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Will take up and pass as a first order of business when they come back. congresswoman, thank you for being here. i know this is an intense time. >> thank you for having me. >> tell us about your determination to try to get this passed. you have been pursuing this in a single minded way for years now, even as you have had so many democratic cosponsors and so much, frankly, lip service support that this is an important thing, but no -- no effort, no momentum to actually get it done before now. >> ...

Be admitted in hospitals where there is more relevance or requiring waiting periods, ultrasounds or two separate visits to clinics, and we knew we had to have an overall solution that would indeed make the protections of roe v. wade into law by establishing a federal statutory right for patients to proceed and providers to provide abortion carefree from these medically unnecessary restrictions that single out abortion and impede access. this bill will indeed do this. i have to say, though, that ...

Its narrowly tailored to store the voting rights act. we have to get it passed not only in the house, which im proud to say we introduced it on tuesday and we have 200 cosponsors of the legislation. i look forward to being on the floor this week and being able to articulate why its so critically important at this juncture in american history to put federal oversight back in. weve seen texas and georgia and alabama just run amok after ostensibly the safest presidential election in modern history,...

Unfold. your opinion on this situation, youre one of the cosponsors of the bill, the border security for america act, this builds the border wall, modernizes border technology and bolsters border staffing. a lot of republicans in favor of the border wall and trying to get a handle if we can on the situation at the southern border. where do you expect this to go? >> i talked to border patrol agents, yesterday received a text message from one of their deputy section chiefs, that the force multipli...

Over four consecutive years, no child in the eastern Caribbean country of Dominica was born with HIV, including in 2017 when, within two weeks, the island braved back-to-back hurricanes that ultimately damaged 90% of its infrastructure.

UNAIDS strongly welcomes the report and recommendations of the Independent Panel on Pandemic Preparedness and Response. Amongst others, the panel calls for the establishment of a Global Health Threats Council with participation at the highest political level to coordinate global action against pandemics and secure agreement between governments in aligning efforts to tackle the

unaids.org UNAIDS DREAMS girls and community care workers at the Hakahana Clinic in Katutura, Windhoek, Namibia, 13 April 2021. Credit: UNAIDS Feature story 05 May 202105 May 202105 May 2021 Winnie Byanyima, the UNAIDS Executive Director, recently visited the Hakahana Clinic in Katutura, Winnie Byanyima, the UNAIDS Executive Director, recently visited the Hakahana Clinic in Katutura, Windhoek, Namibia, where she saw the Determined, Resilient, Empowered, AIDS-Free, Mentored and Safe (DREAMS) p...

unaids.org UNAIDS To prevent increased AIDS-related deaths, HIV services must continue during the COVID-19 pandemic. Above, a client receives their antiretroviral therapy in the waiting room of the hospital. Indonesia, May 2020. Photo courtesy of Yayasan InSET Press release Benefits of continuing to provide life-saving HIV services outweigh the risk of COVID-19 transmission by 100 to 1 13 April 202113 April 2021 Disruption to HIV services as high as 75% has been reported in some countries—t...

Congressman brian babin from texas. to think theres a possibility of getting anything done between these two parties are now? is there enough area of agreement? >> melissa, we are already getting something done. i have a bill, hr-838, which is called the taps act. i want to talk about that. this is something where we have 114 bipartisan cosponsors. equally, between democrats and republicans. as we hear the comments from constituents and folks that are discussing these horrible shootings, these t...

About what is happening to our nation in the future. >> marsha blackburn objected to unanimous consent. today the president thanked her for doing that to make it clear on whose behalf that was but he says, fighting obstructionist democrats, i want to be clear about this. there is actual legislation crafted that you think would pass and would certainly pass in the house that mitch mcconnells obstructing, right? there is a proactive attempt to legislate being blocked by the senate majority leader....