pursuant to house resolution 965, i inform the house that mrs. kirkpatrick will vote yes on h.r. 7995. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from massachusetts seek recognition? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by ms. brownley, pursuant to house resolution 965, i inform the house that ms. brownley will vote yes on h.r. 7995. as the member designated by ms. frankel, pursuant to house resolution 965, i inform the house that ms. frankel will vote yes on h.r. 7995. and as the member designated by pursuant to house resolution 965, i inform the house that ms. bonamici will vote yes on h.r. 7995. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from new hampshire seek recognition? >> as the member designated by ms. pingree, pursuant to house resolution 965, i inform the house that ms. pingree will vote ea on h.r. 7995. as the member designated by ms. lee, pursuant to house resolution 965, i inform the yeae that ms. lee will vote n h.r. 7995. as the member designated by mr. kennedy, pursuant to house resol

housing is? >> yeah, generally what the term social housing means in terms of the i think there are definitions and there's projects so, my view and if you look up and it's different definitions but i view social housing is the umbrella term for those house tag are off the speculative and for-profit market and include perks and that's what we did with prop five with the housing stability and and left it and to cars out the spending process within that it's before i fixed my name to said measure but i thought i was h it was important just to put that out there. next speaker, please. >> we want to thank supervisor preston for bringing this conversation and to the committee today and we appreciate his desire to be created and thinking about ways and we can acquire land and so we very much appreciates those efforts and thinking about the policy outcomes that were trying to achieve and if it's the affordable units the city acquires and builds it's one piece and if it's maximizing the amount of afforda

lawson, pursuant to house resolution 965, i inform the house that mr. lawson will vote yes on h.r. 900. -- 900. -- 8900. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from rhode island seek recognition? mr. cicilline: mr. speaker, as the member designated by ms. pingree, chair of the congressional arts caucus of maine, pursuant to house resolution 965, i inform the house that ms. pingree will vote yes on h.r. 8900. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from virginia seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, as the member designated by mr. rooney of florida, pursuant to house resolution 965, i inform the house that mr. rooney will vote no on h.r. 8900. mr. beyer: as the member designated by ms. moore of wisconsin, pursuant to house resolution 965, i inform the house that ms. moore will vote yes on h.r. 8900. as the member designated by mr. kind of wisconsin, pursuant to house resolution 965, i inform the house that mr. kind will vote yes on h.r. 8900. as the member designated by mr. cohen of tennessee, pursuant to house reso

and housing instability and affordable housing and housing is a basic human right. this is a no-brainer. that's all. thanks. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> caller: hello, board of supervisors. my name is marie cartier and i'm a life-long san franciscan and i live in district 5 and i work as a social worker here in the city and being a member of the san francisco mine troupe. i'm here to support setting at no more than 30% and to make funding available to the 2021-2022 budget cycle. many tenants affected by these rent burdens are black and disabled folks. you have heard from many of them tonight and i hope that you listened. covid-19 has led to a need to be digitally connected, but some tenants have now to pay $55 per month on top of their already high rents to get wifi since many of the buildings don't have wifi. and many of the units don't have bathroom or food preparation areas so it makes it more expensive and stressful to live at these sites. we can afford this if we make cuts to our bloated law enforcement budget. so everyone sa

there was a time when white house pet messed up the plans for the white house cook. this involved a dog named links. he was a setter that was on the scene. according to white house reports, on the morning of march 1934, there was 12 sets of fried eggs and ham set out for the resident staff. the white house cook made this and stepped away to do something else. when the cook returned, all of hem were gone. they realized this was because lynx had helped himself to a nice, hearty meal. the press had a lot of fun with this, they staged a photo of links eating ham and eggs off the plate. the cook was upset, so soon after, it was announced that lynx was leaving the white house to spend more time with his family. [laughter] and that paved the way for the more familiar dog, paula. one thing that was interesting about these cooks is that i find -- this plays out in the roosevelt administration -- these cooks fit into three boxes. one is they were culinary artists who are celebrated in their time. if you know anything about the food reputation of the fdr white house, it is not

and housing instability and affordable housing and housing is a basic human right. this is a no-brainer. that's all. thanks. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> caller: hello, board of supervisors. my name is marie cartier and i'm a life-long san franciscan and i live in district 5 and i work as a social worker here in the city and being a member of the san francisco mine troupe. i'm here to support setting at no more than 30% and to make funding available to the 2021-2022 budget cycle. many tenants affected by these rent burdens are black and disabled folks. you have heard from many of them tonight and i hope that you listened. covid-19 has led to a need to be digitally connected, but some tenants have now to pay $55 per month on top of their already high rents to get wifi since many of the buildings don't have wifi. and many of the units don't have bathroom or food preparation areas so it makes it more expensive and stressful to live at these sites. we can afford this if we make cuts to our bloated law enforcement budget. so everyone sa

