iowa governor kim reynolds delivered the condition of the state address in des moines saying iowa has never been stronger despite the coronavirus pandemic and natural disasters that hit the state in 2020. >> the chair recognizes the sgt at arms. >> please escort the members of the executive council to their seats. [applause] the chair recognizes the sgt at arms. >> mr. president the chief justice and the justice of the supreme court and the judges of the court of appeal have arrived in the house chamber. >> please escort the acting chief justice and the justice of the supreme court and the chief judge in the court of appeals to their seats. [applause] >> the chair recognizes the sgt at arms. >> mr. coconut lieutenant governor adam greg and his family have arrived in the house chamber. >> please escort lieutenant governor greg and his family to their seats. [applause] >> the chair recognizes the sgt at arm. >> mr. president kevin reynolds in the family of the governor have arrived in the house chamber. >> please escort governor reynolds family to their seats. [applause] >> the joint di

and the 11th they were in iowa. they left iowa city at 8:30 am drove out to west branch. called on one of the who the hoover family it was taking out to his house met his wife and mother drove around and shown different farms and points of interest arriving at the house in bert was born. eight gallons of gas was a dollar 96 arrived at dixon, illinois 6 pm and drove 154 miles that day. now lou had thought that this trip would be extremely educational for their son herbert jr. and she had hoped to take him along almost as a form of homeschooling in those days and she wrote in a letter to her, son it always pays i think to tell people your mother the real truth about everything if i'd not fortunately known that you had your fill of long automobile journeys for a few years. i fear i should have felt there was more educational value to be god out of transcontinental trip than out of six weeks of school and then he would have been in for it. so this this trip was her way to spend quality time with her father as they are both grieving the passing of her mother along the way alth

i lived in iowa for one year. i would see a lot of the same people on my journey have been documenting. with the film and then ended up in new york. so what does this mean to you? answers were all over the place. so it thrust me on the journey when you are spoken to by somebody like that you have to follow through. >> and then you can blame it on that person. >> whoever that author is if they ever come forward. >> so when you arrived in sacramento in the early eighties cold calling newspapers for jobs you fear they would never come. the last time was early in the pandemic with a sprawling tent city. to me that experience of three decades apart do they speak to each other? >> when i moved to sacramento they were called winos. homeless word was not being used. it was pejorative then that when i did the story there is people camping along the river and they were hiding. between five and 10000 people living on the streets and many on the river. i will share the screen one more time. and i will show you a very interest

in 2016, she won a seat in the iowa house of representatives. she's one of three new members from the hawkeye state and one of a dozen republicans who beat incumbent democrats in the 2020 election. host: you are in d.c. for orientation. share with me some thoughts. rep. hinson: it is finally exciting to get to work. i ran for office to stop talking about it and do something about it. so it is nice to have the election now in the past and i am moving forward and not getting my office set up and getting my bearings, making sure i know where to go and can best survive and start right away january 3. host: tell us about your background, family life, early life. let us get to know you as a person. rep. hinson: i am an iowan at heart. i was born and raised in des moines. i am a millennial and wanted to get out of the state and experience what the world had to offer. i went to southern california for school. quickly realized that is not where i wanted to end up long-term to raise my family and have my career. i worked my way back to iowa. i have been i

i worked my way back to iowa. i have been in cedar rapids for 15 years. my husband owns a small business and my two kids are max and jack, nine and seven. i am a multitasking working mom who wants to serve in congress and i am excited to realize that dream. interviewer: you went to usc and have a degree in broadcast journalism. you started in the news in cedar rapids as an anchorwoman. how did you make the transition from news to politics, and how did that come about? representative hinson: there are a lot of synergies when you look at being a journalist and being a good legislator. it comes down to asking questions, setting policy and the way i chose to look at it was, instead of putting together a story, i put together a dell. -- a bill. i got to the point where wanted to stop talking about it, i interviewed people at the capitol building many times, the reporter on the steps at 5:00 a.m. doing the interviews and i got to the point where, i could be a good voice for my constituents and at heart, i am a journalist, i love to tell stories of the people i

