today the illinois economy supports 6.2 million jobs. this is the most jobs on record for our state and we now have the lowest unemployment rate in history. last year for the first time in nearly 20 years every major region in our state was growing simultaneously. and even more remarkably, communities in southern illinois, like carbondale have led that growth. over the past year illinois has reduced its unemployment rate more than all of the top 20 most populated states in the nation and more than our midwestern peers. [ applause ] 237 illinois businesses from all over the state made ink magazine's list of fastest growing in the nation, including companies like columbia and rock i recalled, taylorville and chicago. student applications to illinois' public universities increased last fall for the first time in many years. illinois is the second largest producer of computer science degrees in the nation, accounting for nearly 10% of all computer science degrees awarded in the entire united states. our great state has an awful lot that's go

that is true in illinois also. just because we have a democratic house and a democratic senate and a democratic governor, that does not mean were always in agreement on everything. and we need leadership in the states, we have been somewhat directionless and the last two years under my predecessor there was really no compromise, no movement forward for the state. we had two years of a budget crisis. so having a new governor and a new direction for the state, we are really focused on moving the state ahead, trying to solve our physical challenges but also as you mentioned by making some significant changes. in illinois in expanding people's rights and protecting people, lifting up the minimum wage, something very important and the first thing i did as governor . in fact the legislature rudely moves as quickly as they did after i got elected, it was the very first bill that was signed, my wife and i were there at the signing and we had to take separate cars away from the signing and i called her and i said, 1 million

in illinois also. just because we have democratic senate,d democratic democratic governor, doesn't mean that we always are in on everything. we need leadership in it state. have had -- we've been directionless in the last few years under my predecessor, there was no compromise, no for the state.d we had two years of a budget crises. having a new governor and a new direction for the state, we're moving thesed on state ahead, trying to solve our fiscal challenges but also as mentioned, making some significant changes in illinois rights,nding people's protecting people, lifting up the minimum wage with something very important. thing i did ast governor. the legislature rarely moves as did after i got elected. i signed, bill that my wife and i were there at the signing. we had to take separate cars away from the signing. youlled her and i said, know what, a million people are going to be lifted out of result what we just did. people will get a raise. we just quit now, we would have done something really im

people in illinois. it's only the top 2.7% or 3% that will pay a little bit more. addressing income inequality is very important. as you know over the years it's gotten worse and worse and worse, income inequality. it isn't about punishing anybody. it's about who should pay the bills? who should bear the brunt, the burden to pay for our roads and to pay for our services, for our mental health, for -- what are we going to do to make it fairer for people? and again, the income tax is the best way to do that. and we're ham strung. if you want to lower taxes in illinois, right, you would be -- you would lower taxes on everybody because we have a flat tax rate. so, that doesn't seem right. if you -- you know, i like the idea of lowering tax, but we have a structural deficit in the state. i would be advocating for graduate income tax but it would be different if we didn't have a structural deficit of several billion dollars. and that just has to be addressed. we're being efficient and effective about how we ad

people in illinois. it's only the top 3.7% that will pay a little bit more. so addressing income inequality is very important. as you know over the years it's gotten worse and worse and worse. it really isn't about punishing anybody but who should bear the brunt of paying for our roads and services, for mental health? what are we going to do to make it fairer for people? and again the income tax is the best way to do that. remember if you wanted to lower taxes in illinois, you'd lower taxes on everybody because we have a flat tax rate. so that doesn't seem right. you know, i like the idea of lowering tax, but we have a structural deficit in the state. i wouldn't even be -- i'd be advocating for a graduated income tax, but it would be different if we didn't have a structural deficit of several billion dollars. and that just has to be addressed. we're being efficient and effective about how we administer government services. i've really brought that efficiency to the state. we're implementing on erp system

