Commission on the status of women, the strongest Womens Commission in the country. Lets give that a cheer. [cheering] the president the lifelong advocate for women and girls and has acted as a champion for policy change in education and community and economic development. She just stepped off a plane from india, so please help me welcome president rhianna zawart hi, everyone. I am very honored be here and to represent the strongest commission in the country. Im joined tonight by our Vice President , commissioners. Can we give it up for our commissioners . [applause] the reason why this commission and this department is so important is because every day we live the theme of this month which is building pathways to safety. According to the National Coalition against Domestic Violence, an average of 20 americans experience Domestic Violence every minute. That is 10 million victims in a single year in the u. S. And according to the coalition, Domestic Violence survivors receive 8 million l
Have to be really confident and sure about what we are doing, and we are. Theyre still people in forces out there who are perpetuating myths about Domestic Violence and to need our help to become more aware. They still think Domestic Violence isnt actually that big of a deal, that it is a contained issue, that it is special interest or it is private or it is personal, it is about anger or it is about alcoholism, and that theres nothing we can do because its about individual people and individual people are who they are. Some people are just inherently more violent and others are inherently more submissive. We are here every single month, and especially in october to take those myths and grind them to a pulp and flush them. We know they are not true. We are here 30 years later using this platform to say Domestic Violence, it is personal, it is private, and it is social. Is political. We are showing that this is an issue that we pay a tremendous price, an unacceptable price for allowing
On House Resolution 191 and adoption of 591 and adoption of House Resolution 591 if ordered. The first electronic vote will be conducted as a 15minute vote. Remaining electronic votes will be conducted as fiveminute votes. Pursuant to clause of rule 20, the Unfinished Business is the vote on ordering the previous question on House Resolution 591 on which the yeas an nays are ordered. The clerk will report the title of the resolution. The clerk house calendar number 44, House Resolution 591, resolution providing for consideration of the joint resolution, Senate Joint Resolution 54, relating to a National Emergency declared by the president on february 15, 2019. The speaker pro tempore the question is on the ordering of the previous question. Members will record their votes by electronic device. This is a 15minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc. , in cooperation with the United States house of representatives. Any use of the closedcaptioned cove
Now. I will take again item 1 then i will do Public Comment for item one only and skip to items 9 and 10 combined. Public comment for 9 and 10 items only and then we will do general Public Comment for 15 minutes. Now recall the general Public Comment for any item not on the agenda and go to our regular program. I wanted to let you know that i then and there again this is an important topic we appreciate you being here. We want to cut to the chase and get bo it. As a body, our responsibility is to do policy and develop for the department. We have asked the chief of police to begin an investigation, and as you saw last week. Other commissioners have reached out. To the chief of police to ensure an investigation is done in this matter. We asked dph to investigate in policy and any possible disciplinary matters. As the body who decides policy and develop, it is important for us to remain neutral and listen to the facts as they criminal it is my understanding that both the department have b
Therefore, there are not so many people at the food courts who come to the stands with large families and also support families. E weightlifters, for example, after the award, peter the owl immediately went to zhenya yulia and she, by the way, also a weightlifter and son, and most recently the awarding of the weight category up to 87 kg for a woman was completed. We also have an award here, a bronze was hit by a header, right now she is with us daria tell us what are your impressions, how do you like the atmosphere of her games . Well, what is, well, this competition does not end there. Now girls in the weight category over 87 kg will take to the platform, and then we are waiting for their titled pavel hadasevich. In men, his weight category is up to 96 on this i have everything, uh, i pass the word to stas stas tell me what you have and bullet shooting. Thank you alexander, i congratulate you and the whole country on your medals in weightlifting, but the Marshal Timoshenko shooting ga