the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from iowa seek recognition?>> i request unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: the speaker pro tempore: without objection. gentlewoman is recognized for one minute. >> mr. speaker, i rise today to recognize the accomplishments of someone in my district who is not as vertically challenged as i am. this past weekend university of iowa men's basketball basketball player luca garzer broke the record. 2,126 points put him ahead of the previous record of 2 thouch 116 points for over 30 years. a native of the d.c. area, he was a star player leading the squad to a city championship by being named d.c. player of the year. he has been a dominant player at the university of iowa against chicago state and gone on to win numerous conference and national awards and big ten player of the year and sporting new player of the year last season. as a former member of the fack cult last year, i was thrilled for him to return instead of heading to the nba draft

iowa. she has also lifted all social distancing requirements and capacity limits and all other rules related to covid for businesses in her state. if you saw the phrase "covid kim" trending on twitter tonight, covid kim would be covid iowa governor kim reynolds. all the covid related rules in the state of iowa are being lifted by the governor as of sunday morning. right in time for super bowl parties. iowa just this week confirmed that the new more transmissible variants of the virus are circulating in the state of iowa. under governor kim reynolds' leadership the state of iowa currently ranks 47th out of 50 in vaccine distribution. to celebrate that occasion, she's decided no more rules at all in iowa and that tip top republican priority, apparently, no masks. today the cdc's flagship scientific reports, mmwr, published two new reports on the effectiveness of masks against the pandemic that has killed nearly a half million americans. one of the studies shows clear results that after mask m

and i know the guy from iowa, jeff, he'll ask any question because iowa are so spoiled they'll ask anysidential candidate can you sit down with me i want to talk with you right yes, i have so you know what i mean? all kidding aside, i'm anxious to hear what is on your mind what you think we shob doing, and then maybe in the process ask a few questions and tell you kinds of things we're doing to try to deal with what we think i hope -- are the problems of the people who are keeping us floating. you're the ones that keep us going. not a joke. your honor the ones that keep us going, and kept the country going you're carrying it on your back and so, thank you for what you have done so far we have a lot more to do. >>fa thank you mr. president. i would like to begin by introducing our first speaker. dimitri alfred. we like to hear from each of you with your experiences with koaftd and ask you it tell us about yourself, you're 30-year firefighter, andbo emt in st. louis, you're the president of your local union. and president also of the missouri state counsel firefighters youou and your fel

nate was sort of my man for denison iowa when he got me in there. really got to know him really well. the night after i left, became mayor of the town. and then he stepped down from being the mayor and teaches high school. he was interesting . there's two kinds of people, tell of a thousand people played by thousand lights and 3000 latinos. a lot of whites don't like the latinos. a lot of whites you because you're saving the town. nate said, we have been resurrected by them . but all the anti- immigrants in legislation, was driving people away. and the other part of the town is framed. so she is the component of the latino people being there. he was to see that recover. he's afraid is not going to recover. in denison will be forever harmless. so in that sense, denison iowa is a metropolitan of the entire country. same issues that play out nationally playing out there. you can see the impact there. we don't if you live in new york or in california. to students of high school that they don't buy houses there in the shop there, denison will die. jessic

we have 88,000 of them in iowa. he knows that the family farm institution is the foundation of success for american agriculture. he knows how to faithfully execute the laws of the department of agriculture. eight years of previous actions doing just that. sec. vilsack became mayor of mount pleasant, iowa at a time that our nation was recovering from may be the second worst agriculture depression we had caused by the farm credit crisis of the 1980's. much like in the 1980's, the nation is continuing to recover from the impact of the coronavirus and the economic impact that has. we have seen higher rates of food insecurity. continued food supply chain disruptions and family farms struggling to balance their books. should he be confirmed, the experience from the 1980's farm crisis will serve him well at this time of another family farms being under duress. i remember my first discussion with then to be sec. vilsack in 2009. i brought up with him my work, involvement in the pigs for it operations. that was to get civil

