Vice President Harris, will remind listeners that in a span of 100 days, the U.S. distribution and administration of vaccines saved lives, helped the elderly hug their loved ones again, put millions of students in classrooms along with help from governors and mayors, and made it possible for families to recover some financial equilibrium with direct payments from Uncle Sam.
Next up on the president’s to-do list: enactment of a $2.3 trillion infrastructure and green jobs plan in the next few months, and progress this year on a separate proposal that Biden calls the American Families Plan.
The American Families’ Plan would cost about $1.5 trillion, offset by half a dozen proposed tax hikes on high-income Americans and investors, according to early reports and White House information.
If there’s one thing that defined Walter Mondale, it was his willingness to tell hard truths.
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On July 14, 1948, a young senator from Minnesota stood on the floor of the Democratic National Convention and challenged his party to make an ambitious commitment to the cause of civil rights, declaring it to be “the issue of the 20th century.”
Sixteen years later after Hubert Humphrey’s speech, President Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act into law and Humphrey himself was elected vice president of the United States.
But in the summer of 1967, another young senator from Minnesota chosen to fill Humphrey’s seat invited a young navy lieutenant named Carlos Campbell to testify before the Senate Banking Committee’s subcommittee on housing. After flying recon missions during the Cold War, Lt. Campbell had been assigned to the Pentagon, but when he and his wife looked for apartments in Ar
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Workplace Violence Bill Passes House. On April 16, 2021, the Workplace Violence Prevention for Health Care and Social Service Workers Act passed the House by a vote of 254–166 (38 Republicans voted “yea”).
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On April 5, 1968, the day after the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., one of the youngest members of the United States Senate took the floor of the chamber and declared, “The foremost proponent of a nonviolent confrontation between the races is dead. His generosity to the white man, his belief in the basic good will of all men, and his dramatic, nonviolent action enabled him to speak to both races,” declared Walter Mondale, a 40-year-old Democrat who had emerged as one of chamber’s most ardent advocates for civil right.
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Walter Mondale, who served as the 42nd Vice President of the United States during Jimmy Carter’s presidency and unsuccessfully sought the presidency as the Democratic Party’s candidate in 1984, passed away this evening at his Minneapolis home at the age of 93.
A Rise To Power: Walter Frederick Mondale was born Jan. 5, 1928, in Ceylon, Minnesota. Mondale, who was nicknamed “Fritz” throughout his life, attended Macalester College for two years and transferred to the University of Minnesota, where he received a political science degree in 1951. He served in the U.S. Army for two years and then enrolled in the University of Minnesota Law School, graduating in 1956.