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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. >> first of all, let me say that there is a very dedicated group of members of congress that have been ...

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 we have gotten more and more cosponsors and actually in this last congress we had the greatest numbe...

It's narrowly tailored to store the voting rights act. we have to get it passed not only in the house, which i'm 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 it's so critically important at this juncture in american history to put federal oversight back in. we've seen texas and georgia and alabama just run amok after ostensibly the safest presidential election in modern history, the 2020 election. and so the reality is that we have to put some guardrails up, and that's exa...

Unfold. your opinion on this situation, you're 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 multiplier, they need technology, the manpower wiggling for border patrol agents. dhs put out a volunteer c...

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.