Working, theirl hours have been cut down to three or four days per week. Good morning, everyone. There are four things i want to talk with you about this morning. First i will begin with wildfires. Millions of acres are burning. Historically high numbers. That is horrible. But worse than that, at least 35 people have died in the wildfires. Many people are missing so we dont know the total number. Hopefully it is not so many more. Fromefighter lost his life the fire, just a recent report on another one. The acrestates are 20 times the amount this time last year. 20 times. We saw some of the reaching washington, d. C. It has covered the country. America can no longer afford to deny the connection between the Climate Crisis and the wildfires. Contempt of the science that tells us why the storms are battering the gulf , the are so severe severest in history, the one that hit louisiana. And now they have sally coming back. They told me they are running out of names and they have to go to the greek alphabet to name the storms. Wildfire, the assault on nature, other natures statement, do something about this. This week we have some legislation on the floor. It has many bills in it. They are the proud work of the energy jurisdiction, the commerce committee, the science, space and Technology Committee andby Eddie BerniceJohnson Frank malone on the committee of energy and commerce and other important work. ,mong the legislation institutes to study the impacts of the smoke on public health. There is a direct connection. A priority to have grid upgraded in a way that it can detect these sparks. These sparks can take off in such a vicious way as those of you who have followed the fires have seen. Again, i told you about my meeting with the g7 heads of parliament, it was a great thisthis weekend past weekend. In all of those countries, the was no the eu, there difference in opinion among the parties about whether the Climate Crisis exists and that Human Behavior has an impact on it. Only the United States is in the denial that we are in the executive branch the republicans in congress i dont know how much further evidence they need or what could cause them to accept the science. Contempt for science must stop and it must stop when it comes to the coronavirus. That is the second item i wanted to talk to you about. This weekend sadly we will see that 200,000 people have died because of the coronavirus. Approaching 7 Million People infected. This did not have to happen. Yesterday, some of you were there with mr. Pallone and mr. Clyburn and two of our freshman congressman, powell and underwood, spoke about our plan that has been out there for months and months. Our plan for testing, tracing, treating. Our plan for sanitation, toration, Wearing Masks crush the virus. Instead our republican colleagues want to crush the Affordable Care act and its preexisting condition benefit which affects nearly half families in our country. But we have a plan. It is based on science. Resourcesamounts of needed that are substantiated by science, by institutions of higher learning, by the academic world that especially focuses on the epidemiology of a pandemic. For thet so hard republicans to accept the science, crush the virus so that we can open our economy and open our schools more safely . , and again,s act the chair of energy and commerce has presented this plan. It is not just money, it is a plan. Months and there for in previous legislation we had pieces of it but this is a comprehensive plan. Is what75 billion, that it will take to crush the virus. Had 15 billion and they said, we will compromise and make it 60 billion. That does not even come close to meeting the need or recognizing the loss in terms of health, and in terms of our economy. Science, butpt for are science tells us what we need to do to test, to trace, to treat, to separate, to ventilate, to wear masks so that we can get started. We all hope and pray for a vaccine and that will make a tremendous difference. I salute the distinguished scientists and professionals at the fda. That does not include the commissioner. I am talking about the longterm scientists who work there for the work that they have done at warp speed, product initiatives have been involved in for a while that they initiated. When we have a vaccine that has been tested, has gone through the Clinical Trials that science says are necessary to prove efficacy and safety, hopefully that will be soon. We dont want it one day sooner than it is ready for my safety and efficacy standpoint. We dont want it one day later. Want to make sure there is no political interference in the timing and decisions that are made. When we have that vaccine, hopefully that will be soon, that it will be distributed in ethically designed way to thoseeveryone, not just with money. In our country, unless everyone is protected, none of us is safe unless we are all safe. Lets stick with the science, lets skip the politics when it comes to having a Clinical Trial and the timing of it all. Next i want to talk about the lives and livelihood of the American People that are affected by the coronavirus and by the fires and storms affecting our country instead of paying attention to science. Is next point i want to make one that i get questions constantly all over the country virtually, but i am all over the country virtually from morning until late at night. And that is about the security and the integrity of our election. Act is aboutroes protecting the lives and the livelihoods as well as the life of our democracy. The assaults that have been made on the election, the discrediting of certain forms of ignored,e not to be but they are not to scare people from voting. There was anow decision last night by a federal judge, issued a nationwide injunction against trumps sabotage of the Postal Service. The judge found that trump and the postmaster general are involved in a politically motivated attack on the Postal Service in order to manipulate the 2020 election. Say this assault will, likely slow down the delivery of valid this fall creating a substantial possibility that many voters will be disenfranchised and that the states will not be able to effectively, timely, accurately determine election outcomes. Sabotage is also an assault on our health. As i said before, 1. 