actions until decades later, that was designed to be extended to state governments by the privilegesand immunities clause. that is the argument that many people have made. instead of having a citation of only a handful of cases, if the court had gone not wrote, there would be literally hundreds of cases, 20 or 30 cases every year, where the court would be applying that clause of the 14th amendment. had not what ultimately happened which is the same provisions were incorporated against the states, but they were done through the due process clause which a lot of historians and legal scholars say, it isn't faithful to the regional interpretation. just to give you one illustration of why that might make a difference is that one of the difference that is different about this clause from the equal protection clause and due process clause, the privileges and immunities clause is a protection to citizens, the other to protect people. since the first amendment has been incorporated against gay state governments, then the people that are protected against that have long been interpreted to inc

state governments don't do global public health. that's not in the state charter. the federal government does that. the virus didn't come here because of anything new yorkers did. the virus came here because the federal government missed it.

states? >> the federal government is the only when the prince money for one thing. the states are out here picking up the slack for the things that the federal government didn't step up and do. there's only so much money to go around. these states are doing quite a bit and spending into our budgets and expending all the money and our rainy day funds. state and local governments are going to step up. some of these programs are the responsibility of the federal government. >> jan into cancel -- newcastle, pennsylvania. democratic color. >> hi. i wanted to ask you a question. with this virus being so bad and all these democratic mayors, and governors, are allowing all this stuff to go on. all these perpetrators. they're all together day after day and night after night spreading this virus everywhere. with the president, god bless him, wants to bring help in, they refused it. i don't see what's going to happen in this country between this virus going everywhere and all this stuff that's going on. burning buildings down and putting people out of business. >> okay jim. gov

so give us a little bit of a bigger picture in florida what exactly is the state government proposing to do to get infection rates under control well very good question though we talked to 2 doctors today and they said that basically begged us as a as a transmitted to the public arena and around the world that please wear a mask please wear a mask even if politicians don't agree on what to do and the governor has said he's not going to go back to shutdown anything so he's adamant about leaving things as they are opting upping testing opting health care workers and their support p. p. e. and what have you even the army is here with personnel helping testing stations and so on but a shutdown is not going to happen here so what happens here is all on the shoulders of manic. health care professionals and they are begging people to practice social distancing and wear masks to the curb because that has not happened here. and that was a correspondent stuff and simon's reporting from miami and stuff on stay healthy. european union leaders are meeting in brussels to try to bridge their differe

the state government is aiming to record the health details of each and every household to deal with the spread of. the move has come after weeks of scrambling for measures by the state and the national government to avoid a major health care disaster in the capital city which has now become the worst hit in the country even the government is nor you know short of war. so i'm a little scared but regard to who. earlier we could step out a little at least to buy essential some groceries but now we're worried that if we step out at all we may get infected as part of its strategy to handle the spread of the delhi government is taking a range of measures they include increased testing and contact tracing antibody testing developing a plus one bank and providing. the government simultaneously is trying to ramp up its health care infrastructure the daily testing for core with 19 has increased significantly. the state government says that it is now conducting $20000.00 tests every day apart from plans to stock rapid and dejan testing which allows for foster diagnosis of samples regular testi

member state further to the right according to exit polls the governing conservatives will win of the most seats ahead of the center left social democratic party but neither is expected to gain an outright majority making a coalition government likely that could leave room for a new force in croatian politics the nationalist homeland movement led by a popular folk singer. observing strict hygiene precautions and social distancing ruse voters in croatia cost their ballots. prime minister under a plane coverage its ruling party is expected to take victory some say the center right party called the early elections in order to profit from its relatively successful handling of the coronavirus pandemic and that decision seems to have paid off. chrissy means that citizens can express their opinions today is the day in which we have this great and counter with the will of the people are we happy with the decision of all citizens to continue working for croatia. plan coverage is ahead of his main challenger social democrat leader. he leads a restart coalition made up of smaller center left par

country and there have been 104 death but it is that spike in places in victoria that has the state governmentfficer of the state said the increases were heartbreaking so what it means more than 300,000 people will now be subject to stay—at—home orders. they are legally enforceable for the next four weeks. and the increases are worrying but it is another big economic hit. australia's economy is facing an almighty hit, facing its first recession since the early 19905 first recession since the early 1990s so many businesses around the country who were hoping thatjuly could ring some sort of resolution and some sort of end to the restrictions, certainly in victoria and those lockdown suburbs will once again be feeling the financial pain. it is worth noting that the state government in victoria is blaming breaches in its hotel quarantine system for many of these new cases and what happened with returning australian citizen and permanent residents returning to australia, they face a mandatory 14 day stay in isolation in a hotel and it is thought that infections have somehow leaked out of those hote

