thank you. house democrats will codify the right to contraception nationally. nancy pelosi is expected to address the bill. yesterday, 17 members of congress were arrested for protesting for abortion rights. with me now is one of the lawmakers you see there front and center, new york democratic congresswoman carolyn maloney. she s co-sponsor of the contraception legislation. thanks for being here us. thank you. why was it important to protest yesterday? we were protesting the overturning of roe v. wade. i would say women don t have any democracy. there s no democracy. unless we can make decisions over our own bodies, clueing health care and reproductive health care. i represent a state where abortion rights are protected and respected. but 33 million american women are about to lose those rights or have lost those rights.
village head and saved her villagers until the last and then was killed by russians along with her son and husband. a family from odesa, were three generations of women killed by one missile. and a 96-year-old borys, can you imagine? this person survived four nazi concentration camps and died from russian shelling. so, dear ladies and gentlemen, the american people and the american families, the congress and president biden have done a lot to help us to stand up to the enemy and protect millions of ukrainians. we are grateful, really grateful, that the united states stands with us.
much. and joe biden has made a commitment to the rest of the world, that the united states will reduce its carbon emission by 50% in the next decade, which is what we have to do to avoid warming. if the u.s. doesn t lead here, other countries won t come to the table. and the only way the u.s. can lead is if we can pass legislation in congress, that codiies the commitments that the administration has made. and that points to the midterm elections. when it comes to democratic control of congress. they need larger majorities so they can actually pass climate legislation, that will codify our commitment to the rest of the world. how big of an issue do
he would like for us me, i will talk about myself go on tv, stephanie, be a fighter. the more you can be a fighter, the more approval you get from him. he s impressed by strength. you can t show weakness. i knew that for him, watching all those people in maga hats waving trump flags, were fighting. and he s saying now they were fighting because the election was stolen. no, they were fighting because he lied to them and he manipulated them. that is what he does. he manipulates people, myself included. so i wasn t surprised. as you know by now, i was surprised by mrs. trump s response, and that s what ultimately broke me, but i wasn t surprised by him at all. so this is a day, of course, that we commemorate what happened a year ago, the threats to lives there on capitol hill, literally threats to kill the vice president, going after members of congress, but also the threat to the democracy here in the united states. florida governor ron desantis says that what he s seeing, what
families, god bless the capitol police officers, like officer sicknik, who enabled us all to go home to our families. god bless the congress of the united states of america, and gold bless the united states of america. [ applause ] more moments of reflection from members of congress there, and there was a time when members paid tribute to brian sicknik, one of the officers who lost his life after the insurrection. i believe we have some of that that we can show. can we play that? the parents of brian sicknik, charles and gladys, are joining