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I would certainly be in favor of
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allowing stay she is the bankruptcy
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route it's saved some cities all right
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well that was Senate Majority Leader
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Mitch McConnell facing backlash now
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after saying that he favors allowing
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States to declare bankruptcy rejecting
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calls for a federal bailout of states
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that are struggling to pay their bills
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amidst the pandemic joining us now is
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Louisiana congressman and House
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Republican whip Steve Scalise
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congressman good morning great of you to
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be here this morning
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so do you share in supporting bankruptcy
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option for states as McConnell just
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detailed laSandra first it's good to be
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with you and let's keep in mind we've
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spent trillions of dollars to to try to
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keep our economy held together to keep
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small businesses and families and jobs
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but there was a hundred and fifty
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billion dollars that went to states in
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the last bill the pet the cares Act that
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we passed a few weeks ago that hundred
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and fifty billion dollars is just
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starting to get to States each state was
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given an allocation but based on
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population and then the states and local
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governments have access to that money to
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get them through the k枚ppen 19 crisis
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and so you know as some governors that
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were having financial problems before
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this crisis keep in mind are talking
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about a bailout for themselves just
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remember there's a hundred and fifty
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billion dollars that just went out the
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door most of those states got that money
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in their bank account
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earlier this week so they have that
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money before they start talking about a
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bailout from the federal government for
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problems they had prior to kovin 19 well
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let's make sure that this money that was
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spent that they're just getting now is
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spent properly well and that is the case
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that Mitch McConnell made in a series of
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interviews and Governor Andrew Cuomo
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from New York hardest hit in the United
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States with this pandemic he responded
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to it here's the governor yeah it's one
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of the dumb statements of all time how
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does that help the national economy
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state should be should declare
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bankruptcy he then says this is a
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bailout to the blue states which was a
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really offensive statement so to sort of
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finish up on on that point you support
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Mitch McConnell's
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that stage should lean on the bankruptcy
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option over leaning on federal funds
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well again let's keep in mind hundreds
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of billions of dollars are going to
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states not just a hundred and fifty
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billion that was in the cares Act
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specifically for state and local
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governments but there's also
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unemployment money there's money of
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course we're gonna pass more money for
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small businesses to help save those
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small businesses and by the way when
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that money's 75 percent of the money
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we're going to pass today and the PPP
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the Paycheck protection program has to
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be spent on workers bringing workers off
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the unemployment rolls that also saves
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States money so for some of these
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governors again I mean these are states
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you're talking about in New York had
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real serious financial problems prior to
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kovat 19 they're getting flushed with
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cash from the federal government for
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this crisis businesses and workers are
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getting money as well we know there's a
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shortfall everywhere the real answer
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that that's andrew is to get our economy
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back open you've heard president Trump
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talk about this the need to make sure
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that we're we're not trading off between
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safety of our health and safety of our
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economy you can and must do both but
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you've got to start getting people back
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to work in a safe way over these next
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few weeks
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look we're learning a lot more from our
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medical experts about how to do that
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yeah which includes social distancing
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but we you know you're hearing from all
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these small businesses that say even
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with money from the federal government
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they can't hang on for another month or
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two all right so we'll see where the
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rest of your colleagues on both sides of
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the aisle stand on that Congress have a
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couple big votes happening in the house
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this morning just heard chat program lay
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that out for our audience obviously the
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first one on the Oversight Committee
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there will be a vote on that and then
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the 484 billion dollar measure phase
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three and a half bill three point five
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where do you stand on it do you support
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it yes I support the measure to
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replenish the paycheck protection
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program this has been a lifeline to so
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many small businesses I've heard from
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small businesses not only in my district
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in Southeast Louisiana but all across
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the country some who have used this
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money to keep their business afloat to
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keep their workers off of the
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unemployment rolls and some who are
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about to face bankruptcy because they
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weren't able to get a loan in the first
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round we need to make sure that the
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passes today it will pass overwhelmingly
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and you know this is kind of a unique
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vote with us voting in blocks where
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they're they're basically breaking the
