Ms. Pelosi thank you. Im not celebrating until i can hug my grand babies. Waiting for that day. Hopefully that will be soon, but thank you. Last night as you know the Senate Passed important legislation. Were very proud of the product. We think it is we did jujitsu on it. It went from a corporatefirst proposal that the republicans put forth in the senate to a workers first democratic workers first legislation. First, lets back up. As i was coming here, i saw nearly 1,000 deaths in the united states. 900 yesterday. I dont know what the numbers are today. But theyre saying nearly 1,000 deaths in our country. Tens of thousands of people are we have tens of thousands of cases. This is a pandemic that we havent even since for over 100 years in our country. Its really such a tragedy, so we had to take important action. Had to take action that puts Families First and workers first and thats what we did when we did our first legislation. The first two bills were about addressing the emergency
Thank you, thank you, thank you. Hello, norfolk. [cheers and applause] love you. Wow ive got to start off with my mother. Please excuse my back when im talking, i apologize to everybody back here but thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Governor, thank you for that introduction and future governor of virginia. Look, i dont know if you there was a night primary in south carolina. [cheers] i just want to say a special thanks before i go much further friend. Your senator, tim kaine, a eachers son, an ironworkers son, a guy who, in fact, as for people hisht whole life, hes a governor who ook on the nra after the massacre at Virginia Tech as and im ther fights proud to have tim in this fight with me because there is no one i would rather have. Also want to thank a few more outstanding public servants. Donald hes been with me a long time. Where are you . Don, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Nominee its all dons fault. Hes been pushing me to do this for a long time. Hes been with me from the ver
Announcer the Vice President spoken virginia ahead of the super tuesday primary. He was joined by tim kaine and former Governor Terry mcauliffe. Both of whom recently endorsed mr. Biden. This is just over 50 minutes. [indiscernible] [cheers and applause] hey norfork, you guys look great. What a crowd. Thank you guys. Who is ready for decency back in the white house . [cheers and applause] i want to tell you my favorite joe biden story. 2008, thernor in first elected official outside virginia to endorsed barack obama for president. It was election day. Because i was governor, i was also sweating, not just who would win, i was worried about the voting booths in the polls, where the lines too long. In the middle of the morning on election day, i got a call. The call was from the Obama Campaign and it said senator biden has just voted in wilmington. On his way to chicago for what will hopefully be a victory party, he wants to stop in richmond and drive to a voting booth just to say hi to s
Subcommittee on health in Human Services, education and related agencies will come to order. Thank you sec. A desire for being here. It has turned out to be a more eventful week than we anticipated but we are grateful you have shown up as we asked to at the time we asked you to. The budget you suggested, the request, many of the same kinds of cuts that occurred in 2020, and i am sure we will have questions about that. It is not unexpected. You will recall when i called you with the final budget numbers from the 2020 budget, my first comment was, the good news is you didnt get what you asked for. Hopefully that will be the case again this time. You propose a 10 cut, similar cut you proposed in the past in programs that we would be very reluctant in the health care workforces and preparedness programs and research programs, all have been about earlier today at the members reading on the current virus. Rural programs we would be reluctant to discuss. We will need more money this year in m
A 14yearold africanamerican youth from chicago who was lynched in particularly gruesome fashion while visiting an uncle in mississippi in 1955. Hes myrrh and the antilynching movement that followed set the stage for the Civil Rights Movement that we recognize today. Because generally they could not rely on Law Enforcement to protect them, because they understood that the lynchings occurring throughout the south were very deliberate campaigns to subjugate our black population, they were very deliberate campaigns started in the 1870s by the ku klux klan and carried on right up to the resent day through terrorism because they realize africanamericans mobilized their own efforts to combat the terror of lynching and the threat of racial violence through grassroots activism and the founding of integrated social justice organizations. During the period between the civil war and world war ii, thousands of africanamericans were lynched in the united states. Most in the south. But not entirely.