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good to be with you, i m katy tur. the 118th congress is in a league of its own when it comes to legislating. i would call it little league but even toddlers get a lucky swing or two. this group of lawmakers is on track to become the most unproductive in history. in the year it has been in power, only 35 bills have been passed and signed into law. the fewest since the great depression. it s been particularly bad in the always somewhat unruly house, but the republicans with their divergent interests and painfully slim majority have been especially unproductive, and yet last night, the lawmakers in the lower chamber did something extraordinary. they passed a tax bill that benefits both families and businesses with a giant bipartisan majority. 357 to 70. more than 3/4 of the house. democrats and republicans, all of them together. expanding the child tax credit, and restoring a set of expired tax breaks for certain corporations. and yet the senate is now saying, nar, n ....
i m kim brunhuber ahead on cnn newsroom. it was a very difficult decision on my part. and by the way, i discussed this with our allies, i discussed this with our friends up on the hill, and we re in a situation where ukraine continues to be brutally attacked. president biden explains why he s sending cluster munitions to ukraine 500 days after russia invaded the country. plus, u.s. treasure y secretary is in china covering everything from trade to the environment. and the global summit on ai for good. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. the biden administration has confirmed that highly controversial cluster munitions will be included in the latest u.s. military package to ukraine. these weapons shower small but lethal bomblets over a wide area, but many don t explode and remain deadly for years. they re banned by more than 100 countries but not the u.s., ukraine or russia. president biden had long resisted ukraine s request for ....
debate it was easier to shut down unwelcomed speech and write it all off as misinformation. they were trying to protect you, america. the only way we get passed misinformation is to be careful what we say and use the power we have to stop the spread of misinformation. my hope is facebook taking it personally, i m saying facebook is killing people, that they do something about the misinformation. relying on the social media giant to take down mistruths. hunter biden, this laptop that intelligence officials have warned is likely russian disinformation. raymond: the golden oldies. only much of what they were protecting you from during two election cycles turned out to be true. now the censorship squad has been exposed in a bombshell ruling on july 4th a federal judge in louisiana has blocked the federal government from contacting or meeting with social media giants. it turns out, the government has been targeting and censoring speech they disagree with for years. ....
also breaking this morning, signs that the labor market, which has been stunningly strong for so long is now cooling. fed watchers and wall street very warily awaiting these numbers. i ll talk to acting labor secretary julie su for her take on the numbers and the strength of the u.s. economy. and later, more heat for an already weather-weary nation. over a dozen dead nationwide from the high temperatures. i have asthma, so the air quality is really hard on my lungs, and then with the heat on top, it s like having a meltdown all in one. when could we get some relief from the brutal and record-breaking heat? let s begin with the war in ukraine and the breaking news. we ve now confirmed that the u.s. will send cluster munitions to ukraine. these are large bombs containing smaller explosives inside them which then disperse and can kill in record numbers. these weapons are so dangerous that more than 120 countries including many u.s. allies have agreed not to use the ....
has to have somebody to go to do complain. there is no commission to go to that can punish you. there is not one law on the book because you oppose everything we do and you can t be sued. that has to stop, folks. how do you expect the people in the audience to believe that we re going to help their families if we don t have some system or combination of systems to hold these people accountable because for all the up side, the dark side is too great to live with. we do not need to live this way as americans. thank you, senator graham. senator klobuchar is next. she s been quite a leader on the subject for quite a long time. the shield act and with senator cornyn on the revenge porn legislation. senator klobuchar. thank you very much, chairman durbin, and thank you ranking member graham for those words. i couldn t agree more. for too long we have been seeing the social media companies turn a blind eye when kids have joined these platforms in record numbers. they have ....