and jeff carter, a grocery store manager in cedar rapids, iowa. thank you for being here today and sharing your stories with us. mr. president, over to you. pres. biden: thank you. al, i have met you in the past. we are going to try to help you now, the firefighters and e.m.t.'s. melanie, i understand you're the second or third generation pharmacist in your family? is that right? >> yes. pres. biden: that's pretty impress i. carmen, you do what -- you do god's work, dealing with all those little kids, trying to figure out how you do it now, how you can safely open, how you can make it work. >> it's a pleasure dealing with children. pres. biden: i tell you what, we need you badly. and jeff, you have too many -- it was a ulls a debate whether i stop at a hy-vee or find a frozen custard stand, that's what we did in iowa. all kidding aside you all, you're basically holding the country together. i'm not being facetious, i'm being deadly earnest. you can see the looks on people's faces when they walk into your drugstore and they stand at the counter and

what say you out of iowa?epublicans cleaned up on election day back in 2020, and the iowa republicans here are already messaging about how they plan to frame this. iowa governor kim reynolds joined with 22 other governors in complaining about the package in that the aid for state governments is tied to the percentage of unemployment in each state rather than the general population of each state, number one. number two, the $15 minimum wage issue is really interesting because democrats here are trying to rebrand themselves as the party of working americans. and that really plays into what democrats are trying to talk about at the state level. >> carol lee, it has been interesting to watch here in washington. look, it's an uncomfortable fact. the opposition got two democrats to this bill in the house and not a single republican. i thought we might have one or two. i still think there could be one or two in the senate. this has to be disappointing to the white house. >> it is, chuck. look, they worked very hard t

the member from iowa is recognized to close. >> thank you mr. chairman . and by the way, crickets and spending . didn't hear anything about you guys identifying that in the bill. there's one bipartisan measurement in this bill however, to help farmers hit by the disasters in the middle of the pandemic. the hard-working farmers and all of that lost. i reached out to the other side with this amendment which would help american farmers. i've also been told that this amendment, the only bipartisan amendment, is likely to be stripped went the bill goes to rules committee. we just passed to preserve far more controversial division and once again highlighting how this is a sad sad process. after all these markups the rope committee could strip the only bipartisan measure out of hundreds of amendments offered targeted buyers the adoption of the motion because this bill fails the american evil on any levels and not targeting and long term consequences. it was crafted behind closed doors and 90 yield back. >> motioned is expired. acall members should unmute at this

here to react with more of this, iowa governor kim reynolds.dismissing the fact for masks or social distancing or telling people to be irresponsible. you're putting faith in the people of iowa that are very well-informed as is the rest of the country to do it the right safe way. >> absolutely. sean, thank you for giving me the opportunity to be on with you tonight. if one thing i have been very consistent with the way that we managed covid-19. that's been really important for iowans. my number 1 priority from the beginning has to be to protect the lives of iowans and make sure thatter with managing and preserving our healthcare resources. i didn't pursue aggressive lockdown strategies. instead, i put my faith in iowans and iowa businesses. we kept over 80% of our economy open. we've had our kids back in skill since august. we played sports this summer. in november when we hit a brief statewide spike, i spoke to iowans and i said i need you to work with me. water going to implement strategies to bring down the numbers. if you do this, when we br

>> in iowa my soul this book for a lot of money i've never been to dennis in iowa but my crazy agent is my editor said go to the cemetery so i went to the cemetery and he said look for the biggest monument and it will tell you something. the biggest monument says shot he was a treasury secretary under roosevelt and the governor during the and then now i'm sleeping in a mansion in a meth lab mandates got me in there. he got me into places so i really got to know him very well after i left he became mayor and then step down to teach in high school so it was interesting there's two types of whites at the town of 8000 people, 5000 whites and 3000 latinos a lot of whites don't like them and a lot of them do because he says it's the immigrants came here they have resurrected us all the anti-immigrant legislation was driving people away so now the town is hurting because of the rhetoric so she is a proponent of the latino people being there to see that recover he's afraid it will not and dennis and will be harmed so in that sense dennis in iowa is a microcosm the same issues that play out n

