This is the Tom Hartman program.

And for the next hour we're going to do a national town hall meeting with the vice

chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus,

Congressman Rowe-Conna, he represents Silicon Valley

in California and the US House of Representatives.

His website, K-H-A-N-N-A-D-A-D-H-N-N-A

dot House. You can tweet him at Rep, as in Representative. a n n a dot house dot go

you can tweet him at rep as in representative rep row kana

and congressman welcome back to the program what's

before we pick up calls here what's on your mind this week?

What do you see as the top line news stories

and the things that we need to be paying attention to

are the areas where we need to be focusing our activism?

Well, Donna, as you know, on Friday, the House passed the Heroes Act.

The most urgent part of that is the trillion dollars to cities and states.

About 14% or so people are employed by cities and states. It's about 80%. states about

eighty percent or so people are employed by cities and states about eighty

percent uh... private but the fourteen percent in cities and states and a lot of

those

uh... folks will face layoffs if we don't get then money passed and that's going to be in the

Senate so we need to push on that. Of course progressives like me we voted for the

Heroes Act but some of us voted reluctantly and it voted against the rule to push for the vote because it

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