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whole roll into eight different blocks
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of members so it'll take a few hours but
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it's important that it get done you know
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in terms of that Oversight Committee
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look we have eight oversight committees
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already
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this really is an attempt by speaker
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Pelosi to just set up another
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impeachment type committee to harass the
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president and that's that's a we she
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they should be focused she details right
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now the way she detailed that committee
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the committee will root out waste fraud
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and abuse and will ensure that taxpayer
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money goes to workers paychecks so are
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you not supporting that measure well
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syndra there are already eight
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committees plus an inspector general
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that we added in the cares Act and the
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president's already appointed that
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person eight committees including
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committees that speaker Pelosi herself
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Ron she actually appointed the chairs of
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those committees if she doesn't think
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they're doing a good enough job the
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answer should not be to create yet
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another committee and spend millions
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more taxpayer dollars just to harass the
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president and if you watch the debate on
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this last night it was very clear the
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people that are on there trying to help
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to help go after the president help
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promote Joe Biden's campaign this isn't
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a time for those kind of politics
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there's an election in November we
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should be focused on helping people not
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wasting millions more just to harass the
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president okay
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real quickly congressman with the time
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that we have left your state Louisiana
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it has been hard hit a lot of folks with
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underlying conditions this is
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exacerbated the corona virus pandemic in
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your state 25,000 cases confirmed nearly
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1500 deaths your stay at home order in
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your state expires May 1st
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are you in favor of reopening the state
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while this is still such a big problem
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and Sandra you know spoken to our
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Governor John bel Edwards up talk to the
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heads of all the big hospitals in New
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Orleans and everybody is working
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together to do what they can to actually
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bring the curve down and you're seeing
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it come down the number of people on
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ventilators is reducing some of those
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indicators clearly there there are
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deaths and these are these are tragic
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and you know we pray for families that
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have died from this but there are
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families that have also died from things
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like suicides that we're seeing on the
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on the rise also we're concerned about
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the mental how
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challenges and so the governor said
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we're gonna start in the next few days
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going back to elective surgeries think
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about this Sandra there are a lot of
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people that have not been able to get
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their mammogram or their colonoscopy
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that you can detect early cancer or
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other things like that that they're not
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doing right now and so you need to let
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people get back to having those kind of
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basic procedures to save their lives as
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well and so the governor is opening that
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up and in a phased approach as the
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president laid out you can do these
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things safely we've got to get our
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economy back open so that people can go
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out and get those medical procedures
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that will save their life while we're
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also battling kovat 19 but considering
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the risks that you just laid out is it
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worth starting to open up other areas of
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the economy like you've heard from other
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states salons barber shops and obviously
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into another phase where you'd open up
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the restaurants which are so key to New
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Orleans in your state yeah and you know
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you do it in a smarter way and and
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that's why you're seeing right now
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everybody from your local restaurant to
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the largest sports leagues are having
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these conversations about how to do it
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smarter nobody wants to put customers in
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jeopardy people are starting to get
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antsy about wanting to get out of their
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house but they don't want to do it in a
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way that puts their family at risk so I
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think you're gonna see social distancing
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continue to be a big part of this people
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have learned a lot more about how to do
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that whether they want to wear masks and
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gloves I think you're gonna see a lot of
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people taking temperatures at the
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entrance whether it's it's a shopping
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mall that might open up weeks from now
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or a grocery store that already has
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customers in it where they might take
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your temperature and just say look if
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you've got a fever over 100 degrees
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stay at home because you're higher at
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risk if you have diabetes and other
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things that put you higher at risk just
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know that and be smart about how to take
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precautions but we have to start opening
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things back up again because there are
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people that are having other
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consequences health-wise diseases that
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aren't being taken care of
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because they're not able to get out and
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go take care of those things it is going
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to be such a delicate balance so many
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big decisions to be made we know you've
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got those votes coming up congressman we
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appreciate your time this morning thank
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you
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thanks a lot Sandra be safe
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