CONGRESS IN THE DIGITAL AGE
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 8 May 2020
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Progressive Wisconsin Representative Mark Pocan joins Thom for a national town hall of listener questions ranging from the next Congressional relief package to the ways representatives can participate digitally in the dangerous times of the pandemic.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman program. |
| 0:15.0 | Well, happy Sean's birthday today. |
| 0:18.0 | Happy birthday, Sean. |
| 0:22.0 | She has been with us almost since the beginning of this |
| 0:24.5 | program and we are so grateful that she's still our executive producer and |
| 0:27.7 | running the board and doing all this kind of cool stuff with us. Anyhow in |
| 0:31.2 | our program today, Congressman Mark Pocan taking your calls for the hour in our national town hall meeting here. |
| 0:38.0 | So he is the co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. |
| 0:41.0 | His website is Pocan, POCAN, POCAN. |
| 0:43.0 | House. Go. You can tweet him at Rep Mark Pocan. |
| 0:47.0 | Congress and Pocan, welcome back to the program. |
| 0:49.0 | What's the landscape in Washington, D.C. right now? |
| 0:52.0 | And I hope you're feeling well. I know you had to make that trip out to D.C. right now, and I hope you're feeling well. |
| 0:53.5 | I know you had to make that trip out to D.C. Are you back in Wisconsin? |
| 0:58.2 | Yeah, hey, Tom, thanks so much for having me on. I'm back in Wisconsin but I think I'll find out later today I'm going |
| 1:04.4 | back to DC next week hopefully to vote on the CARES 2 package. Hopefully we'll get a little |
| 1:09.9 | more detail on what's going to be in it. You know, obviously we've all been working on trying |
| 1:14.0 | to get various elements in it, but it looks like we're going back to DC next week and some |
| 1:18.9 | committees might start meeting next week, but we really aren't configured yet according to the house |
| 1:25.3 | physician. So it's going to be a little interesting, but I've stocked up on math and |
| 1:30.6 | hand sanitizer and I'm ready to do whatever I need to do. But spending a lot of my time this week on cares to also still dealing with testing since there is no national response to testing. |
| 1:42.8 | Yeah. |
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