it's what the part of the state government because finding out what is the lesson government when he doesn't think yes i think that is your here's something that is your responsibility talk to have a let's let's talk about food by the end of april the food corporation of india had 77000000 tons of cereals in stock but instead of giving it to states with very little money or ruling party tried to sell it to them at market rates something which shocked economists rita kara from the indian institute of management for instance said the government's unwillingness to relent and give it free to the states is mind boggling it couldn't understand why you were trying to profit from this grain instead of giving people who not you dance or to lead on the moment has given free of cost. millions of those who are not having i been to god but then the government has given free of cost like a jeep all the 5 kids rice some else's and all of them of packets they saw it just died it wasn't but the stuff or titian cost but only kids who are just being provided free of cost by government and the state gov

government. we have been trying to get help to the states and the government in a third package. hen congress comes we havem their recess, been hoping, pushing hard to make sure the state and local governments are included in the package. lost 1.5 million state and local government workers in the past 60 days. it's anticipated we could lose as many as 4 million more. frontlineking about health-care workers, police and firefighters, people that are out there providing more circumstances -- services under difficult circumstances. we are impacted at the state and local government level, as our businesses because revenue is down dramatically. across the country, we expect a decrease in revenues at state governments up to 30%. you just said 4 million jobs could potential he be lost, and that is for government workers. >> state and local government workers. we have been pushing the administration, working with leaders on congress on both sides of the aisle. by some timel that by the end of july we will have some success. states are making very difficult budget decisions, putting togethe

than the states to borrow to cover the services? welcome of the federal government is the only one that prints money, for one thing. the states are out here picking up the slack for the things that the federal government didn't step up to do. there's only so much money to go around, but the states are doing quite a bit and spending into our budgets and expending all the money in a rainy day fund and whatever money we have available. state and local governments are going to step up with some of these programs the response ability of the federal government. host: pennsylvania, democratic caller. i wanted to ask a question. bad ands virus being so all these democratic mayors and governors allowing all this stuff to go one, all these perpetrators, and they are all together day after day, night after night, spreading this virus everywhere, and when the president, god bless them, once to bring help in, they refuse. you know, i don't see what is going to happen in this country between this virus going everywhere and all this stuff that is going on in these states, the burn

it isn't a crime scene the state government says is to avoid an explosive corona virus outbreak there's $27.00 confirmed cases of the virus among the $3000.00 residents of the estates. no one towers are going locked in on will be locked in for all east 4 of those because that is the appropriate period to test everybody every single resident. have already tested positive across those tales. the authorities insist the lockdown isn't about punishment but protection except some residents say they're being treated like prisoners aid groups have expressed concerns about vulnerable communities inside the units some who have fled war or family violence they're calling for less police officers and more social workers and translators. are down for a moment underestimate how challenging magic in some respects that will be for those $3000.00 residents the state government has offered a 2 week rent freeze and welfare payments to support those in the lockdown but residents say the seriousness of the measures are fair with many highlighting how other people in lockdown suburbs are still allowed to lea

member state further to the right with the governing conservative croatian democratic union up against the center left social democratic party the poll is taking place and made a new spike in covert 19 cases voters and choosing between leaders who say they can keep infection rates down while reviving the battered economy now one of the main contenders is expected to gain a majority. miking a coalition government a likely prospect. and some say it's a gamble by the incumbent president under a plane that the ruling party calls early elections to profit from their relatively successful handling of the corona virus pandemic but as a number of covert 9000 cases rises again the center right party is in the spotlight playing golf is just main challenge astolfo benediction the social democrat leader is heading a restart coalition made up of small the center left parties he's trying to win over voters by claiming the removal of a dozen government ministers is proof of h d s that incompetence. the election comes as the pandemic battus croatia's fight terrorism success but the biggest financial c

been announced the country's 2nd largest city that's melbourne is going back into lockdown the state government a victorian has admitted its lost control of surging infection numbers for 6 weeks from wednesday its 5000000 residents can only leave their homes for essential purposes if it were a state border with new south wales is also being shots 191 new infections were reported on tuesday another increase. it is simply impossible with keiser rights at this level to have enough context rising stuff to have enough physical resources and i'm where i come from no matter what uniform my way in order to continue to suppress and can time this virus without taking significant steps if we were to file type steps then we won't be a couple of 100 cases per day it will be many more than that and it will quickly spiral well and truly out of control meanwhile in the united states the country's top infectious disease expert that's nancy found she says is still need a pin the 1st way with more than $50000.00 new cases a day and the brazilian president john paulson are has been tested for coated 19 after devel

