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  Senate Minority Leader Schumer Legislative Agenda News Conference  CSPAN  June 16, 2020 11:41pm-12:00am EDT

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>> [inaudible] there is still obviously racism in america. we are still paying the price of many years ago. we are constantly working to improve and we all saw the video out of minneapolis there is no denying what happened and we are trying to respond to that at the federal level. i will dide at what point. thank you.l
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>> this conference is 15 minutes. >> okay, everybody. thanks for coming. i hope everybody is healthy and they would thank you for joining us today the need for the policing reford to go back to the proess they madthatwe made in the previous . unfortunately, this execut willg
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comprehensive meaningful change and accountability in the police department that americans are demanding. now it's time for the lasting comprehensive check today's event was typical of predent trump. he holds the event, sensible but his remarks outright lying about the goo work done by the administration. he said president obama did nothing on police reform but the fact is they made a lot of progress. soongress needs to pass a strong bold legislation that improves transparency, ac and training to the nation's police departments and must commit to a bill into law. now on the issue that became fourth we have called on the.x t
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there is no indication that the senate will act. by delaying action, the senate republicansl: are playing the se dangerous political games. th on issue after issue take the shootings, they talk about it, they say we need toso. let's wait and see and then nothing happens because they think that it will have died down but this isn't an issue with fervor it's an issue of health ehe economy is going to get worse and the virus could come right back up at us. so, delay will not work. we need to act now. and as the republican friends twiddle their thumbs, the nation looks closer to those that threaten the economy by the erican workers and may cause a
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slow recovery. here are some no new applications after june 30. state and local governments need to finalize their budgets by bed to the critical publicvihey h tr budgets. the moratori jul july 24. emergencem july so today the state and local government needs, opening up schools, they are all approaching and republican
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coea theirthumbs. we received a letter signed by over 100 economists incng chair bernanke and many other scholars and nobel laureates and experts calling on congress to renew these important programs. everyone knowse have to act except it seems the republican senate and president. if we fail to act quickly come it makes the chances that our economy going for if we fail to act quickly thinks the chances we will go over the cliff more likely. a we will be releasing a report
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on the ct of inaction and it is highest the poor and low wealth americans and that is the reality many people face in the country. before, nearly 40 million americans are already living in poverty. imagine what it's like to be a woman of color as a single mom with two children in school g a low-wage job and takes maybe $10, $12 anng ends meet, e more than one quarter of n have $400 in the b. she still has to go to work because like many of her job is
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unity central and sheoesn't have the luxury of working home like all of us do. sh p she doesn't get sick from customers and she doesn't have health insurance ed to afford medical treatment and most of she's worried about her kids. she's already one of the one in fouwomenfor ventures that paid n half their income on housing and now the income dropped into the noshe's worried about them getting enough healthy food to eat. now she's among the 29% who
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doesn't have enough food to last a month. meanwhile wondering what she's supposed to be because of her time in the technology to make sure her kids don't fall behind in school. the small and her family and millions of others on whom we are fighting for, that is who thhouse and representatives was fighting for when they passed the act. she deserves a fair wage and it isn't enough for her to take care of her family.while republo work on behalf of the wealthy
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and well-connected and while mitch mcconnelbuild no sense urt with millions of hard-working too many americans are running out of time right now, it is way past time mitch mcconnell took action. thank you to senator stabenow and one of the first actions the adminiti to take was to
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pull back the consent order of the baltimore city police department that's been put in place by president obama the of. we continue to hear from those who have lost loved ones as a result as of today more than 116,000 americans have died, more then any other cnt on earth. the 20 million are unemployed nomic and harm and be gross negligenca
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break over the fourth of july without the opportunity to vote on additional emergency relief. senator schumer said in the banking committee and we heard from thehairman powell he mentiod the importance of the at the importance of relief to renters and we need to te that action now. we've already lost 1.5 million jobs in the state and local many of those were front-line workers and as the senator said july 1 is the din including in my state of maryland, and they w and more we senate is way during this break that makes no sense, so we need to act now. another is for the eviction rights now up to july 24, there is required federal forbearance
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to renters and dñose on thei mortgage but thato hit very soon and if we do not act there will be a tsunami of people evicted from their homes. we know ise racial disparities e country including the healthcar. the same is true with security and housing. if you look at the renters around the country, youill find people of color are twice as likely to be renting as others and if you look at a t rl find 44% have little or no confidence that they would be able to meet their next payment. that was the snapshot of may. we are now in june and having taken aio that. senate democrats put forth a plan for the]n ranking member d
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others called the renta market stabilization act with $100 billion for an emergency rental program to help the families and individuals pay their rent and utility bills and stay in their homes during the crisis and it also helps rental property ownerscontinue to cove. those provisions and more are in the heroes act passed by the house of representatives.the smg is to act now so important issut is when we call upon the senate republicanleagues.
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>> he'd put it on the democrats? >> we haven't even seen the bill yet sot president trump he was going to have a very strong executive order into is a very weak though. it doesn't have the in we need on the things they said mif the choke holds, it doesn't.nt. let's wait and see what the bill is.
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>> we haven't made any decisions. we are waiting to see the bill.t there is negotia the next care package senator van hollen brought uphe problem? >> i ablem aistration have that belief but we democrats need to stand firm and pass the deal with the economic and racial injustice whether it
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>> do you want to say something? >> i agree you've got to be blind not to see this or you are not walking on the same for most amy is our candidate and a strong candidate. she's giving mcconnell a run for his money. mcconnell a run for his money.
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>> he wouldn't be someone i go to for a medical checkup for medical advice. thank you, everybody. >> what do you think we can do about that?
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