This is the Tom Hartman program.

Welcome back, Tom Hartman here with you and it's time for

Congressman Mark Pocan with us taking your calls for the hour. He is the coach here of the

Congressional Progressive Caucus, the Big Cheese Progressive. In the US House

of Representatives, he also represents the Second District of Wisconsin in the US house his website

POCAN dot house.gov and you could tweet him at rep Mark

Pocan and he's here for the hour for our national town hall meeting

Congress in Pocan, welcome back.

It's great having you.

What's going on in, well, I know you're not in Washington,

D.C., but what's going on with regard to Congress

and what do we need to know about?

What are your thoughts on this day before we pick up our calls?

Sure, you know, we're continuing to work on what will be in a CARES II package,

the fourth coronavirus package. Still assuming we're looking at the end of April or hoping to.

We know that the Senate Republicans are still trying to just include additional dollars for the paycheck protection program that we would like to also do some

hospital local government money so there's still some ongoing discussions on that but you know

honestly I made the mistake the last several nights

Tom of watching the president's press conference and yeah I just

dumb sounded you I've gotten clips before I know I've never watched the whole thing and you know what's frustrating is as he always has done is give mixed messages on everything and now he's trying to blame the World Health Organization for his failures.

I just think, you know, we need to just make sure we're continuing to talk about this.

I really do think even his supporters from what I saw from some polling understand how badly he screwed this up,

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