about today, congressman richmond. both of you are leaders in the congressional black caucus. but in congress run by republicans with a president who even members of his own party say is insensitive to minorities, do you have a voice right now? well, we do have a voice. and if you look at the spending bill we just passed we did some remarkable whether, whether the $600 million we added forehead start to make sure children in poverty have a chance to succeed through education and through opportunity, as well as the money for hpcus and other thing. we did a phenomenal job fieing for and fun being things important for people on the bottom to move up. that s what the struggle and the fight is about, regardless of the president, his insensitive, as republicans would like to call it. injury it s more calculated. but we re still fighting and we have 48 members, representing 78 million americans.
money for hpcus and other things. we did a phenomenal job fieing for and fun being things important for people on the bottom to move up. that s what the struggle and the fight is about, regardless of the president, his insensitive, as republicans would like to call it. it s more calculated. but we re still fighting and we have 48 members, representing 78 million americans. and only 17 million of those are african-american. but dr. king s dream and his fight wasn t just for african-americans. it was to make sure you had true economic justice as well as making sure that we end discrimination and all of those things. so his fight is still a real fight. we have an lawful long way to go to go to make sure this country s a better country. when you look at ceo pay and you look at the average wage that people make, we know there s a problem. we re a great country. people can make as much as they want. but we do have an obligation that people who wake up and go to work hard and work hard for 40