menendez tonight, we are barrelin towards one of the mos consequential weeks fo abortion access since the farr of roe v. wade the government has less than a week to intervene after trum appointed antiabortion federal judge in texas matthew has merrick suspended a proven o mifepristone, one of the mos widely used abortion medications in this country. the justice department immediately filed an appea today. health and human services said - for the millions who need it well, they certainly have access today and we intend to do everything to make sure it is because o viewable to them not just in a week but moving forward. we have already filed an appea of this court s ruling one judge and one quarter an one state turned upside down the fda s approval process for safe and effective medications we have to go to court and see an appeal. this is not america. what we saw by that one judg in that one court in that on state. that is not america. adding to the uncertainty and to th
mines. right, now i am grateful for a week of perspective. one that reminded me why i d what i do. tonight, my national actio network s annual conferenc closes out here in new york. as always, i had the pleasur of hosting some of the mos influential people in th world. most of them black from cabine members to venture capitalist. but i am proud to say th keynote speech yesterday cam from the most powerful black women in the world vice president, kamala harri who covered several topics but as casualties mount from recent mass shootings, she specifically address the impac of our gun culture has had o black immunities where gun violence is often commonplac but public sympathy is not often there. let s reject the fals choice that some are pushing t suggest that you are either in favor of upholding the secon amendment or you are in favo of passing reasonable gu safety laws. let us reject that false choice, we are not falling for the oke dokey. of course, the vice president sob
The mess that they made. and our department, making sur that safety rules an regulations are followed safety depends on tough rules, and strong enforcement from the moment we got, here w did things like resuming safet audits that the prio ministration that hit th brakes on. we know there can be more, w are pushing with the tools tha we have and we are urgin congress to make it possible for us to hold those rubbl companies to a higher standard these front revolt companies for us longer safe existed hav famously had a lot of cloud an a lot of abilities especiall in washington to push back o safety regulation to water dow the rules. ow is a time when th standards for these railroad companies, their accountabilit needs to get tougher and not weaker i m encourages bipartisan bill that do this, that needs t turn into law so that we can g forward and implement that law has any of those on the other side of the republican
What this decision says. we know that the united states post office falls under ou purview as well. it isn t followed or the purview of a state, right? so making sure that we are using every single tool in the tool box, even those tools tha were in the back and hidden it way that we didn t realize we re sitting there, we need t use them we need to pull all l that right. now as is the case with three branches of th government, he is calling, you calling on him and president biden is calling on congress t restore the protections of roe v. wade. i just wonder as you talk to your colleagues on the hill, your sense of appetite for that. how that might play out. yeah, right before we entered this two week break, w actually had a press conferenc and it was the reintroductio of the women s health care act so, yeah, we are trying to pus forward, but we also know that unfortunately we, have a speaker by the name of mccarth right now. we know that he controls wha actually makes it to the floo