there was a time when white house pet messed up the plans for the white house cook. this involved a dog named links. he was a setter that was on the scene. according to white house reports, on the morning of march 1934, there was 12 sets of fried eggs and ham set out for the resident staff. the white house cook made this and stepped away to do something else. when the cook returned, all of them were gone. they realized this was because lynx had helped himself to a nice, hearty meal. the press had a lot of fun with this, they staged a photo of links eating ham and eggs off the plate. the cook was upset, so soon after, it was announced that lynx was leaving the white house to spend more time with his family. [laughter] and that paved the way for the more familiar dog, paula. one thing that was interesting about these cooks is that i find -- this plays out in the roosevelt administration -- these cooks fit into three boxes. one is they were culinary artists who are celebrated in their time. if you know anything about the food reputation of the fdr white house, it is not

and eventually build 70,000 houses. 17,000 houses. and do so in a way that is reminiscent of mass production. as you can see here. non-unionized workers would go from house to house and do the same task,oftentimes times very minute, over and over again. they really helped revolutionize the building process. as you can see from this aerial image, they had precut mber that came from the levitt farms. they made these call cry creek concrete slabs and dump the material out and they would quickly build a house. they were able to build a house at a rate exceeding 150 over. a week the result is that the houses were very affordable because they were built so quickly. the earliest model sold for $7,900. it is hard to do economic comparisons to today. but it would probably be something like $85, 000, $90,000 in today's money. it became very affordable for people in the middle class. people start moving in in 1947 to houses that look like this. this is one that is still standing, but the original cape cod style and floor plan. what do you make o

it's a lesson for future white houses. if you have a bad transition and you are late in creating the white house staff, then you're not going to be as successful in getting up and running quickly. >> i would think people looking back on these first 10 0 days would say he had a very ambitious agenda, knew whaet he wanted to accomplish, worked hard, pushed his staff well. >> there were pride points to be sure, but it's not a straight line. >> there were no limits on what i could ask him at that point. the hard part was always trying to get him to not just be in a campaign mode, but be in a presidential mode so he would share with us the burden of decision making, the change in his life since he became president. >> in the original special you'll see maybe we tried things that didn't work out. >> we probably had a little bit of bad luck in some of the low spots of our first 100 days came right at the end. some of the criticism was fair. we made mistakes, there's no question about that. >> he decided i'm going to take on reall

if the veto override is in the house, it will go to the senate. the house gavels in at 2:00 p.m. eastern. you can watch live coverage right here on c-span. >> next, former white house chiefs of staff john podesta and the process iscuss of building a new administration. georgetown university students joined the discussion to ask questions. good morning, everybody. i'm executive director of georgetown university's of politics and public ccourt school of public policy. i want to welcome you to today's series of events on transition 2020. we're proud to be partnering together wick to put this what we hope will be an three g and informative part event looking at the year, ion, not just this but looking back over time at typically our -- are conducted. today, we're going to be hearing three different panels, kicking off this morning with a panel on building a new administration, looking at the nuts and bolts of how to put together a new government. in a few hours, at 10:30, we in a few hours at 10:30 we'll reconvene on the confirmation process. and then closing out ths afternoon for co

one and a half bath house he's got to move up to the floor better to bath house. to house a car just kept getting bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger and it's just all on fake valuations. yeah at that point the home did absolutely become a vehicle for excess prices rising from the case shiller index i look at it on there and i say yes this looks good it's much better than expected you look at the number and say. nobody knows where home prices are going to do. people are increasingly speculative when they buy a house a major concern is how much can i sell this to someone else at the other end it can be called the greater fool theory maybe i am a fool dubai's that's a big house but i'm going to. to an even greater fool. there were people who thought 50 or 100 years ago that home prices should decline with. the reason is they wear out. don't expect to gain the expected to lose value that was a common view in the past. we have come as a society to place a tremendous amount of value on the home itself. and the bigger the home the be

