Much of puerto ricos medicaid funding expires at the end of september. Puerto rico and other u. S. Territories are on a separate medicaid system than the rest of the United States. Congress funds the him to block grants which can be depleted early if theres a hurricane or other Natural Disaster. A hearing on why states get continues medicaid coverage while the territories do not. The committee is meeting today to hear testimony on the impact of the end of medicaid funding for the areas under the Affordable Care act, also known as the use learning areas medicaid cliff. Under Committee Rules, any oral Opening Statements at parents are limited to the chairman and the ranking minority member. Therefore, i ask unanimous consent all of the members statements be made part of the hearing record if they are submitted to the clerk by 5 p. M. Today. I ask anatomist consent the gentlewoman from the u. S. Virgin islands be allowed to sit on the dice and question the witnesses. Hearing no objections
The general assembly. She is the first woman to lead. She is in her 30s. Derek johnson is the president of the naacp. The ed of the new orleans workers at center for. Mayor steve benjamin, the first black mayor of columbia, South Carolina since reconstruction. The president of voto latino. When you read through what you will see is changes here in the south. We are transforming very rapidly and if more people paid more attention we could transform faster still. The region these days is typified in many ways by Voter Suppression, attempts to put in latino exclusion acts a guild chinese exclusion act that we saw after the civil war. Very targeted bills are put in place to make it more difficult for immigrants of color to remain in the south. The south as an organizer in my opinion, it is a light switch. Use on or is off. You can see it in North Carolina in the last 10 years. Major progressive changes. Huge ultraconservatives pushed back. We say in this country that there are two cliches
If we can start that conversation today and start thinking about it today, we sent a signal that ben talked about. Investing in the south makes sense. If you want a longterm return on your investment, this is the year to pay attention. If elections get done well this year and we see the real strong trend, democracy is not destiny. Demography is not destiny. It is a really good guess of what destiny can look like. Get them registered this year and send a signal about how it can be done not just in georgia could be exported to other states. What you are mentioning is the 2020 census, incredibly important for our future. One of the things i encourage part of this work to be is how do we change how things happen when it comes to redistricting. One of the main things, you see the beauty of it in california. They appointed a public commission. It was individual citizens voted in and they got to create a map that reflected california. That impacted across party lines, republican or democrat.
President and Vice President. It will be a virtual fourday event, the convention cochair phil murphy says the parties message to the nation of voters is clear. The theme uniting america says it all. We are the big ten party, this is a moment in American History where weve got to put the us versus them in the Rearview Mirror and come together in common purpose. Eric peter doocy is live in delaware and covering the Biden Harris Campaign with the presumptive nominee will be making this acceptance speech virtually later this week. Hi peter. Good afternoon, both Joe Biden Kamala harris will speak a few hundred yards away from where im standing and willing under wilmington and this afternoon were learning where highprofile democrats are going to make their remarks to delegate remotely. I am very honored to have been asked to speak at the convention, i will be speaking with the statue of liberty looking all over my shoulder from the brooklyn waterfront and speaking about immigration and its i
Double defeats, tonight, for President Trump and his attempts to subvert the results of the election. Even, as he falsely claimed, again, today that he won. Georgia republican governor and republican secretary of state officially certifying joe biden won the race in that key state and its 16 electoral votes. And after meeting with trump at the white house today, the gop leadership of michigans State Government saying they are not aware of any information that will overturn bidens decisive victory in that state. I want to bring in now cnn political analysts, john avlon and Ron Brownstein. Good evening, to you both. John, i just want to play what Governor Kemp said tonight and then we will talk. As governor, i have a solemn responsibility to follow the law, and that is what i will continue to do. We must all work together, to ensure citizens have confidence in future elections in our state. Okay. So, and here is a statement, john, from michigan lawmakers after visiting the white house. T