dwight evans: first, good morning to you.hink that what we need to do is attempt to bring people together within the congress. i think that with president biden and vice president harris, the attempt to bring people together would be much advised. there is a joint connection between that and the economy coming back. i believe that president biden and vice president harris will demonstrate that type of leadership, so first off, with the vaccine distribution, labeling the initiative -- they will end the initiative that the president has put forward, the distribution of the vaccine which i think is very essential. the second part of it is dealing with the economy. dealing with the economy in terms of small businesses, investing in infrastructure, schools reopening. and the president, as he stated, is basically attempting to deal with both sides of the democrats and republicans. tom: congressman, you now provide important leadership. you are joined by rev. warnock of georgia and you are also joined by a vice president of the unit

cartwright: i completely agree with my colleagues, representative dwight evans and i remind this chamber that pennsylvania is the cradle of american democracy. we can't claim to be the birth -- of american dem democracy. and one stood up in a massachusetts courtroom and argued against the king's writ of resistance. it is where we hosted the signing of the declaration of independence and the american constitution and it was pennsylvaniaians who went to battle to defend this idea of democracy. ey went right after bunker hill. erican riflemen were transformational at sarah toga and independence hall where these documents, the declaration and the constitution. and you heard my colleague. you heard representative houlahan talking about valley forge in support of creating democracy and heard representative boyle and you heard representative dean quoting john lewis, our hero who said democracy is not a state, it is an act. you hert representative wild talking about this stunning assault on our democracy. if it seems like we get prickly in pennsylvania about assaulting our democracy, you're righ