>> i was on the board of the illinois education association. we were going to have the national convention in new orleans and one of the board members came up to this skinny, skinny man with a black beard and said, you know, if you dressed, we could all come on the floor of the convention and they would know illinois had arrived. and i was intrigued. and i said let's try this, and that was the only thing i did in 1986. but then worked at freeport with the debate and such. >> people won't understand the reference to freeport and the debate. will you tell that story? >> the debate site, second debathe site. >> 1858 debate series. >> with stephen douglas. my whole life was a parking lot with a boulder dedicated by teddy roosevelt. long-time resident said we can do better. we turned that over to green space, life-sized statue of lincoln and douglas in debate. >> to set the stage for people, 1994, c-span went to all the towns in illinois and asked them if the towns put on the debates, we'll bring the cameras and televise the debates in its entirety.

fact, my local election official in christian, county, illinois is somebody i grew up with. i graduated high school with and he's a democrat and i'm a republican, but i know a man who was one of my witnesses a few weeks ago to talk about issues that small rural communities face when it comes to election security. i know mike wants the fairest election possible. politics, politics should stop at the door of the voting precinct. and unfortunately, it doesn't, especially with processes that are legal in states like california, processes like ballot harvesting that we saw somebody take advantage of in north carolina and probably is going to go to jail for it. but it's illegal in north carolina, but completely legal in california. those are the types of issues that i think we as republicans and democrats need to address together. >> this is rodney davis joining us. by the way, the republican of illinois, he's the ranking member of the administration committee, not a familiar committee so some, and what do they do, particularly with election security. how does that fold in. >> it

davis, as is rodney republican from illinois, he is a ranking member of his committee. what are we doing with election security question how does not fold in. guest: this is the smallest committee in congress, three republicans on the minority side, six democrats. democrats this year, the majority have decided to use this as an authorizing committee. they have tried to force through bills that are 600 pages long that nationalize election system and would provide the first-ever corporate money going directly into congressional campaigns. i thought that. the republican minority fought provisions like this. house administration is traditionally a committee that runs the operations of the house. if there's no hot water in the office, something wrong with your wi-fi, you go to house administration and we work with the architect of the capitol to make sure those concerns are addressed. but it's being used much more differently in this democratic majority. host: the legislation you are promoting, is this a bipartisan effort, do you have democrats signing on? guest: we are hopi

the institution survived in certain instances for instance in the minds of southern illinois. lawa loophole and illinois allowed slave owners to bring the property to the state as long as they kept them there for less than a year. as you'll recall, the case is about that in which lincoln represented a slaveholder who was trying to retreat his runaway slaves. they ran away because he had kept them in the state for two years. law andun afoul of the lincoln had presented him because he believed everyone deserved representation. movedn's own family had from kentucky to indiana and eventually to illinois with a hope to find sufficient cheap labor, cheap land and no competition from slave labor. as southern whites moved into free territory, their racial prejudices migrated with them. the 1850's, some of the midwestern states including illinois have passed into immigration laws aimed not at the irish were german newcomers to america but against american-born blacks seeking economic opportunities close to them in the east and you get the instance will you have fairly recent immigrants

viviana: la junta electoral de illinois fue notificada.ntramos que esos de yodo votaron en abril de 2019 y otro en noviembre de 2018. pero no sabemos si son ciudadanos o no. viviv esa falla de programaciÓn pone en serios problemas de calesa inmigrantes que lograron prados involuntariamente para sufragar. >> puede generar condiciones serias, tanto que puede poner alguien en proceso de deportaciÓn por haber votado si no es ciudadano. viviana: la secretarÍa indica que estÁ facilitando ayuda a los afectados. entrego esta carta, en la que se hace responsable del error. >> nos hacemos responsables ante inmigraciÓn, respondemos por este error. viviana: sin pruebas, reciente trump ha repetido que millones de personas votaron ilegalmente en las elecciones del 2016. ante esta falla, se estÁ cuestionando la eficacia del registro automÁtico de votantes a nivel nacional. los problemas con el registro automÁtico de votantes salen a la luz, cuando las elecciones primarias en illinois se llevarÁn a cabo el 17 de marzo. por el proceso de votaciÓn temprana

