and i thank john sarbanes for his tremendous leadership over long period of time. john larson was doing it earlier. now john sarbanes. both of them. and what's important about it is, it gives people the hope that, yes, we can have clean air and clean water and address climate crisis because big, dark money won't dominate the policy. yes, we can have gun violence prevention because big, dark, special interests gun lobbyist money will not dominate the process. we in the democratic party have advanced these. they have been stopped, as you know, on the other side. but we hope now the more the public knows, the better we will be in terms of policy. and that just -- i'll conclude by saying something you heard me say again and again. public sentiment is everything. with it you can accomplish almost everything. without it practically nothing. abraham lincoln. abraham lincoln. and now we have the bully pulpit and the president can explain to public more clearly, because a president has a bigger audience, that the public will know what is at stake, how they can weigh in. and

i think jon's our brains -- john sarbanes, and what is important about it is it gives people the hope we can have clean air and clean water and for the climate crisis because big dark money will not dominate politics. directing special interests from lobbyists money will not dominate the process. we in the democratic party have advanced these, haven't stopped on the other side but we hope now the more the public knows the better we will be in terms of policy. i can collude with something you heard me say again and again, with that you can accomplish almost everything practicing nothing. abraham lincoln, abraham lincoln, now that we have the bully pulpit and the president can explain more clearly the president has a bigger audience that the public will know what is at stake and they are bickering, we are not. we have a very major difference of opinion how we honor the constitution. we hope we can find common ground because it is very important. wasn't it beautiful when president biden quoted what president lincoln said many times, the emancipation proclamation, new year's day 1865. wha

and i thank john sarbanes for his tremendous leadership over long period of time. john lawson was doing it early and now john sarbanes, both of them. and what is important about it is, that it gives people the hope that yes, we could have clean air and clean water and address climate crisis because big money will not dominate the policy. yes, we could have gun violence protection because special interest or gun lobbyist money will not dominate the process. we in the democratic party have advanced these, they have been stopped as you know on the other side. but we hope now that the more the public knows, the better we will be in terms of policy. and i'll just conclude by saying something that you've heard me say again again, public sentiment is everything. with it, you can could accomplish almost everything, without it practically nothing. abraham lincoln. and now that we have the bully pulpit and the president could explain to public more clearly, of course a president has a bigger audience, that the public will know what is at stake, how they could weigh in and it

is matthew going to mister raskin. >> my thoughts to our with a friend john sarbanes and his family. his father center sarbanes was a model of a servant who believed in public service was the champion of governments and people who serve in it. he will be forever missed by the people of maryland and by the people of our country. chair, this ministration has been messing with the civil service, first the president issued executive orders going collective bargaining attacking unions, then shut the government down, then they tried illegally to abolish the office of personnel management. now president issued an executive order calling for the creation of a new schedule would allow reclassification of hundreds of thousands of experts employees in the federal civil service to take away their ability to appeal efforts and actions taken against them, making them easy to remove and easy to replace with unqualified work less qualified political operatives . mister stier, you run the group that promotes nonpartisan good government. does this executive order that government better? does it promote

john from new york is recognized. the gentleman from maryland mr sarbanes patel and from maryland is recognize for 30 seconds madam speaker this beautiful capitol dome is a symbol of freedom and democracy not just for americans but for the people the world over the action we take today this impeachment is a declaration to the world that when there is an attack on our democracy whether it comes from without or whether tragically in this instance it comes from within we will respond to that threat and attack and we will do what's necessary to strengthen our democracy i yield back now and then years back the gentleman from new york pushes to reset the challenge from ohio is recognized think about a speaker i yield 2 and a half minutes to the thing with gentleman from new york mr selden the gentleman from new york is recognized for 2 and a half minutes thank you madam speaker. i am sickened and angered by what we all had to witness last wednesday and call for the investigation and prosecution to the fullest extent of the law every single person who participated in the violence and loss of life in this capitol building last we

honorable katherine clark, the honorable bobby scott, the honorable doris matsui, the honorable john sarbanes, the honorable gerry connolly, the honorable don beyer, the honorable anthony brown, the honorable donald mceachin, and the honorable jamie raskin to act as speaker pro tempore to sign enrolled bill it's and joint resolutions -- bills and joint resolutions through the remainder of the 117th congress. signed, best regard, nancy pelosi, speaker of the house. -- best regards, nancy pelosi, speaker of the house. the speaker pro tempore: the chair lays before the house a communication. the clerk: the honorable the speaker, house of representatives. madam, under clause 2-g of rule 2 of the rules of the u.s. house of representatives, i hereby -- i herewith designate mr. robert reeves, deputy clerk, ms. gloria lett, department think clerk and counsel to sign any and all papers and to do all other acts for me under the name of the clerk of the house for which they would be authorized to do by virtue of this designation, except such as are provided by statute, in case of my temporary absence or