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one and a half bath house he's got to move up to the 4 better to bath house. to house the car just kept getting bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger and it's just all on fake valuations. yeah at that point the home did absolutely become a vehicle for excess home prices rising from the case shiller index i look at the boundary and i say yes this looks good it's much better than expected you look at the number and say. nobody knows where home prices are going to do. people are increasingly speculative when they buy a house a major concern is how much can i sell this to someone else at the other end it can be called the greater fool theory maybe i'm a fool the buys it's a big house but i'm going to. to an even greater fool. there were people who thought 50 or 100 years ago that home prices should decline with. the reason is they wear out. don't expect to gain the expected to lose value that was a common view in the past. we have come as a society to place a tremendous amount of value on the home itself. and the bigger the home

one and a half bath house he's got to move up to the 4 better to bath house. to house a car just kept getting bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger and it's just all on fake valuations. yeah at that point the home did absolutely become a vehicle for excess home prices rising from the case shiller index i look at it out there and i say yes this looks good it's much better than expected you look at the number and say. nobody knows where home prices are going to do. people are increasingly speculative when they buy a house a major concern is how much can i sell this to someone else at the other end it can be called the greater fool theory maybe i'm a fool the buys that's a big house but i'm going to. to an even greater fool. there were people who thought 50 or 100 years ago that home prices should decline with. the reason is they wear out. don't expect to gain the expected to lose value that was a common view in the past. we have come as a society to place a tremendous amount of value on the home itself. and the bigger the home

of affordable housing. it's the essential question we start with each time. we're always looking to find ways to create more affordable units, whether that's through bringing in market rate investment or expanding mohcd funding. this slide outlines few broadways to maximize affordable housing and we're looking forward to a discussion on these. first and most important, increasing funding for the 100% affordable pipeline. we fund our affordable pipeline in the city through a combination of state funds, voter approved bondings, philanthropy, market rate development all in the city's budget through the trust fund. increasing the funding we have available will sort of directly catalyze additional units in many cases. second, we can reduce total development costs, which would allow limited subsidies to build more units. third, expand developer capacity so that we can do more projects, especially in underserved communities. fourth, to further leverage market rate development to increase affordable unit units t ar

on the south lawn of the white house a painful ceremony unfolded. returning to their new home, nixon's successor reassured his wife, we can do it. soon he would reassure the nation. for gerald ford there was no transition. no time to settle into the world's most demanding job. >> when i took the oath of office and went back to the oval office, my desk was piled high with problems. we had an economic crisis and uncertainty with our allies and our adversaries. what a lack of public trust in the government. i finally came to the conclusion that i had to get rid of mr. nixon's past problems and spend 100% of my time on the problems facing the american people as a whole. the only way to do that was to pardon mr. nixon, get all his problems out of the white house so that my concentration could be on the economy, diplomatic problems, military problems, including how we could and have the conflict in vietnam. there were some in congress who said that i had made a deal with mr. nixon in order to become president and return i would grant him a pardon. that wa

a house administration matter. house decides who it will seat. we don't have any idea -- new york is a completely different situation. new york is a completely different situation. new york, there could be 1,500, 5,000 votes not counted yet. that is going into the courts, i think monday is the day in the court. and that is -- and that is what is -- we'll see what happens in the court, and that may end up in the congress. i don't know. but the court will decide which votes will be counted. but that's like down to 12 votes. it's interesting. people should know, everyone should know his or her vote counts. six votes are what the spread is at the moment in iowa. 12 votes -- now, this is on the basis of hundreds of thousands of votes cast, of hundreds of thousands of votes cast. so it is -- it is one of those matters that time will tell. we'll see what the court says. we'll see what the house administration options are and what they decide to do as they go forward. reporter: i want to get a clarification as it relates t

and proof this for military housing and childcare and more. uncement president, for the brae men and women of the united states, armed forces failure is simply not an option. so it is hard turning congress down the maxima failure is not an option either greeted hundreds my colleagues to support this legislation one more time when we vote tomorrow. now on another matter, and sunday, president trump signed into law another historic bipartisan rescue package . will provide a major support to american families, for what we hope will be the home stretch of our fight with theub coronaviru. congressional republicans and congressional democrats in the president trump senior team had all work together to pass hundreds of billions more dollars in urgent assistance to the people who need it most.ou this new law will set up a targeted second round of paycheck protection is a jobs, to renew and continue federal programs that help laid-off workers endure the crisis. it will send more cash to households and invest billions of distributions so the success ope

