Last spring Speaker Pelosi told the country, quote, impeachment is so divisive to the country that unless theres something so compelling and overwhelming and bipartisan, i dont think we should go down that path. That was the speaker less than a year ago. Back in 1998 when democrats were busy defending president clinton, congressman jerry nadler said, there must never be a narrowly voted impeachment or an impeachment substantially supported bid one of our Major Political parties and largely opposed by the other. Such an impeachment would lack legitimacy, said congressman jerry nadler 20 years ago. That was obviously the standard when a democrat was in the white house. But ultimately House Democrats cared more about attacking President Trump than keeping their promises. So they rushed through a slapdash investigation. They decided not to bother with the standard legal processes for pursuing witnesses and evidence. They dont have time to do that. Chairman adam schiff told the entire count
Impeachment of President Trump. He was followed by senator Chuck Schumer to discuss the same topics. This is about 45 minutes. Mr. Mcconnell this morning irans master terrorist is dead. The architect and chief engineer of the worlds most active state sponsor of terrorism has been removed from the battlefield at the hand of the United States military. No man alive was more directly responsible for the deaths of more American Service members than qasem soleimani. The leader of the quds force within irans islamic revenuesary guard corps. His schemes and his agents killed hundreds of American Service members in iraq and afghanistan. He personally oversaw the statesponsored terrorism that iran used to kill our sons and our daughters and as weve seen in recent days and weeks, he and his terrorists posed an ongoing threat to american lives and american interests. Soleimani made it his lifes work to take the Iranian Revolutionary call for death to america and death to israel and turn them into
Allie rasmus, sara zendehnam, as mike and sal are enjoying a bit of time away. White christmas for folks up in the tahoe area. Absolutely beautiful. Yeah. And maybe even on some of the peaks here in the bay area. Hamilton and diablo. Cold enough and we are going to check in with rosemary in a second to find out. A lot of people counting down to christmas. For many people every gift, every family gathering, every meal documented on social media. However, a new survey shows many people would like to take a big old break from their phones. I am one of those people. According to a poll of 2000 parents, 80 said they would be willing to go on a digital detox. And 85 of parents admitted they needed to change their habits and would like to be present when they are with their family during the holidays. More than half of the people polled admitted they checked social media more frequently during the holidays and nearly half say they have had their holiday ruined because of social media. Sad. Do
This is mr. Thompsons focus has been on protecting the children, hence the name of this impasse on gun violence on children and the need to pass universal background checks. He is joined in that by congresswoman kelly, who has been a champion on saying while our hearts break, we mourn and we want to act upon the highmroe file events that have taken lives in our country, we must remember every single day in our cities and across the country, we lose young people to gun violence. Thanks mr. Phillips, a newlywed, taking the time, married just this weekend, it was very important to be here. Bobby rush has been a victim of gun violence in his own family. The list goes on from all of our distinguished members who can consider this of the highest priority. I also want to acknowledge the work that mr. Mcmurray talked about to ensure domestic tr tranquility. Yesterday was the birthday of our constitution. Yesterday was the birthday, its ratification. In it, as you know, as you quote in the beau
We will come to order, please. We welcome everyone and thank them for being here. Our speakers, thank you for being here. Our fellow members and guests of the committee, thank you. We are here today because 203 days ago, the house passed bipartisan gun violence prevention legislation. And the u. S. Senate has done nothing. After every mass shooting that makes the headlines, leader mcconnell says its too soon to talk about policies. There have been more Mass Shootings this year than there have been days in the year. If we wait for a day without gun violence to talk about it, we will be waiting forever. The Senate Leader mcconnell hopes if he waits this out, it will go away. Well, were not going away. Children are dying and the trauma is scaring an entire generation. As of this week, 500 children under the age of 11 have been killed or injured by someone using a gun. Over 2,000 kids between the ages of 1217 have been killed or injured by someone using a gun. Almost every child in america