imagine if a bigger increase was forced on rural iowa. the data shows workers under the age of 25 comprise about 40% of all current minimum wage earners. these young people will be robbed of the opportunity to enter the workforce. this force gaps like ruralat communities like the ones i represent in iowa at an alarming rate. using the minimum wage in this article shall way hurts the nines is working poor than any other group. senior citizens on a fixed income are especially at risk. this artificial wage increase will drive up the prices of daily goods, your milk from your bread to the point that our seniors won't be able to afford necessity and that is concerning to me. additionally, the minimum wage increase is an attack on parents. prolonged school closures have led 3 million women to drop out of thes. workforce over the last year to stay home with their children who are running and when these women try to enter the workforce after the pandemc they won't have jobs to return to if employers are forced to cut positions and forced to cut o

jonathan: congresswoman ashley hansen from iowa. good morning. -- ashley hinson from iowa.rning. futures up six on the s&p, up 1/10 of 1%. on the bond market, from a session high yesterday of 1.61, yields back down to 1.4677%, and coming in five basis points under session. prude rolls over -8% -- crude rolls over -8%. this is bloomberg surveillance. ♪ emma: with the first word news, i am emma chandra. most americans likely to be one step closer to receiving $1400 payments. the house is expected to pass the $1.9 trillion stimulus package. the final legislation will probably not include a raise in the federal minimum wage. a senate parliamentarian ruled it could not be considered under the same fast-track rules democrats are using to push the stimulus through congress. a panel of fda advisers will take a close look at johnson & johnson's coronavirus vaccine, one of the final steps to a possible authorization of the one knows -- one dose immunization. donald trump will declare himself to still be the leader of the republican party this weekend. the former president will speak

at iowa's competitive state championships. later, he entered politics as a run for treasurer and was elected to the state senate. he is one of three republican newcomers to the house this year from the hawkeye state. interviewer: randy feenstra. you decided to take on the 9 term incumbent representative steve king. when did you decide to do that? rep. feenstra: started two years ago, and the bottom line was we needed someone in the 4th district in iowa that could deliver results, and our best congressman was removed from his committees so it was so vital for us. we have a strong district and small businesses, families. we need a voice, we need an effective conservative voice and that is when i decided to run. interviewer: who did you approach first? rep. feenstra: i got approached by a large group of business groups and members and they , called me up in mid december and sat me down and said we have , got a proposition for you. we would like you to consider running for congress. in the last 12 years i have been in the iowa sen

la ferocidad de la tormenta ha provocado accidentes catastrÓficos como este en el centro de iowa cuandora otro. empezamos con el nuevo paquete de estÍmulo que avanza en el congreso, los demÓcratas que incluyen el cheque pueda estar aprobado y esta vez incluye tambiÉn a inmigrantes indocumentados que declaran impuestos. >>> con paso firme y acelerado avanza el plan de rescate del coronavirus se harÁ realidad con o sin apoyo de la oposiciÓn advirtiÓ hoy el presidente biden. (informaciÓn en pantalla). >>> los cheques serÁn de $1,400 y no de mil como sugirieron los republicanos insistiÓ. y tras un golazo de madrugada de los demÓcratas del senado tambiÉn habrÁ ayuda para los indocumentados. con su voto que les da mayorÍa la vicepresidenta aprobÓ la medida que les permite pasar el paquete de rescate unilateralmente. >>> sin embargo en este video la casa blanca destaca informaciÓn de conservadores porque este plan asegura que estÁ basado en los valores del paÍs >>> que estÉ enfocado a ayudar a las personas mÁs vulnerables y a las comunidades >>> tengan o no documentos?. >>> exacto correcto. >>

that's what we did in iowa. all kidding aside, you -- you're basically holding the country together. i'm not being facetious. i'm being deadly earnest. you can see the looks on people's faces when they walk intour drug store and stand at the counter and ask for a prescription, can't you? and you can see the fear in their eyes especially if they have gotten an unwelcome analysis like two of your family members have, al, and so what i want to do today is i want you to know there's that old bad joke. i'm from the federal government and i'm here to here, but were from the federal government and we want to help. we want to help a lot. there hasn't been most states, you're from four different states, and -- and we've got st. louis, chicago, columbus and cedar rapids, and so -- and every state, as you know, has a slightly different approach to how to deal with covid right now, and we're trying to make sure that they get all that they need, each of those states, and we're focusing as -- as the former ambassador said. we