bond for senior housing. we want to make sure that funding is made affordable for those we are trying to house. before you today is legislation to jump start this issue and to get the data that we need to respond accordingly. the original legislation asked for biannual report to compare the rents what we are charging and the median rents of seniors and disabilities in the city. we ask for the department of disability to undergo a needs assessment to better understand the housing needs in san francisco. these are followings on the streets looking for stable housing and those housed right now but looking to move out of their homes because they are no longer able to live or age there. we don't have that data to plan ahead. there are a number of amendments not substantive. as you know, due to covid-19 when we first initiated this the due dates for the reports have since been overdue. we are asking to amend the legislation for time for the departments to adequately meet the deadlines of the reports. we are asking

of the house. i may disagree with someone on 95% of policy questions, but if you don't know a person you don't stand a chance of finding the 5% in common and trying to build on it. if you don't know a person, it's so much easier to dismiss his or her motives and that's really where things start to fall apart. . no member of this congress does love america. the best way to improve the people. the american but we all love our country. and i worry that more and more mistrust the other side were saddled with purity tests difficult to build relationships and seek common ground. to resist the urge to let the perfect be the enemy of the good. mean abandoning our principles or losing sight of our goals. acknowledging that progress in our political system takes time and perseverance. understanding that as convinced as i might be that my a big the correct one, chunk of this body and of this disagree. likely to it means taking wins where we an get them even if they're modest, because when we accomplish even a

and these are the houses we lived in. they're bark covered houses. and normally during the winter these houses could be anywhere from 100 foot long to one of the biggest houses we found -- we found the footprint of this house, this footprint was found out in worcester. the footprint was 326 in length and 60 foot in width. i tell kids if you don't know what that means, think of a football field. that's how big this house was. the frames were made out of cedar, okay? the outside bark normally would have been chestnut and elm. we don't have those trees around here anymore and we used to use white ash. we'll talk about that in a minute. the men did the hunting. the men were considered to be the takers of life. and we hunt for the deer, for big game. on the mainland we go for black bear, moose, elk also for big game. small animals, you guys like the taste of skunk? anybody? that's a good swar right there. never tried it, right? skunk is considered to be a delicacy. how do you catch a skunk? very carefully, right? you get two boys. one boy would be in fron

housing. i fully support this project and i think that we should have more like this. thank you. have a nice day and i yield my time. >> good afternoon, this is nico with the housing coalition and i will keep it brief for many of the reasons that folks have just said that we are absolutely in support of this project and we support moving it forward. >> caller: i am mike chen and i'm in district 2. speaking in support of the project as little something that is really good and having more housing. and what we think what covid has shown us is that crowding is not so great so having more units and more places for people to go and better ventilation systems. because our housing stock is becoming older and older and, you know, we need -- you know, we need newer units and stuff that is better for our health. so i urge you to support this project. thank you. >> clerk: okay, members of the public. last call for public comment on this matter. seeing no additional requests to speak, commissioners, public

your house is a desirable property. we will turn out the right buyer for you. >> i hear what you are saying, but don't turn on the bedside manner. >> you strike me as upset. >> tom elder was upset. >> tom elder didn't walk in my door. don't blame tom, people get nervous and worried. i told him it was probably all a mistake. we know you wouldn't do anything out of line. >> out of line? what in heaven's name are you talking about? people came to look at my house. they were negroes. i haven't done anything. yet. >> take it easy, ed. i'm not tom, you know. face it. if you want to sell your house, i want to sell it for you. that is my business. but there are some things we just can't do. that sign is a terrible thing. it is an open invitation to anybody. you have been here long enough to know we don't do things that way. >> now listen -- >> i had a dozen people in here who would have taken your place. i did not let them get as far as you. i have to consider the community. you are leaving, but there are a lot of us who are go

weave increased universal credit as i mentioned to the house, housing allowance provided billions more to cal authorities who were hard to reach and i say to the honorable geleman the best way to help the self-employed and the economy of the whole country iso get us moving again with a package measures the house vot for last night to allow retail to startup and allow business to start up again, it is shameful anwe do not think retail is shameful. want businesses to open up that was voted for, it is a great shame. >> enormous pressure, i welcome the government and the nhs continued commitment to combined medical facility. the sale of the existing memorial hospital on public donation, will help fund the new building investing 20 million pounds in manufacturing to benefit wales, scotland, england and northern ireland welcoming the skill of all those in the nhs to make historic donations. >> congratulate him on any decision. but i know that he is supporting, the development of new health and well-being. >>ose roberts. >> t licensing of the vaccine, a ray of light and dark times. and the am

