The president has also made the case for a broad green-energy initiative as part of his infrastructure and jobs plan, in a bid to restructure the economy for years to come.
Members of his party looked for him to address health care as a priority during the speech. His recent proposals lack a Medicare expansion and other health-care initiatives pushed by several key Democrats. But he made a push Wednesday night for increasing Medicare s power to negotiate drug prices.
Biden also touched on racial justice as the country contends with new instances of police violence against Black people as well as the aftermath of the Derek Chauvin trial. Chauvin, a former police officer in Minneapolis, was found guilty last week in the murder of unarmed Black man George Floyd last year. On Wednesday, he called for Congress to pass police reform before the anniversary of Floyd s death at the end of next month.
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The 56-year-old leader was also Malappuram District Congress Committee president.
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Senior Congress leader and Opposition UDF candidate from Nilambur V.V. Prakash died of a heart attack this morning.
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The 56-year-old leader was also Malappuram District Congress Committee president.
Malappuram District Congress Committee president and United Democratic Front (UDF) candidate in Nilambur Assembly constituency V.V. Prakash died of a heart attack on Thursday morning. He was 56.
Prakash suffered a cardiac arrest after midnight and was taken to a hospital at Edakkara before he was shifted to Manjeri. He died around 5 a.m.
Read Senator Tim Scottâs GOP response to Biden speech
By The Associated Press The Associated Press,Updated April 28, 2021, 11:07 p.m.
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Text of speech by Senator Tim Scott, the Republican response to President Joe Bidenâs address to Congress, as provided by the office of the Senate minority leader:
Good evening. Iâm Senator Tim Scott from the great state of South Carolina.
We just heard President Bidenâs first address to Congress. Our President seems like a good man. His speech was full of good words. But President Biden promised you a specific kind of leadership. He promised to unite a nation. To lower the temperature. To govern for all Americans, no matter how we voted. That was the pitch. You just heard it again.
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