Cspan. Earlier this year the president on Election Integrity. The commission is lead by president pence and kansas secretary of state and for alleged voter fraud. Next, Senate Democrats hold a meeting following the establishment of the commission and concerns it could lead to an infringement in minority communities. This is 90 minutes. Thank everyone for being here today. It is incredibly important we be talking about voting and the basic tenant of our democracy in terms of Voting Rights. Voting rights is the essential foundation of our democracy and all of us who are here understand that every citizen who wants to vote is able to cast a vote must be at the top of congresss agenda. At the local level many of us have heard stories about how difficult voting can be, whether its a grandmother who cant register to vote because she cant find her birth certificate, College Students prevented from registering in the state they go to school or malfunctioning Voting Machines and voters that hav
To me as one of those who represent a Success Story of a great specialized care system, spinal cord injury and disease system of care. Before i get into exactly what the topic is, though, i want to ask a couple questions. What are some of the reasons why one becomes a clinician . Why did you choose to become a healer . Money . Raise your hand if its money. Bunch of millionaires in here, right . Social status. Everybody respects a doctor. Job security. Youre always going to have people focused on getting better, so you need people in those industries. And if youre a healer, youve got some job security if you do it well enough, and its probably a combination of all of those. But again, from the perspective of the patient, im willing to bet that somewhere on that list of what brought you into your respective discipline was a sense of compassion. What is compassion . Its a feeling of deep sympathy and sorrow for another who is stricken by misfortune. Who are we talking about . People who h
For the naacp Legal Defense fund. The organization that i am proud to say i work for and that is responsible for brown and fisher. And so i want to give a little bit of hello . I want to give sorry. I want to give a little bit of background about myself. I am ive been with the Legal Defense fund since march of this year. But worked in the Obama Administration and on the hill for quite some time. But this issue and the reason i am happy to be here with all of you today is personal to me. I am originally from new orleans but also went to school in selma, alabama. Which im sure all of you are familiar with. My father, dr. Norwood russo was the first black school sup superintendent in selma, alabama [ applause ] thank you. In 1987. When he arrived, selma was a very integrated School System. The selma city schools were incredibly integrated. They had, though, what is called inSchool Segregation. They had a tracking system where the majority of africanamerican students were in level three or
Review acting on these recommendations would improve epas ability to carry out its core mission, protecting human health and environment. This mission is never more important than during times of Natural Disaster like the one in the gulf coast experiencing right now in Hurricane Harvey about to hit with another hurricane on the florida coast. First of all, on behalf of the committee, i want to express my sincere sorrow to everyone impacted by the storm. Hurricane harvey is one of the worst Natural Disasters the United States has ever face. And its still too early to tell the extent of the devastation that has displaced thousands of people. Members of this committee and both sides ofale represent constituents and our thoughts and prayers are with these families as they begin to rebuild their lives from this national tragedy. While epa is still in the midst of initial response efforts, its work has only just begun. We look forward to monitoring the extent of the disaster and working on t
Leader Mitch Mcconnell. Plummeting costs. Many thought our constituents deserved better. That is why we did what we voting for a repeal so we can replace it with something better. They defeated our every effort to improve health care. Thus far, they succeeded. Thus far, they have yet to offer own. Us solutions of their last week, our colleague from vermont rolled out Health Care Legislation that would quadruple down on the failures of obamacare. It envisions what is basically a fully governmentrun, singlepayer system. The kind of system that would strip so Many Americans of their health plan and take away decisions after their own health care. That would require high tax increases. The already collapsed in the homer in the senators state of vermont when they try to do it. This is a massive expansion. They think this is what it would look like. You can be sure they will do everything in their power to impose it but we do not have to accept it as our feature. That is what senators graham