[captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [captions Copyright National able satellite corp. 2020] House Democrats also held a News Conference today. This runs half an hour. Mr. Jeffries good morning, everyone. Thank you for your patience. Its great to be back here in the United States capitol. We had our first caucus meeting this morning. We did it virtually. Subsequent to the november elections, everyone was in good spirits. We welcomed our new members. Were excited about them. And the opportunity to serve with people from throughout the north, the south, the east and the west and other another incredibly diverse class that will add to the most Diverse Congress in the history of the republic. More women serving in congress than ever before. More africanamericans. More latinos. More asian americans. More members of the lgbtq community. Two Muslim American women. Two native american women bot
Next, the Wilson Center hosting a discussion on the state of the organization for security and cooperation in europe which consists of 57 european and north american states and was created in the early 1970s to provide security and protect human rights. This is an hour and a half. Jane todays event is sponsored by our tpwhrobal Europe Program under the direction of our newly minted director, dan hamilton, who will take overing moring this program for me in a little while. Its also sponsored by our kennon institute in partnership with the u. S. Helsinki ommission. Dan jones the Wilson Center after holding positions in the u. S. Department of state, including notably, assistant secretary for european affair responseable for nato, the osce and transatlantic security issue os they have in ordericbaltic and balkan affairs. He also retains an affiliation and taught for a while at johns hopkins. Our conversation today marks an important milestone. 30 years ago today, the charter of paris for
Mr. Jeffries for working closely with the caucus to be able to pull off that organizational meeting entirely virtually, given the dynamics of the pandemic and the extreme Public Health crisis that we continue to confront. We were able to convene with full participation from every Single Member of the House Democratic caucus and the incoming memberselect. We are unified in our sense of purpose, to go out, to work closely with joe biden and Kamala Harris to fight for the people. To make life better for working families, middle class folks, senior citizens, young people, veterans, those who aspire to be part of the middle class, the poor, the sick, the afflicted, the least, the lost and the left behind. Thats what House Democrats o. The House Democratic caucus elected nancy pelosi as our speaker designee for the 117th congress. Steny hoyer as our majority leader for the 117th congress. Jim clyburn as our majority whip for the 117th congress. And Katherine Clark as our assistant speaker fo
Governor brown everybody ready . Good afternoon. Im here to give another update and egons fire situation, im joined on the phone by the forestry, rtment of ire chief degrass, oregons fire state fire marshal. Of emergency anagement director andrew fell ps and Environmental Public Health section manager. Im joined in person by chris struckler, director of the Oregon Department of transportation. I just want to start by saying storm teams tell me a event coming in today will bring moisture. Both along the coast and along both the west and east slopes of cascades. This is a good sign. With are always challenges a storm like this, such as winds and lightning strikes. Firefighting teams tell me that we are very grateful for the rain. My teams also tell me that were making significant progress on fires ing some of these and fire chief doug grass will peak more to that in just a moment. Since my last briefing, ive seen up and close what these done to our communities, to our land, to our oregon
At 7 00 p. M. Eastern on book v. George Washington University law school hosted a conversation with u. S. Supreme Court Justice steven breyer. They discussed the role of the constitution in todays world as well as criminal Justice Reform. Hello and welcome. We launched this series to provide more ways for you to hear from renowned leaders. The individuals who bring illuminating dialogue, insight and inspiration to our g. W. Community. This year, in our virtual environment, weve been able to extend the reach of these events even more. And we hope to host these opportunities often over the coming months. For many in our community, this will be the first of countless only at g. W. Experiences to come. Our g. W. Community is fortunate to hear directly from the leaders, doers and thinkers who make many of the decisions that affect us each day. But our students, faculty, staff and alumni arent just passive listeners in these events. Youre leading the discussions and actively creating solutio