good afternoon, everyone. as speaker of the house it is my honor to welcome mr. gleason and his beloved family. [ applause ] this morning rivers, his parents gail and mike and his brother kyle to the u.s. capitol on this historic, happy day. we come here today to honor steve gleason, a true american hero, a leader of outstanding courage and unmatched resolve who has inspired a nation and transformed the lives of millions of people living with als. steve, in accepting this gold medal, the highest honor this congress can bestow, you bring luster to this award and you bring pride to our nation. i m very happy about the timing of today because coincidentally or not we celebrate steve s gold medal as we celebrate lsu s title victory this week. [ applause ] ladies and gentlemen, please rise for the presentation of the colors of the united states, the singing of our national anthem, and the retiring of the colors. color guard present! o, say can you see by the dawn s ear
most americans think covid is no longer a crisis. guest: i would describe the state of the pandemic with cautious optimism. on one hand, we are seeing hospitalizations and deaths at the lowest level since last summer. that is very good news. on the other hand, we are seeing hyper transmissible variance, subvariants of a very growth the country. what we are looking for is, will those cases translate into hospitalizations? we ve seen an uptick in the over 70 population, but we have been well below immunity as well as omicron. that is the central question, and of course, we continue to be worried about other variance, that may escape vaccines. we still have suboptimal rates of vaccination throughout the world, including the united states. copter sauce cautious optimism is a bit of a myth. we need to stick to the fundamentals. make sure we are up-to-date with our vaccinations, make sure you test liberally, make sure you mask appropriately, make sure if you get ill, you know whe
an image of an ideal place, the right place, the one true home, known or unknown, actual or visionary. for many seattle families, i think we re in that place, right now, here in this park and places like this. there are not that many like this, unfortunately. and all around this country, there used to be a hell of a lot more forests like this. but we re doing everything we can. everybody behind me and all of you want desperately to protect what we have and increase what we have. you know, our natural wonders are, you know, inspired they re a reflection that inspires us to take action. you know, my mother had an expression and i apologize to my colleagues, they ve heard me do two things my whole career, quote my mother and father and quote irish poets. [laughter] but i m not going to quote any irish poets today, ok? but, you know, she d say, out of everything difficult, something good will come, if you look hard enough for it. and i think that we re in one of those moment
Republicans can defend cottons seat. The republicans vote on the tax plan as soon as today. A littleknown provision that would open one of the worlds and wildernesses to oil fracking guess drilling. Guess drilling. Is a great human rights issue, because the right to survival is one of the first rights people should have. Access to their food and water, and that is being seriously threatened in the arctic. Amy a new investigation found strong evidence that u. S. Special Operations Forces massacred 10 unarmed civilians in somalia, despite claims they were armed enemy combatants. Backandforth and kill these people, including children. Those are people who were innocent and not alshabab fighters. Amy we will speak with Christina Goldbaum in mogadishu, somalia, and on the trump impeachment. That and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now, democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. On capitol hill, the senate could vote as early as today on a republican tax plan that wou
The Senior Vice President for the committee for responsible spoke to Thet National economists club. This is 55 minutes. Pete welcome to the National Economist club, our first event of the year. The club was first of all, im pete davis, Senior Vice President and past president of the club. The National Economist club was started in 196 by herb stein, the chair of the council of economic advisers and it has met roughly 40 weeks out of every year since, presenting leading economists talking about issues of the day. Today, were very pleased to mark goldwine of the committee for responsible federal budget to talk about the return of trillion dollar deficits. Before i introduce mark, let me tell you about some upcoming programs. We have dr. Alice rivlin on february 1 at a luncheon right here at the chinatown garden talking about fed policy and maybe a little bit about the budget. Shes a former vice chair of the fed, and of course, the founding director of the congressional Budget Office. We