2 billion prescriptions are delivered by the Postal Service in 2019, before the coronavirus hit us. Over 90 of prescriptions delivered, sent from the v. A. To veterans are delivered by the Postal Service. Social security benefits, paychex including those to our seniors and veterans. This issue is something that everybody talks about. Our surge order truth womens vote project last tuesday and again this tuesday and we are ready for next tuesday. Next tuesday is National Voter registration day. Sojourner truth will be next tuesday. We do not agonize, we organize. That is what we are doing. We have to shining bright light and i hope that you all will, to, on what is being done jeopardize the integrity of our election. Whether it is dismantling of the postal system, whether it is discrediting what it means to vote by mail and saying that really does not count so why do it. Whether it is welcoming and enjoying the involvement of the 24 7 in oure again, election system, especially and othercial media interventions that may occur. This is who we are as a nation, a democracy. We want to have the biggest vote and respect the outcome as soon as possible. This is a fight for our country, for the oath we take to protect and defend the constitution and our democracy. And i am so pleased that the court has been a counter to what is happening at the justice department, comments by the attorney general as well as the president of the United States. My fourth point is about china. As you know, or maybe dont know, some of you know that for a long time, over 30 years i have been a critic of china when it comes to the unfair trade practices. They are sending out components of weapons of mass destruction to rogue nations and delivery and their human rights violations. Next week i am pleased that we will have two bills on the floor, one of them led by jim mcgovern who was the chair of the China Commission executive commission. A bipartisanl, bicameral legislation by mcgovern to ensure that goods made in the autonomous region are not made with forced labor, those that are imported into the United States. Haschinese government arrested, put into camps, a inimum of one million socalled education camps. We want to make sure that goods made in those camps are not made with forced labor. It is not even have to be in the camp, they could have forced labor outside the camp as well. Billsentative wextons would require companies to disclose information about supply chains and goods from forced labor or internment camps. We continue to wait for the senate to take up the tibet policy and support act which passed in january. We have had a number of successes on the floor, house and senate in a bipartisan way speaking out against what is happening in china and hong kong and across the country. I have said it over and over. If we refuse to speak out about human rights in china because of commercial interest, then we lose all moral authority to speak about human rights any place in the world. Again, 30 years, at least one hour per day on china whether it is from eight security standpoint, economic standpoint, or values, it is a big country. So are we. We must have engagement. Recognize wheno there are crimes against humanity, we must speak out against them. With that i am pleased to take any questions. Yes. What specific issue did you have with the problem solvers proposal . Rep. Pelosi i made my statement. Go read my statement. I respect what they are doing. I made a statement about it. As have our chairs. Making perfect . 3. 4pelosi perfect is trillion. We have come down 1 trillion and we said we would meet them in the million meet them in the middle. Any other questions . Yesterday and woman on the task force came out and criticized the president s conduct. This comes after john bolton did the same thing. House whyhe shouldnt the house call them and have them testify under oath to tell their stories to the American Public . Rep. Pelosi the house has been trying to do that for a while. The administration has resisted that we are in the court on a number of subjects. No need to go into that. Enablers have a responsibility to our country. Four months the president was , the virus a on hoax, it was going to disappear magically, it was going to be a miracle, we are all going to be in church on easter sunday. By the way, the holiest day of the year, the day christ is risen means a lot to many of us. For him to deal frivolously with that, i found offensive, as i did his offense to science and saying what he did. Where were his people say, that is not right, mr. President. We are going to leave if you continue to speak that way. That applies to so many other about, what he is saying immigrants to our country, what he saying about the economy. And he is theis president of the United States. But these enablers, they are going to have to tell their children and their grandchildren the responsibility they have for the fact that we are at 200,000 people dead and i did not have to happen that did not have to happen. There are metrics on this. Do not take it from me. There are scientific metrics of how many people could have been saved. Array ofttees have an actions to court have the executive branch speak to the congress. Article one, the first branch of government with oversight responsibilities of the other branches of government as they have to. Half to us. There is a letter being put together by the chairs of the committee of jurisdiction questioning the actions of the attorney general of the United States and whether the comments that he and others, that he may have encouraged, making statements that have an impact on the adjudication of justice prevailing in certain cases and also what impact that could have on the election. Payout whenyond the you think of in terms of responsibility. Some have left. Some are speaking out. The simple fact is tens of millions of people are on unemployment insurance. 