Everyone. Thank you for your patienc rep. Jeffries good morning, everyone. Thank you for your patience. The caucus call just ended, lasted approximately an hour and 45 minutes. We had a very robust discussion as to where we are in the context of the covid19 pandemic. Continuedneed for a aggressive and transformational response. This is a very simple question. We all at the capital have to ask and answer. Events an extraordinary that has afflicted the American People or not . Event,s an extraordinary the congressional covid19 Pandemic Response should be extraordinary as well. We as House Democrats believe it is an extraordinary event. Almost 200,000 americans have died. That is more than the number of americans who died during the war, ther, the vietnam iraq,ar, 9 11, the war in and the war in a guinness stand combined afghanistan combined. More than 100,000 Small Businesses have permanently closed. More than 6 million americans have been infected by the coronavirus and counting. Americ
Your unfiltered view of politics. Democratic caucus chair and vice chair brief reporters on the House Democratic agenda. They discuss ongoing covid19 relief funding negotiations saying they will not leave until legislation is passed. Congressman jeffries also talked about government ending and legislation that would decriminalize marijuana. This is half an hour. Rep. Jeffries good morning, everyone. Thank you for your patience. Call just ended, lasted approximately an hour and 45 minutes. We had a very robust discussion as to where we are in the context of the covid19 pandemic. Continueded for a aggressive and transformational response. This is a very simple question. We all at the capital have to ask and answer. Events an extraordinary that has afflicted the American People or not . Event,s an extraordinary the congressional covid19 Pandemic Response should be extraordinary as well. We as House Democrats believe it is an extraordinary event. Almost 200,000 americans have died. That is
Serve as cochair of one of the groups vote safe. How did you get involved . Vote safe is a political or bipartisan effort. Im cochairing this initiative with the former governor of michigan. The object is to see on november safe and secure options for the voting public. Be it inperson balloting or absentee ballots. Initially we sent out letters to the 50 secretaries of state, encouraging them to make sure those options were open. And securesafe opportunities. Likewise for absentee ballots. We also encouraged them that if they need additional resources, though we share the belief that the federal government had response billions well, if they needed extra dollars to sustain both of those options, not to be too timid to make sure congress provides assistance to achieve those tools. We want options, safe and secure. November 3, president ial elections, senate elections, congressional elections, local elections, maximum participation is our goal. Ilin lets talk about ma voting the day afte
Impeachment against President Trump. Join the conversation all morning with your phone calls, emails, facebook comments, and tweets. Washington journal is next. Host this is the washington journal for december 12, the House Judiciary Committee meets at 9 00 to vote on the two articles of impeachment. If it passes the committee today, it will head to the full house for a vote next week. The house of representatives comes in at 9 00. If you want to see the hearing, these articles of impeachments, which starts at 9 00, you can go to our cspan 3 channel starting at 9 00 and that is where you will see shots of the room you are seeing now. If you want to follow along, you can do so at cspan. Org and listen on our radio app. You can comment on the latest phase by calling 2027488001 for republicans. 2027488000 for democrats. Nd independents, 2027488002 you can also text us at 2027488003. If you want to post on twitter, you can do so cspanwj and you can post on our Facebook Page at facebook. Co
House, now that we been able to reopen and have you all here. I hope you take time afterward to walk around if you have another chance to see what weve done. By the end of this year we will have brought over 15 authors to toledo and thats made possible through generous report of the Library Legacy foundation and gifts will allow us to not only bring world are nine authors to toledo but also help the library to be at abthat includes things like homework helpers, the ready to read program and our summer read. Speaking of summer read, we will soon be announcing a winter read so keep an eye out for that we will try to get our Community Reading just like we do in the summer through the month of january. In addition to the Library Legacy foundation we owe a debt of gratitude to our presenting media sponsor. Buckeye broadband and the blade supporting sponsors peer group and hcr manor care. And Community Sponsors runs of the library. As i mentioned, weve had a great year of authors so far and