Approaching, certainly one of the most sacred days in our nation throughout the year. And this weeks alaskan of the week, sharon long, its a day that is a particularly profound day. Sharon long is a gold star mother, lives in anchorage, and she remembers her son grant frazer every day of the year. But for her and her family and for so many people who knew grant, who served with grant, memorial day is a day when his memory is particularly honored. Mr. President , before i get into sharon longs story as well as the remarkable story of her son grant, let me talk a little bit about whats going on in alaska right now, as we and our country continue to face the challenges of this pandemic. Were doing pretty we will in our state medically, certainly. Things could of course change quickly. But the number of people infected by the virus is very slow. Businesses are starting to reopen. Life by no means is back to normal. And theres much that were going to need to do to recover from this virus an
And yet when we talk to a family one thing on sits. On in sport professional rugby players in new zealand dont park on the Training Field we report on the countrys efforts to secure its National Schools financial future. Now china is accusing the United States of avoiding responsibility and shifting the blame for mishandling the Coronavirus Crisis to President Trump threatened to permanently halt funding to the World Health Organization that means the w. H. O. Would lose its single largest contributor the us gave more than 400000000 dollars last year trump issue the threat of the lesser to the head of the organization which he then posted on twitter in it he accused the w. H. O. Of mistakes and inaction you write it is clear the repeated missteps by you and your organization in responding to the pandemic. Have been extremely costly for the wilds he also accused officials of backing china writing the only way forward for the World Health Organization is if it can actually demonstrate in
Cousin and billionaire businessman. Activists in argentina call on the government for help after more than a 1000 coronavirus cases are reported in the one asserting. Plus the millions are evacuated from india. Bangladesh ahead of what could be the most powerful cycling in 20 years. All right in the United States is facing growing a growing backlash over its threat to personally hold funding to the show that softer President Donald Trump said the organizations missteps have come a time extreme cost. And i think theyve done a. Very sad job in the last period of time and again the United States pays them 450000000. 00 a year china pays them 38000000000. 00 a year and theyre a puppet of china. China centric to put it nicely but theyre a puppet of china well russia has become the latest global power to condemn trump threats as Deputy Foreign minister has been quoted as saying its against breaking the w. H. O. For another members of political preferences china accuse the u. S. Of attempting
Seller more post over at the pentagon. So, has sadly become the norm over the last three years, the senate will be spending floor time and multiple rollcall votes on each of the following. An assistant secretary of defense the under secretary of defense, if you can believe this, alf file a closure of the incoming Inspector General for the pandemic recovery. Mr. President if we had aad nickel, a nickel for every democratic colleagues have claimed congressional oversight of the recovery programs was important, the cares act would have paid for itself. And yet, democrats blocked the confirmation of this Inspector General to look over the programs this week. So the senate will prepare to confirm these qualified people the hard way. Three years and counting of democratic heel dragging continues. Have course that will be plenty of legislative business before us as well. Senators will continue to monitor the Pandemic Response and discuss ways to help the nation pivot towards reopening an econ
Hidden in plain sight and why it could happen again. You remember the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission investigating the causes. You decided not only with democrats but the republican appointees. What did you see they didnt . Looking at the housing system and dodd frank im sorry fannie mae and freddie mac for quite a while before i got on the commission. So i have background on what was happening in the housing sector. So i was looking for the commission to look into what happened with fannie mae and freddie mac and the role they played in the housing crisis and ultimately the financial crisis and the commission was not interested in that and they wouldnt look at it to the degree that i tried to interest them. I was just told i was given all kinds of signals that something they would do so i decided i would dissent so the differences with the other republicans came from the fact that my view our responsibility on the commission was to make sure the American People understood what ha