A couple days of electing our chairs. Yesterday we approved 18 chairs which is pretty exciting. 3 contested races, following in the footsteps of the first woman to serve in that capacity. The chair of the Foreign Affairs committee, greg meeks of new york, another new yorker, elliott angle, and the chair of the ag committee, david scott from georgia, first africanamerican chosen to be the chair of the Agriculture Committee following in the footsteps of the leadership of colin peterson. Greg meeks also africanamerican, prehistoric woman, pretty contested races but throughout, women or people of color, more chairs to be announced but these were the ones that related to rules and budgets related to steering and policy committee, two of the speakers announcement that were made and others follow. We held the house, pulled the gap 132 of them starting with 18 that were chosen yesterday. I am excited, when they made their presentations over several days this week it was a demonstration of values and knowledge of commitment for working families a every one of our committees, and the diversity of those as wella cause for celebration. We are in lameduck session. We have important work to do here. We spent the first part of lameduck on National Defense authorization legislation, i salute our chairman, adam smith and mister thornberry, Ranking Member for the great Bipartisan Legislation they put together. What we take to direct and defend the constitution, our country and i am very proud of the work that went into it. And now come to the floor next week. Our leader, mister hoyer will talk about scheduling the event but i want to reference what adam smith and max foreign barry said, among the provisions we are most proud of, we join them in this the authorization of hazardous duty pay for men and women put members in hars way, improvements to military housing and programs for military families, special needs, efficient to national security. Authorizing 8. 4 of military construction process to fortify critical infrastructure, base realignment and kosher cleanup, very essential. To deter china and russia, to make the pentagon more efficient and cost effective. On Artificial Intelligence and cybersecurity and provisions that strengthen our alliance with israel. I especially want acknowledge how pleased we are with the leadership of a member of the committee, a veteran of our veterans services, a decorated member, thony brown, provide longterm process of changing the names of military bases purposefully, purposefully named for white supremacy. How could that have been . They just decided to name t bases, i am so happy personally. I have Four Brothers who serve in the army and they serve on many of thosbases around the country and would always just say why is that . Now it isnt. It also provides benefits to veterinarians. Veteran area veterans who were impacted by agent orange, this is really important, this issue was long overdue when we passed it. It needed to be improved and they do so in the bill. Back to the base, it reflects our highest ideals, urge the president which is passed on a bipartisan basis to 59 years. This is very intensive in terms of the intention, that is what want to take the time to take the ties in this legislation. We are engaged in talks on the omnibus bill. Spoke to leader mcconnell yesterday about theossibility of putting covid19 package on the omnibus bill, if we are going to do that we have an omnibus bill, we have to work through the provisions that are ill unresolved and making progress. Richard shelby on the senate side, come to great agreement, and more appropriations and how they would proceed, more needs to be done, and at the same time simultaneous with that we are working on a covid19 package on wednesday was the deadliest day, any daynyone dies is a complete tragedy for the country. 2800 americans lost. We believe the saddest part of it is the neglect this administration has paved, delay, denial, distortion, and now, finally, we have a new dynamic, a new president , in a little more than a month, committed to crushing the virus, a new dynamic, a vaccine, to make all the difference in the world. That is imminent to the inauguration and emergence of the vaccine which will be soon but not for everyone because of the quantity needed and the money needed to build from vaccine to the lab to vaccination and that is going to require me than we are talking about, what joe biden has been talking about. We believe the framework, bipartan framework unveiled by the senators in a biptisan way with the support of house members in the house, would be a basis for bicameral negotiations. As they work on the text, we hope it will take us close to something we would put into the omnibus. President elect ben has said this package would be just a start and that, over shorter period of time we need to do it, with the hope that much more help is on the way. Again, this vaccine has such high 91 of the Pfizer Vaccine and moderna vaccine, we have to have the resources to exercise our options we have to buy the vaccine, we hope the president would immediately exercise the defense production act to produce the vaccine. That is what it will require to have the amount we need. And the logistics, the money for the states and that further highlights the need for funding for state and local governments because we can pay for the vaccine, we can pay for its delivery, but the administration by Healthcare Professionals and others needs to be funded so that is good news that help is on the way from joe biden who sees the need. We had some not good news on the job front that furtr necessitates our taking action to crush the virus, open the economy, open up ourchools but in order to do so we must so safely, you