The meantime things are going to get worse. The virus is surging. The Biden White House wants to pose as a vaccine each for 50 Million People or 100 million jobs in 100 days and that requires a pace of 1 million a day, not much higher than the 850,000 a day average in the final days of the Trump Administration. Now a member of a federal vaccine Advisory Board is quoted by the New York Times said i love that he set a goal but a million doses a day, we can do better. We are going to have to what we want to get on top of this virus by summer. God willing not just 100 million but more than that. It will earn easy republican support. This doesnt have a partisan piece to it. Some republicans balk at including items like a 15 minimum wage or funding for public transportation. There are some added items in there that he will have a real tough time getting through that arent part of covid relief. He will have to separate those out, but when we talk about vaccine dollars and we talk about testin
Now federal officials on the administrations response to Hurricane Ian. This is about half an hour. Good afternoon, everyone. Im the associate administrator for the office of response and recovery at fema. Thank you for joining us here today. And for your continued attention to florida as well as South Carolina and all the people impacted by Hurricane Ian. I also want to thank the dedicated leaders standing up with me here today. The partnerships across the federal family enable our Effective Response to this disaster and ensures floridians and south carolinians get the help they need during these unimaginably difficult times. Our hearts are with floridians as they endeavor on this long and difficult recovery. And our resolve has never been stronger. Together we will rebuild from this tragedy and we will be there until the work is done. This morning administrator chriswell traveled to florida to meet with Governor Desantis to survey the damage and assess what other assistance may be ne
The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. Votes will be taken in the following order ordering the previous question. Adoption of h. Res. 1361 if ordered. En bloc motion to suspend the rules if offered, a motion to suspend the rules and pass s. 2490. The first electronic vote will be conducted as a 15minute vote. Pursuant to clause 9 of rule 20, remaining electronic votes will be conducted as fiveminute votes. This is a 15minute vote. Inc. , in cooperation with the United States house of representatives. Coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u. S. House of representatives. ] the speaker pro tempore for what purpose does the gentleman from new york seek recognition . Mr. Jeffries as the member designated by chairwoman Eddie Bernice johnson, i inform the house that she will vote yea on the previous question. The speaker pro tempore for what reason does the gentleman from new york seek recognition . Mr. Chairman, as
White House National security advisor Jake Sullivan said the Biden Administration will unequivocally reject sham referendums in four russian occupied areas of ukraine. Mr. Sullivan called these votes a violation of ukraines sovereignty. He made these remarks at the White House Press briefing, the press secretary. Good afternoon, everybody. Happy monday. Ok. Tuesday. Oh, my gosh. Giving myself an extra day. All right. Well. Good to see you guys on tuesday. So we are closely monitoring the impact Hurricane Fiona is having on puerto rico and as the president has said, we are keeping the people of puerto rico in our prayers. I want to provide a brief overview of our response to date. On sunday, before the hurricane made landfall, President Biden issued an emergency disaster declaration to ensure the federal government has was ready to surge resources and Emergency Assistance to puerto rico. Yesterday, as you all know, the president called governor from air force one to discuss puerto ricos