pursuant to house resolution 965, i inform the house that ms. frankel will vote yes on h.j.res. 110. as the member designated by ms. brownley, pursuant to house resolution 965, i inform the house that ms. brownley will vote yes on h.j.res. 110. as the member designated by ms. bonamici, pursuant to house resolution 965, i inform the house that bonamici will vote yes on h.y.res. 110. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlelady from new hampshire seek recognition? >> as the member designated by mrs. bustos, pursuant to house resolution 965, i inform the house that mrs. bustos will vote yea on h.j.res. 110. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlelady from florida seek recognition? ms. wasserman schultz: as the member designated by mr. hastings of florida, pursuant to house resolution 965, i inform the house that mr. hastings will vote yea on h.j.res. 110. as the member designated by mr. payne of new jersey, pursuant to house resolution 965, i inform the house that mr. payne will also vote yea on h.j.res. 1 10. an

house speaker pelosi put that up to the house today. >> he has no art of leverage given he signed that bill. boris, thank you so much. >>> to capitol hill, suzanne malveaux is there and suzanne, as boris mentioned the senate majority winner made no mention of investigation into voter fraud in his statement. what does that suggest to you? >> reporter: good morning. it's no question there are some political gamesmanship going on the hill, not surprisingly as many republicans who are put in a tight bind, a fix if you will, as they had negotiated in earnest they thought along with the president secretary of the treasury only to find out that in fact he basically just whipped the rug from underneath their feet. yes, people are trying to save face here, and it is up to majority leader mitch mcconnell who sets the schedule in the senate on what gets voted on and what doesn't and it was clear, telling what he didn't say in a statement yesterday, the statement in part saying he applauded the president's decision to get hundreds of billions of dollars of crucial covid-19 relief out of the door i

all listening to house on. testament became famous in it the composer describes his desperate situation his fears about becoming deaf and his isolation. that is the maze highly constat a testament is also a justification he writes about the incurable state of his ears. made worse by misguided doctors he came here hoping to be healed. he was also suffering from a broken heart. but in 1802 he came to highly can start to be cured. you know this letter is a justification of why he's so withdrawn doesn't socialize much anymore and has become such a loner it's because he's uncomfortable saying speak up i can't hear you as a musician he finds this unbearable he must also deal with jealous folks and enemies he's made due to his difficult temperament so this letter attempts to correct his image a bit so later we. by the way beethoven wasn't born here in vienna but born in germany that's where he lived 23 years betts where he took his 1st steps as a musician and composer and of course the people of are also very proud of

tonight the top house republican has joined more than 100 lawmakers in the house and 18 red state attorneys general in backing the effort to throw out millions of certified votes. >>> we're also awaiting word from the fda. it is expected to finalize emergency use authorization for pfizer's covid-19 vaccine very soon. could do it at any moment now. that's a move that would allow vaccinations to begin here in the united states within days. the urgency is clear as the u.s. coronavirus death toll now tops 294,000 tonight with more than 15.7 million confirmed cases and covid-19 hospitalizations hitting yet another record high. >>> let's start our coverage this hour with our chief white house correspondent, jim acosta. jim, the u.s. supreme court could deliver another major blow to the president's bogus

this white house. >> yeah, this white house. no, i never felt fearful. i didn't have bullets flying over my head and i didn't have sharks coming at me from all directions so i had it easy compared to these two. the one thing that we were talking earlier, you have to have intuition in terms of when it's time to give the man some space. so it's more of just an intuitive sense of when it is time to sort of slowly back away. >> every three months we would go to walter reed and he would visit wounded warriors. i think it affected him emotionally. one time he went and we saw corey remsberg, the guy he was on patrol with in afghanistan was killed instantly. corey was thrown into a ravine. he was under water. somehow he survived, not drowning. he spent months in a coma and he lost half his eyesight and the ability to control half his body. he had to relearn how to walk, talk and eat. but here's the thing that really took me aback. president obama had met corey in normandy the previous june. and i had taken a picture of that encounter. and the picture, we had sen

of the house and senate. the 12th amendment says the president of the senate, this was a republican named thomas ferry. the vice president had died. shall open the votes. is this.anguage and the votes shall then be counted. never in american history has the imprecision of the passive voice meant so much. counted by who? we want to avoid the passive voice. we try to tell students that all the time. counted by home? the republicans said it means the president of the senate can count them because the republicans had a majority in the senate. have this hugeho majority in the house of representatives say no way, if you insist on that, we are simply not going to hold a joint session. you have to come over to the house chamber for this. nobody will have an electoral and we will pick him herself. -- ourselves. order we will use the 22nd joint resolution, which the senate had repealed, one chamber can repeal a joint resolution. several judges saying this is unconstitutional. it allowed any member of the house or senat

