Senator schumer and we are joined by senator schumer who has been a real champion on making sure we get help to americas Small Businesses. Im going to acknowledge the work of senator coons who i expect will be on the floor a little later, one of our key cosponsors on the next round of aid is senator rosen. I want to acknowledge the cosponsors of the unanimous consent request legislation, including myself and senator schumer, senator shaheen, senator coons, senator rosen, and senator collins. I also want to acknowledge that this is bipartisan. I have talked to senator rubio. He has informed me that this has cleared the hotline. So we are hopeful that well get this u. C. Done today. But as were waiting for the paperwork to get to us, let me just explain what the u. C. Does before i make the u. C. Request. The authority of the Small Business administration to approve any more Paycheck Protection Program loans expires at midnight tonight. That was the deadline we established when we passed
At 5 30 p. M. Eastern. Later in the week debate on the Police Reform bill introduced by South Carolina republic and senator tim scott. Now live to the senate floor on cspan2. Senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Black, will open the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Eternal spirit, the source of our joy, were grateful that you still speak to us. Continue to communicate with our lawmakers through the voice of conscience. Enable them to maintain a clear conscience before you and humanity. Continue to speak to them through the precepts in your sacred word, providing them with a lamp for their feet and a light for their path, as they navigate through this challenging season. Continue to speak to them through the unfolding of your powerful providence, Opening Doors you desire them to walk through and closing doors that lead them away from glorifying you. And lord, when you speak to our lawmakers, give them the wisdom to listen and obey. We pray in your gracious name. Amen.
Unemployment and poverty that it could cause. To stave off those avoidable deaths, America Needs to rein reinervate the economy. And were listening to ted cruz and mike lee. Each has proposals that could kick start our economy and keep it going strong on a longterm bas bases. I would now like to invite senator cruz and senator lee to join me. Before we start todays discussion. I want to give each senator to offer some introductory remarks. Senator cruz youre up at bat first. Good morning, its a pleasure to join you. Thank you for taking the time to participate and, paula, good to see you and mike, its good to see you and what a testament to the wonders of technology that were able to have an intimate conversation thousands of miles apart and im pretty sure that through the el electrons, this is qualifies as social distancing. The fact that were able to do this so easily is a testament to the opportunities that have been presented by this enormous crisis. As a nation, were facing two si
Trump. They also discussed the groups influence on followers of use of the coronavirus. Im Deputy Editor of the atlantic. Thanks for joining us for this weeks edition of the big story. In case you havent joined us before, the big story is digital evinces will go behindthescenes with reporters and editors to talk about some other latest work. This week im really excited. Were going to talk about conspiracy theories. We recently launched an entire project on conspiracy theories called shadowland. You can find it on a website theatlantic. Com shadowland. And on the cover of the june magazine executive editor Adrienne Lafrance, [inaudible] that almost resembles a new religion. Before we dive into this conversation about qanon mr. Budgett about a few housekeeping items. First of all you can get part of the conversation. You can do that by typing a question into the q a box on the bottom of the screen. I think some of you and mages of that so please continue to do that throughout the entire
Dealing with the pandemic but its right there and put on full display, our societies inequality and injustice. This display hasnt been in words or theories, its been in death. Our societies inequality span over 400 years of slavery, segregation, jim crow and racism. These inequalities exist in many forms, healthcare, Public Safety and justice. Back and African Americans make up just 8 of the states population nearly 18 of covid19 deaths over the past several months have been from that same community. Inequality in healthcare results in death, pure and simple. Our justice system, lady justice is supposed to be blind but many in our eight feel, rightfully so, the color is all thats seen. Incarceration rates bear that out and incidents from breanna to minneapolis, it is very real. Disproportionate death and in my short time as governor, ive felt a lot. Individuals try to create fear and terror in my own family but thats been a few days, maybe a week. Certainly not a lifetime. I will never