But in no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. Chair now recognizes the gentleman from illinois, mr. Shimkus, for five minutes. Shimkus thank you, mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, another group that to pause and thank is my Campaign Team and supporters. How diverse this group is. They are young and old, they are live in poor, they towns, villages, and isolated country roads. Ideology, rvative in they identify as republicans, libertarians, and even independents. These are the people who walked parades. They helped pass out balloons, political signs. Hey took down signs of all sizes. They organized fundraisers both big and small. Manned booths at county fairs. What causes people to give up talent, and heir their possessions to a candidate, party, or cause . T is at the heart of a representative democracy, our constitutional republic. Going to cast a vote for you, shouldnt you know their beliefs . About an l strongly issue, wouldnt you want to help a kind red spirit . Started to run fo
Shooting us. We have a case with a kid that was killed. Taser international does virtually all of the video in relation to the weapons, and they are getting rich in major lobbying. When were talking about body thinknd handson guns, about dealing with a multibilliondollar industry. Look for some black folks, otherwise, that do the same thing that have a more progressive agenda. Odbye, but i go say good luck in your communities with oversight. You must h because you must have oversight. If you dont have that, i mean more than a review board. Im not disagreeing but more than a review board. The late mayor of the city of detroit started the police commission. It has subpoena power. It deals with hiring. It deals with the facts that our problem is we are underdeveloped economically. And so, therefore, when jon jones in the rich suburb wind, like in bloomfield hills, i kid walks down the street with a gun, and because he is open carry rights, they dont shoot the kid, white kid. They dont tak
The New York Times, this headline, a day of silence, Michael Browns father pleading low lull. Republicans attempting to woo black voters. The piece points out that the hearts and minds were black voters wont the one or lost in hearts and minds of black voters. Republicans are determined to make a difference in those settings. Theew years ago his book, political mind, he said the key is appealing emotionally, not to rational faculties. I would suspect that the loyalty that the would not be broken by a few simple ideas. Nuven join us on social media or send us a tweet. The republican struggles recruit black voters and candidates offer is joining us on the line this morning. Caller good morning, how are you. Host baucas to the efforts by rance priebus and the gop to break what has been a byanglehold on black voters the democrats. Caller following the election the republican, party sat down and looked at his voter base. I also covered demographics. American america is becoming majority min
About President Trump, and its just over half had an hour. [inaudible conversations]. Inventory ladies and gentlemen, please welcome fredrico of cnn, Brad Raffensperger and Gabriel Sterling. Hi, this is great to be here, its like the Academy Awards for Elections Officials and like i have the oscar winners here. As weve discussed its been an extraordinary two years, not just talking about the aftermath of the 2020 election and the attack on the capitol, but in 2020 you all were preparing to conduct an election in the middle of a once in a century pandemic. And i want to take us back a little bit to that and what you all did to prepare for 2020 and how it went. Just a few minutes. Well, ill start off, first of all, you have to understand that when i took office in january, 2019, we had passed we passed a bill that allowed us to get new Voting Machines and then there was a mad dash to get those in place, all 159 counties, 2500 precincts, get that all in place before the president ial prim
Raffensperger and Gabriel Sterling. Hi, this is great to be here, its like the Academy Awards for Elections Officials and like i have the oscar winners here. As weve discussed its been an extraordinary two years, not just talking about the aftermath of the 2020 election and the attack on the capitol, but in 2020 you all were preparing to conduct an election in the middle of a once in a century pandemic. And i want to take us back a little bit to that and what you all did to prepare for 2020 and how it went. Just a few minutes. Well, ill start off, first of all, you have to understand that when i took office in january, 2019, we had passed we passed a bill that allowed us to get new Voting Machines and then there was a mad dash to get those in place, all 159 counties, 2500 precincts, get that all in place before the president ial primary. And we did. [applause] and we had two weeks of that early voting for the president ial primary, and then as i said, everyone just pulled up the sidewa