My favorite one was a legislative in legislative race and age in new jersey. I hope they are home in time to make dinner. That guy got defeated by an africanamerican woman. That is the march we are all in. Marchse to believe that cannot end, given we turned the house against all odds. Even we held onto the Affordable Care act. ,n the house of representatives we passed Gun Legislation sitting on which mcconnells desk. People are with us. When you ask them, do you think it is fair that all this big money can give pharma Carte Blanche so they can do whatever they want, 90 of them say no. It is our job. Amanda thank you. Everyone thanks senator klobuchar for coming today. Sen. Klobuchar thank you. Thanks, everybody. [applause] [applause] now, we have former Massachusetts Governor deval bigick joining us on the screen. Thank you. We are sorry you could not be here. Too. Patrick i am sorry i am here in South Carolina. It is an amazing place. I hope we can be together soon. Amanda i think it
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Wisconsin, the house is coming in. Thank you so much. The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. The clerk the speakers rooms, washington, d. C. January 16, 2020. I hereby appoint the honorable Henry Cuellar to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, nancy pelosi, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore the prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. Gracious and merciful god, we give you thanks for giving us another day. The house prepares to recess for a week of constituent visitation and in home districts. As the nation anticipates the Martin Luther king long weekend. As we remember the heroic struggle of the civil rights movement, the badges and incidents of slavery from continued through policies still operative today, though recently being addressed through efforts at criminal Justice Reform and sentencing reform. The pains of racism,
Come to order. I just want all members to know that our Witnesses Today have to leave at 5 00 p. M. The questions for the first panel on the hhs budget with secretary, and, welcome, mr. Secretary, will be limited to four minutes. The second panel on the minutesl case, but only 10 members will be able to ask questions during that round. I will have to be strict with the gavel, since the witnesses have a tight timeframe. I know that you will all cooperate with that. Let us begin. Welcome, mr. Secretary. We are glad that you are here. We have a lot to take up. Every bit of it is, obviously, serious. The chair now recognizes herself for five minutes for an opening statement. Let me begin with mr. Secretary. I think that the confusion is the enemy of preparedness. Confusion is the enemy of preparedness. I believe that the administrations lack of coordination to the Coronavirus Response is on full display. We all know that. Markets are reacting, i think, at least in some parts, to the lack o
Funds them. So it is no wonder that americans question whether their representatives are listening to them, or listening to the wealthy and wellconnected heard and this loss of faith in our democracy is a real foundational problem. So it requires a fundamental foundational sponsor. We haves foundational response. We have seen a groundswell of support for fixing our democracy , for making a foundational change. It is making an impact. We have seen the Congress Take steps to reflect the energy they have seen nationwide for reforming our democracy. This congress, the house of representatives, made the for the people act their top priority. This democracy reform bill was their number one goal and they debt it, it was their hr one. [applause] and they did it. We want our president ial candidates to do the same, to prioritize democracy reform, to campaign on it, to talk about it. That is what today is all about, we want to see president ial candidates telling us how they are going to fix our