Many people are missing, we dont know the total number. Hopefully its not many more. Life fromter lost his recent report a on another one. The western states, the number of acres, millions of acres, 20 times the amount this time last year. The wildfire haze, we saw some andt reaching washington dc it has covered the country. America can no longer afford to deny the connection between the Climate Crisis and the wildfires. Longer be in contempt of the science that tells us why these storms are battering the gulf coast are so severe. The severest in history, the one and now theysiana have sally coming back. They told me they are running out of names and may have to go to the greek alphabet to name the storm. Wildfire, the assault on nature, mother natures aboutent do something this. One of the things we going to do this week, we had some legislation on the floor, and energy package, it has many bills and it. Very proud works of the committee of jurisdiction, the energy and commerce committee, the science, space and Technology Committee led by Eddie Bernice johnson and frank malone on the committee of energy and commerce and other important work. Among the legislation, institutes to study the impacts of the smoke on public health. There is a direct connection. It also has a priority to have the 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 meeting this weekend this past weekend. In all of those countries, the g7 plus the eu, there was no 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 and 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, separation, wearing masks, to crush the virus. Instead our republican colleagues want to crush the Affordable Care act and its preexisting condition benefit which affects nearly half the families in our country. But we have a plan. It is based on science. There are amounts of resources needed that are substantiated by science, by institutions of higher learning, by the academic world that especially focuses on the epidemiology of a pandemic. Why is it so hard for the republicans to accept the science, crush the virus so that we can open our economy and open our schools more safely . In our heroes act, and again, the chair of energy and commerce has presented this plan. It is not just money, it is a plan. It has been there for months and in previous legislation we had pieces of it but this is a comprehensive plan. We had 75 billion, that is what it will take to crush the virus. The republicans had 15 billion and they said, we will compromise and make it 16 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. Again, contempt for science, but 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 an ethically designed way to reach everyone, not just those with money. In our country, unless everyone is protected, none of us is safe unless we are all safe. Again, 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. The next point i want to make is 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. Again, our heroes act is about 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 voting are not to be ignored, but they are not to scare people from voting. As you may know there was a 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. It goes on to 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. Again, the 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, paychecks including those to our seniors and veterans. This issue is something that everybody talks about. We instituted our Sojourner Truth womens vote project last tuesday and again this tuesday and we are ready for next tuesday. Next tuesday is National Voter registration day. The ultimate 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, too, on what is being done to 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 russians once again, 24 7 in our election system, especially through social media and other interventions that may occur. This is who we are as a nation, a democracy. We want to have the biggest vote possible 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 Systems as well 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. This is a bill, a bipartisan 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. The Chinese Government has arrested, put into camps, a minimum of one million in 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. Representative wextons bill 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 tibet 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 a security standpoint, economic standpoint, or values, it is a big country. So are we. We must have engagement. But we must also recognize when 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. Are you making perfect . Rep. Pelosi perfect is 3. 4 trillion. We have come down 1 trillion and we said we would 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. Why doesnt the house why 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. The president s enablers have a responsibility to our country. For months the president was calling early on, the virus a 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 coming out and saying, that is not right, mr. President. We are going to leave if you continue to speak that way. That applies to so many other things, what he is saying about immigrants to our country, what he is saying about the economy. He is what he is and he is the 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 that did not have to happen. Would they have all been saved . No. There are metrics on this. I would like to see more about it, everyone had had an experience of what they say and what they do might be different things, i know they are talking about the military. Thatw everybody agrees First Responders and seniors should go first and all of this, but 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 light shone on it and i think they are going to have to do it right, but that is not mean it just goes to red states or rich people, that means that 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. You mentioned churches, you are catholic. The archbishop of San Francisco 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. We got there, the church holds 250 people. There were probably 12 people. Very very spaced. But that was it. No more would 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 the 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. It is a creation of god and one 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. What would it take at this stage 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 ed 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. More deaths, more cases, more 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 emerges as 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 bill, 125 billion in terms of 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 . The state and local government is there big hang up. They have contempt for science and disdain for state and local government. Local government is an important 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 paid 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. My 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. I gave on this flag, this pin to john lewis on fourth of july weekend, the last time i was able to visit with him actually in atlanta. We shared the thought that this one country, one destiny was embroidered in the coat that 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. And 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. And that no action on the time get the bill to people in a timely fashion and get them back to the authorities in time to be counted as cast. And i say way to everybody, go to iwillvote. 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. Woman, suffragist, abolitionist, slave. In her honor we want to make sure we have the largest number of people having the healthiest access to voting. Im excited that the voting is starting today. I would say to people vote early. Let me just say 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 machines removed or dismantled. I have every 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 postmaster general and he 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 event, american as apple pie used to be, is that still popular . Apple pie, motherhood, baseball, the Postal Service. Vote safely. Thank you. Thank you. [indiscernible] President Trump goes to minnesota for a Reelection Campaign rally this evening, watch live beginning at 7 00 eastern on cspan, online at cspan. 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