Member, John Sarbanes, as well as delegates. This is an hour. Speaker pelosi good morning, everyone. That poster of the women members of congress. Thank you for being with us today. It is a very special day in the history of our country. 101 years ago today, the house of representatives voted to pass the 19th amendment. As you know, that is the amendment that gives women the right to vote. Not that they werent given, because they fought very hard for it, but that success was achieved. It took another year to pass the rest of the process, the ratification. In august, we will observe the 100th anniversary of women having the right to vote, but today, we are honoring what happened in the house of representatives on this very day. And we are very proud of the fact that we have over 100 women in congress now, over 90 women on the democratic side. We made a decision about that a long time ago. Among them are carolyn maloney, who could not be with us, but she has been a champion on all of the
On the floor of the Virus Testing center torn apart in ivory coast protesters say it was too close to their homes putting them at high risk. The u. S. President has criticised the World Health Organization for its handling of the coronavirus pandemic donald trump has accused the agency of being china centric and has threatened to cut funding trumps attack on the w. H. O. Comes as the us recorded 1600 covert 19 links deaths in a single day the highest number so far only half of those deaths were in new york state. That is the largest single day increase. We talk about numbers but that 731 people who we lost behind every one of those numbers is an individual is a family the mothers of others a sisters a brother so a lot of pain. Again today for many new yorkers in the arena of the superiors france has become the 4th country to register more than 10000 deaths the government there is expected to extend a lockdown thats been in place since mid march to try to stop the spread of the virus an
Hard Core Public Health measures of case finding Contact Tracing quarantine isolation so in some senses we need to slow down the virus then we need to suppress the virus and then we need to go after the virus and that takes different combinations of different measures. Of social or physical distancing measures and Movement Restriction measures are very hard socially and theyre very hard economically and we need to use whatever time those measures are in place to put him place the Public Health architecture can then go after the virus because lifting those measures may result in the disease returning if you dont have in place the Public Health measures to do you. Yeah i think if he thinks just very simply about what physical distance you know he think of think of a large gathering or you think of a crowded space and people are very close to one another if you had acted in the video. In that clustering of people the opportunity for the virus to pass between people is much greater because
Depp hes premiering the film me not to replace an activist for tough. Times sumi so much kind of good to have you with us we start with the aftermath of the shootings in the german city of han how that have jolt of the country interior minister of course a whole thing has announced a Stronger Police presence across the country to counter what he describes as a very high Security Threat from the far right that comes after the terrorist attack in one now 2 nights ago when 10 people were killed by a suspected right wing extremist one which is near frankfurt has a multiethnic population of about 100000 some of the shooting victims were of turkish and kurdish descent the citizens of one hour trying to come to terms with what happened. The city and shock the crime scenes a place for mourners to pay their respects they say the impact of the murders goes beyond the tragic loss of life. Does this really worries me the social and Political Climate in germany is very scary. As a german with a mig
States senate, and in our country. Thank you t to say for all that you have done for us. First personally when i came to congress, you were one of the first individuals to and to give me advice and encouragement and to day, every time i see you, you do that. And you will never know how much means. I just want to publicly state isakson, senator isakson, is a hero for people country. S this your brilliant mind and your leadership will always be here. We say thank you from the bottom our heart. May god bless you and your family as you go into this next chapter. You. I yield back. Mr. Scott madam speaker, rise my colleagues and i to honor the legislative legacy and the life of my good friend and fellow georgia bulldog, u. S. Senator Johnny Isakson. 20 years, senator isakson have served the people of georgia and the United States congress. Tirelessly fighting for the people of georgia. Uring his tenure, senator isakson has been a bell weather for many in our belweather, many in our delegati