that would be even worse and rural iowa. the data shows workers and the age of 25 comprise 40 percent of all current minimum wage earners. these young people would be robbed of the opportunity the workforce gaps like this like the ones they represent in iowa at an alarming rate raising minimum wage in this artificial way hurts the nonworking more than any other group the citizens on a fixed income are at risk this artificial wage increase with groceries and milk and bread to the point seniors cannot afford necessities. that is worrying to me. that is worrying to me. additionally the minimum wag clp bill to take effect. there needs to be accountability with the cap taxpayers every dollars spent this also requires the gao on the impact of this legislation on small businesses. now i would like to yield two minutes to my friend from the fourth district. >> thank you congresswoman i th theheutndigh motion that puts the pause on the massive spending bill the effects on american workers and main street businesses and rural iowa. an

the presiding officer: the senator from iowa. mr. grassley: tomorrow we're going to be taking up the nomination of former iowa governor tom vilsack, former secretary of agriculture tom vilsack and now the nominee to be secretary of agriculture again. i fully support this nomination. he has received support from farm and commodity groups across the country, but more important to this senator, he received praise from family farmers in iowa. however, a few critics of the former iowa governor have raised questions about his record on addressing racial inequities during his time as secretary of agriculture from 2009 till 2017. i'd like to take this opportunity to set the record straight. i've long worked towards enshiewrg black farmers -- ensuring black farmers receive justice for the decades of discrimination that occurred through many different administrations of the u.s. department of agriculture, both republican and democrat. people have often asked me why in the world a senator from iowa would get involved in this issue. while there

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. >> host: this is rick in iowa. republican, good morning. >> caller: good morning. i've always leaned republican my whole life since 1990 but for the last six years i've been independent but i just want to say both sides, do you hear me? both sides or i mean the democratic party, the democratic party grew up with the '90s, the republican party ain't the republic and party i grew up with good they are both liars and both need to be voted out of office and we need people in there that are independent. the democrats will try to take over -- i mean, i thought that minority leader had to vote out a person from the house of representatives, not theta majority leader and the democrats are kicking out republicans but can they do that? >> host: rick, what happened here was the removal from her committee assignment although unprecedented in modern times that's been a full house vote that those or when that happened in the past, including most recently with steve king of your state of iowa was back in 2019, the republican leadership removed him from his committee assignments a

the member from iowa has one minute to close. >> thank you, mr. chairman into my colleagues as well. i urge adoption of this motion here tonight. there are resources going to school, $54 billion in december to open safely paid were trying to make sure they are accountability measures there so they can use the money to reopen school safely. i hope my colleagues on both sides of the aisle will support this. it is not a partisan issue. this is our duty for politics and to ensure every student has the chance to again feel that spark in the classroom. a third of the students that are out of the classroom right now, it is a disservice to them to not get those in place to reopen. this is about accountability we had a better students back in the class in. that mental health of our next generation is truly at stake. to i would urge that yes vote for my colleagues on this motion by mr. chairman i yield back. thank you. >> thank you the member wields back. all time for the debate has expired the question on the motion, all members should on mute all those in

the member from iowa will have 6:30. the member will also have one minute to close. >> thank you, mr. chairman. my motion today here is very simple. i prevents this bill, which should be focused on targeted covid-19 relief, from attacking working americans. i think the statistics are very telling here. almost $500 billion of this, or 25% of this $1.9 trillion bill, would support provisions that, frankly, would kill american jobs. they would kill iowans' jobs. this package would impose -- government mandate to more than double the minimum wage. i've heard straight from iowans that this would destroy livelihoods in our rural communities. according to cbo's analysis on this bill, it would result in 1.4 million jobs lost, and that's at a minimum. it could put as many as 2.7 million people out of work. that means we're spending $54 billion of taxpayer money to strip millions of americans of their livelihoods at a time when we need them back to work the most. we already saw the impact of this exact thing in practice when seatt

