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Text us with your first name, city, and state at 202 7488003. Senate republicans are expected to unveil their proposal today, led by Senate Minority leader Mitch Mcconnell. Floor, youso on the will be able to watch that on cspan two. Mark meadows, the chief of staff for the white house, was on capitol hill into the evening yesterday, negotiating with republicans on this narrower bill they would like to move forward on. From the new york times, republicans are proposing altering the jobless benef...

Host he was on the sunday shows on abc this week and heres what he had to say about extending this extra 600 a week. Well, those the original benefits will not. We actually original Unemployment Benefits actually paid people to stay home and actually a lot of people got more money staying at home than they would going back to work. So the president s been very clear, our republican senators have been very clear we are not going to extend that provision. We are going to be prepared on monday to p...

Advance the measure both for 11 30 a. M. Eastern. Now live to the senate floor here on cspan2. The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Black, will open the senate with prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Eternal father, our souls long for you, for we find strength and joy in your presence. Guide our lawmakers to put their trust in you, seeking in every undertakin to know and do your will. When they go through difficulties, may they remember that, with your help, ...

At out, it will be about an extra 250 beds. We are trying to get masks, gloves. The private sector is stepping up. Likee on our own out here, a lot of other communities, but we have some really impressive people retooling their shops to be able to make plastic masks and those kinds of things. So it is all hands on deck. We also have a federal prison. We have had a breakout at the federal prison, so that is putting more pressure on local hospitals, but people are working well together here at the...

Coronavirus pandemic. Talks aboutakabas the u. S. Economy and the Record Number of job losses as a result of the virus. Camila dechalus good morning. It is wednesday. Four weeks since the World Health Organization declared the outbreak a pandemic. As of today, nearly 13,000 americans have died of the disease, 400,000 americans have been diagnosed, and a 360 Million People in 42 states in the district and in the district of columbia are living under stayathome orders. We are asking how you are de...

David an awful lot in this bill. 370 billion dollars to replenish the ppp program, 700 50 billion for hospitals, 25 billion for testing. What is not in the bill that you think still needs to be done . Rep. Pelosi first let me say how pleased i am with what is in the bill does weeks ago the secretary of the treasury called me and said he needed a quarter of a trillion dollars in 48 hours. That would mean that by tomorrow two weeks ago the republican leader went to the floor and said it was 250 fo...

Many are risking their lives to keep us safe because they dont have the equipment they need. Our healthcare workers are falling ill with the very disease they are working to treat. Not only do they need this, but they need ventilators to care for the people that they are there to serve. It is our first responders, our officers and grocery workers and other frontline workers being put in jeopardy and they jeopardize their families at home when they go home. When these workers are left exposed and...

How we go forward. As always, i begin with our concern about our workers. On monday, we focused on the urgent continued need for personal protective equipment and ventilators. America, men and women are risking their lives to keep us safe because they do not have the personal protective equipment they need. Heroic healthcare workers are falling ill from the very disease they are working to treat. Theonly do they need ventilators to care for the people that they are there to serve, its not Just H...

City stuck at 52. Morning low clouds and partly sunny, mostly cloudy and weak systems are staying to the north and theyre not going to make much of a move till maybe this upcoming weekend. On shore breeze or south wind in place and low clouds and not much of a storm track and the rain line and itll stay there till we get to the weekend and 60s on the temps for most and near average to slightly above and well get there till about wednesday and thursday as temperatures bump up a bit. Back to you g...

Day where we can see some real progress. Charles what this means for businesses coming up, what this means for businessing coming up. Plus as more may be needed, a man whose devotion to the constitution sparked a uproar on friday. Kentucky congressman Thomas Massie will be one of my favorite guests today. Food network host guy fieri joins us spores forces with other Celebrity Chefs to create a relief fund for restaurant workers across the country. He will join me at the government of the hour. A...