Foundation. We are especially grateful to jack and rick mary romanos. The Trinity United Methodist church. We would also like to walk on those. Its through your support that we are able to make festival events free to the public. 90 of our revenue comes from our donors. And we thank you. This years festival is full of great events and authors. We dont want you to miss any of them. Download the new savanna book festival 2020 on your phone. And you can be in the know about everything we have going on this year. If you need more information about downloading the app you can find it in the back of your program. Before we get started i have a couple of housekeeping notes. They will be signing the festival purchase copies of their book immediately following this presentation so dont miss out. If you are planning to stay for the next author. Please move forward and to move the seats as best as possible. The ushers will need to be able to count the seats that are available and allow other atte
President that was not paying attention to his oath of office. And passed an impeachment resolution. That issue is now over in the senate and in their hands. We could spend some time talking about that but then last friday another issue occurred. Ill spend more time talking about that. A little later. But what it came but what i came to the floor tonight for is to talk about what a democratic aucus, our leadership, and the 230plus members of our caucus have been working on diligently over the last year. For the people. A series of legislative initiatives that address the fundamental concerns that america has, that americans talk about as we like to say, at their breakfast table. Or dinner table. The concerns about their familys education. About their job. About their retirement. And as i learned yesterday from my neighbor, a rancher, about the extraordinary cost of health insurance. I come to the floor tonight for that purpose. But im going to delay my discussion of that and ask the ch
Its also a Youtube Channel with over 325,000 subscribers. Among them the unexplained files. Please give a warm welcome to Amy Shira Teitel [applause]. Good morning everyone. Try to live up to everything. Who here has heard of the story mercury 13. There is a decent number of hands. There was no way to print my talk. If you dont know the story of that mercury 13 i will explain it all later. It is a story of everything and air quotes right now. Thirteen women who trained for spaceflights and took on nasa with the goal of writing the wrong of sexism. Nasa at the time did not allow women into the astronaut corps. They decided they needed to have this change. It went all the way to the house subcommittee hearing. It didnt work. The spaceflight pioneers were astronaut candidates. According to nbc. They trained for space flight. And cut a bent mercury astronauts. The story that is usually told with all of the air quotes features a hero name jerry cobb. She was the first woman to take all of t
That issue is now over in the senate and in their hands. We could spend some time talking about that but then last friday another issue occurred. Ill spend more time talking about that. A little later. But what it came but what i came to the floor tonight for is to talk about what a democratic aucus, our leadership, and the 230plus members of our caucus have been working on diligently over the last year. For the people. A series of legislative initiatives that address the fundamental concerns that america has, that americans talk about as we like to say, at their breakfast table. Or dinner table. The concerns about their familys education. About their job. About their retirement. And as i learned yesterday from my neighbor, a rancher, about the extraordinary cost of health insurance. I come to the floor tonight for that purpose. But im going to delay my discussion of that and ask the chairman of the labor education committee, bobby scott, to talk about the extraordinary work that his c
321 democrats, 191 republicans, one independent, with four vacancies. We take you live to the u. S. House here on cspan. The speaker the house will be in order. A call of the house is ordered to ascertain the presence of a quorum. Members will record their presence by electronic device. The speaker pro tempore on this roll call, 384 members have recorded their presence. A quorum is present. The chair has examined the journal of the proceed offings january 3, 2020, and announces to the house his approval thereof. Pursuant to clause 1, rule 1, the journal stands approved. Members, please carry your conversations off the floor. The pledge of allegiance will be led by the gentleman from new jersey, mr. Payne. Mr. Payne i pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. The speaker pro tempore for what purpose does the gentleman from maryland seek recognition . Mr. Hoy