Committees of jurisdiction such as commerce and banking to pass legislation with the same bipartisan support we experience experience with map21 so we are going to marcus bell up at the end of april. We must move it forward and i know that members on this committee on both sides including senator carper and senator barrasso working with senators vitter and i are all committed to this. I hope hope what youll do today is speak from the heart about what it means to you if in fact it is as important to you as a think it is. I hope he will tell us its important. If you dont pick its important, if you think the federal government could walk away from this tell us that. We need to know from you so this is a very important thing for me because again i have so much respect for folks who implement what we do here and with that i will turn it to my Ranking Member senators vitter. Thank you madam chairman for holding todays hearing. This is really important to get the local and state perspective o
I come from my home state. That would be one of the final four. May be. Maybe so. Im happy to see all of you. Thank you for pulling together this good group and we look forward to hearing from you. I will be very brief to help draft the last transportation bill and im so happy to have a chance to work with all the senators, senator boxer and senator john brasso. Hopefully we come up with a five or six year bill. So that we have a chance to help out a little bit on that front as well. We are really pleased, madam chair with the state and local folks. State and local governments are stepping up on transportation and that remains the case to be seen today. And so we are finding officials making some of the transportation infrastructure. When local officials asked the voters for more money, he or she is going to be focused like a laser on this and what that means is that it isnt that they are investing in these products. You are investing in a shorter commute with less conduction and we ha
Such time as i may consume. The speaker pro tempore without objection, so ordered. The gentleman is recognized. Mr. Mcgovern mr. Speaker, welcome to witchhunt week here in the United States house of representatives. Our economy is slowly recovering. Slower than any of us would like. Millions of unemployed americans have been left behind because their Unemployment Benefits have expired. Our immigration system is broken. Millions of americans are living in poverty because they dont earn enough to make ends meet. And we have a pay equity issue where women on average earn less than men for doing the same job. I mean, Climate Change is a real issue and getting worse. And so what is the response from the House Republican leadership . A jobs bill . No. A fully funded transportation bill . No. An extension of longterm Unemployment Benefits . No. Comprehensive Immigration Reform . No. An increase of the minimum wage . No way. A pay equity bill . No. A sensible Energy Policy . No. Of course not.
Covid vaccination plan. A member of the covid Advisory Board says the team only knew the details that were known to the public, and that included operation warp speed briefings and details on distribution. What we knew in the transition Advisory Board was that we were not getting any information that was not Public Information already. And so what was a complete mystery, was there going to be a binder describing the National Strategy and what the strategy was of distribution and where things were. The team on arrival, the president and his team found that there was not those pieces there. And no coordinated national effort. Its been all breakthrough and no followthrough. As of today, there are more than 19 million doses still to be administered according to the cdc. The absence of a vaccine plan is comeing on a day where were seeing several new developments on the pandemic. The president released his strategy for the covid response. Its the second biggest day of the pandemic, more than
Lights out half the power in new orleans stadium, the superdome here, is out. In almost a perfect semicircle of the lights, half the stadium stayed light, half of it went out. The scoreboard is also not working as well. One big click of the light switch, and we lost power in half of the stadium. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to morning joe. It is monday, time to wake up bright and early. February 4th. All right. Weve got a shot here in the studio of, what, is halperin walking in here . With us this is amazing. Look at this, the game change boys. Theyre back and better than ever. We also have the sexy statistician according to twitter. Yes. Former treasury official and morning joe economic analyst, Steve Rattner. National Affairs Editor for new York Magazine and political analyst, John Heilemann and senior political analyst, mark halperin. What a game. Mika, you had to, like you had to stay on every play eating your fried hot dogs. No. She was there. She was there, beginning to end. N