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PROGRESSIVES ASSEMBLE!

The Hartmann Report

Thom Hartmann

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🗓️ 21 March 2021

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Progressive Congressmen Ro Khanna and Mark Pocan field listener questions on the most urgent issues facing Biden's administration despite Republican resistance.

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0:00.0

Welcome back to our program. I'm the line with us Congressman Rokana of Silicon Valley

0:22.1

area of California, representing the 17th of California and the US House of Representatives.

0:25.8

Vice Chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. We're going to do a national progressive

0:29.6

town hall meeting here and you can tweet him at Rep. R.O., Rep. Rokana. And Congressman

0:35.4

Kana, welcome back. Before we pick up phone calls here, I'm just curious what's at the

0:39.0

top of your list of things that you wanted to be sure to share with our listeners today

0:42.8

or the things that you're really paying attention to that are going on politically or in

0:46.8

the world.

0:47.8

Well, Tom, we had a press conference. The Progressive Caucus members did with Reverend

0:53.4

Barber, Richard Trump, President of the AFLCO, Mary K. Henry, President of FSEIU, and a

1:00.0

lot of the tip workers groups saying we have to get a $15 wage by the end of the year

1:04.7

that it needs to be in reconciliation. It needs to be in must pass legislation. And

1:10.2

I thought it was powerful. We had almost 20 members on the call. Mark Polkant was a frequent

1:14.2

guest.

1:15.2

Was one of the co-conveners. So that is a huge priority for us. And then many of us have

1:19.8

been talking to the White House this week about what is the path forward on that? What

1:23.0

is the path forward on infrastructure? Let's not wait with the kind of marathon trying

1:27.3

to give Republican support. Let's move forward on our agenda.

1:30.6

There you go.

1:31.6

Okay. So let's pick up some phone calls here. TJ and Newark, New Jersey, you are on

1:35.2

the air with Representative Conner.

1:36.2

I have kind of a weird question because I've noticed that in certain states, there was

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