that i'm happy to introduce my fellow senator, great senator from state of new hampshire, senator sha heen, jean sha heen. >> thank you, i'm pleased to join all my colleagues in the senate and the problem solvers folks from the house who are here to endorse a framework that we believe makes it possible for us to move forward to provide emergency aid to the people who are hurting in this country. to date we've lost almost a quarter of a million americans to covid. over 13 million americans have been affected in some way. as i traveled around new hampshire over the last two months, what i heard everywhere i went was that people were hurting and they need help. so where's the small business people, those who are unemployed. cities and towns who are worried about laying off frontline workers, hospitals who are in financial distress, they need help from the federal government. and we are here to say we think there is a pathway to an agreement that can provide that help for a temporary period. now, the challenge is, and a number of my colleagues have talked about this being a victory for the ame

the heenes wanted to get a reality show out of this.aid a $36,000 fine. now they're being pardoned. the couple has paid the price, that's what the governor says. they shouldn't be dragged down by having a criminal record forever. >> it wasn't just that he was found at home. when authorities went to talk to the boy, he said, you said we did this for the show. >> children don't lie. >> i remember the activity in the newsroom. i was an intern. i was new to news. in the old days when things like this really were breaking news -- >> it's like an l.a. car chase. >> it really was crazy. >>> a couple heart-warming stories. a dog in new york is safe home from the holidays after his rescue from an icy pond. emergency crews north of new york city rushed to save the frightened husky. his name is jax. the dog was playing with some pals when he fell into the water. a firefighter in a cold water suit swam out to jax and helped him get back to shore. look at all the crews there to rescue him. he was happy to be reunited with his owner and we're happy h

company pfizer said tuesday that he was highly confident it would of course the heene said his firm would have a few a full answer in a few weeks so his comments come a day after the e.u. approved his company's vaccine for distribution. and here's what he told our correspondent conrad bosun take a listen. is your vaccine effective against this variant we don't know so far. because we did not get test. in the next 2 weeks we've built this new virus valient the p. piece of this virus variant and had better immune response against our vaccines able to inactivate that scientifically the likelihood is high that this is the case because even though this new valiant has mountable new taishan only one percent of this protein is changed and that means 99 percent is still the same and we know that our sponsor or the sponsor that is induced by all of axion this is attacking this protein on multiple sites so that the likelihood is high and that the vaccines . but we will get that assad's into 2 weeks and then we can be sure. you know if you find out that you will have to develop. new vaccine against

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i particularly want to acknowledge the former ranking member on our side, so there heen that- senatorha she did in crafting the different programs. you mentioned the paycheck protection program stood up very quickly. i agree with you. the enhancements in the idle program, including grants, loan forgiveness program, and the fact that we not only passed it but we also acted two other times to replenish and extend the paycheck protection program. when we replenish, we were directed funds we targeted to underserved communities, and when we looked at what we did it was very successful, and i agree with you. i want to underscore that this was a program stood up overnight , it got money out quickly to small businesses, and it accomplished its intended purpose. more needs to be done. thatssed the cares act included these programs in mid-march, and when we passed those we really thought this pandemic would be behind us by this past summer, but that was not the case. i agree with senator rubio that we need to act and we should have acted before now in extending relief to small businesses. it is

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on march 7th, 2018 it was reported that senators klobuchar and sha heen asked, quote, major vendors of u.s. voting equipment, whether they had allowed russian entities to scrutinize their software, saying the practice could allow moscow to macsblo american infrastructure. last year on march 26th, 2019 senators klobuchar, warner, reed and ranking member peters wrote, go, the integrity of our elections remain under serious threat. our nation's intelligence agencies continue to raise the alarm that foreign adversaries are actively trying to undermine our system of democracy, and will target the 2020 elections as they did in 2016, and 2018 elections. a combination of old legacy machines and newer systems, vulnerabilities in each present a problem for the security of our democracy, and they must be addressed. and then on december 6, 2019 senators warren, klobuchar, widen and congressman pocan wrote, quote, we are particularly concerned that secretive and trouble plagued companies owned by private equity firms and responsible for maintaining voting machines, quote, have long skimped on secur