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Governor, do you regret not acting sooner?

Governor Whitmer, you have been openly critical in the media of the Trump administration's response to the pandemic.

I understand. Mr. McCONNELL. Here is the way it works, colleagues. We have been fiddling around, as the Senator from Maine pointed out, for 24 hours.

Let me ask you a question. Mr. McCONNELL. I have a question. In what way would the Democratic minority be disadvantaged?

Well, today he recognized it and came forth and basically said today in that press release that I listened to--he basically acknowledged the threat of what we are dealing with and the enormity of what we are dealing with. It was the first…

Exactly. We have to do some things and do them quickly. And if this thing doesn't come up, we should sit here and protest until it does come up. There is no reason we can't do it tonight.

The economics of this whole thing right now is, first of all, we should know who is infected, where the infection is going, and how rampant this will be. We don't know yet. Next of all, who is the most vulnerable economically? The people…

I will tell you what we were able to do on that. I sent a letter last week immediately to Sonny Perdue, and he answered immediately. We were able to get all of the kids--because we have so many children in West Virginia who rely on their…

Senator, if you have seen the map of the United States, West Virginia stands out and doesn't show anything. I think, how could that happen?

Plastic is leading our present civilization towards extinction.

My point, just because we can doesn't mean we should.

The Federal Government takes the lead on hazardous waste management, and states and local governments are primary in the solid waste arena.

I do not support dismantling that wall between the two and injecting the Federal Government to setting curbside collection requirements and recycling standards for discarded items that are not hazardous.

As for the recycling issue, it concerns me because I come from a rural area.

I don't want to go back in time on this.

I think we have to be careful about what we are approaching on this.

I am curious to know what is the length of permit today to start a nuclear power plant?

It seems like the regulators or whatever the process is, is extending longer and longer.