House 230195. Will control 0 minutes. Mrs. Lowey im pleased to yield one minute to the gentlewoman from california, the speaker of the house, ms. Pelosi. Ms. Pelosi i thank the gentlewoman for yielding. T me first salute chairwoman lowey, congresswoman delauro and Ranking Member for their good faith work on a strong bill that protects vulnerable children, keeps america safe and honors our values. Madam speaker, when people ask me what are the three most important issues facing the congress, i always say the same thing, children, children, children. Today, we have the opportunity to help the children. We are ensuring that children have food, cloothing, shelter and medical care. We are providing access to Legal Assistance and protecting families because families belong together. Right now, children need their families. Right now little children are enduring trauma and care. Many are living in squal or and sleeping on the cold grounds. Kids are watching over infants because there is no on
Lee of california on the 2020 spending package being worked and by the house. As always we take your calls and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. Washington journal is next. The federal deficit jumps 207 billion in may. Those on Social Security face a 20 cut in benefits unless Congress Acts and lawmakers face a deadline to avoid mandatory cuts across the board. Is thursday, june 13 and spending season is upon us. This morning, your chance to tell washington how you want them to spend taxpayer dollars. Republicans, 2027488001. Democrats, 2027488000. Independents, 2027488002. You can go to twitter at cspanwj or join the conversation on facebook on facebook. Com cspan. We will get to your calls in just a minute. How do you want lawmakers in washington to spend these federal dollars . What are your priorities . Take a look at the drudge report, the banner headline federal spending sword. Wall street journal with similar headline. U. S. Budget deficit grew 39 in the firs
Teachers, your line is 7028000. We want to hear from School Administrators at 2027 028001. Parents, we want to hear from you at 2027028002. If you dont fit into any of those categories, we still want to hear what you think. You can always reach us on social media come on twitter, and on facebook. Lets set up the question for you. Of teachertopic pay has been a hot one in the democratic president ial race for the democratic nomination. One of the first candidates to jump off was Kamala Harris, who came out in april with her proposal for raising teacher pay in new hampshire. Here is what she had to say. Lets be clear, there are two groups of people raising our children, parents, often with the assistance of grandparents, and our teachers. We are not paying them their value when we know teachers in our country make 10 less than similarly College Educated individuals. Which is why as president i will implement what will be the first time in our nation a federal investment in closing that t
the speaker: the house will be in order. the prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. chaplain conroy: let us pray. heavenly father, thank you for giving us another day. we thank you for every day you give us to be here at the seat of participative government. breast the work of all the men and women who represent the people of the united states. fill them with wisdom and good will that they might better work together for the benefit of our nation. bless all the leaders of all the branches of our government at the end of a difficult week when the divisions in our polity and our faith have been on open display for all the world to see. father, forgive us and send us your spirit that we might indeed heal the divisions and learn to love those with whom we disagree even our enemies. may all that is done this day be for your greater honor and glory, amen. the speaker: the chair has examined the journal of the last day s proceedings and announces to the house her ppro
Our country and our church and by every social and Human Behavior american youth. We strongly urge congress to act and immediately resume work toward a legislative solution. We pledge our support to work on finding an expeditious means of protecting daca youth. As people of faith, we say to daca youth, regardless of your immigration status, you are children of god and welcomed in the Catholic Church. The Catholic Church supports you and ll advocate for you. That was september 5, 2017. That was the day that the president issued his statement. Now, having worked with the bishops for a while, for them to have such a definitive statement so quickly is pretty remarkable because sometimes it takes a bit longer for their deliberative process to work. But this came right away. Ok. This is doctors and dreamers. I mentioned about the need for doctors and the ambition and he vocation that these young people were feeling toward becoming doctors and i read this. The association of american medical