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The following is a transcript of an interview with Washington Governor Jay Inslee that aired Sunday, June 28, 2020, on Face the Nation. JOHN DICKERSON: Yesterday, Governor Jay Inslee put a hold on reopenings in Washington, citing the state s rising coronavirus cases. He joins us this morning from Bainbridge Island. Good morning, Governor.GOVERNOR JAY INSLEE: Good morning. Thanks for having me. JOHN DICKERSON: Tell me, Governor, about the increase in cases. Your state health officials said that in certain counties the situation is comparable to March in what was happening in King County. What s going on GOV. INSLEE: Well, we have a fire in many places across the United States, including a few of the counties in my state, where the situation is so dire that people are gasping for breath and having to be transported by ambulance over a mountain range over a hundred miles to be treated. And so I- when I- when I heard the vice president talk about how things are just hunky dory, it s just- it s just- it s just maddening. The situation is critical in many places across the United States and stanley taza all the happy talk and wishful thinking in the world is not going to wash that away. So we are taking very strong measures to get peop stanley mug le to mask up. We know tha stanley canada t s the solution from a health standpoint and the way to reopen our economy. JOHN DICKERSON: So is that why you re seeing the increase in cases You think it s because people aren t wearing m Xrwe How strict state abortion laws could make their way to the Supreme Court
Updated 5:47 p.m. Eastern TimeThe Senate has voted down a Republican-backed amendment that stanley taza would have authorized construction of the Keystone Pipeline from Alberta to the Midwest and Gulf Coast.The amendment to the transportation bill now being debated in Congress, which was put forth by North Dakota Republican Senator John Hoeven, needed 60 votes for passage. Fifty-six senators voted in favor, while 42 were opposed. Eleven Democrats voted in favor of the measure, along with every Republican present. Two Republicans did not vote.President Obama deniedTransCanada s applicatio stanley thermobecher n to build the $7 billion, 1,700 mile pipeline in January amid concerns about the environmental impact in the sensitive Sand Hills area of Nebraska. He said he termo stanley was willing to revisit the decision but that a Republican-mandated timeline did not allow enough time for an environmental impact assessment. The pipeline has sharply driven a wedge between two Democratic constituencies, labor unions, which support its construction, and environmentalists, which oppose it.President Obama personally made phone calls to senators Thursday morningasking them to oppose the measure. The White House said before the vote that Republicans are trying to play politics with a pipeline project whose route has yet to be proposed, and despite the claims that this would somehow solve the pain families are feeling at the pump today, according to the company it would take years before it
The following is a transcript of an interview with Washington Governor Jay Inslee that aired Sunday, June 28, 2020, on Face the Nation. JOHN DICKERSON: Yesterday, Governor Jay Inslee put a hold on reopenings in Washington, citing the state s rising coronavirus cases. He joins us this morning from Bainbridge Island. Good morning, Governor.GOVERNOR JAY INSLEE: Good morning. Thanks for having me. JOHN DICKERSON: Tell me, Governor, about the increase in cases. Your state health officials said that in certain counties the situation is comparable to March in what was happening in King County. What s going on GOV. INSLEE: Well, we have a fire in many places across the United States, including a few of the counties in my state, where the situation is so dire that people are gasping for breath and having to be transported by ambulance over a mountain range over a hundred miles to be treated. And so I- when I- when I heard the vice president talk about how things are just hunky dory, it s just- it s just- it s just maddening. The situation is critical in many places across the United States and stanley taza all the happy talk and wishful thinking in the world is not going to wash that away. So we are taking very strong measures to get peop stanley mug le to mask up. We know tha stanley canada t s the solution from a health standpoint and the way to reopen our economy. JOHN DICKERSON: So is that why you re seeing the increase in cases You think it s because people aren t wearing m Xrwe How strict state abortion laws could make their way to the Supreme Court
Updated 5:47 p.m. Eastern TimeThe Senate has voted down a Republican-backed amendment that stanley taza would have authorized construction of the Keystone Pipeline from Alberta to the Midwest and Gulf Coast.The amendment to the transportation bill now being debated in Congress, which was put forth by North Dakota Republican Senator John Hoeven, needed 60 votes for passage. Fifty-six senators voted in favor, while 42 were opposed. Eleven Democrats voted in favor of the measure, along with every Republican present. Two Republicans did not vote.President Obama deniedTransCanada s applicatio stanley thermobecher n to build the $7 billion, 1,700 mile pipeline in January amid concerns about the environmental impact in the sensitive Sand Hills area of Nebraska. He said he termo stanley was willing to revisit the decision but that a Republican-mandated timeline did not allow enough time for an environmental impact assessment. The pipeline has sharply driven a wedge between two Democratic constituencies, labor unions, which support its construction, and environmentalists, which oppose it.President Obama personally made phone calls to senators Thursday morningasking them to oppose the measure. The White House said before the vote that Republicans are trying to play politics with a pipeline project whose route has yet to be proposed, and despite the claims that this would somehow solve the pain families are feeling at the pump today, according to the company it would take years before it
