And i want to thank Howard University for having me here today and thank cspan whos recording this today. Hear in the back . Okay, great. Its really great to be at howard of all places because my book is called black man in a white coat, and its about race and medicine and how its a really great place to be howard is a really great place to be to talk about these issues. If you go back to the late 1960s, depending on the statistics that you see, howard and ma harry trained 7590 of all american doctors, so this is an appropriate place to have this conversation today. Here is the book, black man in a white coat. So the first question you always want to ask yourself, you know, why should i buy this book, why should i read this book . What is it about . Race is a topic thats on everyones mind these days, right . Its all over the news. You hear about it in terms of criminal justice, law enforcement. Thats what were hearing about it all the time right now. But race is also an important issue
Expolice its jurisdiction over the con explicit jurisdiction over the countrys seat of government. The extent to which congress should oversee or intervene in the governance of the district is a debate for another day, but its clearly our responsibility. Current law compels congressional oversight and we must exercise responsibly that jurisdiction. That includes acting to stop legislation that clearly violates the constitutional freedoms of the citizens of the district. Mr. Speaker, its important to note that women are protected by law, both federal and d. C. , from discrimination on the basis of pregnan would actually give employers the right to fire an employee for the Reproductive Health care choices of their spouses or their children. The other side is saying its all right to fire someone because their boss doesnt like their wifes or even their Childrens Health care choices. Talk about restricting someones rights. It would take away a whole range of womens private decisions and mak
The chair will alternate recognition between the parties with each party limited to one hour and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and the minority whip each, to five minutes t in no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. The chair recognizes the gentleman from North Carolina, mr. Butterfield, for five minutes. Mr. Utterfield thank you, speaker. Mr. Speaker, with the stroke of a pen, 49 years ago today several weeks after i finished high school, thenpresident Lyndon Johnson signed into law two of the largest and most important healthrelated programs the country had ever seen, medicare and medicaid. Those programs were created nearly half a century ago because our nations leaders saw time and time again the hopelessness of people who had no way to provide the most basic level of health care for themselves and their families. It was president harry truman ho initially conceived our Health Care Safety net for struggling americans. Nearly 70 years ago truman
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