Ton of information. So just kind of taking it all in. Its been great. Its been great. Last night we did a tour of the capitol, which was very nice. Immediately what we noticed was we need more statues of africanamericans. There are not enough statues of africanamericans. Thats key. I want to see Sojourner Truth and others. We need to do a better job of telling the whole american story. The story of the Indigenous People and how they were here and their culture and how they thrived. The story of the africanamerican experience as well. Its been great. So far, so good. Can i ask you, have you heard of any challenges to speaker pa lowsy, are you ready to support her . I have not heard of any challenges. I am ready to support her bid. I dont think there will be challenges. And right now, im just excited to come together with my colleagues and move the country forward. And my focus, laserlike focus on several weeks is on georgia. If we can win those two senate races in georgia, that could be
Good afternoon. President elect biden and i just met with some of our nations business and union leaders. Together they represent millions of workers across our country. And some of americas leading technology, auto and retail companies. We had an important conversation about the impact that this pandemic has had on workers. Especially essential workers, frontline workers, who have risked their own health and the health of their families and many whom have given their own lives to keep us safe and keep our economy running. And we all know that this pandemic and this recession have hit communities of color particularly hard. Black americans and latinos are threetimes as likely to contract covid as others and more likely to die. Native americans are more than four times as likely to be hospitalized as others. And last month, the Unemployment Rate for black americans was almost twice the rate of others. And we have also had a conversation about the impact this pandemic has had on our econ
The whole house will join me, addressing condolences to the family of Jonathan Sacks who passed away saturday. Mr. Speaker, i know the whole house will want to join me in sending our deepest sympathies to the family and friends of the rabbi. He sadly passed away on saturday. His leadership had a profound impact on our whole country and across the world. May his memory be a blessing. Armistice day gives us a chance to say thanks to those who have given their lives in service to this country. Thank you, mr. Speaker. According to homeoffice figures, just 12 of victims have received compensation and nine people have died waiting. This is 2. 5 years after the task force was set up. What will the government do what will the Prime Minister do to rectify this injustice but also ensure that no others who have come to the u. K. To live and work do not suffer in the same way the wind rushed victims do . Suffer. The honorable lady, and is a disgrace doing this collectively to make amends. I met me
Hey, connell. Cohn cohn were connell were getting hit grim milestones with the covid19 it would appear. Total number of cases will top 200,000 by end of the day. The in new york city the death toll has topped 1000. 43,000 plus infections, death toll at 1096. Now one of the issues here locally has been how to keep the firstresponders safe. If you look at the nypd, the new York City Police department, 15 of the workforce has called out sick. You know that adds up to about 5000 workers. So a little bit more than that. Over 1000 Uniformed Police officers in new york have tested covid19 positive. And some others told us they have had trouble actually getting the test or, you know, waiting a number of days to get the results back. They have to sit out on the job while they wait out the results in some cases. Similar situation at the fire department. Similar situation at ems. All of that is going on. While help is coming in on the medical side, we talked all week long about the huge hospital
Silicon valley bank and Signature Bank collapse. S. The hearing took place before a House Financial Services subcommittee and runs about 90 minutes. Without objection, all members will have five legislative days to submit extraneous materials to the chair for inclusion in the record. I would like to take five minute heres for a brief opening statement. Mr. Huizenga congressional oversight a a constitutional authority, used to maintain the well being of government. This is a lesson i learned from my fellow congress sorry, weve got to make sure we get the timer going. There we go. This lesson of oversight was something that i learned from someone who is considered the lion of the house, john dingell. He was still in congress when i first came here and he taught me a couple of things. One, he called it the tyranny of the vote. Didnt matter who you were with, what you were doing, what was happening or where you were. When they rang the bells we had that time to go to the house floor to vot