Pelosi Vows To Bring Coronavirus Bill To House Floor As Republicans Push For Changes
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🗓️ 12 March 2020
⏱️ 12 minutes
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This episode: White House correspondent Tamara Keith, congressional correspondent Kelsey Snell, and White House correspondent Franco Ordoñez.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, MPR listeners, this has been and Claire and we're currently watching our dad a small grains farmer from Minnesota |
| 0:05.7 | Answer questions in front of the Ways and Means Committee about US China trade policy |
| 0:10.2 | This podcast was recorded at 239 pm on Thursday March 12th things may have changed by the time you hear this |
| 0:17.6 | Okay, here's the show go dad |
| 0:23.4 | That's awesome that committee room is the coldest room in the entire capital. It's amazing how cold it is |
| 0:28.7 | Hey there. It's the NPR politics podcast. I'm Tamer Keith. I cover the White House. I'm Franco |
| 0:33.8 | Ordonia's I also cover the White House and I'm Kelsey Snelli cover Congress and in the hours since our last podcast |
| 0:39.7 | Which was just last night the ground has shifted even further the NBA in HL other sports leagues have suspended games |
| 0:46.2 | Tours are off in Washington DC |
| 0:48.4 | New York canceled its St Patrick's Day parade and is shutting down Broadway |
| 0:53.0 | All because of coronavirus and another thing happened |
| 0:56.5 | House Democrats released their plan to combat the economic fallout from this |
| 1:01.6 | So Kelsey, where does that stand now? Well, you know how we give that disclaimer at the top of things may have changed by the time you hear this podcast |
| 1:09.0 | This is one of those days |
| 1:12.0 | We saw the bill last night after 11 o'clock and it is a long bill and it is a fairly sweeping bill |
| 1:19.3 | That includes changes to unemployment benefits paid family leave paid sick leave |
| 1:24.2 | Um additional food security measures to make sure that particularly children who don't have access to food are able to eat if they are not in school |
| 1:33.6 | um and |
| 1:35.2 | Just a really wide ranging set of policies that Democrats want to get passed |
| 1:39.8 | They were supposed to have a hearing to kind of set up the vote structure this morning |
| 1:43.6 | But they decided to put that on pause to continue negotiations with the White House |
| 1:48.4 | And as we sit here right now would we say 240ish PM in Washington DC? |
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