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them. their own brain is saying these things to them. easterny night at 8:00 on c-span q and a. s minority leader and other democrats spoke to reporters to have theefforts summer congressional recess cut short so that members can work on funding for the zika virus research. they also repeated their calls for a vote on a gun-control bill. the house is scheduled to remain in recess until september 6. this days briefing is 50 minutes. news briefing is 50 minutes. welcome back. it is good to be here. as you all know our first , responsibility as members of congress is to protect and defend. that is the of that we take. national security is our first responsibility. that includes global security, neighborhood security, personal security. to protect the american people. under her leadership of mr. steve israel, our democratic as agenda is about security. national security, economic security, and the security of our democracy. all of those are being neglected by the fact ....
virus, ending gun violence and yet we have not been able to do anything about that. the public health crisis in flint, michigan, where 9000 children have been poisoned and the water is not clean, we have the ability to do something about that. and republicans in congress have done nothing. as democrats we have offered solutions to end and deal with the opioid addiction problem. and over does problem happening in communities across the country were 78 people every single day lose their life to opioid overdoses. we know that we can put the resources to do that. democrats have offered solutions and yet republicans are on vacation and have done nothing. i join my colleagues today to say i do not want to just hang out in the fourth district of maryland. i want to be here on capitol hill solving these public health emergency i can t wait. making sure, sadly our families and communities and children know that we are here to do their work. 52 days of vacation. children will be ....
who else is driving this? that is a very good question. one has to mention senator bernie sanders who ran unsuccessfully as a candidate for the democratic residential nomination. presidential nomination. in addition to that, one might mention some other liberal members of congress such as rosa delauro and others. it does remain to be seen. the composition of the congress next year will be different. it will be a leader in that group who will be a leader and he will remain our questions are questions. thank you very much for joining us. thank you. tv is live beginning at form. eastern in washington race in america. a panel discussion examining the relationship between police and the african-american committee. april right and author of the presidency in black and white moderates the discussion. other panelists include joann reid. the princess sat there for african-american chair princeton center for african-american chairman will be there. race, obama a ....
groups. you will get the people that are looking for the handout coming into the office with far less frequency. that enables you to focus your energies on those in need of aid. it also means there is less abuse of the taxpayer. there we go. in welfare reform, we basically had two goals. the first was to establish work requirements, not just to a game aid to families with dependent children, but also work requirements for food stamps. secondly, and most importantly, to deal with the problem of out of wedlock childbearing and increase the number of children born inside marriage. those were important. i think we made some modest progress on both of those fronts. certainly not everything we could have done. this is going to be a very familiar chart. you saw one version of this. this is the temporary assistance with needy family caseload. this goes back to the time of the korean war. this is essentially the same data he was presenting. what we can see is that for a 55 year ....
unsuccessful. we re spending a lot of money. $13,000 per person. a lot of that is on health care. 45% of it. that is where congress decided to spend the money. the nation has made a great commitment to helping the poor. it increases every year. third issue, the causes. the first is work rates. the long-term decline of work among males. the work rate among young black males, before the rescission, we before the recession, we have a real problem with male employment. for reasons that are not clear. females, the opposite. they work more. married women had joined the labor force. never married mothers. the poorest group of mothers have had a spectacular increase in employment and even today, the likelihood that they have a job is greater, about 20% and it was before welfare reform. that group is working a lot. wages. these are astounding. the wages at the 10th percentile and blow our where they were 30 and below are where they were 30 years ago. it is hard to make progr ....