blizzard conditions in iowa. snow on the way for wisconsin and michigan.d finally we know nathan apodaca from his epic skateboard video. >> now we're seeing him in a super bowl media campaign. will ganss caught up with him. >> reporter: the video that's been seen more than 79 million times. >> i get greeted by people all the time. they're like, oh, my gosh, is that really you? and i'm like, yeah, you know, i ain't nobody special. >> reporter: but his vibe, that is special. >> i'm just happy to be alive. you know, i love life. >> reporter: nathan apodaca, who once lived in a walmart parking lot, was having car troubles when he posted that video skateboarding to work at the local potato factory. his life looks pretty different now. ♪ you've got to pump it up ♪ >> i can just buy a house, being able to support my family and everything, you know what i mean, and basically just being more involved with my family as well, you know, because i've got the time now instead of sitting at work. >> reporter: the worldwide phenom now has his sights set on the super bowl.

hinson. >> hinson from iowa votes no. >> mrs. hinson, no. mr. obernaulty. >> no. >> rep jakes change his vote to no please? >> sorry, mr. yarmuth? >> yarmuth of kentucky votes aye. >> did a member request to change their vote? >> yes, chris jacobs, no vote, please. >> mr. jacobs, no. >> are there any members who wish to record their vote who have not voted or who wish to change their vote? if not, the clerk will report the vote. >> mr. chairman? >> mr. chairman, on that vote the ayes are 19 and the nos are 15. >> did somebody seek recognition? >> mr. chairman, this is mr. dogget just receiving recognition to find out how it was recorded and vote. >> mr. doggett has not been reported. >> doggett votes no. >> doggett no. mr. chairman, on that vote the ayes are 19 and the nos are 16. >> the ayes being 19 and the nos 16 the ayes have it and the motion is agreed to. the american rescue plan of 2021 is ordered reported to the house of representatives with a favorable recommendation. i note for the record that a quorum is present. >> mr. chairman? >> y

iowa now offers a fresh example.nal passage to a measure that, among other things, scales back early voting and mandates that the polls close an hour early. the iowa governor plans to sign that. the georgia governor we talked about sailed through a key committee yesterday. that limits who and can vote by mail and it imposes new i.d. requirements. jessica, it's great to see you. it's fascinating to me, sad to me, when after an election and figuring out, how can we get more voters, states want to curtail the right to vote. >> yeah, it's really stunning. i think a lot of these bills have absolutely no chance of passing but the initial proposal of them is really what's troubling to me. most citizens aren't going to follow a piece of legislation from start foito finish. they really only hear about it when it makes the news when it's first established, and all this coverage is giving people the suspicion that perhaps they were right, right? if their legislators are taking this drastic of measures, then the election must ha

the high winds damaged over 40% of our -- of iowa's crop land. wind speeds reached 126 miles per hour. the same wind speeds you expect from an ef-3 tornado or a major hurricane. all told, the storm had severe impacts to 3.5 million acres of corn and 2.5 million acres of soybeans. the storm was so strong it damaged or destroyed more than 57 million bushels of commercial grain storage and tens of millions of on farm storage. the total cost of damage was over $7.5 billion. this took place during a spate of covid cases. only a few months earlier, the virus had frozen supply chains and grocery store shelves were empty of some bakic -- basic needs. iowa farmers had to prepare to harvest what crops they could salvage. we are not even close to recovery. farmers need relief now. not in six months, not in a year, they need it now. all across the country, farmers who suffered natural dasters in 2020 in the middle of this pandemic need this relief now. this is the livelihood for them. as of a large spike in cases over the winter, our farmers are beginning to

the residents of iowa are grateful for what she did. only seven states that never had a stay at home lockdown order but other bigger states like my home state of florida, governor desantis had phased reopening in time. in my county, collier county, 93.7% of students are in school. we have to break the cycle of fear. let people know it is all right to go back to work and go back to school. elizabeth: so many states are still under lockdowns. you know, we've got so many people, good people, great americans, they're trying to do their job, put food on their tables for their families. look at the media. they see rioters taking to the u.s. streets. we've seen antifa, black lives matter, everybody understands what they're fighting for and what it is about but these are turning violent. they're turning destructive. ford, the british government is even appointing an independent advisor investigate far left extremists infiltrating and committing political violence and destruction in protests run by black lives matter and other groups as well. le

