Focusing on rushing through a nominee to the United States Supreme Court rather than doing everything we can to work across the aisle to craft a solution. To the problems, the crises facing our nation. Tens of millions of americans, unemployed. Hundreds of thousands of businesses permanentlylo closed. Schools all over the country either not yet open or just barely opened, and thousands upon thousands of americans died alone in pain, and comforted by family, uncertain of how they came to be in this place and cared for by their country. Eight. 5million infected 220,000 or more dead. We are in the middle of a tragic pandemic and a recession made worse by our presence bungled mishandling of the pandemic, and instead of coming together to provide the reliefteng that all states d all people are calling for, we are doing this. We are doing this. Instead, my republican colleagues are walking over dangerous precipice doing something according to graham was unthinkable just two years ago , in th
Testifies before the House Agriculture Committee wednesday. This is two hours, 15 minutes. Good morning. This is a hearing on the committee of agriculture for oversight by the u. S. Department of agriculture will come to order. Ive asked Rick Crawford to open us with a prayer. Thank you mr. Chairman. Father, i bow humbling before you. Thankful for this country youve given us and, father, mindful of the great responsibility that youve charged us with. Father, just ask that everything that is said and done here today be pleasing in your sight and we ask that you help us to be civil in our discourse and discerning in our comments and dialogue. Father, i just pray it all in jesus name. Amen. Thank you, rick. I want to thank the secretary vilsack for coming to be with us this morning. He has a horde stop at 12 15. He has cabinet responsibilities to do. Mr. Secretary, thanks very much for being here this morning. Be careful on your knee there on your on the table. I want to say at the start
House, both the deputy and the attorney general, both attorney general Jeff Sessions and his brandnew Deputy Attorney general Rod Rosenstein who has a bipartisan background, recommended to the president that the president fire james donald trump, the president , has sent this letter, made this letter public, that he sent to comey. He says, i greatly appreciate you informing me three times that im not under investigation, but i concur with the judgment of the Justice Department that you are not able to effectively lead the bureau. We dont know yet the reason for this, lester. They havent said specifically what the reason is, but presumably its because of all the public all the public criticism of james comeys conduct of the handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation. The democrats havent liked the fact that he put out information about it late in the campaign. Hillary clinton has said she believes it was a factor in her defeat. The republicans didnt like it, and the democrats a
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