Voters should pick the president and the president should pick the justice. He made a decision to wait until President Trump hopes this after close to an election, abraham will up end a race hes losing, lincoln was president and he made a decision to wait until after the election, and you have but is there any evidence it the fact that the people are voting right now, and i think that creates pressure on my is will ill talk to former democratic president ial nominee Hillary Clinton. Democratic senator Amy Klobuchar about. They dont want to have the of the Judiciary Committee and Affordable Care act thrown out the third ranking republican in the senate, john barrasso. Plus an administration at war when you colleagues, honestly, thats what a democracy is about. With itself. Covid deaths hit 200,000 and they dont want the Affordable Care act thrown out when you have hundreds of millions of americans with preexisting President Trump fighting his own conditions are you kidding me thats in f
Changes to the Supreme Court and federal judiciary. Later, Jessica Anderson from here to Jackson Anderson from Heritage Action for america talks about top issues in campaign 2020. Is the washington journal for september 9. Joe biden is expected to be in warren, michigan today to talk about jobs and the economy a day before President Trump is expected to visit the same state. The trend campaign announcing stops in reno and las vegas, nevada. Senateant the expected to take a test vote tomorrow on something that would authorize five hundred billion dollars of Coronavirus Relief, far smaller than democrats would like to see. When it comes to congressional spending, is that something you would like to see . Let us know. If you are unemployed, call 202 7488000. If you are a Small Business owner or employee, 202 7488001. All others, call us at 202 7488002. You can text us at 202 7488003 and post on twitter and facebook. Set up theto conversation is zach cohen with National Journal and it cove
Set up theto conversation is zach cohen with National Journal and it covers the senate for that publication. Thank you for joining us. Dollartart about the differences between what the senate is proposing and what the house would like to see. That mitch bill mcconnell introduced is much smaller, not just smaller than the house bill, but even smaller than what republicans had put forward, which was closer to 1 trillion back in july. About five hundred billion dollars, maybe even less. And includes coats to cares act to offset costs. Idea was to coalesce the Senate Republican conference around one bill. It seems like he will get that. Host when it comes to the justification of the small figure, go a little bit deeper into the majority leaders thinking. Guest a lot of republicans have been concerned about the spending that has taken place, at least 3 trillion if you take together the cares act and some other funding packages. A lot of that money has not even been sent out yet. It still re
Others but spreading throughout the country and with it has come the spread of economic pain and economic harm. So covid19 is not on standby and neither is economic pain and follow that his cause. For here in the United States senate, the republican leader, the majority leader has said go home and be on standby. Mr. President , that is not leadership at any time, it certainly is not the kind of leadership that the American People need and should expect during a Global Pandemic and recession era unemployment levels. So why did the majority leader tell people to just go home and be on standby, its because he wanted the Trump Administration to negotiate an agreement. Last i checked, the United States senate was a separate branch of government but with his own responsibilities, yet we have the republican leader who runs United States senate from the floor telling people to go home and be on standby because he wants the president of the United States, the trump ofio administration to negoti
Well. International relations and politics, we havent talked enough about the markets today. A risk on feel. Is the so interesting idea of finally, a shift away from the factor of Technology Toward the factor of smallcap, the factor of Something Else besides that point amazon. Jonathan for a whole two days besides apple and amazon. Jonathan for a whole two days as well. S p, days of gains on the within 1 of alltime highs. I wonder if that is one of the whys that they cant get it together down in washington because this market is giving them very little pressure to get some thing done. Tom certainly come a President Trump is hardwired to the market. Lisa, you mentioned earlier the idea of a highyield bond under 3 . Do you detect a bubble in bonds, or is it simply a reaction of outcome from all of the stimulus and fed action . Lisa i am not going to say it is a fed bubble. I have other people that will come on and weigh in on that. But when do relative returns stop mattering and absolute