Talk for about implementing the buffet rule, and, you know, specifically that involves, and i noticed a lot of new York Congress members on the list, but a number are not. Talk about the people not on the list, have you reached out to them . Do you expect all new york members of congress to sign on to them . We started with app effort through the National Congressional caucus and a number of members, and some do not sign pledges. Theres a lot of folks in the congress who make a policy not to sign pledges, but who i reached out to the response was positive. Saw a number of them here today. I think what ewe saw, literally in a few weeks the first meeting was april 2, and were here less than six weeks later and theres been a tremendous response, and i think it indicates that a lot of people who work in this building are looking to join a coalition to make a change at the fundamental level of the politics. Here the problem, they heard from a lot of them they cant change the policies in the
Agree with all of these items. They know what it happening to them. So i am very proud to stand here to fight to raise bankwages, protect unions protect and expand social security, medicare, and medicaid. Thank you, mayor deblasio. Congressman charles rangel. Colleagues and friends, when i marched from selma to montgomery, i had no idea there could be dramatic changes made in our constitution. That constitution did not include disparity in wages did not include blacks did not include women, and it did not include middle class poor folks. A change was made because america thought a change should be made. Everyone came together and said its time for a change. This is a patriotic opportunity for us to say what is it that we can do . The president is talking a lot about tpp and tpa which means it is a trade agreement. It is not a secret. The muppet nationals know exactly what is in that trade agreementings and they also know about the millions and trillions of dollars they will be able to
Eternal god, we give you thanks for giving us another day. Lead us this day in your ways that our nation might be guided along the roads of peace, justice and good will. Grant strength and wisdom to our speaker leaders and members of both the peoples house and the senate, to our president and his cabinet and to our Supreme Court. Bless as well the moral and military leaders of our country and may those who are the captains of business, industry and unions learn to Work Together toward the Mutual Benefit of all, walking in the ways of righteousness and working for the highest good of our beloved land. Bless us this day and every day and may that is done within the peoples house be for your greater honor and glory, amen. The speaker pro tempore the chair has examined the journal of the last days proceedings and announces to the house his approl erf. Pursuant to clause 1 of rule 1 the journal stands approved. The pledge of allegiance will be led by the distinguished gentleman from michiga
[ applause ] thank you so much, everybody. Im going to be relatively brief. I came up here right after the storm, was on the jersey side, and i promised to everybody that i was speaking on behalf of the country when i said we are going to be here until the rebuilding is complete. And i meant it. So im going to come back today, but im also going to be coming back in the future to make sure we have followed through on that commitment. I want to thank the outstanding leadership thats been provided by state and local officials. Obviously, Governor Cuomo and mayor bloomberg have done an outstanding job, to borough president moldanaro, thank you for your leadership when the folks on this island were going through extraordinarily difficult times. The people of long island who are going through really tough times across the board weve seen cooperation and a spirit of service. For the First Responders who are here, the police officers, the firefighters, the ems folks, the sanitation workers who
You know, we may disagree with some of our partners in the p5 on many things. Some of my European Partners sometimes want to go further than i want to go, but at the end of the day, we come to an agreement because we all understand how important it is to be united in going forward. And i appreciate, as senator risch says, the bipartisanship on this issue. I did, if i may, senator, want to make one remark in response to senator risch, which goes to this as well. The shutdown and putting a piece of legislation on for the Intelligence Community or for treasury are you would be hesm, but not nearly enough. There are so many parts of this that are problematic, even in the state department indeed, funding for israel, for instance, will be delayed until there is a c. R. Or fullyear appropriation. Our ability to protect the sinai is delayed with that force. So no one piece of legislation is going to solve what is a very complex International Issue that we face, and we are beginning to see edit