Italy is on nationwide lockdown. There will not be anymore zone one or zone to in the country. It will be italy. Italy is a protected zone. All Movement Across the country is to be avoided unless three specific circumstances. Reason of wk, reason of necessity, or health reasons. Amy we will spend the hour on the response to the coronavirus around the world. We will speak with thomas boyd and Thomas Bollyky alfredo morabia. We will go to italy to speak with a student in quarantine and ask about life in the red zone and we will talk to the Marshall Project reporter Keri Blakinger about fighting the virus in prisons where key supplies like alcoholbased sanitizers are banned. We will go to Washington State and talk to an undocumented immigrant organizer about domains to protect thousands in Detention Centers around the United States. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Coronavirus cases continue to surge worl
The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. The clerk the speakers rooms, washington, d. C. October 31, 2019. I hereby appoint the honorable paul tonko to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, nancy pelosi, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore the prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. Haplain conroy let us pray. Dear god, we give you thanks for giving us another day. We ask your special blessing upon the members of this peoples house. They face difficult decisions in difficult times with many forces and interests demanding their attention. Give them again rossity to enter into their work generosity to enter into their work. May they serve you in the work they do as you deserve. Give of themselves and not count the cost, fight for what is best for our nation and not count the political wounds. Toil until their work is done d not seek to rest and labor without
Thank you all for swrojoining u today. The subcommittee will come to order. The chair is authorized to declare a recess at any time. The decision to deport children with critical illnesses, a decision that was recently reversed following public outrage and pressure from the subcommittee. I will now recognize myself for five minutes to give an Opening Statement then turn to the Ranking Member. We are here to get to the bottom of the administrations mysterious campaign to deport critically ill children and their families. It appears that this policy has thankfully been reversed. They rose up in an outcry at the cold humanity on display. Im going to treat this hearing not only as an honor to Elijah Cummings, but as a hearing in direct pursuit of a policy objective that was close to his heart. The threatened deportation of Sick Children was such an outrage the to chairman cummings that his last official act before his death was to issue subpoenas to hold the administration to his account.
To the bottom get of the campaign to deport critically ill children and their families. It appears this policy has thankfully been reversed after congress and the American People outcry at the cold inhumanity on display in this policy. I am going to treat this hearing is not only an honor of the memory of our late beloved chairman, elijah cummings, but as a hearing indirect pursuit of a policy directive that was close to his heart, the threatened deportation of Sick Children that his very last official act before his death was to issue subpoenas to hold the administration to account. On wednesday, in the waning hours of his life through all pain and difficulty, chairman cummings recognized the stain this policy would leave on our nation, and he made holding the government accountable his final official act. And we now have a sacred obligation to follow through on his subpoenas to make sure that we defend some of the most Vulnerable People on the planet, Sick Children who have come as s
The administrations decision to support children with Critical Illness is a decision that was recently reversed following public outrage and pressure from the subcommittee that i will now recognize myself for five minutes to give an Opening Statement and then i will turn to the Ranking Member. We are here to get to the bottom of the administrations mysterious campaign to deport critically ill children and their families. It appears this policy has thankfully been reversed after congress and the American People rose up in an outcry with full inhumanity on display in this policy. Im going to treat this hearing is not only an honor in the memory of her late beloved chairman Elijah Cummings but as a hearing in direct pursuit of a policy objective that was close to his heart that threatened deportation of Sick Children was that such outreach chairman cummings that his last official act before his death was to issue subpoenas to hold the administration to account. On wednesday in the waning