it to the white house for the white house to execute, sign those bills into law and execute them. but i've been saying this over and over again. it is not the job of congress to stand behind the president or any president. their job is to represent the people that have voted them into those positions. and if they can start getting that -- if everybody can remember that, then the american people would best be served. this is why we're seeing all this frustration, this back and forth. and at the 11th hour, the discord with the president saying he may veto the stimulus bill and has already decided he's going to go against defense spending. >> abby, it may seem small talking about lives and livelihoods at stake here, but what is the deal with this email back and forth at the white house over -- this is the exit plan, this is the exit process, here is the detailed information about your last days in the white house, how you'll receive your final paycheck. they received another email today saying never mind, guidance is coming. >> reporter: it's another normal, administrative process th

and senate house on. testament became famous in it the composer describes his desperate situation his fears about becoming deaf and his isolation. that islam is highly constat a testament is also a justification he writes about the incurable state of his ears made worse by misguided doctors he came here hoping to be healed. he was also suffering from a broken heart. but in 1802 he came to highly can start to be cured. so this letter is a justification of why he's so withdrawn doesn't socialize much anymore and has become such a loner it's because he's uncomfortable saying speak up i can't hear you as a musician he finds the sun bearable and he must also deal with jealous folks and enemies he's made due to his difficult temperament so this letter attempts to correct his image a bit. by the way. born here in vienna but in germany that's where he lived 20 years and that's where he took his 1st steps as a musician and composer and of course the people of are also very proud of their. in december 17th 70 look

the speaker pro tempore: the house will be in order. the chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. the clerk: the speaker's rooms, washington, d.c. december 17, 2020. i hereby appoint the honorable william lacy clay to act as day. signed, nancy pelosi, speaker of the house of representatives. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to the order of the house of january 7, 2020, the chair will recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. the chair will alternate recognition between the parties. the time equally allocated between the parties and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and minority whip limited to five minutes. but in no event shall debate ontinue beyond 1:50 a.m. the chair recognizes the gentleman from new mexico, mr. lujan, for five minutes. mr. lujan: mr. speaker, i'm honored to rise for the last time on the floor of the house of representatives. growing up on a small farm in new mexico, i never imagined that i would walk these haloed

she was a deputy white house press second in the obama white house. kate bedingfield will become the white house communications gf director. neera tandan to the cabinet position to the director of office of management and budget. the chief executive of the center for american progress. the smoothness of the senate confirmation process will depend entirely on the outcome of the senate elections in georgia on january 5th and we are joined later in the hour by jon ossoffe democratic candidate for senate in georgia. members of the president's economic advisers do not have to be confirmed by the is not, so cecilia rouse will be the chair of the three member house. and heather boucher, serving as the other members of the president's economic advisers, leading our our discuss tonight is sam stein, from the daily beast, and aneesh, both msnbc analysts, and the biden presidency continues to come into view. we now know most of the key players who will be working in white house positions that do o not require senate confirmation and the cabinet is also shaking s

i really loved being in the house. i love being the chair. and i certainly loved being chair of appropriations. and if i left to join the senate, i probably would not become the first female chair of the appropriations committee. peter: you have mentioned your husband, stephen lowey, many times. what does he do for a living? rep. lowey: my husband is a retired attorney. he has been retired, i think three years, four years, five years. i forget. [laughter] but he is very wise, and keeps up with all the news. and most of our discussion at the dinner table is about government, politics, democrats, republicans. me, been a great advisor to and a good friend, in addition to being a lovely husband. peter: do you two ever disagree on an issue? you would never believe anything i ever told you if i say no. [laughter] right? this interview would be wasteful if i said no. of course we do. but most of the time we do agree, and i usually can convince him, or he can convince me. own pointely have our of view, but we've been living together a long time. we h

we know there will be this vaccine summit here at the white house today whereof course the white house is even bluntly admitted in part this is on congratulating the president on his efforts with operation warp speed and broader efforts of the administration. this comes i want to point out as we are learning that the trump attorney, jenna ellis, who has chris crossed the country with rudy giuliani informed people she tested positive for coronavirus. that comes after we found out sunday that rudy giuliani himself, john, was hospitalized with coronavirus. and the president said yesterday that he was doing well. one thing that this raises a question about with jenna ellis, we were told she was at a christmas party at the white house with senior staff friday and was not wearing a mask. of course, it is unclear if she was contagious then. we don't know a lot of details surrounding her diagnosis. this is someone else you've often seen flouting health guidelines that now tested positive in the president's inner circle. >> dozens, dozens of members of the president's inner circle. the fact she

