Trail yesterday in pennsylvania, where he met with voters outside his childhood home in scranton and toward a nearby metalworks facility. The former Vice President also talked about the pandemic and his plan for reopening the economy. Mr. Biden hello, everyone. [applause] let me start off by saying hello to teresa casey and the guy that hangs out with her occasionally. Bobby, thank you. Thanks for being here and for welcoming me home. I want to thank them all. Mayor burke and mayor carnegie, congratulations. Mr. President , as i said earlier, the ironworkers has been with me my entire career. The first operation to ever endorse me, in 1972. I wasnt even old enough to be elected senator, and you guys endorsed me, and i was able to turn 30 by the time i got sworn in. As a time i was elected i wasnt old enough. It is great to be home. My dad is from dunmore, mr. Mayor, and my mom is from scranton. Thank bob and everyone here at Mcgregor Industries for showing me around this morning. Altho
Of rural alabama in 1940 when i was growing up i saw those signs that said white men colored men white women colored women white the son of black sharecroppers lewis devoured books as a child the words of Dr Martin Luther King Jr spoke to him loudest seem like he was saying to me john lewis you too can do something. And i would ask my mother as my father my grandparents my work why segregation why Racial Discrimination it was the best way it is dont get in a way dont get in trouble but trouble would find him many times as a student leader in nashville tennessee lewis was beaten for peacefully protesting segregation at restaurants and on buses in selma Alabama Police cracked his skull as he led a 600. 00 marchers across a bridge. But thats. What it was at age 23 lewis was the youngest leader of the march on washington 2 years later president Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights act into law protecting black americans from discrimination at the polls the act would foreshadow lewiss ow
Michael pompeo for a special conversation with us. Because the secretary with us before brussels 2018, its great to have again. E will be closely watched conversation on challenges facing policy drones on bothic sides in terms of this as always, let me say a word of thanks to our partners, our Founding Partners in the foreign affairs, and all our associate and supporting knowledge partners, im grateful to me say a special thank you to your submissions brief missions instant partnership and support. Let me also say a word secretary make brief to turn this over f for, the wall street journal, will have a conversation with the secretary then the as well. Thank you for joining. Over to you. Secretary of state asking for opening remarks, is mine to keep him busy and we will take questions from the audience. Inviting me. For wanting to watch this today. As we referred too 18 months ag, i made the case to you all that both institutions are in demand themselves we have to assess what they do a
Contra costa county. I hope the students can get back to school because thats where the best learning is done for everyone. Reporter she says shes been hoping to send her daughter back to school in a few weeks. Concords two catholic high schools had been looking at a partial reopening. They must begin this school year this fall through Distance Learning. Reporter but the governors new mandate means those plans are likely to change. Parents we talk to say theyre not happy. This is formative time. They need to be in school, in class with their peers, with their teachers facetoface learning. I dont think anything should be shutdown. They dont shut anything down for the flu. Reporter the Liberty School district in east Contra Costa County also planned to reopen its high schools using the hybrid model. Now the district has just three weeks to gear up to go all virtual. I think the best way to describe how im feeling is sad. Sad as an educator, sad as a superintendent, sad as a parent. Repor
Debate managed by part of the ways and Means Committee. Might consume. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from massachusetts. Mr. Neal im pleased to join with the speaker and other Committee Chairs to have introduced the Patient Protection and Affordable Care enhancement act and welcome consideration of the measure in the house today. Hearing the former chairman of the Energy Committee a few minutes ago, decent guy, he said that there was room for bipartisanship. In the health care debate. I mean, ive been here for a long time. Where was the bipartisanship, and im going to submit something republicans in all the years i have been in this house they have not agreed amongst themselves on health care, never mind agreing with democrats on health care. So for years, weve worked to expand access. Thats what this argument about is about today. We want to make sure that Affordable Health care exists for the American Family and to build on the coverage gains of the Affordable Care act. The c