obviously the latino community is the future of america. if you actually study the numbers, there was a very strong vote for joe biden in that. the message, part of our issue in the last election was that we could not go door to door. we could not go door to door to get out the vote. we will be able to go outdoor-to-door next. regardless to that, we should be paying a great deal of attention. and i m so proud of our congressional hispanic caucus for the work they do in the congress to bring the concerns of the community into a priority place in our debate and our discussion, and that their communication is helpful to us, to understand more fully what some of the issues are. some of the issues are newer
women in uniform. we always promised them that we will bill them we will build for them a future worthy of their sacrifice and president biden s build back better initiative does exactly that. we are jobs are coming back, going to about 60,000 every three days. wages are rising. paychecks are growing. the strongest rate before the pandemic since 2006. the economy is booming. cbo imf federal reserve world bank and others all project we ll reach the highest levels of growth in nearly four decades and we ll do that this year. and we need bold infrastructure investment to build back better, better jobs. when we ran at 18 and then in 20, we said we were going to lower health care costs, lower health care costs, bigger
disparities in our country. and the leader gave me six names for that committee. five of them voted against making the election of joe biden official, but i approved all six of them, even though only one of them voted in that regard. so, it has not been a factor, even though the press somehow or another you think it might be. it has not been a factor. the chairman of that committee, jim himes, is already staffed up and ready for hearing, a hearing next week, as is mr. thompson for a hearing next week. but the leader may want to rescind those names. i m ready to have them be accepted on the floor of the house. so we ll see. we ll see. i mean, there are some members who would like to be on it, but we ll see. yes, ma am? can you elaborate more specifically what actions caused you to
right from the start when the members acted in that way and said they were not going to vote for the certification that joe biden was president, i said to the members, do not let that stand in the way of you finding bipartisan agreement on legislation here. i m not encouraging that at all. you find your common ground. we strive for bipartisanship. so how they voted on that bill is not relevant to how we are legislating. on the other hand, the two people that i excluded so of the three that i appointed, one of them voted against the ratification and the other two voted for it. having said that, though, the other two made statements and took actions that just made it ridiculous to put them on such a committee seeking the truth. at the same time, we have a committee to address economic
committee. darkest days in our country s history. it was an assault on our democracy, assault on our congress, an assault on our constitution, as rioters tried to undo or prevent us from honoring our constitutional responsibility to ratify, to certify the electoral college vote and officially name joe biden president of the united states. in the time since then, six months or more since then, we ve tried to have a bipartisan commission. in the house, we passed it, it was many scores in terms of makeup, process and timing. and it was bipartisan in terms of the committee and i salute our chairman, benny thompson, and the ranking member. even though it was something that was bipartisan and yielded