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Signaling the need for urgent action so that we can combat the s we face inrisk this country. President obama has long recognized the urgency of this challenge. , in a speech at Georgetown University on a sweltering hot day, the president launched his Climate Action land. Cutting Carbon Pollution in, preparing our communities for changes in climate that are already ongoing and leading International Efforts to address the challenge. One year later, a lot has happened in executing on the commitments made in the Climate Action plan. The president has directed the Environmental Protection agency a...

Quorum call mrs. Shaheen madam president . The presiding officer the senator from New Hampshire. Mrs. Shaheen madam president , is the senate in a quorum call . The presiding officer it is. Mrs. Shaheen i ask that the quorum call be lifted. The presiding officer without objection. Mrs. Shaheen thank you. Madam president , more than 50 years ago, president kennedy signed the equal pay act making equal pay for equal work the law of the land. And yet today, wage discrimination still persists. Today women i continue to be pad just over threequarters of what their male counterparts receive for perf...

Have been for years. So when we talk about Mental Health and is pleased to offer that so Insurance Companies have to provide the same copays and the same premiums in the same coverage, we dont do that in the community. So we were very, very hard. We brought together a huge coalition of those to how this is a major priority. 22 veterans committing suicide today. Both of them in the Community Come in needing in the community. They end up having people in jail a lot to his services, families. When they jump in there for a minute, senator. You are beginning to walk through some of the Human Dimens...

November. I was just in south america about a month ago to lay out the roadmap and how we are dealing with this. I just sent this morning one of our Deputy Assistant secretaries to iceland for a conference the next two days. This is critically important that we Pay Attention to this. Bottom line is, with all the crises of the moment, and thats part of my job, to manage immediate crisis, we also cannot lose sight of the strategic longerterm challenges that face our country either. And this is one that we got to be smart in how we handle it. Spent behind the political figures who would resist an...

Masks do not apply because they dont fit the president s mood or his political interests. Yet again the president whose oath calls on him to uphold the law ignores it. The nevada governor called this indoor rally reckless and selfish and the president s supporters insist they have every right to be there and they are not fools. If i thought i was a risk are, i wouldnt be here. Im not an idiot and neither are these people. They have enough wherewithal to realize whether or not they are putting anybody at risk, including themselves. Americans are not stupid people. More on virus just ahead. We b...