member state further to the right according to exit polls the governing conservative croatian democratic union will win the most seats ahead of the center left social democratic party but neither is expected to gain an outright majority making a coalition government a likely prospect that could leave room for a new force in croatian politics the nationalist homelands movement led by a popular folk singer. i'm joined now by day i knew of h. he's a professor of political science at the university of sac grab the main opposition party says that the ruling party has called these elections early in order to benefit from its handling of the crown a virus pandemic that did this gamble pay off. it seems according to these results of their behaviors that has won 61 out of 151 seats in the parliament which is about the same as they did in 2016 their main opponents the social democrats won only 44 and scored over a 3rd party of the right wing part of the homeland movement 16 seats they displace is the prime minister playing hoops in a very comfortable position because what he can do now is he can f

concernedally, i'm about the lack of support for state and local governments. of fiscalve a lot support at the federal level trying to stave off disaster, local the state and governments are running into huge problems, if there's no way of assisting state and local governments in a comprehensive way, not just schools or health, then the state and local governments will have to be tightening the belt and firing people. the effort that you put forward on the federal level will be offset on the state and local level. you don't even have the traction for the life preservers that you thought you had. at the state and local level pay will have to have more austere policy. that is not fully being addressed in this current bill. alix: as a mother of a five-year-old girl going into first grade, i really feel that. is there a magic number that on the state and local level you would feel comfortable for the stabilization of the life preserver? >> the state and local level has been related to the current budget conditions. it depends what the unemployment compensation syste

and the story is 2nd largest city in melbourne is going back into lockdown for 6 weeks the state government's admitted it's lost control of rising infection numbers from wednesday at 5000000 residents can only leave their homes essential purposes. well 9 government housing blocks in melbourne were also put under a 5 day lockdown on the weekend following concerns that the virus may be spreading amongst them residents are under police guard and unable to leave their homes for any reason at all i spoke to a met danny he's a member of voices from the blocks and told me how people that are feeling obviously very anxious very scared about the situation are my parents my family actually live in another block they live in a west rock liar and they actually found a lot of positive. viruses in the box and my parents live in the caribbean any testing done in my block so we just basically sitting ducks i'm a community advocate but i have so basically individually i having conversations with people on the ground who are responsible for the lockdown but i can only speak for the rest of the community they d

and state governments. so i think fema has that ability to look at the big picture and make sure that action plans and the direction of the federal government is in the best interest and support of state and local government. >> thank you. mr. curry, what impact does constantly shifting responsibility have on the federal government failing to effectivelying more? >> i think the roles and responsibilities being clear is critical in this case. i think just to go off what some of the prior responses to your questions, i think we were victims of past successes and other situations. typically in situations like h1n1, ebola, zika, everything we've had over the last 50, 60 year, the h.h.s. and c.d.c. has been able to handle the response to emergencies. because of that, the structures we have had in place to deal with pandemics and public health emergencies is focused on their role which is appropriate, they have the medical expertise. what's clear in this case they do not have the logistical capability that was req

further, i would like to mention the role that state and local governments play. the state of arkansas used cares act funding to set up its own program for small businesses. the arkansas already for business grant program received over 2300 applicants within one hour and help over 200,000 arkansas employees across the state stay at work. 94% of those businesses had 50 employees or less, and a quarter were minority-owned and women-owned. i think we have the solutions here to help our small -- items to our state and local government and let's fix the local program and ppp program so more small businesses can be helped as we continue to acrosshis terrible virus our country. thank you for the time. i yield back the balance of my time. >> thank you. the chair today, i want to apologize again for the mismanagement of the time early on with you, mr. mchenry. today, we welcome the testimony of ms. lisa cook, ms. lily joseph stiglitz, and diego zuluaga. thecook is a member of -- as an authority on international economics, she is also advised policymakers from the nigerian a

does it have to be federal government, state government?oesn't have to be one thing, i don't think it will be any one of the state governments or federal government, it has to be a coordinated effort and a belief that this is the sustainable energy to provide the freedom of transportation in the future. if we get that fundamental belief across this country, we can work together to make it happen. is imaginingy, gm a ramp-up in electric vehicles. a rapid increase is what you are anticipating. do you see a point where there is a crossover that you are selling more electric vehicles than internal combustion, and when is that? mark: i cannot tell you that because i don't know. from a company and business commercial standpoint, general motors will be very agile in our approach to this. we are going to provide vehicles -- that are highly desirable for people at the right price points with the right design, with the right proprietary battery chemistry, cost and performance. us tostomers will lead when we get those volumes, see that demand. largea

