Youre not the dominant race you are excluded from the courts and education and access we as a country try to you are wrong. We are not done with the journey almost every delegation under every flag everyone marching looks like. Until the United States marches in and you see this great diversity of athletes and it reminds us again in the past ten days should remind us we are not done so to do the hard work with their own families and do that legislative work that needs to be done to make progress but lets keep going. And tell it is done my friend said to me last weekend founding documents are great we just never live them out for everybody. I cannot wait for us to continue the work in this body toward becoming a more perfect union. I yield the floor. Las americanser gettembe for us to gather together but last monday gave us an opportunity that we should take every day to pause and remember the brave americans who gave their lives in defense of our country and we honor the sacrifices the
Before we proceed to todays hearing id like to take a moment to recognize last monday was memorial day. It was a different memorial day for me and other americans than normal and it was more difficult for us to gather together. But last monday gave us an opportunity, an opportunity that we should take every day to pause and remember the brave americans who gave their lives in defense of our country. And we honor the sacrifices they made to keep us free. While let me start by saying that the veterans we honored on memorial day, they served our country and that peaceful protests are a demonstration of the freedom our veterans served to safeguard and protect. And while we reject the defacing of our National Monuments i would take another moment to express my gratitude the National Park service, its employees and volunteers who quickly restored our memorials. All of them but especially those that recognize the service of our men and women particularly the world war ii memorial. I know that
News but the point that different regions of the country have different quote unquote curves, the virus does not hit at the same time at the same rate to you hear about different states in the country and when theyre going to hit their apex, when theyre going to hit their top and when theyre going to come down, its different all across the country. Its also different across the state. Weve been talking about states like theyre uniform, homogenous entities some are more homogenous than others when i was in the federal government i worked in every state, so you have a whole different variety of states. This state, we have very different regions within new york when you say new york, people think new york city. Yeah one of the densest places on the globe. You also have upstate new york where in some counties you have more cows than people. People dont think of new york that way as you see variety across the country, we have variety across the state of new york and you have to watch each o
Bless their plans, as they seek to do your will on earth, and empower them to succeed. Use them to bring comfort and healing to a troubled nation and world. Keep them aware of the constancy of your presence, inspiring them to give primacy to prayer and praise as they work for your glory. We pray in your majestic name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Mr. Grassley mr. President. The presiding officer the senator from iowa. Mr. Grassley permission to speak for one minute in morning business. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Grassley the pandemic has disrupted just about everything americans take for granted in life, including our food supply. Empty Grocery Store shelves have greeted u. S. Consumers, perhaps for the first time in their lifetime. The pandemic shin
And democrats living abroad said, one democrat abroad, leave me out of this. [ light laughter ] former congressman beto orourke appeared at a Joe Biden Rally in dallas yesterday and announced his endorsement in spanish then out of habit, biden said, that sounds good, ill have that. [ laughter and applause Election Officials in multiple states are encouraging voters to use mailin ballots due to the coronavirus. That story again, several states are fighting coronavirus by asking people to put their saliva in the mail [ laughter and applause just send it out, just get it out of there [ cheers and applause former new york mayor Mike Bloomberg said yesterday that he would vote for senator Bernie Sanders if he was the democratic nominee but, quote, would not be happy doing it. Yeah we know. Youre [ laughter ] youre never happy [ light laughter ] you always look like youre on your way either to or from a colonoscopy. [ laughter ] msnbc anchor Chris Matthews abruptly announced his retirement y