The committee will now come to order. Good morning to everyone. The purpose of this hearing is to examine how state policies like those in missouri are impacting residentsaccess to comprehensive Reproductive Health care services, including abortion. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare a recess of the committee at any time. For audience purposes, we welcome you and respect your interest in being here. In turn, we request and we ask you to respect the proceedings as we go forward in todays hearings. With that, i will now recognize myself to give an Opening Statement. I would like to begin by acknowledging that this is the First Full Committee Hearing we have held since our friend, our colleague and our beloved chairman Elijah Cummings passed away. Chairman cummings spent his entire life fighting for justice and equality for everyone. And he was a fierce champion for womens access to health care. Across the country extreme forces in some State Governments are taking drac
The committee will now come to order. Good morning to everyone. The purpose of this hearing is to examine how state policies like those in missouri are impacting residentsaccess to comprehensive Reproductive Health care services, including abortion. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare a recess of the committee at any time. For audience purposes, we welcome you and respect your interest in being here. In turn, we request and we ask you to respect the proceedings as we go forward in todays hearings. With that, i will now recognize myself to give an Opening Statement. I would like to begin by acknowledging that this is the First Full Committee Hearing we have held since our friend, our colleague and our beloved chairman Elijah Cummings passed away. Chairman cummings spent his entire life fighting for justice and equality for everyone. And he was a fierce champion for womens access to health care. Across the country extreme forces in some State Governments are taking drac
It is not putting legislation on the floor to draw attention to it, again, is not something that happened when president bush was president. And this happened repeat dwli. And do you identify the error as bringing this piece of legislation today as opposed to the error being failure to bring this piece to the Bush Administration. I think that we all wished that we lived in a world that was less partisan. Its hard for the American Public not to look at this and say it isnt just a coincidence. So, yes, i think the error is that we dont do it in a consistently, nonpartisan fashion. But all this does is it compounds that error, in my view. I thought you made a very persuasive case about calling a lawbreaker. He had to choose between two competing laws, he chose to follow one and not the other. As i read the resolution, it says condemns and disapproved the failure of the Obama Administration to comply with the taliban. Not calling him out as a lawbreaker. Folks should have complied. You all
Stephanie ruhle. 8 million Coronavirus Infections and more than 158,000 deaths, but there are small signs of hope this morning with new infections down 11 the past week. However, thats not the case in a number of southern and mid western states, dealing with rising infections and packed emergency rooms. The governor of mississippi issuing a new mask mandate as the state is on track to become number one for coronavirus cases per capita. Students returning to school in ohio will also be required to wear masks. Governor mike dewine announced that yesterday. Banning together to increase Rapid Testing in their states as led by governor larry hogan, massachusetts, michigan, ohio, and virginia governors have teamed up to purchase millions of antigen tests. Theres still no National Testing strategy in place. And on capitol hill, lawmakers appear to be one step closer to an agreement over the next Coronavirus Relief bill. The two sides say theyre trying to reach a deal by the end of the week. A
Mr. Petri i move to suspend the rules and pass h. R. 961. The speaker pro tempore the clerk will report the title of the bill. The clerk h. R. 1961, a bill to amend title 46, United States code to extend the exemption from the fire retardant materials requirement for vessels operating wiin the boundary line. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the rule, the gentleman from wisconsin, mr. Petri and the gentleman from maryland, mr. Coupling cummings, each will control 20 minutes. Mr. Petri i ask that members may have five legislative days to include extraneous material on h. R. 1961 the speaker pro tempore without objection. Mr. Petri i yield myself such time as i may consume. The gentleman is recognized. Mr. Petri h. R. 1961 renews the exemption for the delta queen from certain coast guard requirements adopted decades after the vessel was bill. The delta queen is a paddlewheel river boat and was built in 1926. It operated in california until 1947, then carried tourists up and down the mi