has one of the biggest state governments in the country. - new york city has one of the biggest municipal governments in the country. it's bigger than most state governments, okay. take california out of the mix and new york city, and new york state and new york city is right behind them in terms of the size of their budget and new york city is getting hammered right now. look at it this way, there's a state agency called the new york state metropolitan transportation authority. it runs the subways. nobody is on the subways right now. that state agency will probably need bailout aid. so the question is what does new york city and new york state do. new york city, if it was up to bill deblasio would probably raise taxes and cut the size of government. new york state, on the other hand, when andrew cuomo is signaling to people, he knows there is an exodus of people leaving the state, he knows that he has very little wiggle room in terms of raising taxes because that will lead to the tax base to pick up and leave even more. at least for now, wh

and we've seen state and local governments laid off 1.5 million people already. state and local governments provide essential services as we all know, so you know that they are great and a big employer, and if i e would say it's certainly worth considering. if we don't do something, it will hold back the economic recovery if they continue to lay people off and if they continue to cut essential services. and in fact, that is kind of what happened post-the global financial crisis. so, mr. secretary, as you again were sort of in the middle between the house and the senate and theou white house, i can't k where are you on assisting state and local and school districts to help backfill the lost revenues that we have seen have been already? >> let me first say within the context of the last bill, we mtried to issue guidance that s as flexible as possible, particularly for firefighters, first respondersan and pulleys t said the states could use the money and have a p safe harbor d didn't need to let those people go, which as you said would be the worst time when we need

government put some areas of kuala lumpur. with high and faction rates under lockdown with people tested and some fingerprinted foreigners without valid documents were arrested alasia officials and state television have criticized the reporters being inaccurate misleading and unfair as attempts to interview government ministers and officials during production were declined staff have experienced sustained online harassment since the broadcast on one east is an asia pacific current affairs program it's one numerous international awards malaysia's top policeman spoke to the media he dismissed questions over the journalist being treated unfairly he was asked whether the staff were free to go. but at the moment. is there a need for them to leave the country. the way. we were checked with the us. if you will decide in the middle few days in. any case then it would be a charge but i don't think the reason why we did feel that they want to call bill for india. to be free i'm not going to intimidate them i'm not going to allow anyone to harm to cause harm or to instigate the hum down please b b b b b b be professional about it. we still allow them. access to the best lawyers or whatever it is

by warlords and if i have to add his fighters that cost the tripoli based government billions of dollars in lost revenue the state company is warning that shipments to international buyers will be limited and so major damage to infrastructure is repaired. and the un recognized government says it's gathering evidence of a legend war crimes committed by forces loyal to the world. mass graves have been discovered at one of his former strongholds the international criminal court is due to send a team to libya later this month to investigate mahmoud reports from tarhouni where many of the atrocities are said to have taken place the tiny concrete part of a secret prison in the libyan city of. officials from the internationally recognized the government say it was used by forces loyal to warlords really for have to do told short of their opponents that includes a pro-government fighters who were taken captive during the battle for tripoli and civilians who opposed military rule into hona government investigators say this car belongs to a female prisoner who was brought here by force there is evidence of summary executio

states with very little money or ruling party tried to sell it to them at market rates something which shocked economists rita kara from the indian institute of management for instance said the government's unwillingness to relent and give it free to the states is mind boggling i couldn't understand why you were trying to profit from this grain instead of giving people who not you dance of the lead on a moment has given free of cost millions of those who are not having i didn't you got didn't the government has given for your cause like a jeep all. if i could your rice something else is an optimal back if they saw that it just died it wouldn't but that is the stuff for dish and cost but not elitist or it's just been provided free of cost by government and the state government also so we do respond by saying we'll say when you say you don't like janet then that can provide the start just. not when his is a statistic from the financial times which reported that of the the money most of the money that was given in extra funding it was less than $12000000000.00 or about no point 4 percent of india's g.d.p. g.d.p. that's one of the lowest levels of relief provided by any asian economy you pro

was a 3 trillion over all but one big point of contention is the amount of aid to local and state governments so the democrats true to their cause want a greater amount of relief to state and local governments and republicans are being rather stingy on that front there's also a question that various things have been some snuck into this bill. might sort of reduce social security payments in the future so it's basically the unemployment benefits the size the relief checks that families are going to get and then also the aid to local and state governments those are the 3 points of contention but i think both sides want to find a solution here they both want to get stimulus out into the market so i think they'll find some sort of compromise fairly quickly it sounded like a speaker or house speaker nancy pelosi said that they're ready to start these discussions that will probably take a few days ottavio there is there are some big banks that might be benefiting from this what came out of that. well big banks would benefit me because the other points in there like student loan relief and things ab

