A couple days of electing our chairs. Yesterday we approved 18 chairs which is pretty exciting. 3 contested races, following in the footsteps of the first woman to serve in that capacity. The chair of the Foreign Affairs committee, greg meeks of new york, another new yorker, elliott angle, and the chair of the ag committee, david scott from georgia, first africanamerican chosen to be the chair of the Agriculture Committee following in the footsteps of the leadership of colin peterson. Greg meeks also africanamerican, prehistoric woman, pretty contested races but throughout, women or people of color, more chairs to be announced but these were the ones that related to rules and budgets related to steering and policy committee, two of the speakers announcement that were made and others follow. We held the house, pulled the gap 132 of them starting with 18 that were chosen yesterday. I am excited, when they made their presentations over several days this week it was a demonstration of valu
Individuals, with Small Business owners. Ive seen something ive never seen before. Ive seen people who are concerned. Health, d about their concerned about their future. Mr. Speaker, this is something to address. Ive also seen something ive never seen before either and is people pulling together. People doing for each other. Other. Caring for each volunteering at food banks. Volunteering at service organizations. Workers health care putting their own health at risk to deliver services. Best of america as well. Mr. Speaker, it is our here, our responsibility to help these people to deliver to them. Is not a perfect bill. If i had an opportunity id change a number of things in it, to do, s what we need mr. Speaker. And mr. Speaker, more than anything, what we need to do is pray. D to we need to pray to the god the speaker pro tempore the entleman from maryland is recognized. Seconds toi yield 30 the gentleman from michigan, dan kildee. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from michigan
Guest i will go to some of the seven coming up, go to some of them. We have different committees in place. We have other events that all of us have but it ought to be opened up to everybody. And not just i got, my name is on the list because i was on the oversight committee. Why not let Louis Gohmert in . Why not let andy biggs in . They wouldnt let him in. They stopped in. What are the democrats hiding that the dont want to be seen . Lets have an open and fair process. Lets have the president , lets cross examination, lets have have witnesses on both sides. Let mckinley, and ambassador i saw yesterday, he got exacerbated with adam schiff trying to create smoke or trying to find every little word to indicate a donald trump was doing a bad job and receive got fired. He resigned because hes an older gentleman and he didnt want to do in more. Host mckinley testified yesterday. Yesterday was gordon sondland. Did you go to any of that . No. I had another event. Host we want to thank you for
School safety against targeted violence. I want to welcome everybody to the hearing room. I actually want to thankour witnesses for taking the time for your testimony. And in particular i want to give a shout out to max and tom and your families and the other families of the families for attending here and for just your unbelievable dedication turning your tragedy into hopefully some positive action that can prevent tragedies for other families, its remarkable what so many of the families have done in reaction to so many of these tragedies which date back to about 1998 is where we had the first directed attack, numbers of 56. I know in your testimony youre talkingabout 710 shootings since columbine in 1999. Columbine, 13 people were killed, 12 students, one teacher, 21injured, sandy hook in 2012, 26 killed. Two were injured and parkland, at Marjorie Stoneman douglas school, 17 killed and 17 injured. Anthe death and casualty toll is simply unbelievable, quite honestly. I grew up in the
expected and unexpected, so that our heroes have everything they need to win with. we will continue to equip our strategic forces with the latest types of weapons. i repeat all the plans outlined will certainly be fulfilled in light of russia s cruel and continued heavy bombardment of innocent civilians and civilian infrastructure. and ukraine will continue to have those discussions and look at capabilities that they ll need to defend their territory. any weapon system industry supplied to ukraine, including the patriots, along with a personnel servicing them, and will remain legitimate priority targets. also coming up a growing humanitarian crisis and the tax and board and tat border town of el paso, as the biden administration, struggles to find a way out of a trump era immigration policy. we don t ask, why did you come? we simply say, turn around and go back somewhere and we re certainly done. and so some of the more unstable and dangerous places in the world. welcome to t