Cincinnati, toledo, buffalo, and all across the midwest. There are literally almost a dozen. Its exciting work and its important work and its really focussed on kind of national and regional and local economic policy. Great. Im going to follow up with you again, steve, for a minute. Director rodriguez said that absent federal action, congressional action, we cannot do it all. So, with employmentbased visas, you cant create them or other types of visas. What strategies do you use to overcome those types of challenges . Sure. Make no mistake that the biggest economic boost would be a more sense kal and higher performing federal immigration policy that works for local economies. And maybe even as localized, clearly the challenges that we face in detroit are very different than long beach or new york city. And our skill sets and needs are very different. And probably one size fit all policy might not work as well, but absent that, were trying to do everything we can to take advantage of th
Regional and local economic policy. Great. Im going to follow up with you again, steve, for a minute. Director rodriguez said that absent federal action, congressional action, we cannot do it all. So, with employmentbased visas, you cant create them or other types of visas. What strategies do you use to overcome those types of challenges . Sure. Make no mistake that the biggest economic boost would be a more sense kal and higher performing federal immigration policy that works for local economies. And maybe even as localized, clearly the challenges that we face in detroit are very different than long beach or new york city. And our skill sets and needs are very different. And probably one size fit all policy might not work as well, but absent that, were trying to do everything we can to take advantage of the opportunities that we have. And frankly, a lot of that work would repair us well if some kind of Immigration Reform policy was passed. So what do we do . One is i mentioned Interna
The chair will alternate recognition between the parties with each party limited to one hour and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and the minority whip each, to five minutes t in no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. The chair recognizes the gentleman from North Carolina, mr. Butterfield, for five minutes. Mr. Utterfield thank you, speaker. Mr. Speaker, with the stroke of a pen, 49 years ago today several weeks after i finished high school, thenpresident Lyndon Johnson signed into law two of the largest and most important healthrelated programs the country had ever seen, medicare and medicaid. Those programs were created nearly half a century ago because our nations leaders saw time and time again the hopelessness of people who had no way to provide the most basic level of health care for themselves and their families. It was president harry truman ho initially conceived our Health Care Safety net for struggling americans. Nearly 70 years ago truman
I would hope that the Lgbt Community would recognize me to continuing that progress is the key to the progress weve made so far which is engagement and political engagement. And what also recognize that both the Supreme Court and elsewhere around the country we have systematically than limiting what was a limited democracy to begin with and making true selfgovernment harder and harder and would recognize if our political progress and progress on race and gender and a series of other things are intimately tied up in making this really into a self functioning democracy again i recognize that commonality is political. I would say that we need to recognize issues of race, class, sex is some are lgbt issues and we have an investment not only in cases like this one, but comprehensive Immigration Reform in access to health care. All of these are lgbt issues because people look like the rest of the country. We shouldnt get so into our silo that we forget that. Theres something about being a mi
The speaker good morning. Good morning. Just three weeks ago the Supreme Court took a wrecking ball to the fundamental good morning. Just three weeks ago they overturned roe v. Wade. We women must again Extremist Court and republican party. Disturbingly Congressional Republicans want to go even further than the court as they plot to criminalize abortions in all 50 states. That is why today our prochoice, prowomen democratic majority stands resolute. We will take further action to defend womens reproductive freedoms. Today the house will pass landmark bills. Our Womens Health protection act to make the essential protections of roe the law of the land. Thank you to congresswoman judy chu for leading us in passing this bill today for the second time this congress. Our womens right to reproductive freedom act, will protect women who exercise the right to travel across statelines to get abortion care. Let us salute congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher and congresswoman Marilyn Strickland for their