pm blair: thank you to mark and everyone at the wilson center. >> congress is back in session today. the house returned shortly at noon eastern first speeches with legislative business underway at 2:00 p.m. eastern. members working on moving forward of the commission to review the capital. a supplemental spending bill for added security on capitol hill. the senate comes in at 3:00 p.m. eastern to take up the endless frontier act authorizing 110 billion dollars for technology research which would help the u.s. compete with china. a procedural vote set for 530 time eastern. they will continue work through the week. watch gavel-to-gavel coverage of the senate live on c-span two and watch the house live on c-span. a lot to get to. you want to begin with headlines. from the front page of the new

york times, the deadliest day yet in gaza as the efforts at cease fire fail and vegan netanyahu vowing useful force on hamas. one of the photographs is a palestinian man, whose wife and three children were killed in the attack. according to the new york times, 192 have died including 58 children. in israel, 10 dead including one child. the jerusalem post reporting 31,050 rockets have been fired to the israeli territory, pointing out that for 60 of the rockets failed. the so-called iron dome defense system has an intercept rate of approximately 90%. this headline from the washington post, dozens killed in a predawn is really strike. that is the latest on the situation in the middle east. we want to begin with an opinion piece from daniel henniker on

the democrats. the headline is, "democrats are killing the american dream." here are some of the details. joe biden's american family span replaces individual striving with middle-class entitlement. the american families act makes a reality officially clear, democratic party is giving up on the american dream. the american families plan and democratic legislation implicitly imposed several questions, is the idea of upper mobility important? how should upward mobility happen, through washington or individual efforts? should the habit of individual striving to give way to a or important goal of nationalized paternalism. the transition began when democrats enacted an insurance bonus of $300. that bonus pushing benefits past wage rates and indisputably is causing many to shun previously

held jobs? why bother? held out for state compensation that reduces the incentive for me to work. skip the work choice public school teachers across the country have made the past year. hakeem jeffries. >> it is clear to many of us that the differences between democrats and republicans at this particular moment in time couldn't be any starker, it can be any clearer. house democrats are fighting for everyday americans, fighting to crush the virus, to provide direct relief to everyday americans who are struggling, and to lay the foundation ultimately to supercharge our economy, working with president

biden and senate democrats to stand up for every day americans. the american rescue plan, the american jobs plan, the american families plan. house democrats are fighting for the people, house republicans are fighting amongst each other. host: that from akeem jeffries. the headline is democrats are killing the american dream. here more details from that piece. if the american families plan passes, we are all behind the same dependency, generations of similar welfare compensation eroded the dream for many black americans by disincentive eyes a upward mobility. hundreds of thousands living in public housing built for them in the 1960's. the unions, teachers refusing to return and the democrats do not

apologize for the male governance and you want to the nonpoor. reaction from marsha blackburn on the senate floor in april. >> many of our tennesseans have also expressed concern with some of the provisions that were there in president biden's address. this is doubling down on decades of failed policy that were seeking to prioritize incentives on the wealthier state, overlooking is family and communities what pushing defendants -- dependence on a welfare state. there was not anything earth shattering, a price from the price tag which is eye-popping

and will take your breath away when you stop and think about it. for a long time, my democratic colleagues have champion programs that treat people like individual clients instead of families and communities. so here we are and the biden doctrine is a commitment to spending trillions and trillions of dollars, trillions of dollars. we are talking 6 trillion since january 20. those dollars are being spent to incentivize dependence on the federal government, to supplant the nuclear family with the federal government and to centralize control here in washington, d,c,

.c. host: this from our twitter page , chris johnson, demonstrates -- democrats are destroying america. jimmy is on the line. good morning. caller: good morning. i don't think there is an american dream. blacks, there are people actually living on the streets that don't have a decent meal, can't get a decent meal. and then there are people where i watch lester holt, reeking news -- reeking news, -- breaking news, they have more

money than god. what is the american dream? the politicians are there to keep us in line. they don't have term limits. they get all kinds of money and nothing ever gets done. that's my thought on it. host: thanks for the call from west virginia. the host of a serious xm program every morning and a cnn anchor and contributor on his website, the headline, take this job and shove it. he points out the following, joblessness and manufacturing and live event production, restaurants, construction are going on answered for companies to sweeten the pot. in mcdonald's in pennsylvania, a $500 bonus upon higher offered. a mcdonald's in florida is paying people $50 to show up for an interview.

a chicken express in texas supporting science warning customers to be patient with them getting, no one wants to work anymore. if conscious and life events resurrect, roadies have taking skills elsewhere, leaving venues worried they will -- if concerts and live events resurrect, roadies taking skills elsewhere, leaving venues worried they will not have enough people to take them. your take on this? caller: i agree with the previous caller regarding term limits. every decision they make is based on the next election. it has nothing to do with the people. but that is off-topic. it is a harsh statement and very sad piece. in my heart i don't want to

believe that the democrats want to kill the american dream. it is hard to believe that could be such nefarious motives and our country, but i think we have to believe it. you can at all the dots of the events that are happening, and it really just points -- you don't have to be a conspiracy theorist to connect a lot of these dots. we really have to stop going back to our past. yes there are some miserable things in our past, but that's not going to do us any good now. we never look at how far we've, and all it is is negativity. it really is killing everybody's dream. it doesn't matter if you are american or not. this is a worldwide thing, taking away an individual prosperity and individual pride in what you do. we don't need the government doing the thing for us, and they

really have to get out of the way. it is so awful. as far as people not working, the pandemic has changed a lot of things, but i don't think we should be giving any more money out. we really need to get back to work. there is nothing more for the individual than working and accomplishment in yourself in your own abilities. so i do believe the american dream, families, destroying the nuclear family, it is so contrary to the way things are and have been, not just in the united states, but everywhere. host: thank you for adding your voice. another headline from the hill.com, inflation fears grow for the white house.

rising prices putting increased pressure on the president and federal reserve to prevent inflation from derailing recovery from the coronavirus recession. on the democrat line, luis from oklahoma. good morning. caller: i'll tell you what. i agree with the man about the native americans and the blacks who have always been treated badly. myself, i have always lived in a fantasy land, my own world. i don't have a dream. if anybody is killing anything it is trump. he has killed much more people than israel or gaza. he has killed a lot more than them over the virus.

why isn't he in jail? host: thanks for the call. device chair of the democratic caucus defending the enhanced unemployment program -- the vice chair of the democratic caucus defending the enhanced unemployment program. he is with the -- here is what the congressman said last week on capitol hill. >> we know the american rescue plan and principles within it are popular. we know that because even in our republic colleagues are talking -- our republican colleagues are talking, vote no. as we turn the page and continue to talk about the jobs plan and the families plan, we are going to be focused on legislating. we are going to be focused on delivering results for our communities and we will let them

do what they are going to do. host: on the democrats, are they killing the dream, the opinion piece by daniel henniker. that is the basis of our question. we have paul from the democrats line. caller: good morning. the democrats are not destroying the american dream for people, and when i see a tax cut that rewards, the 1%. 83% of the benefits and i see these billionaires and major corporations evading taxes because of high-priced lawyers and accountants, that's whose