This is the Tom Hartman program.

And welcome back Tom Hartman here with you and it's time for Congressman Mark Pocan here

on the Tom Hartman program where he takes your calls for the full hour he is the co-chair

of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, the big cheese progressive in Washington, D.C.

And appropriately, it's from Wisconsin's second district, Pocan, POCAN.House.gov is his

website.

You can tweet him at rep, Mark Pocan, Congressman Pocan.

Welcome back.

What's on the top of your radar screen right now?

Well, first happy Thanksgiving, hope everyone is staying close to home and being as safe

as possible given our COVID numbers.

You know, really I think we finally are having some signal of transition.

We're seeing some of the cabinet appointments out there and we're working on a lot of

things trying to get a COVID bill between now and the end of this session.

But just having Congress back in session last week brought more members having COVID,

it's really difficult right now with the high numbers to do a lot of work that we need

to do.

And certainly when you don't have a willing partner in Mitch McConnell, it's even tougher.

So we're glad to see the transition beginning, but it certainly is difficult, especially with

a CR ending on December 11 to continue the resolution that funds the federal government

between COVID and that we have a lot of work to do.

What are the realistic possibilities that Americans might see some relief?

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