![]() And, again, the cost to you: if you have a car loan, a credit card bill, a school loan, any interest that you're paying on a loan will be increased if, in fact, we do not lift the debt ceiling. Of course, it has a big impact: millions of jobs lost, trillions of dollars of household wealth down the drain. And that's what they did yesterday, just so people know how it affects them. It's one thing to say, ‘Well, we'll have a few votes against it to make a statement.' It's another thing to say we shouldn't be doing it. It is something that threatens the financial security of our country, it gambles with the personal financial security of families and, again, the health of our economy, as well as its impact globally. It's just always so interesting to me that the Republicans vote against lifting the debt limit – the ceiling on the debt limit. ![]() The big event for us yesterday, of course, was the debt limit – to lift the debt limit. So, from a moral standpoint, a value standpoint, the legislation was very important – and from a trade standpoint, essential as well. When President Xi brings these people into these forced labor camps, and they are separating them from their families and taking other drastic actions, he is also engaging them in forced labor, and that is something that we cannot have our businesses compete with. ![]() The interest, though, in it across our country is about the human rights aspect of it, but also the forced labor piece of it. We also passed the Uyghur bill, which was about China, to end what they are doing there. As you know, we passed a resolution against racism in our society and establishing a special counsel at the Department of State to fight Islamophobia – talking about the numbers of incidents against Muslims in our country, in terms of anti‑Muslim sentiments. Yesterday was a busy day for us, legislatively. The phenomenon was a mile wide and with such force. He told me that the storm – it was a mile wide. He knows what we can do, and I'm sure that if there's more that Congress needs to do, he will inform us of that. So far they're pleased – pleased, who can be pleased? But, have received the federal response that is necessary.Īnd I talked to my former Chairman of the Appropriations Committee, Mr. I talked to him after, and he was going to be traveling with the President today. I was very moved by Representative Comer, who represents western Kentucky, as he spoke calling for a moment of silence about those who lost their lives. They need to be vaccinated.Īnd, then we also had the moment of silence for those who were affected by the storms. But, we continue to be optimistic about the effectiveness of the vaccines, the awareness that some people are coming to that they need to be vaccinated. It's so hard to comprehend 800,000 people, and the number continues to grow. Our thoughts and prayers are with their families and those who have lost their livelihoods as well. For 800,000 people who have died from COVID, we had a moment of silence on the Floor of the House – but also on the steps of the Capitol in bipartisan, House and Senate, remembrance of those who lost their lives. Well, last evening, we had two very sad moments of silence yesterday. – Speaker Nancy Pelosi held her weekly press conference today in the Capitol Visitor Center.
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