Gentleman from texas, mr. Castro. Mr. Castro madam chair, i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and tend their remarks the speaker pro tempore without objection, so ordered. Mr. Castro i yammings. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman virginia tech. Mr. Castro i rise in support of the uighur forced labor prevention act. The human rights atrocities, the Chinese Government is perpetuating are now wellknown. More than a million uighurs and muslims, ethnic north have been thrown into detention camps where they face torture, brainwashing, sexual abuse, and even forced sterilization. These atrocities are horrific, and the congress has acted to hold perpetrators of these crimes accountable by passing the uighur human rights policy act. We must not stop there. The legislation we are considering today focuses on a specific form of abuse. Forced labor, an abuse of human rights, which also has grave implications for supply chains and consumers worldwide
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Text us your thoughts at 2027488003. Wj. On cspan at cspan the discussion about confederate leaders, there was a recent poll on this topic. It asked what should be done with the statues of confederate leaders. Roughly 2 roughly one third of the voters in the poll expenses should be taken down. 44 said the statues should remain standing, down eight point since the survey was taken down two years ago after the riots in charlottesville, virginia. The poll was done with Morning Consult and politico. A history of some of those bases across the u. S. That have come into the conversation and its history such as for georgia. Ing located in it was established as a training down in world war i and was named after a confederate general who was present at the battle of antietam and gettysburg. Mr. Bragg, named after ragg. Established as an artillery Training Ground in world war i, named after a u. S. Army officer who served in the second aminal war and mexicanamerican war before becoming a Confede
Host our first guest of the morning, dr. Robert bollinger. He is with Johns Hopkins a , professor of infectious disease. Good morning. Guest good morning. Host what is the best way to think about these reports we are seeing in upticks in cases across the u. S. . Guest i suppose anyone that has been listening to dr. Fauci dr. Birx and other experts across the country should not be surprised. What people have been saying is if you dont maintain social distancing and masking and handwashing recommendations, we should expect this uptick as people begin to socialize and have more contact with each other. This is a highly infectious disease. I guess, we should not be surprised. Host do you make a direct correlation with the reopening of states and the loosening of stayathome policies, or are there other factors to consider . Guest even in some places where there has been loosening, there have been recommendations that people physically distance. I prefer that term over socially distancing. A