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
The Incoming Biden Administration i thought we should begin with kind of the big picture that you lay out in the book when people hear the title they might say of course. I think many people may not fully understand. Taking the time to talk about this book and thank you to cspan for having me here to talk about it as well. That isnt a surprise for anyone but what has been happening over the last several decades is our economy has been highly concentrated and theres been consolidation on an ongoing basis in every sector of the economy so we hear a lot about but not only are we talking about food or agriculture in the industry you will have a monopoly problem and im also talking about the duopoly is there are harms that flow from this that i want to highlight to help them understand what it means for their everyday life and how it affects them. As you write about, it is the Cable Service and industries. Can you talk about how we got to this point you sort of explain in the book that ther
George floyd and of police brutality. This has built so many of us into the street to stand with our neighbors and communities of color. Entertainingly and systematically abused by the criminal justice system. The committee in the house as a whole, is committed to swiftly enacting profound reforms. To punish police misconduct. Holding Police Department accountable to oversight. In eliminating the financing of police militarization. We hope have more to say in the coming days. And as my friend set us we, my protest is my statement. Even as we prepare our legislative solution. The topic of todays is essential workers pretty since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, and the United States, we are all acutely aware of the threats posed to ours health and safety. But we do not all face of the risk of the crisis equally. Grocery store workers, Food Processing employee, Public Transportation operators. Nurses and doctors and hospital support staff, nursing home employees, First Responders,
Brutality. This has built so many of us into the street to stand with our neighbors and communities of color. Entertainingly and systematically abused by the criminal justice system. The committee in the house as a whole, is committed to swiftly enacting profound reforms. To punish police misconduct. Holding Police Department accountable to oversight. In eliminating the financing of police militarization. We hope have more to say in the coming days. And as my friend set us we, my protest is my statement. Even as we prepare our legislative solution. The topic of todays is essential workers pretty since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, and the United States, we are all acutely aware of the threats posed to ours health and safety. But we do not all face of the risk of the crisis equally. Grocery store workers, Food Processing employee, Public Transportation operators. Nurses and doctors and hospital support staff, nursing home employees, First Responders, janitors, mail carriers, de
Thinking as there seems to be a push from the right and for many in the economic sector to do just that but theres also another if not equal push from the other side that says opening the economy would be both dangerous and irresponsible and that is the thinking of many in the Public Health sector also many on the left all right so whos right. Were going to bring you a debate on this matter but before we do so i want to share with you some numbers that might help ok so as far as the economy goes 22000000 americans have lost their jobs as of this morning that brings the Unemployment Rate to 15 percent and according to economists it could reach 20 percent if present trends continue by the end of the year in a word the situation is dismal economically now lets look at lethality because this is really an important conversation as well the death rate death rate from the coronavirus so far is at most about 1000. 00 per day in the United States thats extrapolating that so far 28000. 00 people