Coronavirus pandemic and Environmental Impact on lowincome communities. Recognized mr. Ali, recognizer five minutes. Recognized for five minutes, sir. [inaudible] you might have to unmute. Can you hear me now . Weaken your you know. You have five minutes please. You missed the best part. Chairman tocco, Ranking Member shimkus and members of the committee on behalf of the National Wildlife federation are 52 state and territorial affiliates in more than six main members, and a thank for the honor of testifying before you today. I was thinking about this testimony, and i was raised and family about this and pentecostal ministers, and my grandmother came to my might and she stepped a favorite verse, and it said do you know what it want . I want justice, oceans of it. I want fairness, rivers of it. Thats what it i want. Thats all i want. My grandmother used to say when you know better, do better. Todays hearing comes at a critical moment in the history of our country. Outline communities ar
Test captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2008 its one of the best things you can become. Right there. Thank you. If you become one in your neighborhood you get a 15 increase on average turnout for the president. We had 3,000 of those in 2016. Were on pace right now for 90,000 in 2020. Thats awesome. On top of that, we were about six, seven states strongly this time. Were in 17 states. Weve increased and doubled our budget pretty much of our ground operation across the country. Let me give you a great thing about expanding the map. There are several states last time we didnt win, new hampshire, minnesota, nevada, new mexico. If you look at new mexico and minnesota our budget for those two states was 25,000, one staffer, sent them to colorado because we didnt think we were going to win it. This time were talking about tens of millions more staff on the ground than the entire 2015 ground game and you already have them in those states fighting for it. We only lost minnesota b
[applause] thank you. Thank you very much. And i hope youou all had a truly wonderful Independence Day weekend in spite of the heavy rain and it was really heavy. We had a remarkable salute to america on the national mall. Incredible. [no audio] [applause] standing on the steps of the Great Lincoln memorial and looking out on the crowds, these incredible big beautiful crowds, braving the weather all the way back to the washington monument. We celebrated freedom in all of its magnificence while saluting our great military. It was something really special and i will say this. It was a wonderful day for all americans and based on its tremendous success we are just making the decision and i think we can say weve made the decision to do it again next for and maybe we can say the foreseeable future. [applause] as we celebrate our nations founding, we are reminded once more of our profound obligation to protect americas extraordinary blessings for the next generation and many generations in c
That was unfortunate. And anybody who thinks that the heat wasnt raised was saying that there was not going to be a deal i think is incorrect. But thats not why i asked for the one minute. What i asked for the one minute is, colleagues, the American People are relying on us to come together and to agree on things they know are very important to them and their families and their communities and their country. Let us not accuse one another back and forth of bad faith and lets lower the heat and lets try to get that work done. Well, the gentleman wouldnt yield to me but im glad to yield to him. Mr. Mccarthy oh mr. Hoyer my friend, the majority leader. Mr. Mccarthy my friend is correct in a lot but i will explain understand one thing. In this job and when we run and were passionate about our beliefs, my parents always told me if you cant handle the heat you probably shouldnt run but the one thing that should happen, if we want to come to a conclusion, just as you and i and my good friend s
This account funds programs that are important to both sides of the aisle, including permitting for Construction Projects across the country, toxic Risk Prevention and parts of the successful Brown Fields Program and pesticide licenses. I understand the money would direct more funding to states in appalachia and appalachia is suffering, from raging environmental harm. Unfortunately, i cannot support deeper cuts to the e. P. A. I oppose the amendment and reserve the balance of my time. The chair the gentlewoman reserves. The gentleman from virginia is recognized. I yield to the chairman such time as he may coe desire to consume. The chair the gentleman is ecognized. I understand the gentlemans goal. Mr. Calvert we can accept this package of amendments at this time, work toward maintaining funding for six states in a final fiscal year 2018 enacted bill. If were able to achieve that, i hope we can count on the gentlemans support to pass that package and the 2018 spending bill. I urge my c