Election, everyone was in good spirits. We welcomed our new members. Were excited about them and the opportunity to serve with people from throughout the north to south to east and the west. Another incredibly diverse class that will add to the most Diverse Congress in the history of the republic. More women serving in congress than ever before. More africanamericans. More latinos. More asian americans. More members of the lgbtq community. Two muslimamerican women. Two native american women both serving in congress for the first time in history. And our diversity will be strengthened by the new class upon its arrival. We also value the fact that our Long National nightmare is about to come to an end. On january 20 at noon. Because the most existential threat to our democracy, our values, our american way of life has been defeated decisively. He lost the popular vote. Decisively. He lost the Electoral College vote decisively. Joe biden has secured more votes than any other president ial
Industry the biotech playing a role in the coronavirus pandemic . Yearrly in january of this , most of the biotechnology industry was focused on cancer. About 55 of it. With very little or no programs in covid. When the industry came together early in january, we had called tom together and asked them tell us what did they see happening in china. What they saw happening led very quickly to 40 or 50 of them saying we will jump on finding cures or vaccines right now. And january, over 770 programs were initiated. And what this meant was the entire industry pivoted, not because we were asked to do it, but because we decided it was the right thing to do. Incredible high risk taken. Weare where we are today, have close to 170 new vaccines on the horizon. Imminent and then in addition to which, you have a whole host of antivirals being developed and a whole new science but attacking the virus is coming out. Lets talk about the news that was announced. Moderna has a vaccine. This follows pfiz
Narrow vote to advance the nomination this afternoon. Live coverage when centers return on cspan2. House Democratic Caucus leaders talked to reporters about their goals during the current lameduck session in preparation for the next congress in january. Good morning everyone, thank you for your patience. Good to be back here in the United States capital. Weve had our first caucus meeting this morning, we did it virtually. Subsequent to the november elections, everyone was in good spirits. We welcomed our new members. Were excited about them and the opportunity to serve with people from throughout the north, south, east and west and other incredibly diverse plans that we have to the most Diverse Congress in the history of the republic. More women serving in congress than ever before, more africanamericans, more latinos, or asian americans, more members of the lgbt q community, to muslim americans. Women, two native american women serving in congress for the first time in history and our
[captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [captions Copyright National able satellite corp. 2020] House Democrats also held a News Conference today. This runs half an hour. Mr. Jeffries good morning, everyone. Thank you for your patience. Its great to be back here in the United States capitol. We had our first caucus meeting this morning. We did it virtually. Subsequent to the november elections, everyone was in good spirits. We welcomed our new members. Were excited about them. And the opportunity to serve with people from throughout the north, the south, the east and the west and other another incredibly diverse class that will add to the most Diverse Congress in the history of the republic. More women serving in congress than ever before. More africanamericans. More latinos. More asian americans. More members of the lgbtq community. Two Muslim American women. Two native american women bot
Im the historian at the house. And my job is to collect biographical information on members, gather lists and to conduct oral histories. We answer reference questions in our office that come from on the hill and off the hill and we try to tell the story of the house which is this very big, very Old Institution in a way in which people can kind of connect with it at a human level. We do that through telling biographical stories or clips from oral histories that give people kind of a human sense of a very large institution. And today we thought we would try and do that with you by telling you about the history of women in congress which is a history that dates back to the early 20th century. This is a nifty piece of campaign femora. Its Clare Boothe Luce memorabilia. And Clare Boothe Luce would have been the republican counterpart of helen douglas. She was well known to the general public. Her career really had started as a writer and editor. She later married henry luce, the founder of