Good morning, everyone and thank you for joining us. By theeased to be joined speaker and my fellow chairs to announce the introduction of the protecting our democracy act. In introducing this landmark will, the house is taking another important step in our determination to protect our democracy. Since taking office, donald trump has viewed the discuss the constraints on his power and demand for basic transparency and accountability as an inconvenience. He has claimed extraordinary the lawent and broken and purposely undermined the rule of law. He is probed for where his palette powers are least constrained. Weakness,he has found he has exploited it with great consequence for our nation. The House Democratic caucus, under the leadership of the speaker and all the chairs represented here, as well as many others, have stood strong. We defended the law, the constitution and our nations values. Even impeaching the president when he was caught abusing his power in an effort to extort a fore
4. 8 million numbers worldwide confirmed. 1. 5 million of those cases in the United States. 318,000 deaths and over 90,000 deaths in the United States. 28,000 people have recovered. Look at the righthand side of your screen. You can find this on the Johns Hopkins website. Before we get to your thoughts on the confidence level in the Trump Administrations response to the pandemic we want to begin with the president s comments yesterday that are making making news, what he had to say. Bout taking hydroxychloroquine President Trump [video clip] President Trump a lot of good things are coming out. Many oftline workers, them happen to be taking it. I happen to be taking it. Hydroxychloroquine, you are taking it . Pres. Trump hydroxychloroquine, right now. Ive heard its good. Ive heard a lot of good stories. If its not good, ill tell you right. Im not going to get hurt by. Its been around for 40 years for malaria, lupus. Frontline workers take it, a lot of doctors take it. I think people sho
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Quorum call mr. Cardin madam president. The presiding officer the senator from maryland. Mr. Cardin thank you, madam president. I ask unanimous consent that the quorum call be dispensed with. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Cardin equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or bridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex. Equal rights amendment. Most americans believe its part of our constitution today. But its not. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg stated, and i quote, every constitution written since the end of world war ii includes a provision that men and women are citizens of equal stature. Our does not. The state of maryland has a provision very similar to that in its state constitution. Many of our states have acted on the equal rights amendment. But as Justice Scalia, the late Justice Scalia said, certainly the constitution does not require discrimination on the basis of sex. The only issue is whether it prohibits it. It doesnt. W
Without further ado im going to introduce these folks who you all probably already know. To my left is the founder of mb long and associate an International Legal and Advisory Firm from 200709 she served as the first woman confirmed by the senate as assistant secretary of defense for International Affairs and the chair of nate es high level groups. She has previously served as the Principal Deputy secretary of defense, and she was the deputy secretary of defense for counter narco. Next we have michael durand, a senior fellow here at Hudson Institute. He specializes in middle east Security Issues and during the administration of president george w. Bush he served as senior director in the National Security council. To the left is retired Brigadier General mark kimmet of the u. S. Army, served as secretary of state for Political Military Affairs 0809 and prior to that, the deputy secretary of defense 20062008 and last but not least, a fellow here at Hudson Institute as well. His Research