Mr. Mccarthy youve heard me talk about the upcoming freshman class. Half of the Incoming Freshman class will be women. Yvette harold is the first republican native American Woman elected to congress. Steve nee bice is the first iranian American Woman elected to congress. This makes me very proud as a republican. And as an american. It shows the party of lincoln is also continuing the legacy of the first black american to serve in congress, Joseph Rainey of south carolina. Rainey was born into slavery and even after gaining his freedom he received little education as a child. He was drafted by the confederacy but escaped and went to bermuda and started a business. After the war he moved back to georgetown, south carolina. With his family in 1867 he became chairman of the countys republican party. Just a few years later he was elected in 1870 and became the first black american in congress. Where he worked tirelessly, fought for civil rights, education, and Economic Opportunity for all.
Of direct payments for Contact Tracing. House democrats move forward after negotiations with the white house failed to produce a compromise. Floor debate before the final vote. Lowey, is recognized. Mrs. Lowey im pleased to yield five minutes to the distinguished gentleman from massachusetts, from my class, the chair of the committee on ways and means, mr. Neal. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from massachusetts, chairman neal is recognized. Ms. Neal thank you, madam chairwoman. I stand in support of the updated heroes act. The previous gentleman was dismissive of the idea that there is some import to this moment in terms of getting a package done. So that means expanding Unemployment Insurance, thats not important . Unemployment insurance that we might consider now which is part of the need of the American Family . A reminder, there are 26 million americans right now collecting Unemployment Insurance. Let me put this in terms of what an economist might say. If we dont expand Une
says they seem to be going head and head. so-called pro-life republicans seem to have forgotten their behemoths antiabortion pro family stance when it comes to their candidate for georgia senate, herschel walker. as you know, walker allegedly paid for his ex girlfriend to have an abortion. she is provided various pieces of evidence to the press. this, despite the fact the walker claims not to know the woman. more importantly, walker wants a ban abortion for everyone else if he makes the senate with no exceptions for rape, incest, or the life of the mother, that is not even the whole story. because, that woman has actually told new york times that herschel walker actually asked her to have a second abortion. it refused. she gave birth what is now a ten-year-old son. if you think herschel walker and fellow republicans couldn t possibly back them after all of that. will you be mistaken. congresswoman let me ask you. let me ask you this though, congressman. by supporting he
aircraft. you can see the breadth of the areas hit. president vladimir putin, the russian leader, threatened further harsh responses. this is following a huge explosion over the weekend on a strategic bridge between crimea, illegally annexed in 2014 by putin and mainland russia. and moments before the attacks in ukraine, duelling in the united nations general assembly where delicates are expected to vote on the annexed regions in ukraine. met with silence while the ukraine ambassador received applause after saying this translator: but my day has started almost 14 hours ago. we started 14 hours ago, because my country was under attack. my immediate family was in a residential building under attack unable to go to a bomb shelter, because there was no because russia has already killed some of my family members, and we see no end to that cruelty. in a rare public appearance today the top british intelligence officer sir jeremy fleming is expected to say exhausted rus
president, a terrifying and very familiar scene out of brazil. supporters of former brazilian president jair bolsonaro who attacked the countries congress over the result of their presidential election, they ve been climbing on top of its roof, breaking the glass and a windows and crowds of demonstrators also gathered outside at the supreme court and the presidential palace. where is bolsonaro right now? he is thousands of miles away soaking it up in orlando, florida. he has yet to comment on these riots back home. let s bring in ap result news director david miller. david, the images we ve seen today, they look a lot like january the 6th 2021 here in d.c.. what went on there today? what is the latest? they look a lot like january 6th. we ve been warning that this, or something like this, it could happen for a long time, jair bolsonaro sowed doubts about the election results for a long period, the voting system was susceptible to fraud and many of supporters came to believe