probably did see the jobs report which is indicative of further indicative of the need to crush the virus so the economy can open. All of that comes to a place to stay there is momentum, there is momtum with the action senators and health have taken with them. It can provide meaningful relief for millions who are suffering economically, personally, healthwise, i am pleased the tone of our conversation is one that is indicative of the decision to get the job done. I will take any questions you may have. Thank you so much. What you said about momentum, realistically, you need to cut a deal the order to have a package to vote before the holidays. Again, we wont have it on the omnibus, we hope that will accelerate the discussionsn the omnibus. We are not going to have a continuing resolution but we need to take the time to do that and as i said we saw of framework, they have to turn it into text. We must get it done and must get it done, we cannot leave without it. It doesnt matter, we will take the time that we needed the question, when will the text be ready so you can combine it, the omnibus is not finished yet. We have a number of a lot of other issues need to be resolved and they are in the course of doing that. I dont want to undermine the bipartisan negotiations going on to senator shelby as chair of the appropriations committee, their staff working to gather. The sooner the better, at the expense of the initiative we need to address in the bills. No continuing resolution, and. What shift is in your opinion, and this piece of legislation. Once they are on board perhaps you missed what i said earlier. Joe biden committed to ending and crushing the vir and having a bill, bigger, better. A vaccine, answer to our prayers and answer to our prayers of 95 effectiveness in terms of pfizer and moderna and there may be others coming forward. That is a total game changer. A new president and a vaccine. There is nothing, these are different, what was then before is not more of this, this is simplicity, what we had in our bills, shorter period time but that is okay now because we have a new president. A president who recognizes that we need to depend on science to stop the virus. A president who understands americas working families need money in their pockets in a way that takes them into the future without the contraction of the other bills the administration was associating itself with. We feel very excited about the prospect of bipartisan bill. I told members im not bringing bills that are not bipartisan to fill what needs to be done in the interest of negotiation, they are negotiating a product, not everything we want. I dont want them to think this is a dream come true but it is a path forward. I will tell you something. I want to characterize this as a mistake, as a preface to your question if you want an answer. It was not a mistake. It was a decision and it has taken us to a place where we do the right thing withouother considerations in the legislation that we dont want. The fact is i am proud of where we are. My chairs have worked very hard on all of this. They were not happy with a prosal we made the other day before we saw this proposal that would come back too small. It is how we address the needs of the American People and we have to do it in a scientific way, in a way that recogzes people need food on the table, they need to get their rent paid, theyeed money in their pockets, they need unemploent insurance, they do not need a cacophony of other things that are on the agenda that have thing to do with meeting their needs. We are very pleased at where it is and as i said with a democrat president committed to a scitific solution for this with the idea that we will have a vaccine is a complete game changer. Your petition that joe biden says her stay in office, bathrooms and locker rooms, gender identity and all federally funded schools. That he have the power to unilaterally do this and you agree . Think he does. The position that read art is going to file, how is the house going to prevent a situation seen in 1985 between mccloskey and his republican opponent and would you encourage the leader of the new york 22 race to do the same if there is a recount . The issue relating to iowa, the administration is committed. It is my understanding read a heart, excellent candidate for congress will be asking the house to take this up. Further information about the technicalities of that, is not a political vote but a House Administration matter, house decide to it will seek. We dont have any new york is a different situation new york, there could be 15005000 votes not counted yet. That igoing to the court monday is the day in the court. That is what is we will see what happens in the court. I dont know but the court will decide which votes are counted but that is down to 12 votes. People should know every one should know their vote counts. Ships vote, what the spread is in iowa. 12 votes, this is on the basis of hundreds of thousands of votes kept, ndreds of thousands of votes kept so it is one of the matters that time will tell. We will see what the court says, what the House Administration options are and what they decide to do. A clarification about your conversations with leader macconnell. Is it a situation where we expect and omnibus or any relief to be maxed in one piece of legislation . That is the vehicle leading the station and it is probably, i was pleased he wanted to do it that way but that would be the best way to do. The underpinnings of what it takes to get to a place and add this language once we see the text, that is what we would be doing. Both components bring something to the floor. We would want a big strong vote. 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