mrs. blackburn: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from tennessee. mrs. blackburn: are we into quorum call? the presiding officer: yes. mrs. blackburn: i ask that the quorum call be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. mrs. blackburn: thank you, mr. president. over the past few months we have all watched the power that the digital community has to make someone's passing thought go viral and the power that the digital mob has to make controversial voices completely disappear. well, who is the digital mob exactly, because right now we're hearing a lot about mob rule. sometimes it's hard to tell who the mob actually is. is it the millions of users who swarm social media platforms at the very first hint of a controversy? or is it the professional activist who provoke many of these attacks? they seem to know just when to pitch a thought, a word, or an idea. or is it, could it be the platforms themselves who cave to the pressure and police speech when they don't agree with t

mrs. blackburn: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from tennessee. mrs. blackburn: thank you, mr. president. you know, i was thinking a bit earlier today about what we were doing at this time last year. and we were busy hosting tennessee tuesdays and welcoming tennesseans and families and children with just such curiosity and bright eyes and lots of questions about our nation's government. and about these beautiful buildings in which we work every day. and about the job that we have in representing them. i like that curiosity and i like that energy that generally is brought to our chambers and to our work during the summertime. and this year things really are a little bit different. and i think it is a very worthwhile exercise. and i appreciate that my colleagues are participating in this exercise to remind ourselves why this year is different. and the answer, of course, as to why is this year different is because of the chinese communist party. they are the ones that are to be held responsible, to be blamed for the sickness, the chaos, for this crisis tha

blackburn. >> i'm sure the thoughts of everyone in the house will be of me and those caught up in the glasgow.incidents in we hope everyone makes a speedy recovery. mr. speaker, yesterday, the prime minister delivered his self-proclaimed speech. when asked what new money will be given to the scottish government at a daily press briefing, the prime minister's spokesperson left -- laughed. that is what this government thinks about funding for the scottish economy. jobs, families and livelihoods. they think it is a joke. is the prime minister capable of answering a direct question? i do not want the usual waffle. it is a straightforward question. one are the consequential is coming to scotland as a result of yesterday's speech? speaker, i think he probably -- the spokesman in .uestion a serious injustice i do not believe he would've taken this issue anything other than seriously. it is an astonishing fact that already -- he should wait until next week to have the full consequential's from what we are outlining from my right honorable friend, the chancellor. i really do hope that he and all his snp colleagues go around brandishing the facts that not onl

mr hancock said that the government rejected the idea on the basis that if people spend a long time together, face coverings do not offer protection. new measures to stop the spread of covid—19 in blackburn a spike in cases. for the next month, people living there must limit the number of visitors to their homes, and wear face coverings in all confined public spaces in a bid to avoid a lockdown like leicester. sophie hutchinson reports. blackburn with darwen, where they have seen a spike in covid—19 cases. 114 people have tested positive in the past two weeks, in what public health experts have described as a rising tide of infection, particularly in the south asian community. what we think is going on is one person is asymptomatically infected, they are then going back to their own households, other household members are infected, that only becomes visible once somebody has symptoms. they go and get tested, then the household is tested and then we get a cluster in that household of four orfive members. and that's happening across the bame, the south asian community, in significant numbers and that is what is driving our rising tide event. the tighter new measures include limiting the nu

blackburn. >> thank you so much, mister chairman, and i want to go to the issue of privacy. mr. smith, you mentioned this in your statement, and let's look at the issue of protecting that private information, and if that falls into the hands of scammers, what are you doing to make certain that people are not being scammed based on their information for contact tracing. because what we've learned, when you look at the virtual space, whoever has that data claims possession of it, feels that they own the virtual use, they have access to this, and then begin to use that to follow you and to share your information with outsiders. so, general schmidt, let's talk to you, or start with you and then if each of you will add, i want to hear about what is being done to protect privacy, and to protect the following information via contact tracing. >> senator. i appreciate the question. i don't mean to sound glib to anyone who is listening, but often in this space, i think of the old expression that the road to hell is paved with good intentions and i worry, in the contact tracing space, beca

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2370, blackburn 2378, moran 6789 sanders 2419, lee 2084, van hollen 1849, hassan 2103, and rubio -- excuse me, rubio 2422. the presiding officer: is there objection? the senator from new york. mrs. gillibrand: mr. president, i am reserving the right to object. this amendment list does not include my amendment 1932, a bill you, mr. president, and i worked on, a bill the majority leader has voted for. this amendment, it's so simple. it professionalizes how the military prosecutes serious crimes, serious crimes like sexual assault, rape, murder. it removes the systemic fear that survivors have in reporting these crimes. according to the pentagon's most recent survey, almost 21,000 service members were sexually assaulted in 2018, a 30% increase from the year before. and the current climate is not good for survivors. most survivors are retaliated against when they come forward and report these crimes. in fact, the rate of retaliation is that two-thirds of all survivors, unchanged from past years. and worse than that, of the cases that the command considered for action, of those unique few, only 10% of those went to trial. year after year we have hearings , mr. chairman, mr. ranking

possible is for them all to work hard, as blackburn and darwen have done, for instance, to get the virus down and to make sure they are able to open up again. thank you, mry at large and ourfuture air of our region, our country at large and our future air prospects, connectivity and sovereign manufacturing capability, with projects like macro—temp post. when will the prime minister announced a wide—ranging support package for the aerospace industry, which most contain scrappage scheme... aerospace industry, which most contain scrappage scheme. . ” aerospace industry, which most contain scrappage scheme... i will examine the idea of a scrappage scheme for old and highly polluting aircraft, but what i can tell him is that, long before then, we are putting 3—.9 billion into the aerospace technology institute and, asi aerospace technology institute and, as i am sure he knows, the department of and skills has set up with transport a joint task force to create jet zero, a zero emissions passenger plane in which this country will lead the world. we head to yorkshire and visit naz shah. thank you, mr speaker. last week, the chancellor said he could not save ever

public health in blackburn who said at the weekend that test and trace is failing, and in his words, is contributing to the increased risks of covid—19 because half of contacts are not reached? mrver promise and only sometimes deliver. what a wicked, unfairthing to sometimes deliver. what a wicked, unfair thing to say about the health secretary, mr deputy speaker! seriously, which abate of all this is actually world beating, other than possibly the £10 billion price tag? so, while today's vaccine uses encouraging, son of a long way to go. we need to mass testing and we welcome his commitments on that front, but willie also undertake to expand the rapid testing consortium so more british suppliers can be involved in that, because many complain that our test kits and the regulator spent ages to get their test kits to sign off and their e—mails go unanswered. winning the effect of tracing regime, threaten the ad hoc system we have at the moment, with all the money going to privatise firms, why does he not put local directors of public health in charge, backed up with primary care? with his repairing now for the second wave, which already have one of the highest excess death rates

mrs. blackburn: thank you, madam president. it has been so wonderful to be in tennessee over the past couple of weeks and to have the opportunity to listen to tennesseans, and we have listened and talked with local elected officials and teachers and parents from one corner of the state to another. they are very aware and are truly focused on the challenges that we are going to be facing this fall in just a few weeks. madam president, for some of our school systems in tennessee, they are going to be going back to school the first week of august. they have a lot of questions as to whether they are going to end up with classes meeting in person or online. up until now, students have relied on virtual schooling platforms to stay connected to their teachers, and it's likely that in many communities, this system will continue at least through the fall semester. relying on google and other educational software providers keeps teachers and families safe from covid-19, but these programs come with their own brand of hazards. our increas