earlier today british prime minister boris johnson congratulated joe biden and vice president kamala harris on the inauguration kelly members he look forward to working with the new administration on a range of issues including climate trains and security, the into the answered question on vaccine distribution in the government s response to the pandemic. order before call the prime minister may i express on behalf of the house the best wishes to president biden and vice president harris on their inauguration day, we know questions of the prime minister. i will first call the prime minister to answer the engagement question and then i will call to ask a question prime minister. members from across the house floor want to join me in congratulating brandon on his inauguration today. and as president and the administration and the partnership between our countries and working on our shared priorities from climate change, building back better from the pandemic and strengt
schumer gave his first speech as majority leader and senator mcconnell delivered his first remarks as minority leader. [applause] [applause] [applause] [applause] consent. [inaudible] select the chair lace before the senate to certificates of election for the state of georgia and a certificate of appointment to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of former senator kamala d harris of california. [laughter] [applause] yes that was very weird. [laughter] the certificatesse the chair is advisor in the form suggested by the senate. if there be no objection the reading of the certificates will be waived and they will be printed in full in the record s. if the senators elect and senator designate will now present themselves at the desk, the chair will administer the oath ofr- office. mr. also if, mr. padilla, mr. warnock. please raise your right hand. do you solemnly swear that will support and defend the constitution of the united states against all enemies foreign an
earliest supporters in campaign 2020. congressman boyle, was this the inauguration and the message that you envisioned when you announced your endorsement of joe biden on that first day that he said he was running for the presidency? guest: good to be back with you and great to be back on c-span. when joe first announced and i endorsed him immediately that morning, it was almost two years ago. we were well before covid, and certainly the inaugural that i envisioned was something more typical in terms of crowds, and we have learned this whole new vocabulary in the last year that just didn t exist two years ago social distancing and the need to mask up etc. and then of course the other major changes, security understandably required. the fact that a few of us who are able to attend the ceremony did so under very heavy national guard protection inside fences that had barbed wire on them. so that was unlike anything any of us would have envisioned two years ago, and yet despite
mr. mccarthy: i guess it s still good morning. this week the united states completed the process of transitioning to a new president. i want to again congratulate president biden and vice president harris. i want to also thank president trump and vice president pence for their service to our country. also acknowledge the many achievements that their administration was able to achieve. in just four years, we were able to build the greatest american economy we have seen in a generation. strengthen our military, pass historic peace deals, secured our southern border, and ratified the united states-mexico-canada trade agreement. while there was change of the political party in the white house, the problems we need to address still impact america. our republican, democrat, and independents alike need to work together. president biden takes over at a time when america needs to get back to work, get their kids back to school, and get every american vaccinated who wants one. this is
i want to wel hello. i want to welcome everyone to lessons on policing from the capitol. i teach at georgetown with two criminal defense clinics that we are lucky to have. prior to georgetown i was a public defender here in washington d.c. and i write criminal received during the last two years. i started to write about the connection between white supremacy and policing. i m excited to talk with all of you about this topic and i m really excited to speak with her fester lopez put professor lopez is someone i ve long admired and thank you for this opportunity to have some time to talk with you. i have been missing you and have been wanting to chat with you. as justin expected would be over this topic unfortunate but i m glad we are able to have this conversation. it s an important conversation especially after yesterday. i don t know about all of you but i m so amazed that several reasons but the fact that there was no violence yesterday and we here in the capitol relat