200,000 people have died. Nearly 7 Million People infected. Her, the young woman who came forward with her statement. Of course they are attacking her now. But something is very wrong with this picture. Will the house have her testify . Rep. Pelosi again, i leave it up to the committees as to how they proceed because it is quite frankly, when you are asking to testify or issuing a subpoena, you have to be careful about hitting them with your best shot because they have friendly courts along the way who are not necessarily committed to the separation of powers. Yes. You mentioned politicizing the vaccine. It is possible that mr. Biden will be president when a vaccine is approved. What advice would you give him and the steps he should take to make sure we have confidence that a vaccine is safe and effective . Rep. Pelosi i have read your question. It is so important because whatever anybody might think of this president or this vaccine, it is really important for us to have confidence in a vaccine because what we need to do is crush the virus. We need to do many things. The vaccine is one of them. Hopefully not so far away into the future. Unless there is confidence that this vaccine has gone through the Clinical Trials and then it is approved by the independent Scientific Advisory committee that is established to do just this, there will be doubts that people will have. I think that the Vice President s statements have been good, that he supports the science of it all. And again, we want it to work, we want it to be safe. We want it to be efficacious and in ant it to be available widespread ethical way. , but not even an argument the best case for the vaccine is to have it as closely identified with the scientists who will be putting it forth. We have had some good things. ,nd number of the Companies Pfizer has not received funds, but the others have received funds to develop a vaccine and they have said that they will not promote or support a vaccine that has not gone through the Clinical Trial and met the standard of approval. So that is very important. That if anddent , thewe get the vaccine scientists are some of the best minds in our country, 24 7, working on the development of the vaccine as well as the private sector involvement in it. We want it to be a triad, a victory, whenever it comes, if it comes in two weeks or four months. I do think there has to be a point of acceptance of the science and that would give to availnfidence themselves of the benefits of the vaccine. Distribution,p on was there anything in the Distribution Plan put out by the time but administration this week . Was there anything in that plan that you thought was not ethical . , i. Pelosi let me just say would like to see more about it. We have had an experience of what they say and what they do may different things. I know they are talking about the military putting out different things. Everybody agrees that First Responders and seniors going first and all of this. How are those decisions made . Hopefully not the way the president has made decisions about giving ppe, personal protective equipment to states by just doing it in a manner not scientific and really not effective in terms of addressing the challenge we face. I think there will be a bright so they willn it have to do it right. That doesnt mean it just goes people, ite or rich means everybody has access to it. That is ethical but it is also smart from an epidemic elegy standpoint because it means that if everybody is protected, we are all protected. Mentioned churches, you are catholic. Franciscoshop of san recently wrote in the Washington Post saying the government is denying people the right to worship and it is high time San Francisco let people go back to church again with proper precautions. He is saying the sacraments cannot be received through zoom or skype. Your opinion about that and should churches in San Francisco be allowed to reopen with precautions . Rep. Pelosi i have been to church in San Francisco recently and i received communion. Just so you know, we had to sign up and they only had two places left. Fortunately i got in under the wire to go. Holds there, the church 250 people. People. Re probably 12 very very spaced. But that was it. No more will be allowed. Again obeying the social distancing. We did receive communion. The priest washed his hands before he gave us communion. I miss going to church regularly. Of course we have virtual mass. Many in d. C. With all due respect to archbishop, i think we should follow science on this. Faith and science sometimes our counter to each other. People say to me, you are a person of faith, why do you believe in science. I believe science is an answer to our prayers. And onecreation of god that is an answer to our prayers. With all due respect to the archbishop, we have some areas of agreement and some areas of disagreement. I dont know if he was speaking as our pastor or as an advocate. Whatever it is, im sure he must have meant if it is scientifically safe rather than jeopardizing Peoples Health that they want to go to church. Thank you for your question. Yesterday you said you thought you had been compromised on coronavirus. Stageould it take at this to get republicans coming to that number . Rep. Pelosi we have to meet the needs of the American People. It is not a check the box or path of least resistance. You have to meet the needs of the