the president announced that he is commuting the sentence of former illinois governor rod blagojevich who was a one-time star on his tv show "the celebrity apprentice." he plead guilty to trying to sell a open senate seat, as he put it on one moment. >> i have this thing, and it is [ bleep ] golden. i'm just not giving it up for nothing. >> president trump also pardonning former new york police chief bernard keric who was convicted of tax fraud, and allowing his office who wanted to do business with new york city to renovate his office and a gift that keric accepted and hid. this is two of the list of seven pardons and four commutations that the president announced today and what were the actions to benefit these two well connected powerful men who abused their position might mean when it comes to possible similar actions for the felonious trump aides such as paul manafort and michael flynn and roger stone. and now as kaitlan collins is reporting that he is making the moves just two days before his friend and confidant roger stone is to be sentenced. >> reporter: today, the president

, the dispensaries, the people who work in the industry for illinois, are in illinois.and out there. there is not yet enough supply to meet the demand and again, because we are protecting our medical cannabis patients out there -- we want to make sure they are served first -- i think it will be a healthy market i think people will be running profitable dispensaries, grow facilities it is important to me that frankly we are creating new small businesses, new millionaires, in neighborhoods where people have been so left out for so long, in particularly the victims of the war on cannabis i think we are turning that around with our social equity focus. >> the governor is more concerned with social equity and social justice and safety than he is with taxes, which is -- because taxes are high, they can be over 40% in chicago that's on top of high prices because of lack of supplies, which should start to ease later this year. medical marijuana only taxed at 1% they are already seeing recreational sales outpace medical. that trend should continue back to you. >> jane, i am curi

in 2018 when illinois ratified the e.r.a. at long last. later, i am here on the house floor because the women of northern illinois sent for them. fight i am here to fight for our right as women to equal treatment constitution of our great country. i urge all my colleagues to move closer to t step legal equality by supporting this essential bill. back. yield thank you. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new york reserves. he gentleman from georgia reserves. the gentleman from new york is recognized. mr. nadler: madam speaker, i now yield one minute to the distinguished gentlelady from bonamici.. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from oregon is recognized for one minute. ms. bonamici: thank you, madam speaker. in strong support of this resolution to remove the thetrary deadline to ratify equal rights amendment. this year is the centennial of yet, women endment, are still fighting, fighting for the and equal rights under law. women continue to face many barriers to true equality, pregnancy and gender discrimination, unequal pa

ex-illinois governor rob blagojevich is out of president -- prison after being granted clemency by president trump. the list of others that mr. trump is setting free and who could be next. >>> buried alive. a woman is dug out of deep snow after an avalanche. the frantic search to find her the frantic search to find her friend. captioning funded by cbs >>> good morning from the studio 57 newsroom at cbs headquarters here in new york. i'm anne-marie green. >>> there will be a new face on stage tonight as the democratic candidates for president debate in las vegas. former new york city mayor mike bloomberg qualified and will take part in his first presidential debate. he'll go head to head with five other candidates, pete buttigieg, bernie sanders and elizabeth warren as well as amy klobuchar along with former vice president joe biden. bloomberg's on stage debut shows a poll rising to second place nationally behind sanders. laura podesta is here. no doubt his rivals will be going after him. >> reporter: a lot of the debate will be focused on money. bernie sanders, elizabeth warren have accused

all the things rod blagojevich did in illinois have nothing to do with donald trump. these other guys, i think they're going to be the next wave of pardons. >> what about how caitlan was saying how the a.g. was over at the white house for this or part of this, and the fact that just again, reminding people just a couple of days ago bill barr was on abc news saying yeah, you know, those tweets from the president not really nideal, something i have to contend with. now you have the president weighing in majorly. >> tweeting about the mueller prosecutors today. and he's referring to these prosecutors in the roger stone case. those are the mueller prosecutors he's referring to. as to the attorney general being at the white house, it could be that he's just there for a prescheduled meeting. it's often the attorney general is there often so it could be with that, but it's also going to be we need to know, did the attorney general know that this was happening? was this something that the president consulted -- >> well, the president says he is the top law -- he being donald

