This is the Tom Hartman Program.

And welcome back.

Tom Hartman here with you and on the line with us is Congressman Ro Conna

who represents the state of California or at

least the 17th District the Silicon Valley area in the US House of

Representatives he is the vice chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus you can can tweet him at Rep Row K-A-N-N-A. K-A-N-N-A-K-N-A-K-N-A. K-A-K-N-N-A-K-O-G-G-G-G-E-N-N-N-N-A-G-G-G and he's going to be with us for the whole hour taking your calls. We're doing a

national town hall meeting here and Congressman Kana welcome back to the

program. I'm wondering what is on your mind right now, what's at the top of your

list of things that you think that people need to know about?

Well we are pushing for the next phase of the stimulus and the critical part of that has to be in my view a check to every

American Tim Ryan and I Bernie Sanders have been pushing for $2,000 a month that this is something we need to be for people to make rent, for people to afford to put food on the table.

We're pushing for workers Bill of Rights, all of these essential workers, they need safety, they need to be paid for what they're doing to keep

our society open and we're pushing for relief to the states and localities. We're going to see

dramatic cuts otherwise.

I was talking with the front of mine in Australia last week.

And he said that they've got a program there where any employer can claim up to $3,000 per month for every employee, but 100% of that money has to pass through

the employer to the employee.

It includes part-time and even occasional-time workers.

You can't exceed what their salary would have been or their

income would have been but up to that amount it can be supplemental or not but a

hundred percent of it has to go through over at wolfstreet.com they point out the

Fed has printed 2.26 trillion and of course you guys have

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