American People. Even the chairman of the fed has said we are not going to turn the economy around until you get rid of the virus. He said it more elegantly than that. Two days ago in his statement. Perhaps you saw it, perhaps you saw his connection between how the economy will come back only if we get rid of the virus. We have to do that in a substantial way. Not in a, we did something, no. We know what the needs are. We know what science tells us to do and thats where we need to go. I did say yesterday that there are more needs that have emerged since we past the bill four months ago, may 15. What is today . The 17th . Four months and four days ago. There are more needs that have emerged. Again, the anticipation at that time was that we would engage in crushing the virus. We did not. , moreeaths, more cases challenges in terms of jobs and one of them being with the airlines. The bill that was there, the cares act did good things until the end of september so now that is a challenge which we had hoped would have been addressed by crushing the virus. The other part, the restaurants. The restaurants have a big ask in terms of they had taken a beating on this. I think there is bipartisan interest in helping restaurants. There was a very substantial in terms ofillion assisting restaurants. If some of these additions are to be taken into consideration, that means in order to stay halfway between where they are and where we are that we have to come down further in some of our own original priorities in the bill and that is what a negotiation is about. We dont negotiate with ourselves. We negotiate with the other side on this and they have to see that the science is clear. We need the testing. They know that. They should know that. Why wouldnt they know that . State and local government is there big hang up. They have contempt for science and disdain for state and local government. An importantent is part of our economy. The chairman has said that before. These are heroes. Healthcare workers, First Responders, police and fire, transportation, sanitation, food workers, teachers, teachers, teachers largely pay for and hired by state or local government. You would not be able nor would i be here without these workers. The healthcare workers, some of them risking their lives in order to save lives and now losing their jobs. People who take risks to go to work so that we can have food on the table. Dismissed by them. Transportation workers who enable people to get to work, dismissed by them. Police and fire. I have conversations always with them, especially recently with fire because of the fires in the west and getting reports on the infections as well as some deaths in terms of First Responders because they are some of the first people on the scene when there is a report that someone needs to be taken to the hospital something hospital or something. And then the healthcare workers. Understand how important these heroes are to you, to your family, to our economy, to our society. And understand why we have to support the and reject the language of the white house that says, they are in blue states. Oh really . I thought we were the United States of america. I thought that and i still do. And i wear my pin. It says, one country, one destiny. To john lewis on fourth of july weekend, the last time i was able to visit with actually in atlanta. We shared the thought that this one country, one destiny was thatidered in the coat Abraham Lincoln had on on that fateful night. One country, one nation. Any thought that we dont have to help state and local because blue states have more infections than other states, why should we care . We do care. We are going to vote care. ,nd we are going to vote health truth. We are going to start today in four states across the country, voting has started. We want them to not have to sacrifice their health in order to vote. Have the social distancing, adequate polling places so that distancing can be enabled as well as for those who want to vote in person. But also making it easy for people to vote by mail and that they do so with the confidence that their vote will be counted as cast. Action on the time part of the white house. Way, and i say a to everybody, go to iwi llvote. Com. Put in your state, your zip code and it will tell you how to vote by mail, how to vote in person. If you need further information, put in more information to see if you are registered as well as to confirm or enable you to register. This is eliminating obstacles to participation in the voting process. It is a very patriotic duty we all have. That is what we are doing with Sojourner Truth tuesday through truth tuesday. Abolitionistist slave. In her honor we want to make sure we have the largest number of people having the healthiest access to voting. Im exciting excited that the voting is starting today. This about the postal workers. They are great. They are going to get the mail to and fro. We dont want them to be impaired by having sorting dismantled. Oved or confidence in our postal workers whether they are postal workers or carriers in the post office or coming to your door with mail, i have confidence in them because they are truly patriots. The Postal Service is the most American Institution you can name. The most popular, over 90 approval, bigger than any agency of government. Benjamin franklin was the first postmaster general. Abraham lincoln was named a hetmaster general and yielded to a woman who needed the money, but that had been one of his titles. Others have served. Coming from the war, so many veterans, a large number of people in the Postal Service are veterans. In any of it, american as apple pie used to be, is that still popular . Motherhood, baseball, the Postal Service. Vote safely. Thank you. Thank you. President trump will reeve reporters today. 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