. >>> happening now, a pardon, and president trump commutes the sentence of former illinois governor and "celebrity apprentice" contestant rod blagojevich, and former nyc police chief bernie keric. and now, the president says that he is backing attorney general barr, and he says that he is allowed to get into the stone case, but he has chosen not to. >>> and now, bernie sanders is leading by double digits in a brand-new poll a couple of days before the nevada caucus. and now, michael bloomberg comes in second and qualifying for the first debate. >>> and dr. dangerous, and the coronavirus claims the life of a second key doctor as the cases are near 75,000. tonight, new concern about the risk that medical workers are facing. i'm wolf blitzer, and you are in the "situation room." >> a former illinois governor and former police commissioner and junk bond king are among a group granted clemency today as the president has declared himself the top law enforcement officer, and he is saying that he has confidence in attorney general barr, and he also says that roger stone has been treated unf

i will tell you how i would've let the people of illinois down, if i gave into that. if i would've allowed these guys were shakedown artists and given to a life sentence, i would've let the people of illinois down because they didn't hire me to do that, they hired me as a governor to fight for the constitution and the rule of l law. this is the larger fight. so many people tried to do with the major-league level to a republican president what they tried due to a democratic governor and they are threatening to take away from all of us our rights to choose our leaders through free and fair elections. who hired these prosecutors who are covered with sovereign immunity under the law -- where is it in the constitution who said they are the ones who should decide who should and should be in office? i'm not in a position where i want to admit to anything i did wrong because i didn't. i would have done wrong if i gave into this. >> trace: you have said again and again the prison was a horrible experience and you want to work on prison reform, justice reform. what does that en

we will turn next to ryan, in illinois on our oppose line. caller: good morning, pedro.hought both of president s presentations yesterday were absolutely pathetic. if you look at the record of donald trump's life, he is a man of very low morals, very low character. he lies, cheats, and steals at every opportunity, he makes things up constantly, and the media laid there and lets him get away with it. host: what about the statements he directed to democrats? what did you think about those statements? caller: i am an independent. i believe both of our parties are sick and corrupt and we have gone to the bottom of the barrel with the presidency of donald trump. i was taught to judge people by who they associate themselves with. how come donald is always the victim and surrounded by all these criminals all the time? paul manafort, his lawyer, michael cohen, all these people around donald keep getting in trouble and going to jail. i don't understand what is going on. actions,king about about the state of the union for a little bit, what did you think about speaker pelosi rippi

somewhere i know in illinois there has got to be a copy. in case any of you have relatives, have them have a look. it would be a valuable relic. let's talk about douglass's series of newspapers that had such consequence. edna: he has three before the war is over. david: three different names. edna the first one is the : northstar. the paper is very important. people read in those days, believe it or not given it was very important that it was a way to get word out to the public. he had significant support from white readers. they were supporting him quite well. his editorials, if you look at the papers now, they are absolutely extraordinary. you know exactly what is happening at any given moment in the history of the country, especially during the early war years. i love to look at those primary sources, whenever i am writing about douglass, i use his exact words as much as possible. he was an exceptional writer. those newspapers chronicle what is happening. they are a representation of what douglass is feeling at the time. i do not know th

plus former illinois governor rob blagojevich calling himself a free political prisoner. he thanks president trump for getting involved. we will speak with his former defense attorney, next. , manage cash flow, and run payroll. and now i'm back on top... with koala kai. hey! more mercy. (vo) save over 40 hours a month with intuit quickbooks. the easy way to a happier business. a former army medic, made of the we maflexibility to handle members like kate. whatever monday has in store and tackle four things at once. so when her car got hit, she didn't worry. she simply filed a claim on her usaa app and said... i got this. usaa insurance is made the way kate needs it - easy. she can even pick her payment plan so it's easy on her budget and her life. usaa. what you're made of, we're made for. usaa >> he has the courage to challenge the old way. he's the one that's actually fighting to bring real change and that's why he brings so much pushback but none was standing mean tough he's also a man with a kind heart. >> melissa: former illinois governor rob blagojevich thinking pres

