There, shes hiding in the second row. David 16 books, this does not include the two that were written as fiction. It does. Ups, my bad. 16 previous, books including the tangle tree, that some of the dodo, the reluctant mr. Darwin, and spillover, a finalist for the National Book critics circle award, and earth at the end of the market prize. He has written for the new yorker, harpers magazine, the atlantic, national geographic, and outside. Among other magazines, and is a threetime winner of the National Magazine award. He shares a home and boozman, montana. With his wife, author of american zion. With two russian wolf hounds, across ive cat, and a rescue python. We wont hold that against. You give a warm, savannah welcome, to david quammen. Thank, you, nancy thank you all. Nancy does not like snakes. But that is okay. We talked about that, we talked through the, up next, spiders, everybody has their boundaries. Thank you so much, bob and, diane thank you nancy, thank you savannah book
Mr. Mcconnell mr. President . The presiding officer the Senate Majority leader. Mr. Mcconnell are we in a quorum call . The presiding officer we are. Mr. Mcconnell i ask consent that the quorum call be dispensed with. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Mcconnell mr. President , senators have been working diligently this week, continuing our efforts to advance american priorities and responsibly Fund Important programs through the appropriations process. Weve made Good Progress so far. The Senate Already has passed one funding bill by a broad majority at a record early time. Another Appropriations Committee approved its own funding bill the other day and it is my hope well be able to move two more measures across the finish line very shortly. We continue work and cooperation, we can do just that. The two measures before us today are the result of hard work, negotiation and compromise. They are the product of strong leadership by senators collins and kirk, and they are the culm
Decades ago, and thats the prohibition of discrimination in housing based on race, sex, religion, national origin, physical or mental disability and family status. Its the Fair Housing Act. The Fair Housing Act was in many ways the culmination of the legislative fight for civil rights in the 1960s. It was the first effective federal law guarding against discrimination in the sale and the rental of housing in the United States and for nearly 50 years, it has been employed to assure that every american can choose where to live free from discrimination and the immoral and unconstitutional consequences of residential segregation. Weve come a long way since the 1960s, but we are by no means all of the way there. Today discrimination is still a reality in housing markets all across the country. There are cases in every single state of landlords misrepresenting the availability of housing or outright refusing to sell or rent to certain protected individuals or groups of people. There are othe
Members, not 600, it was chinas fault. Now, we have been asking the president s team what exactly he means by that. Is he now calling for 2,000 checks . The answer is, nobody around him seems to know. And the president is on his own here in florida, where he spent most of his vacation golfing. Theres almost no senior aides down here with the president at this time. In the meantime, the ramifications ofe, not having t covid relief sign are mounting, with the critical unemployment programs. For gig workers and the selfemployed, lapsing, as we havesi pretty programs, includi that eviction moratorium, that is set to expire at the end of the year, if the president doesnt sign this legislation. The house, on monday, will attemptnd to wrest back controlf this process from the president , by passing legislation to essentially give him what he asked for, the 2,000 checks. An ainitial attempt at that late last week did not succeed. If that does succeed in the house on s monday, unlikely republic
Nbc projecting Vice President biden as the apparent winner in maine. Senator sanders is projected to be the winner by nbc news in three states yesterday, his home state of vermont, also colorado, also utah, and per nbc news, senator sanders appears on track in the biggest prize of the entire primary season, california. Nbc news has not made a formal call in california with just 54 of precincts reporting, nbc says its too early to call, but Bernie Sanders is in the lead in california. The associated press, i should mention, has projected a win for senator sanders there. Its kind of a good news, bad news situation for senator sanders at this crucial and super interesting point in the campai campaign. On the one hand on the senators own campaign metrics, they fell short of what they said they wanted to do yesterday, and the turnout numbers in aggregate and in key sanders supporting demographics continue to fall short of what the Sanders Campaign is aiming for and what they say they need t