legislation because it will save lives. 25,000 people die have died since we sent the bill over. since we sent the bill over. not all of them would have been saved. but many of them would have. we have paycheck fairness, equal pay for equal work, violence against women act, reauthorization, issue about minimum wage, people will get increase in their pay, 23 million of them women. equality act and discrimination against the lgbtq community, dream, the promise act, keeping our promise to our precious dreamers. saving our federal election system that they don t seem to be interested in doing, and the list goes on and on. and the climate action now hr-9, that was legislation that we
legislation because it will save lives. 25,000 people have died since we sent the bill over. since we sent the bill over. not all of them would have been saved but many of them would have. we have paycheck fairness for women. we have equal pay for equal work, violence against women acts, reauthorization issues that relate to raising the minimum wage. 30 plus million people will get an increase in their pay if we raise the minimum wage. 23 million of them women. equality acts and discrimination against lgptq community. the dream and promise act. keeping our promise to our precious dreamers. safe act, saving our federal election system that they don t seem to be interested in doing. the list goes on and on. the climate action now, that was legislation that we talked about last weekend when i took
things right here, rev. we voted to lower prescription drugs and healthcare costs. we ve passed the equality act leaning into the needs of lbgtq folk. we have done comprehensive work around reforming the election process and on and on, passed the violence against womening a. done pension reform, paycheck fairness, climate action, stuff on dreamers and tps, and raising the minimum wage. and folks don t think that we can do that and impeachment inquiries at the same time. but i think that we demonstrated that we can do both. rev, we cannot normalize the not just the behavior of this president, but he is putting us, our democracy and our nation at risk with his actions and behaviors. and i think it s extremely important that we continue with
progress that we are making for the american people, building on our promise to the american people for the people in the election. lower health care costs. by lowering the cost of prescription drugs, we sent the senate ten bills to lower health care costs and prescription drug prices, reverse the gop s sabotage of the health care and strengthen the preexisting conditions benefits. lower health care costs, bigger paychecks by building the infrastructure of america in a green and modern way. we secured paycheck fairness by equal pay for equal work which we passed in the house. we re raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour. over $30 million people will get a raise in our country. over 20 million of them are women. and as we ve passed other initiatives in our appropriations process and the rest to build the infrastructure
here s speaker nancy pelosi. stand by. good morning. here we are. continuing a late night into the next morning. i would say to the members who can hoot with the owls and soar with the eagles the next morning. they re there on the floor with the appropriations bill. i want to start off the morning to say that leader mcconnell seems to take great pride in calling himself the grim reaper. it s part of his political campaign. it s part of the pride he takes as leader of the senate. as you see, what he wants to bury, none of these things are going to pass. they won t even be voted on. think of me as the grim reaper. his own quote. he wants to bury. the equality act for any discrimination against dreamers and too protect our dreamers and tps recipients. paycheck fairness.