la ley se aprobÓ en illinois en dos 17 y otros estados y el distrito de columbia tiene el mismo sistemabergue ciudad juÁrez es ver una estados luego de que un brote de varicela dejÓ enfermos a mÁs de 180 personas . aun quedan pequeÑos grupos en cuarentena. reportero: la limpieza en este albergue para migrantes en ciudad juÁrez y la higiene n br varicela contagiÓ cerca de 200 personas. desde diciembre estÁn en cuarentena. >> encerrado sin poder salir, para que el virus no se propague en el albergue. reportero: los migrantes contagiados de lo que ser aislados, como la mayorÍa eran menores, sus padres fueron llevados con ellos para cuidarlos. >> son 183 casos que se han reportado desde diciembre. reportero: en un punto con unos trÁmites de los 500 migrantes estaban aislados entre contagiados y sus familiares, dice el director del albergue. >> instalamos literas, comedor, por la salida de emergencia el pabellÓn se ingresa a otro sanitario. reportero: estuvo en el pabellÓn de los contagiados para cuidar a su hijo con varicela. cÓmo fue el tiempo que pasaron encerrados? >> feo por que por fue

blagojevich is the face of public corruption in illinois and not once has he shown any remorse. history will not judge roger blagojevich well." this is about the millionth media stakeout outside the blagojevich home, there are reporters here, at any moment we expect to hear it directly from rod and patty blagojevich and we will bring that to you when it happens. melissa? >> melissa: the president's barking backlash in the political world including from 2020 candidate bernie sanders, who tweeted "today trump planted clemency to tax cheats, wall street crooks, billionaires and corrupt government officials, meanwhile thousands of poor and working-class kids sit in jail for nonviolent drug convictions. this is what a broken and racist criminal justice system look like. richard, i will ask you if that's fair given that this is consistent with what the president has been doing, he's worked for a criminal justice reform especially with nonviolent offenders. obviously this is someone who was on the apprentice, blago had pandered to him by writing up beds but it isn't inconsistent with h

and we think of illinois because it was free state. we assume that there is a kind of -- if not a tolerance of black people -- there was not. you have a lot of people in southern illinois coming from the south and even people coming from the north are not necessarily pro-black. and so, he was very effective, stephen a. was very effective in invoking the name of fredrick douglass, whenever he talked about lincoln being a black republican or someone supportive of the rights of african-americans. and of course, lincoln countered by saying that he was not interested in promoting the rights of african-americans. he just believed that they were entitled to whatever they had earned through their labor. david: there is a reason they call the southern half of illinois little egypt. and sometimes central alabama. in fact, at one point during the debates in illinois, douglas came up with the story of, i saw lincoln riding around in a carriage with fred douglass. douglass hated being called fred in public. but yeah, he would make up these stories.

i was born and raised in illinois, i went to college in iowa. if i do not do well here, i do not know if this campaign can keep going. what is that number, i do not know. i want people to be surprised, to wake up and say, joe walsh, of there is a primary going on. i do not know what the number is but that is what we are trying to do. -- you had apologized for a certain remark you made in the past. in terms of being able to be contrite for something that you said and continue to grow, how has personal growth helped you put out this person that you are and put you over in the comment that has not done the same thing. joe: that is my favorite question, because really, for five months, part of what i have done is apologize for helping to put trump in the white house, and i really mean that. i got elected in 2010 and was part of a wave that went to washington upset about the debt, and in that fight. i fought for 10 years. there were a number of times that i said tings that were personal and ugly. tohink some of that led us this ugly guy in the white

congressional republicans, blagojevich is the face of corruption in illinois.mes as some have said from the beginning the 14-year sentence it was given was too excessive. >> omar, thank you very much. >> coming up for us, new concerns over the coronavirus as passengers aboard the diamond princess cruise ship are finally ending their quarantine. did the cruise line do enough to contain the virus? cnn speaks to the ceo of the cruise line next. [ applause ] thank you. it's an honor to tell you that liberty mutual customizes your car insurance so you only pay for what you need. i love you! only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ pnc bank has technology to help a pnc business line of credit, because sometimes inner peace requires a little external soundproofing. or pnc total auto. a place online to easily find and finance the right car for you. and your passengers. or pnc home insight, to search for a new house within your budget. hopefully with a grass yard. pnc - make today the day. >>> you may be able to count this as rare good news wh

