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The House Committee on Agriculture and the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition & Forestry issued their frameworks for the 2024 Farm Bill on May 1, 2024. The House approach...
Is 5% really the kind of relief that the american people need? >> no, we need universal coverage and i'm proud of our state that has done less squabbling in getting things done and i'm proud we're the first state to offer a publicly sanctioned offer of health care to our citizens. i'm also proud that we didn't stop there. we're also the first state that has taken care of our ld elders our seniors. we have a looming retirement wave coming up. i'm proud our state made them eligible to retire in dignity. i'm also proud of this. i think we need to talk more about this as democrats. it is time to g...
Basic rights. if you want to get something done, just tell me it's impossible. as a trefreshman senator, i was told you couldn't repeal don't ask, don't tell. even members of my own party told me it wasn't convenient. when are civil rights ever convenient? we stood up to the pentagon and got it done, not impossible. ten years ago, i was told you couldn't pass health care for our 9/11 first responders. those heroes who raced up the towers when others were coming down, even when congress turned its back on them, we kept fighting. just last week we made the 9/11 health bill permanent. [ applause ...
>> shepard: we have mitten covering extensively the 9/11 victims compensation fund bill. it's been renamed to include two more heroes who devoted their lives to helping others. the bill originally owner the nypd detectives who died from cancer and other health problems related to his time at ground zero. it will now include the firefighter ray pfeiffer in the late nypd d detective luis alva alvarez. both fought cancer tied to ground zero and both spent their final months traveling to washington and in front of cameras urging members of congress to make the 9/11 bill permanent. while in hospice...
Bill permanent. because if we have things sun setting all over the place, that won't worked for-to-gr to glow econo grow the economy. >> don't you get the sense that they are trying to craft something that gets over the $1.5 trillion deficitthe econom. >> don't you get the sense that they are trying to craft something that gets over the $1.5 trillion deficiteconomy. >> don't you get the sense that they are trying to craft something that gets over the $1.5 trillion deficit>> don't y they are trying to craft something that gets over the $1.5 trillion deficiteconomy. >> don't you get the sense th...