but it was the worry of these wires, the telegraphy pole had been broken and were lying on the floor and we were worried that they may still be alive. and all the false promises from northern powergrid about we will get it back on monday, thursday, friday, today, tomorrow. i was really nervous because nobody would come out and deal with these broken cables, i was worried they would turn it back on and they would become live again. have you heard of anyone, let s hope not, anyone being hurt in all of this? no, that is the positive thing. we haven t heard of anyone. the big disaster here is that the company as large as northern powergrid not having a plan, an action plan that was implemented immediately. things seem to be happening now when we get the army and everybody up from down south and there were two really nice guys who came from halifax who came and looked at the garden and the wires and that is a week later. nothing seems to have happened, there doesn t seem to be an emergency
parliamentarian about this process very, very soon. hoping to get a better understanding of the current language of the bill, if it s going to be able to be kept in the senate version, jose. and speaking with senator menendez, senator padilla, and others who are very determined to include that in the senate s version, whatever it ends up being, the question, peter, is, i don t see necessarily a plan b for senators and house members who want to see this immigration reform in this package. it seems if it s not, if it s stripped out once again, there doesn t seem like a lot of plan b planning, peter. one reason you put in a bill like this is an order to get it through rather than a stand-alone piece of legislation, so it doesn t become a debate just about immigration. you get a lot of people in theory swallowing something that they might not otherwise support. because they support the rest of the bill. but, you know, the senate democrats have an option, if they want it, if i under
you know, what is it for you, congressman, that the american dream is, when i see about how the road you have taken to get to where you are today. the american dream to me is the idea, and doesn t matter where you re from, doesn t matter the color of your skin or the god you worship, that if you work hard, you re going to succeed. my parents are immigrants from mexico. they didn t have more than a third grade education. i was born here. i was fortune that the randomness of my birth took place here in this country and that allow med to have opportunities that other people didn t. i went to a community college, went to ucla, and ended up going to get my masters at harvard university. in what other country can you do that the son of a farm worker can end up in congress? and that s what we want. we want to see more stories like that. there is a lot of them, but we want more. because that s what america is about. is that you re not limited by the by who your parents are and you re not l
down in long speeches or people s career or what happens if this doesn t happen. what we re talking about is what has happened. and it s a glorious, glorious historic, transformative piece of legislation for the people, for women, for the children. thank you all very much. and by the way. happy thanksgiving to all of you. as our distinguished assistant speaker has said, we have a lot to be thankful for this thanksgiving. and i want to express hi gratitude for president joe biden. thank you all very much. so there you saw, speaker pelosi and the democratic leadership in the house speaking to us this morning from capitol hill. gosh, you know, i wish they would have asked, because there s so much in this bill of importance, including $100 billion, a deal with immigration. you know, expanding the child tax credits for all people in the united states, including immigrants.
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