former illinois senator markte kirk is a registered foreign agent who lobbies for the china u.s.rade foundation china organization with ties to a former communist party. that's a senator. senator joe lieberman worked for zte. what is cte? so dangerous to americanan interest that last august the president signed a bill banning the federalt' government from using that company's equipment. because it's too threatening. he is lobbying for them.h former congressman rich vouch everywhere has lobbiedne for a whole list of chinese companies, hick vision; last night on this program we telling you about a man called u manning. massive state run pension fund called calipers. manning born in china previously ran china's 3-million-dollar portfolio of foreign investments. he has has long engaged in shareholder advancements in this country like gun a control and been very aggressive about it. c now the fund also supports china's efforts to eclipse america. calipers invest in companies that invest in chinese military hick vision that makes surveillance equipment that monitor uighursio actively a

just after midnight, nixon is woken to be told that he has lost the key state of illinois. the united states. >> nixon, we forget that he was capable of being gracious. when he had to go concede, his wife is on the verge of tears standing next to him, but nixon himself was quite gracious about it. >> but as the sun rises on washington, accusations start circulating of electoral fraud in illinois. republican officials set off to investigate. >> they said in chicago, the cemetery wards were coming in strong for kennedy. >> as time goes on, it leaks out that in one black district, there were more votes cast than there were people living in the district. it was corrupt. >> as the dead of illinois cast their votes for kennedy, there are more allegations of fraud in texas. >> if texas and illinois had gone for nixon, he would have won the election. so it mattered. >> all eyes are on nixon as he prepares to fly to washington. will he contest the result? >> now, i put the plane at the end of the air strip to get him as far away from the press and other people as possible. there was

the former illinois governor and pardoning former san francisco

now illinois wants to join the club. jeff is in chicago with the details. i guess is the rodeo drive chicago, oak street here. a lot of fancy shops in all piping. he's of the folks that bear the burden if the new amendment to the old constitution goes into effect which would implement a graduated tax. you mentioned the slowest growing states, look at the fastest growing states. put those up there. utah, texas, colorado, florida. what do they all have in common? the either had a flat income tax or no income tax at all. the slowest growing states on the upper their hand, all except illinois, they have a graduated tax. illinois trying to raise about $3.7 billion the tax on higher earners with a higher rate. the fear is that people believe the state. they are already doing that. last year, 2019, about 105,000 people left illinois. one person every five minutes. that continues. his new study done by my policy group, a nonpartisan group says if the governor tries to treat illinois as cash cows, they will likely leave before he gets to milk them. i guess that rema

>>all 5 illinois republicans in congress issued a joint statement saying that history will not judge former governor rod blagojevich well they hope voters don't judge them and the republican party too harshly after president trump's decision. democrats to disagreed saying the governor belated should have full a served his full 14 years behind bars but in the end. president trump saw an opportunity to prove a point. >>it was a prosecution by. the same people call me fitzpatrick the same group i saw that and i did commute this set. >>former governor rod blagojevich's wife patti pleaded with president trump for years on cable news pads and on social media making the case that over eager prosecutors flex their muscle and unfairly put a governor behind bars with his own impeachment trial now behind him the president granted leniency to convict who he was fired from his own reality tv show. president trump. it's probably the least credible person 2. >>make this decision given what he's done over and over again to thumb his nose at one of the core principles of our democracy is that the no

the illinois senate unanimously voted to remove you. everyone in the illinois house also voted, democrats and republicans to impeach you except for one person, you know who that was? your sister-in-law. i mean, give me a break. >> okay, that -- i hear what you're saying but let me fill in some of the facts that you don't seem to have. first and foremost, when a prosecutor comes out and arrests a sitting governor with a s.w.a.t. team and announces a big lie, the sail of a senate seat which incidentally was reversed by the appellate court and ruled the discussions about the senate seat were routine politics. >> they still upheld your conviction, though. they upheld your conviction. >> they did not. they reversed those charges -- >> those charges -- you know what, you had like how many charges against you, 15, 16, yes, they threw out a couple of charges. there were still enough charges for a judge to then look at it and say you know what, the sentence still stands, but go ahead. >> let me ask do you know what the charges were that were uph

