Devoted her decade in congress the issues of criminal justice and disparities in healthcare. Representative bass chairs the judiciary committees subcommittee on crime and was passed by House Speaker nancy pelosi and house judiciary chair jerry nadler with shepherding the George Floyd Justice in policing act through the legislative process. The act which passed the house in late june mans choke holds and noknock warrant, as well as lowering the legal barriers for bringing civil and criminal charges against police for misconduct. A Police Reform bill authored by republican senator tim scott of South Carolina has stalled in the senate after democrats template it did not do enough to Curb Police Abuses and lacked key components including an end to qualified immunity for police. Senator scott and representative bass have tried to negotiate a compromise. Its something representative bass can claim as a bit of the specialty. Prior to her election to congress in 2010, representative bass serve
The senate. Votes on confirmation 4744. Live coverage on the senate on cspan two. Next, Congressional Black Caucus chair representative karen bass talks about Police Reform efforts in virtual discussion with the National Press club. Welcome to the National Press club. I am lisa matthews. Vice president of the club and Associated Press u. S. Video assignment manager. The killing of george floyd by police in minneapolis on may 25 convulsed the nation in black lives matter protests and renewed an urgent outcry for Police Reform. At the same time, our nation has struggled to contain the coronavirus, which has struck communities of color disproportionately. Today, we welcome Congressional Black Caucus chair, representative karen bass, a democrat from california. She has devoted her decade in congress to issues of criminal justice and disparities in health care. Representative bass chairs the Judiciary Committee subcommittee on crime and was passed by House Speaker nancy pelosi and judiciary
Jeff ballou good afternoon, everybody. Im sure the gavel woke you up. Welcome to the National Press club, the worlds leading professional organization for journalists. My name is jeff ballou, news editor with al jazeera media network, where my colleague has been unjustly imprisoned by the government of egypt for 957 days. We have called for his immediate release, along with other detained journalists. I am particularly grateful to my fellow members to pitch hit for our 112th president , alison kodjak, who is getting welldeserved rest while she prepares for her new duties leading the Investigations Unit at the Associated Press, having just Left National public radio. Thanking the members as always for putting their trust in me to have served as their 110th president in 2017. Today, we welcome our headliner, elijah cummings. Democrat from the state of maryland and chairman of the House Committee on oversight and government reform. Before i get into the formal introduction, we will introd
Im sure the gavel woke you up. Welcome to the National Press club, the worlds leading professional organization for journalists. My name is jeff ballou, news editor with Al Jazeera Media Network network, where my colleague has been unjustly imprisoned by the government of egypt for 957 days. We have called for his immediate release, along with other detained journalists. I am particularly grateful to my fellow members to pitch hit for our 112th president , alison kodjak, who is getting welldeserved rest while she prepares for her new duties leading the Investigations Unit at the Associated Press, having just Left National public radio. Thanking the members as always for putting their trust in me to have served as their 110th president in 2017. Today, we welcome our headliner, elijah cummings. Democrat from the state of maryland and chairman of the House Committee on oversight and government reform. Before i get into the formal introduction, we will introduce to head to table and a coup
Fellow members who have been asked to come back and pinchhit for our 100 and 12th president , allison kojak, who is getting welldeserved rest leading Investigative Unit having just unit at the Associated Press, having just Left National public radio. Thinking the members as always for putting their trust in me to has have served as the 110th president in 2017. We welcome our headliner, congressman elijah cummings, democrat from the state of maryland, chairman of the House Committee of oversight and government reform. Before i get into the formal introduction, we will introduce the head table. A couple of housekeeping rules. The latter first. If you do have a question for the chairman, those of you in the ballroom, you have your cards on the table. Please write them down and pass them up front. We will try to ask as many of them as time permits and so forth. Also if you have a mobile device and you have slipped in there in the past few minutes and didnt hear my earlier warnings, before