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Area senators discuss Senate vote on COVID-19 package Sun shines on the U.S. Capitol dome, Tuesday, March 2, 2021, in Washington. (Source: AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) By Region 8 Newsdesk | March 6, 2021 at 1:07 PM CST - Updated March 6 at 1:07 PM
WASHINGTON (KAIT) - The regionâs United States Senators said that a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 bill that passed the Senate Saturday did not meet the needs of people impacted by the virus.
Sens. John Boozman and Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) and Josh Hawley and Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) voted no on the bill, which now goes to the U.S. House.
Sen. Boozman said on social media that the bill was âan excuse to authorize opportunistic, wish list spending Democrats have been eager to enact instead of a proposal focused on the economic & health effects of the coronavirus.â
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Republican Senator Marsha Blackburn wants Americans to know that being a Neanderthal is a good thing, actually.
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The Senator from Tennessee appeared on Fox Business News to refute President Biden’s claim that states that are lifting covid-19 safety protocols are dabbling in “Neanderthal thinking.”
“I hope everybody’s realized by now, these masks make a difference,” Biden told the press Wednesday. “We are on the cusp of being able to fundamentally change the nature of this disease because of the way in which we’re able to get vaccines in people’s arms. the last thing we need is Neanderthal thinking that, in the meantime, ‘everything’s fine, take off your mask, forget it.’”
Former Lee Cabinet Staff Create New Public Affairs And Strategic Counseling Firm Monday, March 1, 2021
Chris Devaney and Chris Walker, two former members of Tennessee Governor Bill Lee’s cabinet and his campaign for governor, have joined together to create The Poplar Group, a new public affairs and strategic counseling firm with offices in Tennessee and Washington, D.C. The firm will focus on professional services both in Tennessee and nationally with a particular focus on public affairs, campaigns, and advocacy.
“I’m excited to start this new venture,” said Mr. Devaney, a founding partner. “Having spent over two decades in politics and public policy, and helping our state build super majorities, I’m confident we can help our clients meet their goals.”
Reconstruction and Its Aftermath
The Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 freed African Americans in rebel states, and after the Civil War, the Thirteenth Amendment emancipated all U.S. slaves wherever they were. As a result, the mass of Southern blacks now faced the difficulty Northern blacks had confronted that of a free people surrounded by many hostile whites. One freedman, Houston Hartsfield Holloway, wrote, “For we colored people did not know how to be free and the white people did not know how to have a free colored person about them.”
Even after the Emancipation Proclamation, two more years of war, service by African American troops, and the defeat of the Confederacy, the nation was still unprepared to deal with the question of full citizenship for its newly freed black population. The Reconstruction implemented by Congress, which lasted from 1866 to 1877, was aimed at reorganizing the Southern states after the Civil War, providing the means for readmitting them into