peaceful little grimes, iowa, population 9,000, was crawling with cops.ery unusual, said reporter stephanie moore of des moines nbc affiliate who-tv. >> it's the kind of place where they have the convenience store and everyone's there drinking coffee in the morning. >> what about crime? much of it? >> no, no crime in grimes. neighbors live there, probably don't lock their doors. it's just a quiet neighborhood. >> but sure enough, something big was going down. though just what, the deputies wouldn't say. >> when we talked to neighbors, they were surprised just to see even more than one police vehicle in the neighborhood. and then the dci, the division of criminal investigation, van came and that's hard to miss. it's huge. people are coming out with little booties on and full suits, going in an out of the house. there's crime tape up. >> and nobody's saying what happened? >> and neighbors are starting to ask, "what's going on here?" >> anxiety is like a virus. it spread fast in grimes. >> yeah, they were nervous. people don't just get shot in grimes. and th

feenstra of iowa. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognize for one minute. mr. phone have: lay out the framework to one of the largest spending bills in the history of this institution. it's nearly $2 trillion of being dishonestly sold to the people on covid relief. with a price tag this big you'd think the house democrats would want this to go through the committee process where congress and the public can see this information. but no, they're attempting to fast track this bill with no committee, no bipartisanship, no discussion. american taxpayers, this is your money, not government's. it's being spent with no accountability and no transparency. bottom line, hard working tax paying americans deserve to have a voice in this this process and i'll fight against attempts to fast track this bloated bill every step of the way. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yealeds back. the gentleman from texas reserves. the gentleman from new york is recognized. mr. morrelle: i reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves. the gentleman from texas

the minimum wage remains a major sticking point but in the early morning hours of the senate voting iowanator joni ernst helped pass an amendment to prevent it from happening during the pandemic. >>a $15 federal minimum wage would be devastating for hardest hit small businesses at a time when they can least afford it. >>next week will be a busy week here in washington, the house will deal with the president's covid-19 plan and the senate will deal with the impeachment trial of former president donald trump in washington are shot hudson back to you thank in other national news that debate around a $15 minimum wage and it continues as the senate voted on an amendment which threw support behind not increasing the minimum wage during the pandemic our correspondent basil john reports on what lawmakers think is the best step forward for minimum wage. friday during a flurry of amendments in the early morning, iowa, senator joni ernst introduced an amendment to stop any increase of the minimum wage during the pandemic we all support higher wages but a $15 federal minimum wage would be counterpro

but i'm all for iowa.n't sustain my business. 50%, that's not enough east. they need to be -- either. they need to be operating at full capacity. we spoke with two co-owners in new jersey this morning who were saying this just doesn't help us enough. listen to what they a had to say. >> this year we're not expecting much. we can only put so many people in the bar, so people won't be out. i think more people will probably tend to stay home this year, and i don't think that's such a good thing because people will be in close quarters, not wearing masks. it'd be safer for them to be out in a bar. >> the biggest obstacle that we have is not allowing the people to sit at the bar. we're pretty much at our capacity as far as social distancing goes. so 25 up to 35 really doesn't help us much at all. will: yeah. i mean, it's a little counterintuitive to not allow a bar to have a bar that's open and to grant them 10% more capacity up to 35%. brian is here also to talk about something besides the news today. he has a

. >>> plus the iowa governor drops a mask mandate the white house firing back. >>> 1 million doses of vaccine heading to local pharmacies this week what you need to know to get your shot. >>> the terrifying wall of water after a glacier collapses in india. more than 100 missing. others miraculously rescued. >>> president biden in his first tvntviewer when he says schools should re-open and what nearly brought him to tears. >> i'm sorry to get so personal. >>> and saving paradise we take you to the other side of the world and the country going all-out to protect their natural beauty >> this is "nbc nightly news" with kate snow >>> good evening from snowy new york. one of many places seeing whiteout conditions today. the second big storm in less than a week. it also forced some vaccination sites to close and sent cars skidding off of roads in virginia and north carolina it is bitter cold in the midwest. in northern michigan a windchill of negative 30 in minnesota, negative 49 kathy park has all the details. >> reporter: tonight, the northeast slammed with another winter storm just days

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