Member, John Sarbanes, as well as delegates. This is an hour. Speaker pelosi good morning, everyone. That poster of the women members of congress. Thank you for being with us today. It is a very special day in the history of our country. 101 years ago today, the house of representatives voted to pass the 19th amendment. As you know, that is the amendment that gives women the right to vote. Not that they werent given, because they fought very hard for it, but that success was achieved. It took another year to pass the rest of the process, the ratification. In august, we will observe the 100th anniversary of women having the right to vote, but today, we are honoring what happened in the house of representatives on this very day. And we are very proud of the fact that we have over 100 women in congress now, over 90 women on the democratic side. We made a decision about that a long time ago. Among them are carolyn maloney, who could not be with us, but she has been a champion on all of the
Possible, practice good hygiene and social distancing and wear a face mask in public if youre able to. Wisconsin was in a pretty good place in our battle against covid19. We had reached all of our gating criteria. On monday we opened up 14,000 Small Businesses across the state. Putting potentially 90,000 folks back to work in that industry. Despite that good work by wisconsinites across our state who banded together, stayed home and stayed safe, republican legislators have convinced four of our Supreme Court justices to throw our state into chaos. We awe is already last night when the Tavern League of wisconsin urged its members to open back up and people flooded to bars across the state. Instead of a comprehensive statewide approach to keep people safe were seeing municipalities around the state chart their own course. That means you might have to follow a different set of rules than your neighbors across the street. And if you own businesses in multiple locations or have employees wh
Central part of the country. 202 7488001 for the Mountain Time zone. Send us a text, tell us where you are texting from and your name at 202 7488003. We also welcome your comments on twitter and on facebook, facebook. Com cspan. In many parts of the country, decent weather over the weekend, drawing people out, combined with looser restrictions in some states. An Associated Press story and the Washington Times, wellbehaved crowds coming to beaches and parks. Everyoneweather to seemed to cooperate at an oceanfront park on saturday as new jersey reopened its state parks, people itching to get sand between their toes after months of being cooped up. Island beach state park was among the parks to reopen, drawing several hundred to a beach that routinely handles thousands during the summer. Hours, almost all of the crowd stated six feet apart. They also right that the new jersey governor said he was pleased with the initial reports, not only from the beachfront park, but other state resorts
Republican and democrat caucuses are teleworking, so there is virtually zero staff running around the office buildings. Just the staff in the capital and those on the floor. If you turn on cspan during those debates, you saw people wearing masks, people in a very orderly fashion coming in and out to vote. They were safe. Each voting machine was cleaned. And we can come back to the capitol and do it in a way that is safe for everybody. Host are you frustrated that you are not back this week . Guest it was like pingpong last week. One day we were told by the majority that we were coming back to washington, in less than 24 hours they changed their minds. That is part of the issue that we have. We can come together, and we do, in a bipartisan way. We talk about how to use technology. We talk about implementing it into our house operating systems and artificial responsibilities, but at the same time we have to respect the fact that there are no rules that would allow for remote booting or t
Stores closed in residence at home, legislors are dealing with a massive deficit from declining tax revenue. With the pandemic projected to continue through the fall, expanding vote by il as a safe option for the november election. Lawmakers have to address long standing chaenges from osting Affordable Housing to fighting climate change. Joining us is state Assembly Member david chu, and from the sutter county, James Gallagher, thank you both for joining us thanks for having us. You both returned to work this week. Wh is it ke to legislate in the midst of a pandemic with masks and protests . I think the biggest difference that u notice is the Capital Building is not populated. It is like a t ghtown walking the halls. Usually the publis in the capital walking the building obviously different groups are wanting to petition their me gove. You do not see that, right . We are still able to conduct hearings and provide Public Access for all the input over the phone and Conference Calls and a