GOVERNMENT RESPONSE TO THE VIRUS
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 16 March 2020
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Progressive Caucus Co-Chair Congressman Mark Pocan joins Thom to consider the Federal Government's actions regarding the frightening new Corona Virus and respond to listener questions in a national town-hall discussion.
For the Book Club, Thom reads from "Paul Revere & the World he Lived In" also "Measuring What Counts: The Global Movement for Well-Being" and "The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight."
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| 0:15.0 | This is the Tom Hartman Program. |
| 0:18.0 | And welcome back. It is time for Congressman Mark Pochen |
| 0:21.0 | here on the Tom Hartman Program. |
| 0:22.0 | He is the co-chair of the Congressional |
| 0:24.0 | Progressive Caucus along with Pramilla Gaiapal. He represents the second |
| 0:27.8 | district of Wisconsin in the US House of Representatives. His website is |
| 0:31.2 | Pocan, POCAN, |
| 0:32.6 | POCAN, and you can tweet him at rep Mark Pocan. |
| 0:35.6 | Congressman, welcome back. |
| 0:36.6 | Thanks, Tom. |
| 0:37.6 | Glad to be here today. |
| 0:38.6 | Oh, my pleasure. |
| 0:40.0 | I'm doing the show from home today, by the way. way in fact we're as many of us as possible |
| 0:44.8 | who can work from home we're trying to make that happen and I'm the first because I've got this |
| 0:48.4 | portable rig here and I'm wondering how you and the rest of Congress are responding to this particularly now that you've got you know half a dozen of your members in self-quarantine and |
| 1:00.0 | this seems to be ripping through the country. |
| 1:02.0 | Yeah, I mean you know this I think we're all learning this seems to be ripping through the country. |
| 1:02.5 | Yeah, I mean, you know, this, I think we're all learning day by day what we need to do and |
| 1:06.7 | we know that the measures are going to be increased. |
| 1:09.3 | And it's going to get worse before it gets better with what's going on and certainly here in Washington now |
| 1:14.1 | they've stopped tours they've stopped someone has a meeting they have to be |
| 1:17.9 | escorted into any of the office buildings on that will essentially I think |
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