a lot of people in the white house are apparently afraid of him. the whole situation is truly bizarre and deeply concerning. >> at least the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell has congratulated joe biden, said he's president-elect. on the house side, the republican leadership, kevin mccarthy, steve scalise, they still have refused to recognize reality. they still are not doing the right thing and saying that biden has won, which he clearly has. and that is very, very disturbing. if they were to come around and all of them would go to the white house and tell the president it's over, as you correctly point out, it may or may not work. probably wouldn't, but we shall see. everybody stand by. there's more breaking news we're following, as congress gets closer and closer to finally approving more covid-19 relief, are both parties prepared to do even more in the weeks ahead? i'll speak with democratic senator mark warner. there he is. >> and new york governor andrew cuomo is slamming the feds for failing to ban travel from the united kingdom where a

a deafening silence from the white house on this issue. the president is meeting with the acting defense secretary at 3:30 today. it is possible that that issue could come up. maybe we'll get some insight into that, but it really, as i mentioned before, has been days since we have seen or heard from the president aside from his twitter feed. >> shannon pettypiece, across from the white house this afternoon, thanks, shannon. >> turning back to the coronavirus pandemic. roughly 312,000 americans have died as we are now seeing more than 3,000 deaths every day. and we have this sobering prediction from the centers for disease control that somewhere between 50,000 and 80,000 americans could die in the next three weeks. joining us now to talk about this is dr. michael osterholm, director of the center for infectious disease research and policy at the university of minnesota. and a member of president-elect joe biden's covid advisory board. great to have you with us once again. >> thank you. >>> three weeks after thanksgiving, we saw over 3200 de

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anyone.can't get away from people are housed down with their beds. a hundred in a dorm. people are coughing. you can't get away. there's no soap. it's like a itrror movie. -- it's terrifying. peope already testedthan 200 positive for the coronavirus at efacilirk city's detention another piece fr that time was a piece about a datroupe. it's called "the dance cartel." they were using zoom to create online "social dis-dance" parties. thprocess for partygoers i simple: log-into the zoom meeting where the party is held; set up your camera shot using your computer or phone; finally, log onto another web site called mixlr. a dj set there, created especiallyor the event, is broadcast live. and then, get to dancing! ♪ you know, it's just really interesting to see how people were using the technology not justedor conversation with lov ones, but also to share art, to share music. and that, i think, has been a big theme of 2020. >> sreenivasan: another way was through the number ofograms interviews that you were producing and part of. will any of those stand out? >> i think the co

so even if people in the house, republicans in the house did try to protest the results of the electoral college in one of their states, they would need a corresponding senator to go along with that, which might be tricky. and at the end of the day, the person overseeing this all is vice president mike pence, who has also quietly indicated that this is something that he is going to see in a way that is constitutional, you know, which the president has not been super thrilled about, but that's something that we're watching closely. and while it seems far-fetched, anything really is quite possible in terms of pushing the constitutional boundaries with this president. >> well, that's been a theme of the last year, perhaps the last four years. the "washington post's" jacqueline alemany, thank you so much. hopefully, by the time you and i see each other again, we will actually be in 2021, which i think all of us are very much looking forward to. >>> moving on, though, to this pretty tough story. the suspect in the christmas morning explosion that rocked downtown nashville has been identified.

you had to build some kind of a house or a shanty or a solid house or something. you had to prove that was on the land. at the end of this process, at the end of five years, you had to get some friends or neighbors to help you fill out the paperwork and testify to this. you have to prove that you had done this. that had to be published in the local newspaper. that's why a lot of local newspapers were founded. it was to publish the paperwork. >> also probably to publish announcements, perhaps even from the government. >> sure. >> but to play devils advocate here, they are not getting anything really for free from the government because they are also doing the government a favor aren't they? by moving west and kind of helping clear out the indians and create a farm. >> yeah, although the utility of some of those farms is, and was questionable, because especially on the great plains in the dakotas, a lot of that land was not ideal for farming. especially what they call dry land farming, which was just going alone without irrigation. just relying on whatever mother na

house democrats need to follow the lead of house republicans, put americans above their interest friends by today on id-19 relief this house floor by calling up ur discharge petition and voting on paycheck protection relief. today to r, i rise recognize an exceptional young man in my district, clayton was raised to value a broad span of interest. t just 17 years old ex's excelli excelling in many of his team. ounder of his school's chess team, member of the governor's school and national honors society. e's ranked at the top of his class and he's one of 16,000 semifilists in the national merit scholarship out of 1.5 applicants.onal he's a writer who is working on a novel. a musician. of the arkansas symphony orchestra. to attend northwestern university in chicago. and i expect him to succeed takes him.fe i congratulate clayton on his hard work, his keen interests. and make , clayton, your high school and your family proud. thank you, mr. speaker, and i yield back the balance of my time. tempore: the o chair recognizes the gentleman from new york, mr. rose, for five minutes. mr. rose: mr.

