You have children being treated inhumanely, women, pregnant women, the elderly, vulnerable populations being treated like they are subhuman. You have an overfilled concrete where theyold floors are piled on top of each other. Children soil themselves without diapers. Mucus and vomit on their shirts. Inadequate amount of food. They are given burritos that are still frozen. Seeing one bathroom for 400 people. You are seeing open toilets where the women have to stand and guard their body around another young woman to use the toilet. It is so subhuman, these conditions. I am aground is that boardcertified emergency physician. , have done flight medicine medical command in the city of pittsburgh during my training. I am also an expert in public humanitarianained at harvard with the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative as well andraining with the icrc responded after the Haiti Earthquake became medical director of the largest internally internal camp right after the Haiti Earthquake. What i saw a
Pretty simple. They talk about jobs, a strong economy, a strong defense. But in this particular case i was doing it about ridgecrest and it was about disaster assistance. Just had a multiple of earthquakes, some even yesterday weve been through. They were looking to see where their government would be. Theres a military base there too, see if wed be able to rebuild it. When i answered questions about what was going on in the house for the last week, talked about an impeachment bill coming up. The contempt. And anything else this new socialist democrat majority wanted to do to go after this administration. Whats interesting is, i didnt turn to the republicans for the question, i found a question that i agreed with that came from a chief of staff from a democratic member. That challenged anyone to name one thing that the democrats have done to help the voters around the issues around the Kitchen Table of that telephone town hall that night. I agree with him, theres not one i have found.
A monitor breakfast so welcome. A bit of background he was born in south bend indiana and grew , up in the dina minnesota attended First Boston College and the university of alaska fairbanks and played hockey for both. Then he got his law degree at William Mitchell college in st. Paul. 10 years later, he got into politics, first as a city councilman and then a state legislator and after not quite reaching the minnesota governors office, he won a seat in congress. That was in 2014, Michele Bachmanns old seat in the sixth district. Since arriving on the hill, congressman emmer has helped run the congressional hockey challenge where the longtime hockey enthusiast and coach has a reputation, im told, for talking trash. Mr. Emmer i would say being honest. Linda yeah . Ok. I will also add that the congressman has seven children, so i have to ask, are they all rep. Emmer there are six boys and one girl and shes the best athlete out of the whole group. And by the way, shes a sports broadcaster
Washed and cancel. David, we are very proud of you and all you have achieved. , that was ato add terrific introduction. One thing as a former new yorker, is that anybody, oxford, that is all fine, but it is really hard to get into that high school. I think Everything Else is predictable from that moment. It was easier back then. A back then it was a very public high school, one of these test high schools which is what youre referring to when you say its hard to get in. It was also all girls until several years after i arrived there. When i was in ninth grade they started taking boys in the seventh grade which was not realy in keeping with what all the ninth graders thought should happen. So there were only half as many applicants, you know. Clearly the admissions people knew what they were doing. Its delightful to have you here. I think as we start this, everybody very much front of mind is Justice Stevens passing. I know this is a week of mourning at the court. You hold his seat. Just
Moon landing. And the president of the National Association of Immigration Judges on the backlog of immigration cases in the courts. Immigration cases in the court. [video clip] 391n this boat, the yea are this vote is passed. Host the house on thursday passing legislation to increase the federal and mom waged 15 an wage tofederal minimum 15 an hour. They did so on a partyline vote. We want to get your thoughts on the efforts to raise the minimum wage. If you make 15 or less, call in at 2027488000. If you are a Business Owner, 2027488001. And all others call us at 2027488002. You can also join us on twitter at cspanwj or join the conversation at facebook. Com cspan. We will get to your calls in a minute. This is what the raise the age act would do, raise the federal minimum wage to 15 an hour, tie wagee increases to median growth. Ld apply to teen workers of theto a little bit debate on the floor yesterday between democrats and republicans. We will start with [video clip] my parents wo