Announcer Speaker Pelosi good morning, everyone, thank you for being here. Later. Are, a week in the next week since we passed the heroes that. I am so very proud of the substance of it. They were dazzling and how they put together initiatives to meet the needs of the American People. , and i am proud of the courage of my members to support the legislation and could not have been more proud than to hear the debate on the floor when they talked about meeting the needs of the American People while the other side was talking about we could take a pause. We dont agree with that. We dont take a pause, because again, hunger, losing your job doesnt take a pause, paying your rent doesnt take a pause, the list goes on. Our legislation had three main pillars. All of which had been supported in a bipartisan way. Policeour heroes, fire, teachers, for providers, transit workers, the list goes on. In many cases, these people are risking their lives to save other peoples lives. Am now, they may lose
Announcer Speaker Pelosi Speaker Pelosi good morning, everyone. Thank you for being here. We have some visitors, virtually. And all of you, thank you. Here we are, a week later. Not quite a week, but in the next week since we passed the heroes act. Im so very, very proud of the substance of it. I have said that our chairs of the committees in jurisdiction were dazzling in how they put together initiatives to meet the needs of the American People. Initiatives to meet the needs of the American People. , and i am proud of the courage of my members to there are three, and im proud of the courage of my members to support the legislation, and i couldnt have been more proud than to hear the debate on the floor. Floor when they talked abt meeting the needs of the American People while the other side was talking about we could take a pause. We dont agree with that. We dont take a pause, because again, hunger, losing your job doesnt take a pause, paying your rent doesnt take a pause, the list go
Identifying areas for improvement, identifying areas for managerial improvement. The problem is that those improvements rarely get made. And to the extent that congressional action is necessary to make some of these changes, theres so much else to do. Theres very little glory in eliminating a program especially if people face layoffs. Theres even less glory in that. So to some extent its not that we dont know where to cut that we dont know which programs work and which ones dont. We do have some Good Government reports that help guide those decisions, but its that from recognizing the problem the next step is missing. Where is the action to actually get rid of some of these programs . I think thats exactly right. It comes in the action. When you were talking what popped in my mind was Ronald Reagans famous quote about politics and Foreign Relations which is trust but verify. And that seems to work for a lot of issues we deal with in our life. But when it comes to government spending, y
And from that, by working long, hard hours, they gave their three children fine educations in outstanding, Great American universities. The university of california at berkeley, the university of california at los angeles. The university of Southern California and the university of wisconsin. They were our change agents and yes, those drag queens at the Stonewall Inn also are much age agents. Just are my change agents. This nation has been defined by change agents. When this nation was founded, women had no rights, they could not vote, they could not own land, they could not even have rights over their own children. Because determined women and fairminded man challenged and debated and marched for equal rights for women, today we have three women sitting on the Supreme Court of this country. We have had three women serve as u. S. Secretaries of state. And weve had a woman astronaut lead a team of astronauts and go soaring out into space. They were all change agents. The first change ag
Is it for fun, ford venture . For adventure . Is it for the money . There are easier ways to make money than this. Like the earths plates when they snap like violent political change, and we see how the plates are fitting together. We do so the innocents have a voice. We do it because we have decided this is what we want to do with our slice of time on this planet. Event back in may. All of the available in our Field Library at www. Cspan. Org. Looking live at the iwo jima memorial just outside washington based on the photograph by Joseph Rosenthal in 1945. It was the inspiration for the iwo jima memorial, the marine corps memorial. Our focus on the townhall tonight is looking at the Media Coverage of war and we will be joined by a freelance videographer who has done a number of tours in iraq and afghanistan or cspan and other news organizations. We will show you some of his video and hear from him as well. We are taking your tweets and facebook comments. We are asking you, whered you