strong state and local governments are critical to our economy. indeed, according to center on budget and policy priority, state and local governments provide about 20 million jobs and contributed 8.5% to national g.d.p. in 2019. and it did so by not only serving as customers and clients for our local and national businesses, but also by providing the essential services such as public infrastructure infrastructure --. the presiding officer: if the senator would suspend. the senate will be in order. please take conversations from the chamber. the senator from rhode island. mr. reed: thank you, madam president. as i was indicating, state and local governments provide essential services such as public infrastructure, a strong education system, and other necessary functions that provide the business certainty that make our country attractive to businesses and investors throughout the world. we should do everything possible to maintain our country's comparative advantage relative to other countries, but today as a result of the tremendous economic shock

but it is that spike in places in victoria that has the state government down there extremely concernedo what it means more than 300,000 people will now be subject to stay—at—home orders. they are legally enforceable for the next four weeks. and of course the increases are worrying, but it's another big economic hit? it is. australia's economy is facing an almighty hit, facing its first recession since the early 1990s, and many businesses around the country who were hoping thatjuly could bring some sort of resolution or some sort of end to the restrictions, certainly in victoria and those lockdown suburbs will once again be feeling the financial pain. it's worth noting too that the state government in victoria is blaming breaches in its hotel quarantine system for many of these new cases. what happens, mike, with returning australian citizen and permanent residents returning to australia, they face a mandatory 14—day stay in isolation in a hotel, and it is thought that infections have somehow leaked out of those hotels into the broader community, and that's why parts of melbourne and ar

for the children to go back to school, our state and local governments have to function. that is what the heroes act is about. the first piece of it, honor our heroes, state and local governments, hiring our first responders, our teachers, our teachers, our health care worker to risk their lives so that gas to save other lives, now they may lose their jobs. over one million public and plays have lost their jobs in the course of this coronavirus and we can change that if we make the commitment and the heroes act to state and local governments about the way, go act,, speaker.gov/heroes see how much money goes to your community. your state, your locality, your municipality. then recognize that it is only one half of what the republicans costin the text top in their tm twice as much as what we want to spend to open up government to provide the services that people economy to open up our to open up our schools. education indicated that children should go to school, they have to take risks. with stiff competition, that was -- stiffe most competition on this and other subjects. w

state andare tactic local governments use. they did a budget, and instead of producing the overhead that is not needed, they said we will take away fire and police. they know politically that is the most sensitive. i think it is a political argument, not a big economic factor. david: what about one particular aspect of state government i do not think much money has been spent on. that is the school. to get kids back to school safely. everyone seems to agree that will take extra money. if you have social distancing recommended, if you have the equipment, are you in favor of giving states specific targeted efforts to support the schools. david m.: a great question. we are in favor of money going to education, but instead of sending it to the schools, what we would propose is it is almost like cash payments, but you directed. you have a covid emergency grant to every parent, may be up to $10,000 per student. they can use it to send to a private school or if they cannot afford tuition to send them to the local public school. they

infections in the past 24 hours the country's top infectious disease expert anthony is again urging state governments to hit pause on reopening . the states of florida texas and california remain some of the worst affected and florida's governor is being accused of easing lock down measures too soon how did you castrate reports from maryland the death toll in florida is rising as well about one person in florida is dying a covert every 10 minutes and florida certainly is not alone 18 states in the united states have broken totals and as far as cases or deaths in this past week in florida it's governor rick des santos is a heavy strong as strong supporter and he has been praised by the president even now for his response to the pandemic florida was one of the 1st states to reopen and now critics are seeing what's happening with these numbers resurging and saying that that move was prioritizing the economy over people's lives and this similar story repeated across the country much of the south now including the state of texas where and along its border with mexico we're seeing dire situation with what

there's growing tension between the united states and china the u.s. government has ordered beijing to close its consulate in houston texas saying it's to protect american intellectual property a spokesman for china's foreign ministry has denied media reports that software burning documents inside the building and is accuse a u.s. of violating international law china is threatening to close the american consulate in in response and as one chinese students in the u.s. to be on god for what he calls obvious cherry. interrogations will go. surely on july 21st the u.s. abruptly demand to be close oh consulate general this was unilaterally initiated by the u.s. side we demand the u.s. withdrawal this decision or we will respond let's bring in our state department correspondent roslyn jordan so ross tell us more about what the state department is saying are the reasons for shutting down the chinese consulate in houston. well the argument that's being pinned being put forward by the u.s. secretary of state mike pompei oh is that the chinese government is engaged in a sy