She responded to comments that president made in michigan about the late congressman john dingell. It is interesting to see the response we are getting across party lines. I want to say i have a spring in my step because of the moral courage of our caucus. To go toem, so many the floor and speak about our stitution, about the specs the facts of the case, so clearly and patriotically. So solemnly. The precedent for this, and i met with my six chairs after the votes last night, we discussed and theedent of it all, most recent case taking up an impeachment, there was a proposal on the floor put together in a bipartisan way, 100 senators voted for the process on how it would go forward on the case of president clinton, we would hope they would come to a conclusion like that. When we see what they have, we will now who we will send over. We have had a very eventful week. I am proud of our members and the bipartisanship of some of this, some of them not. Last years campaign, we set for the people we would lower the cost of health care and starting with the lowering the cost of the prescription drugs. Week we passed the Elijah Cummings lower drug cost which does just that. We discussed the particulars of it. Know we allant to was said we would be spending hundreds of billions of dollars in savings on expanding benefits for medicare. Hearing, and the biggest expansion of medicare since its inception. An important bipartisan bill to keep the government open and to do so early enough so you knew to make your we can plans and get started for all the holidays. That was a major accomplishment. It took constant backandforth, thewe ended up appropriators can get the job done. And we need to wait for the chairmans work. We are pleased with that legislation. We will take it up in the senate soon and it will be on its way to the president for his signature. Before i leave the subject of impeachment, let me commend our chairman adam schiff. So proud of him. Maxine waters, financial means, eliots and engel in the Foreign Affairs committee, and an important committee. I said last night and i say today while he is not with us today physically, Elijah Cummings is with us in spirit. The foundation he helped for justice is with us. He said when we are dancing with the angels, what we did to keep the constitution intact, that was very prescient. Little did we know by the time we passed the impeachment resolution, the articles of impeachment that he would be dancing with the angels. As we speak, we are debating on the floor the u. S. Mexicocanada trade agreement. My colleagues on the floor were saying we are doing mexico. The discussion took some time to convince the administration and other countries that we were not Going Forward until we had the strongest possible enforcement of the trade agreement, and manifested in the legislation that we have on the floor today. As you have heard me say over and over, this is about enforcement, the overarching issue. If you cannot enforce it, it does not matter what you put forth. Of the currents we had concerns we had our pharmaceuticals and the environment. We may giant progress. Apart from that big distance from what the administration was proposing to begin with in all of those areas to where we ended up. To have theeased Statement Today that went out from aflcio. He said there is no denying the trade rules in america will be fair. Working people have created a new standard for future trade negotiations. Forink it is a template future agreements. And some of my members say do not give it that much. We will see have a goes in the implementation. Salt, and, we will do that is going to be state and local tax that the republicans want to punish blue states largely. It will be paid for by increasing rates on the wealthiest individuals in our country. His the president proposed tax scam, they were saying they would lower the individual rate, and they did, and now we will raise it again to repeal salt. We are very proud of what we have done. The republicans keep saying we we havee working sent over 275 bills sitting on Mitch Mcconnells desk. 400, but 275 are bipartisan. Repeating that includes all of our top 10 pieces of legislation, bipartisan background checks, expanding background checks. Have background checks unless they buy at a gun show. This is not creating background checks but expanding them. 295 days ago we sent those bills to Mitch Mcconnell, the grim reaper. I have news for him, he may think they are dead on arrival, but they are alive and well with the general public. Every day he does not take up that legislation because he knows it will pass he fears it will pass if he takes it up. Every day he does not pass it, a hundred people died. Not all of them would be saved by the legislation, but some. We urge him to take up that lifesaving legislation. The list goes on, violence against women act, equal pay, the legislation to raise the minimum wage for 33 million people. 20 million of them are women. The equality act to and discrimination against lgbtq communities. Pensions for americas workers. Act workforce modernization which we passed of the other day with bipartisan support. Lower drug costs. ,ne other bill that we did pass the future act. That was about historical black colleges and universities, Higher Education institutions that deal with the native american populations. It is very important. That did pass and is on its way to the president. With that we say to you all the and recreate are the same words spelled the same way and they mean something the same. When you recreate, renew, be with your family, you are ready to come back for the discussions and the debates ahead as we go into the future. As we go into the future, we are inspired by our founders. One. Many, no matter our differences. We have to remember that we are one country. Many times i have the flag pin which says one country, one destiny. We have to think in those terms, and we look forward to doing it as we go forward. Holidays, andpy whatever you are celebrating. Themr house we celebrate all, christmas, hanukkah, kwanzaa, new years, whatever else. I hope you have time for a few questions. Risk asu run the republicans say it looks like you are playing games holding onto the articles . Judge elrod Speaker Pelosi when we bring the bill that we can call up at any time, in order to send it over to the senate and have impeachmentor the and then the next step. Trial, whatever you want to call it. That is where we put the managers. I was not prepared to put the managers yet because we do not know the arena we are in. I do not care what the republicans say. [inaudible] toaker pelosi we would like see a fair process, we will be ready for whatever it is. We would hope there would be a fair process, just as we would hope they would honor the constitution. Some of what Mitch Mcconnell said today, and it reminded me that our founders when they wrote the constitution, they suspected there could be a rogue president. I do not think they suspected we would have a rogue president and a rogue leader in the senate at the same time. Any questions on the trade agreement . Anybody care about that . Jobs, the American People . Tax . Ssing the fall made forant issue we the Economic Vitality of our communities . Any other questions, because i will not answer questions clearly when we see what the process is, we will know who and how many we want to send over. I am not going there anymore. Campaignesident will on how he got rid of the worst trade deal in history, is that something you will take credit for . Speaker pelosi what he proposed did not describe the bill. Some of you care about substance and have asked whether we would havethat, because it would collateral benefit for the president. I do not care about that. We had an opportunity to do something important for the American People, for americas workers, and we could not let him stand in the way of that, because he would take credit. This is not about him, it is about american workers, about being Good Neighbors in our hemisphere, and frankly we were not going down that path until on manynistration ceded provisions they had in the original proposal which were not acceptable, and not as you described the way the president would describe it. [inaudible] zero. R pelosi the president last night had harsh comments. Speaker pelosi let us pray for the president. The president clearly is insecure when it comes to a states person, whether john mccain think about what he said about john mccain and his supporters. John mccain. Now john dingell. , what heresident misunderstands is that cruelty is not wait. Is not wit. Just because he gets a laugh at the cruel things he says means it is funny, it is not funny at all, it is very sad. Thank you. Following Speaker Pelosis news conference, reporters heard from House Minority leader kevin mccarthy, who also talked about