he's a member of the house judiciary committee and the house intelligence committee. and congressman, with your indulgence, i'd like to go to chuck rosenberg first as a former federal prosecutor to read into this judge's memo tonight. we normally defer to the elected official first, but we will start with you, chuck. thank you. thank you, congressman. start with you, chuck, and i want to just open the microphone to you on your reading of this judge's memo tonight. >> yeah, it's fascinating, but, lawrence, what you said at the beginning is really important. we don't know who the targeted officials are and we don't know if white house officials were complicit or completely ignorant of the scheme. what the judge is doing here is rather narrow. she's making a ruling that the attorney/client privilege doesn't protect certain documents because they were disclosed to third parties. once you do that, you vitiate the privilege and that means the prosecutors get to look at it. it's important, lawrence, because it helps them build a case. so it's going to take some time. we won'

we're just shy of winning back the majority in the house and i believe republicans will win the house in two years and one thing, one way that rsv is going to play a role in our winning back the majority is in in the fight. and i want to lead us in the fight on a number of areas but a few areas that are really important is closing how radical the left has taken over the democratic party and juxtapose that with where the republicans are. i think most of america is and a few of those issues would be right out of thegate , the fight to preserve and protect stop heinemann will be one of those major initiatives that republican studying committee will lead . educating the american people about how important vitamin has been working. and saving unborn babies. and preventing our taxpayer dollars from going to fund abortion. rsv will be on the frontlines of exposing how radical the democratics have become. was s once bipartisan what presidents from jimmy carter to bill clinton and joe biden have defended and supported in the high commitment is no longer supported by the democratparty . that's

house of representatives. let's go to our chief white house correspondent jim acosta. apparently the lawmakers are continuing to buy into the president's false statements about the election. >> reporter: still plenty of enablers around. president trump is still lying to his supporters insisting he won a second term. he said he was 2-0 today in elections when it's one win and one loss actually. his team understand he is running out of legal challenges. the question whether the president will acknowledge that himself. some people in congress are actually encouraging the president to keep fighting it out even after the electoral votes are officially tallied up next week teeing up a potential fight in the house of representatives that is expected to simply drag out the inevitable. >> thank you very much. >> reporter: today the president required more than a fact check. he needed a math check as prosecute trump is pointing to the 2020 scoreboard claiming he came out on top. >> in politics i won two, so i'm 2-0. and

that's two-thirds of the house. and the question then will be are there 50 or 60 republicans who are willing to break ranks with their caucus in the house and join democrats and president trump in trying to provide more relief. so hopeful. but i'm not optimistic because that would be a change of behavior for my friends on the other side of the aisle that has been lacking entirely in the last four years. >> congressman, the president vetoed the defense bill the house and senate passed with veto proof majorities before he vetoed it. the house is going to vote today on overriding trump's veto. what is going to happen? >> i think there's a good chance that we're going to override the veto in the house of representatives. there are a number of republicans who are deeply troubled by this veto. this was a carefully crafted bill. we've passed the defense authorization bill for 59 consecutive years without fail. and the president's reasoning for vetoing the bill, we're speechless. it had nothing to do with the defense bill.

housing is? >> yeah, generally what the term social housing means in terms of the i think there are definitions and there's projects so, my view and if you look up and it's different definitions but i view social housing is the umbrella term for those house tag are off the speculative and for-profit market and include perks and that's what we did with prop five with the housing stability and and left it and to cars out the spending process within that it's before i fixed my name to said measure but i thought i was h it was important just to put that out there. next speaker, please. >> we want to thank supervisor preston for bringing this conversation and to the committee today and we appreciate his desire to be created and thinking about ways and we can acquire land and so we very much appreciates those efforts and thinking about the policy outcomes that were trying to achieve and if it's the affordable units the city acquires and builds it's one piece and if it's maximizing the amount of afforda

pursuant to section 4-b of house resolution 967, the house stands adjourned until 2:00 p.m. on monday, december 28, 2020. merry christmas.