conference Call this time, where the growing concern about the rise of coronavirus. And we adjusted our meeting to reflect our concern about being extra safe. And conducting what we believe is essential work for the American People. The subject of additional Coronavirus Relief is on the minds of lots of members. Youve already spoken to et cetera calls, send a romney and others who have been with democrats about a possible way forward. We received a proposal through a letter from Speaker Pel