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Cotton or rubio has a brilliant piece of legislation to stop some part of chinas activities, what will happen, they come on fox news talk about why it is a good idea, they end up with 5 or ten cosponsors, it goes no where, people will have the impression were going something about china, but were not. i can tell you that. one of the people involved was nancy pelosi herself. who kevin mccarthy invited her 3 years ago to form a bipartisan china task force, at all the 25 points and more. you know w...

Legislation would protect North Carolinians from dangerous big cats and help conservation of species in the wild

On the sidelines of this year’s IAS conference in Montreal, UNAIDS, networks of people living with HIV, UNICEF and WHO, together with technical partners, PEPFAR and The Global Fund are launching a new Global Alliance to End AIDS in children by 2030. The Alliance will be co-created with the broad participation of stakeholders, national governments, implementing agencies,

Susan -- had let the push forward, the proposal actually released or has rather, 16 cosponsors, including remarkably, nine republicans. after the legislation was introduced, even mitch mcconnell signal that he is opening to updating the law. back with me now is my sunday night panel. brian, ill start with you on this one. your thoughts on the proposed changes to the electoral count act? >> the electoral count act means a lots of changes and the reform has been in office for a while now. theres a...

Keyword here is trying to find ways to do something to protect the fundamental rights that are under threat and also put republicans on record opposing them. in response to the concurring opinion justice clarence thomas wrote last month calling into question the right to same sex marriage. congress voted today to codify the right to same sex marriage and interracial marriage with the respect for marriage act. the bill passed with bipartisan support, 47 republicans joined all democrats in voting ...

Committee will show this week. >> lets talk about a potential assault weapons ban, you are the lead sponsor, the last ban expired in 2004. after so many mass shootings, do you think, this time is really different? ken an assault weapons ban? get passed? >> absolutely. we have 213 cosponsors of the bill. the highest number weve ever had. im continuing to work with the members of our caucus, and many republicans, to try to get additional votes. these are weapons of war, researchers estimate,, that...

>> laura: my lord, this is embarrassing. this has no place in our military or anywhere, frankly. the democrats do believe they have an answer to this perceived patriotism deficit. it comes in the form of something called a new civics secures democracy act like it is a mouthful. just reintroduced in congress. if it is past, it will allow the biden administration to push critical race theory on every public school in america. over a six-year period, since bill and other part of competitive grant m...

Four years ago, i only had two republican cosponsors. the bill did pass the house floor this week, with ten republican votes. it is a modest game, but it definitely demonstrates that there are more republicans who are open to the idea of raising the age. and i continue to point to the numbers. the statistics. the number of mass shootings that we are seeing. buffalo, volley, hartland, florida. which motivated the florida republican legislature with the republican governor, to raise the age to buy...

The equal act passed the house with 361 votes, including kevin mccarthy and jim jordan, it has law enforcement, supported has civil rights group support, it has led the republican cosponsors in the senate. it has supermajority support. theres no reason this cant get done. if we fail, we are gonna have families separated for decades longer for no reason. people have to weigh in with their senators immediately before time runs out. >> and everybody was giving themselves a big pat on the back -- it...

Bill on banning assault rifles entirely. the reason? well according to reporting from punchbowl news, house democrats dont have enough votes to pass that right now. even though they have the majority. joining us now is representative village accidentally of jackson, she is also the house of judiciary committee and one of the lead cosponsors on that package that protect kids act, that package of legislation as i mentioned that was introduced today. congresswoman lee thank you so much for joining ...