a new illinois bill would ban drivers from pumping their own gas.rimble at a gas station in chicago with the details. what's going on? reporter: neil, the democratic lawmaker proposing this says it would create jobs, make things easier and convenient and safer for drivers if they don't have to pump their own gas. here is the legislation, the bill proposed by the lawmaker in illinois. no gas may be pumped at a gas station in illinois unless it is pumped by a gas station attendant employed at the gas station. this is one of the few gas stations in town with an attendant. here he is here, rafael. he has been here for 44 years. but this proposal got a lot of pushback actually because people say it will drive up gas prices. you can see here it is 50 cents more expensive than if you went to a pump that is not full service. look at this tweet from somebody who is pushing back against this proposal. th jobs at the expense of others, this man says. he says the illinois democrats are taxing us all to death as it is. don't worry. all of us are leaving anyway.

schumer, the senator from illinois, mr. durbin, the senator from wisconsin, the senator from maryland, the hampshire, andw the senator from delaware. >> thank you mr. vice president. the members of the committees will exit the chamber through the lobby's doors. [indistinct conversations] >> madam speaker, the dean of the diplomatic corps. [applause] [applause] [indistinct conversations] [indistinct conversations] >> madam speaker, the chief justice and associate justices of the supreme court. [applause] [indistinct conversations] [indistinct conversations] [applause] [cheers and applause] >> madam speaker, the president's cabinet. [applause] [indistinct chatter]

cause 15-35 h for people ages in illinois. health care providers in my district are focused on the need for increased behavioral health and mental illness services to address these troubling statistics. while there are many examples of innovative health approaches in my district, i just want to one. out unity point health in peoria, illinois, is working on broaden accesslp to behavioral health providers through community organization, partnerships. started a ly nonprofit organization called unity place, that will work to etter understand the unique mental health needs of rural communities in my district and how to transform our behavioral to ensure better delivery for these necessary systems and services. i wonder if you could discuss you've the successes seen from some of the programs and how the department plans to to programs like the behavioral health workforce and -- work, education, and training program zero suicides? secretary azar: we need better behavioral and mental health as well asal america all of america. we need

we're doing things right in illinois, too. just last week, you know, being on the committee, even though it's a small committee, i get a chance to choose some witnesses every once in a while with hearings and i had the chance to pick a witness to come and testify at the election vendor hearing and i chose my home county clerk, my local election official. he's a democrat. i'm a republican. republicans don't choose democrats to sit in their witnesses, right? if you turn on tv, you would never expect that to happen but i did because you know why? i know mike genese because i grew up with him and went to school with him and i know there is nobody in my home county that wants to run a more fair and faster election process than mike genese. he's my friend. he's doing a good job. our local election officials aren't partisan. our local election officials shouldn't be partisan. our local election officials should care, like mike does, about getting elections that are fair, getting elections that make sure people don't have to wait in l

in a similar vein, lincoln talked about a meeting at the illinois lunatic asylum. it was a chilly building and lincoln wore a hat. as he made his way along, a little lunatic ran out and said, sir, i am surprised you will presume to wear your hat in front of christopher columbus. i am sorry, lincoln replied, removing his hat and moved on. later on after the meeting with the hat back on his head, lincoln once more met with the man again who approached him, sir, i am astonished you would dare to wear your hat in the presence of general washington. pray excuse me, general, lincoln said. less than an hour ago you said you were christopher columbus. that is correct, but that was by another mother. >> [laughter] richard: lincoln is alleged to have said wit laughs at everybody and humor laughs with everybody. because of that, sharp wit was not his most representative mode of humor, but noah brooks was far too sweeping when he said lincoln was witty but not brimful of humor. lincoln had the capacity for a quick wit. it was observed attorney general edward baits had black ha

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