Than 1 Million People have contracted the coronavirus in the United States. 61,000 in the state of illinois. Sadly we are quickly approaching a death toll of 100,000 americans. While more people continue to contract this coronavirus another alarming trend has come to light. The coronavirus disproportionately affects minority communities. Illinois makes up less than 50 of the states vulnerable population. They account for 34 of all coronavirus deaths. In Chicago Black residents account for 52 of the total coronavirus deaths despite comprising only 30 of the citys population. Madam president recently a survey of latinos and alumni who make up 17 of our states population surpassed black illinoisans in confirmed cases of coronavirus. Now latino illinoisans account for in the state that most cases of any race or ethnicity. On the c call with the Illinois Community Health Centers last week i learned 34,000 africanamericans who had been tested and alumni, 36 were positive for coronavirus and
It was a big day at a time, when they had been dreaming of since the president was inaugurated nearly three years ago they rushed into a partisan impeachment a process and now ty are trying to make up for the mistakes that the chair man and Speaker Pelosi made in the first place for example they want to relitigate things like executive privilege and whether the testimony of other witnesses should be included in the trial. The house wants to tell the senate how to conduct the trial. They had its job to do and frankly i think thats handled it butth now they have no say in the way that the senate conducts the impeachment trial when and if they decide to send them over here. 12 weeks is all it took to come up with what they believed was enough evidence to warrant a vote on the articles of v impeachment. I think they are experiencing some buyers remorse. During the 12 weeks we heard House Democrats see how urgent the matter was. Seemingly using urgency as an excuse for the investigation. Th
Been. As well as others both in president bush and as administration as well as in others lenski administration has been a good partner to the United States as i think i told you before hes a very practical man and looking for partners and getting the job done im shocked that social media would be the site of negative comments on. The. You certainly can understand that. The president aware of minister of archives you know statements aware of what mr le shankar was up to with ambassador charlie was our view. And these other elements that weve discussed that there certainly forms a reasonable basis to wonder whether there are influential. You know elements of the ukrainian establishment that were out to get the president. I you know again i mean i cant speak for what President Trump thought or what others thought i would just say that those elements that youve are cited dont seem to me to be the ukrainian you know kind of a plan or a plot of the Ukrainian Government to work against. Pres
Committee. This seems more appropriate for the subcommittee on Human Resources at the Foreign Affairs committee, if theres issues with implement, disagree was with the administration it would seem like it would be more appropriate setting instead of at impeachment hearing where the ambassador is not a material fact witness to anything, any of the accusations that are being hurled at the president for this impeachment inquiry. I have several questions i think, mr. Castor wants to get to. I know ms. Stefanik him give a few quick question for the ambassador. Yield to you, ms. Stefanik. Thank you, mr. Nunes. Ambassador yovanovitch, the gentlewoman will suspend. What is the interruption for this time . It is our time. You are not recognized. Mr. Nunes, you are i just recognize under 660 youre not allowed deal time except to spin is the Ranking Member yield a time to another thats not accurate. That is accurate. Ambassador yovanovitch, i want to thank you for being here today. You are not re
John sarbanes for being such a tremendous leadership in integrity in government by working this issue for a long ti time. That then became hr1 when the democrats had the majority in congress. He has been one who has seen and heard from the public how concerned they are about the role of big, dark money in politics and how that undermines their confidence that congress can ever act to lower Prescription Drug prices, to protect our environment, the list goes on and on because of that big dark money. And so his role as chair of the Democratic Reform Task force and lead sponsor of hr1 is to be commended for anyone who wants to improve not only our reducing the role of money in politics, but restoring the confidence of the American People and what we do here. I also want to acknowledge the leadership of madam chair, the chair of the House Administration committee. She is a champion, a brilliant legal mind that we call upon in many arena areas here and a champion of securing our elections. W