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 do. 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 f
Democrats, 2027488000. Independents, 2027488002. We have a separate fourth line for folks living in border states, 2027488003 is your number. Invitecannot call, we your comments on social media. cspanwj is our twitter handle and you can post a comment at facebook. Com cspan. Here is how the Washington Times is reporting on all of this. Democrats giveandtake on trump border aid legislation. Five months after labeling the border a manufactured crisis, Speaker Pelosi led democrats to approve 4. 5 billion humanitarian aid package. Democrats took their pound of flesh in the vote, deleting some of the president s priorities such as money for investigators to stop human traffickers and more detention beds for i. C. E. They packed the bill on new rules on how mr. Trump can spend money and conditions migrants face at the border. Here is nancy pelosi on the floor yesterday. [video clip] today we found out the administration is sending children back to a station in clint, texas, where days earlie
Are rich and can hire fancy accountants and lawyers and lobbyists to help create special tax statuses. Im talking about americans dependent on Government Programs many im not talking about disability or Social Security or medicare, programs they made into. Im talking about programs that assist antipoverty programs. Something else we should talk about again. Some are not working in terms of helping people escape poverty. Im talking about people who work and make just enough not to qualify for any of that stuff but not enough to afford the cost of living. Not just them. You add to that the cost of raising children. Its more expensive to raise children more than ever. There is nothing we can do in tax reform by itself that solves all of those problems, but there is no way we can do tax reform without addressing the millions of americans who feel every time there is a debate in washington its about helping everybody else except for them. So take, for example, the issue of the Child Tax Cre
U. S. Defense officials after nine months of training and equipping Syrian Rebels to fight eyes as they have only four or five rebels on the battlefield with a few dozen more on the way. Here the chair the of the Senate Armed Services committee is john mccain, the Ranking Member zachary. The Senate Armed Services Committee Meets to receive testimony on the United States strategy of military operations counter Islamic State of iraq or isil. I want to thank the witnesses under secretary wormuth and general austin for appearing before us today and their continued service to our nation. Its been one year since president obama spoke to the nation about the threat posed by isil and increased to u. S. Military operations against us. Many of us believe the goal of the present laid out quote to degrade and ultimately destroy isil is right. Many of us agree the military strategy that seeks to empower local horses and i dashed to combat isil. With training equipment assistance in their power one
Lessig. A conversation with carter and a discussion of Health Topics from around the world. Saturday night at 11, former vp Dick Cheney Dick Cheney and his daughter, former Deputy Assistant of state on their book exceptional which looks at form policy. On cspan three, saturday starting at noon, we are live from georgia for a commemoration a commemoration of the 13000 Union Soldiers whod died during the civil war and the Confederate Military prison camp questions will be taken before and after the ceremony by phone, facebook and twitter. Sunday out for on real america, Pope John Paul ii as they address the United Nations. Get our complete schedule at cspan. Org. Next u. S. Ambassador to the un, samantha power. She talked about the upcoming meeting in the General Assembly later this month. She answered questions about russes support of the assad regime. This is just under one hour. Today we have samantha power. This is her first visit with our dining club. Many of her predecessors have b