Show you the briefing from a bit earlier this morning, House Speaker Nancy pelosi. It was a team effort. I would like to thank all of the members of the leadership who worked so hard on this. It was not just about that vote. It was about how we proceed and make it law within the next couple of months, six weeks, whatever. Really the vision of the president , he had said i want to do what i can in a bipartisan way on infrastructure but it is not the totality of my vision. My vision is to build back better, not only with physical infrastructure but personal infrastructure. I am paraphrasing that. It was not a direct quote. In our legislation, we deal with the climate crisis and in more important way we will deal with the building back better for women talking about Child Care and child tax credit, universal prek, home health care, and workforce development. This is not just about women but will but women will predominately benefit because they will predominately bear responsibility for m
And John Lewis is saying to himself up there, and saying to all of us, you kept your eye on the prize. Im honored to be here with my friend, terri sewell. I feel like John Lewis is sitting up there pretty close to the right hand, i believe, saying well done, Nancy Pelosi. John lewis walked across the Edmund Pettus Bridge many times, on half of those occasions i held his hand as we walked across the bridge and i felt the moral power of John Lewis. Our country was blessed with a man of his integrity, his character and his inspiration. This bill, the John Lewis bill, h. R. For the people. Now chairman nadler, let me yield to you. [applause] mr. Nadler since i became chairman of the Judiciary Committee, theres no issue we have spent more time examining than the onslaught of Voter Suppression measures that have emerged in recent years across the country. So this is no new thing. The history of this country, from its very beginning, is the history of translating the declaration of independen
For the House Administration will now come to order. Before Getting Started i need to acknowledge each member, committee member, present today. I need to do that by name to make sure we have a quorum and a quorum is reported. I am informed we have with us mr. Aguilar from california, misses steel from wisconsin, fernandez from new mexico, mr. Rodney davis from illinois, the congresswoman from pennsylvania, and joining us will be a visiting member from the state of alabama. In a moment i will ask unanimous consent that she be allowed to participate in todays hearing. The action will be recorded likewise for the quorum. So good afternoon, everyone. Good morning if you are on the west coast. As we begin today, i want to note we are holding this hearing in compliance with the regulations for Remote Committee proceedings pursuant to House Resolution eight. Generally, we ask Committee Members and witnesses to keep their microphones muted when not speaking to limit background noise. Members w
They tried to beat them back and beat that out of them. They did not succeed. And we are a better nation now. Again, this will take a few minutes for them to reach the bridge and then cross over to the other side, taking that pause, and we will be here on fox news to take you through it all. I want to share now though from a perspective on this extraordinary life one of his longtime friends and house colleagues, member of the congressional black caucus, representative Emmanuel Cleaver. Congressman, youre with me in. Yes, good morning. Harris good morning. And i look and see that you are with us from home in kansas city, and thats where you and i met many, many years ago. Yes. Harris give us a texture for what youre feeling and what others are feeling today who were part of the struggle and continue to be. Well, theres manager which all of us are feeling pain but some joy. Johns chief of staff came to me a few months ago and confidentially toll me what was told me what was going on and
Free and fair vote. We are holding this hearing and we engage regularly with social Media Companies because they are best positioned to sound the alarm if and when another external actor attempts to interfere. First, because their technical capacity and security background and allows them to protect malicious activity on their platforms, and make attributions to technical indicators that are available only to the companies themselves. And second, because we cannot have complete confidence that the white house will allow the Intelligence Community to look fully and properly inform congress, if there is a foreign interference, especially if the interference appears to assist the president s reelection. That is a dangerous state of affairs, but nonetheless it reflects the reality and why theres hearing is so important. Witnesses, as you described, a lot has changed. In many ways we are better prepared today than we were four years ago. Each of your companies have taken significant steps a