May, june, democrats tried to jolt the senate into action but almost every time we try to pass much needed legislation by average americans, our republican colleagues objected. Unemployment claims reach 50 million. The number of cases top 3. 8 million as the virus resurged over the past several weeks. More than 140,000 americans have died, still, Senate Republicans wanted to in the words of their leader quote hit the pause button and assess the conditions in the country before providing anymore relief. The country was burning, Senate Republicans led by leader mcconnell said, lets wait longer and see how this goes. Like President Trump, they were hoping it would go away. Ignoring all of the Scientific Evidence but paying to the hard right which did not want to spend money no matter what the cost to america. Now, it seems our republican friends have finally found the motivation to do another emergency relief bill, even they with their heads still half in the sand have to see the crisis t
The republican senate. We are living through one of the greatest failures of president ial leadership in our countries history. Did you hear that donald trump . You have created one of the greatest failures of president ial leadership. We are going to this last portion of the conversation because the senate is about to gamble back in after their weekly caucus meetings. Senators continue work on the 2021 Defense Authorization bill with votes scheduled later this afternoon for five Senate Coverage on cspan2 a senator madam president. The presiding officer the senator from wyoming. Mr. Enzi madam president , i rise today to discuss our federal finances and the need to address our unsustainable fiscal debt and deficit. The federal budget has already been on an unsustainable path before covid19 reached our shores and before the pandemic and our governments response to it, which has accelerated what i believed is a coming day of reckoning. I recognize the unprecedented crisis presented by th
Podcast the russia file. Let me just remind everybody throughout the conversation we were ready gotten quite a few of them, you can submit questions by email at wilson center. Org buyer twitter and facebook pages and please include your name and affiliation just as if you are attending an event at the center which i hope we can do again soon and be more likely to call on you if youre not an anonymous aspect. I am joined today by the ark under doctor fiona who is the center of the United States of europe and the Foreign Policy program at the Brookings Institution and as everyone knows wears recently a Deputy Assistant to the president and senior director for European National Security Council that was 2017 to 19 in 2006 2009 she served as the National Officer at the National Intelligence council and is coauthor of the very well received in the kremlin 2015 update of previously published books, i also want to note, i want to know this is a very useful with everybody thinking about russia
Americas pastors, lets give it up for pastor franklin. Thank you all. You may be seated. First of all, first of all i want to say what a tremendous honor it is to be here with hall of you. Theres been very encouraging about getting together again. And especially with people love america, who love god, who loved the church and who love jesus. ,love worship. Who love the bible. And still believe jesus isthe answer. And ive just come tonight to first of all say what an honor it is to be here and i made a decision in 2016, paula and jonathan are just some of the greatest people that we have known for many many decades. Weve known you paula and now jonathan and the more that i know jonathan the greater my respect gets for him. Because hes just, theyre just a power couple in the kingdom of god, they really are and doctor jackson is here and wrap is here and doctor lee is here and im leaving somebody out there important im sure we are all here, not to list ourselves, not to talk about ourselv
American veterans. We will hear the opening statements. I will remind you to pause two to three seconds before spe speaking, so the microphone picks up your words and so you can pause when answering questions so we capture your complete response. Thank you very much, ms. Barnes, you are recognized for five minutes. Ms. Barnes, you may have to unmute. I think were having trouble hearing you. Proceed, ms. Barnes. I think you just unmuted okay. Members of the subcommittee and task force, thank you for inviting me here to today to discuss Sexual Harassment at the department of Veterans Affairs. 2016 survey by the protection board estimated that 22 of va employees experienced some form of Sexual Harassment in the workplace. Va has several methods to address such Sexual Harassment complaints, but we found that the agency was falling short in a number of areas including one, the complaint structure, the [inaudible] and three [inaudible] to va employees. I will discuss issues with the complain