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the legislation is a culture war battle plan, including limits to abortion access and strange under care and eliminating old diversity, equity and inclusion offices at the pentagon. and when it comes to the culture wars, some folks just cannot help saying the quiet part out loud. and it has nothing to do with whether not colored people or black people or anybody can serve, okay? it has nothing to do with mister speaker. any of that stuff. what in the bowl, connor? arizona congressman eli crane s descriptor was stricken from the congressional record and he did ask for his remark to be amended to people of color, climbing in a later statement that he quote misspoke. but his comments came at the tail end of an impassioned speech detailing how diversity efforts weekend the military. the house and the eight will be dead on arrival and aligns in the senate, where democrats hold the majority. that means whatever comes out of the senate will have to be hashed out in a ....
They re republicans and repeatedly banned trans people from serving in the military. women have been facing higher barriers, in fact one of the memorable moments of this debate happen in committee when we were arguing about the abortion policy. how difficult it was for a woman to serve and i need to be more welcoming for the women. there was a member, whose name i forget and i apologize, a woman who served in the military. she said look, it s not a problem i served in the military and i knew when i was in the military, i had to work twice as hard as the man to get the same result. that was okay. no, no it s not okay. and if you are a woman today, we re thinking about whether or not you are going to join the military, and they re telling you while you can join and it will be fine, i have to do is work twice as hard as everybody else and maybe look at the same opportunity. you are not going to do that and the same applies very specifically to african americans. yes, the military has be ....
House, let s be real about the senate, because there s a democratic majority in the senate and senator michael bennet of colorado, democrat from colorado is ramping up a similar effort on the senate side. are you to coordinating, and is the hope that the debate in both chambers could lead to real movement? absolutely. we have been aligned with our senate colleagues on the house side, myself with congresswoman delauro and congressman torres have been the leaders on the house side. we have leaders like senator bennett on the senate side who had been leading this effort. so this is a bicameral effort. we have strong support and we are going to continue. the president has been very supportive as well. we saw what happened, we did this for a year. imagine what we can do if we lift more than half, not just 50% reduction in child poverty, but we can make that higher and longer if we implement policy for the long term. and the good inflation news that we got this week might ....
Decision to work on this in a bipartisan way. certainly, it is troubling that speaker mccarthy chose not to do that. but i want to make sure people focus on the policy that they are trying to advance. the bill that they passed will make it less likely and more difficult for women to serve in the military, for a transferable to serve in the military. it will also make it less likely that people of color get inadequate chance within the military because it will not address those issues. what that means it is in a time one of department of defense is troubling to meet its recruitment calls, it ll be even more difficult because we will have large pools of people who will be less likely to join the military, or make that problem worse and also as you watch the debate play out of, course you pick the most agreed to split to show their. it was really the bigotry on display about trans people, about the history of this country. we had one amendment to appeal the efforts of the base renaming co ....