US Senate Pushing Ahead with Massive Infrastructure Measure
Voice of America
03 Aug 2021, 07:05 GMT+10
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Senate pushed ahead Monday with consideration of a nearly $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure package, with Senate Democratic Majority Leader Chuck Schumer promising to work with opposition Republican lawmakers to hold key votes on specific construction projects across the country. Let s start voting on amendments, Schumer told the Senate as it started business for the week. He said a final vote on the legislation could be held in a matter of days but vowed to keep the chamber in session until work on the measure is completed - before recessing for the Senate s annual August vacation. The longer it takes to finish the bill, the longer we will be here.
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Politics is causing needless deaths in the fight against Covid-19
Posted: Jul 14, 2021 7:20 AM
Updated: Jul 14, 2021 7:20 AM
Posted By: Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN
In what is now a pandemic of the unvaccinated, almost every adult American can make a choice not to die a needless death from Covid-19.
But the task of persuading holdouts, skeptics and the merely disinterested to get their shots is being complicated by the further politicization of the pandemic a trend that will cost lives and exacerbate an already stark tragedy that has deepened the nation s ideological estrangement.
There are many reasons why some people won t take a step that seems a no-brainer to most of the 48% of Americans who are fully inoculated. Health professionals bemoan misinformation, cultural suspicion of vaccines and antipathy to government advice. Some people also think the Covid-19 danger has passed or that they don t need a shot because they survived the disease. Others fear side-effects