RESPONDING TO THE RESPONSE
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 21 May 2020
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Thom's listeners pepper with questions one of the leaders of the House Progressive Caucus- Mark Pocan. What is the status of the next stimulus bill? What can we do with a do-nothing Senate that is looking out for the interests of the very rich? Plus- tips on how to have the most influence when you call your congressperson.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman Program. |
| 0:15.0 | And greetings my friends, patriots, lovers of democracy, |
| 0:21.0 | truth and justice, believers in peace, Freedom, and The American Way. |
| 0:25.6 | Tom Hartman here with you. |
| 0:27.4 | Congressman Mark Pocan is here with us, taking your calls. |
| 0:30.8 | Congressman Pocan is the co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. |
| 0:34.8 | He represents the second district of Wisconsin in the U.S. House of Representatives, |
| 0:39.7 | Pocan. house.gov, and you can tweet him at rep Mark Pocan. |
| 0:43.7 | Congressman Pocan, welcome back. |
| 0:45.7 | I'm curious what you see as the top of the news stack today. |
| 0:50.7 | Well, you know, there's always a lot. Front of my mind is you were in Washington last week on Friday. The House passed a $3 trillion bill, the Heroes Act, to address what we're all facing with COVID-19, but we can't get the Senate |
| 1:06.1 | to get off their behinds and negotiate and do something. |
| 1:10.1 | And what I'm really worried about is those PPP loans run out pretty soon. |
| 1:14.0 | A bunch of people are going to be laid off again. |
| 1:16.0 | I don't know what gets the urgency under the US Senate, but we did put our marker down, |
| 1:21.0 | put a bill out there, and I'm really concerned that they're not moving |
| 1:25.1 | faster, you know, much less the president trying to hawk hydroxyl |
| 1:29.6 | chloroxone chlorine, am I saying that right? I think, I'm not good at pharmaceutical names. |
| 1:34.5 | It's just bizarre, right? |
| 1:36.2 | That's the only way to describe what's going on |
| 1:38.4 | at the White House and the fact that they finally |
| 1:40.7 | had some CDC regulations come out about reopening and I'm afraid this has been a |
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