a couple of weeks ago i visited a clinic in minnesota serving women across northern minnesota, or than wisconsin and northern michigan. they are doing everything they can, but they are severely resource constrained. in terms of the providers that they have, the physical facilities they have, the financial resources they need to expand access to care, which they desperately want to do. this is why i say that a ban on abortion in south dakota, north dakota or wisconsin affects not only people in those states, but the people living in minnesota because there is no capacity to absorbable additional need in one place. you see much longer waiting times as people haul in to try to get that abortion scheduled and are being confronted with waiting two weeks, which could be too long to wait. i don't think it is possible to be ready because the resources and capacity to respond to this need are just very difficult. this is why if you care about this issue, it is important to support and do what you can to help support this. but this is not going to -- you can't solve this problem with philanthrop

that lone north dakota clinic is incredibly close to the border with minnesota.red river. [inaudible]. the clinic says it is going to quite literally pick up the entire operation and move it across the river and plop the whole thing down in minnesota. it's the kind of idea that sounds so harebrained on paper, but it has the potential to actually work. joining us now is tammi kromenaker, the owner and operator of the red river women's clinic. tammi, i was about to say it is good to see you again, it is not good to see you again, actually. every time you and i talk it is because there is bad news. but around that bad news, you and your colleagues who have devoted your time, and lives, and careers two women's reproductive health, and women's health care have decided that there is something you can do. tell me when you started planning for this, how logistically this move across the red river into minnesota is actually going to work. >> yes. thank you, ali. so last fall, when sb8 came out in texas, there was a special session planned in north dakota. it was meant to

the gentlewoman from minnesota. mrs.ch: thank you, madam speaker. just wanted to make a couple of comments. the gentleman from massachusetts, with all due respect, he mentioned, you know, other countries. and i just wanted to point out that other countries don't have the freedoms and don't live the way we do in our great democracy, a republic, and i don't think that they -- they don't have the constitutional rights that we have under the second amendment. and so our citizens are being asked to have that constitution respected. it's not -- i don't believe i used the word inconvenient at all. what i used is the words trampling our constitutional rights. and that is what i think is important here that we not talk about -- that we not talk about the gentleman from massachusetts mentioning these inconvenient things. i am talking about our citizens' constitutional rights under the second amendment. and with that, madam speaker, i yield 1 1/2 minutes to the gentlewoman from north carolina. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewom

that lone north dakota clinic is incredibly close to the border with neighboring minnesota.is literally just a ten-minute walk across the river. the red river. after which the clinic is named. and so the red river women's clinic says it is going to quite literally pick up the entire operation, and move it across the river and plop the whole thing down in minnesota. it's the kind of idea that sounds so hear-brained on paper but it has the potential to work. the owner and operator of the red river women's clinic. tammy, i was about to say it is good to see you again, it is not good to see you again, every time you and i talk it is because there is bad news but around that bad news, you and your colleagues have devoted your time and lives and careers to women's reproductive health and women's reproductive health care and tell us how this move over into minnesota is going to work. >> thanks, ali. so last fall, when the fda came out in texas, there was a special session planned in north dakota, and it was meant to help spend down federal covid dollars but some legislators in nort

caller: a lot, i am from minnesota but that is ok. -- thanks a lot, i am from minnesota but that is ok. stir holzer, -- mr. holzer, thank you for doing the show paired i did not know this was built so late, 1920. mr. smith goes to washington is one of my favorite movies. i was there meant by brother invited me and my folks there, and i hate to be so flippant, but 27 years ago they had a problem with pigeons getting in there and doing their business. you still have a problem with pigeons in there? guest: it is not flippant, they do damage to statues. i must say i haven't seen any birds in there, so they must have figured out. i think it was doing things with shortwave vibrations that inhibit birds. whatever they are doing, it is working in flee. the statue was even washed down with hot water the other day. the picture was in the washington post to get ready for the rededication on sunday. the park service takes magnificent care of the structure. i think you are overdue for another visit. you have to come back. host: in talking about the changes of the lincoln memorial, you talked about

caller: a lot, i am from minnesota but that is ok. -- thanks a lot, i am from minnesota but that is ok. stir holzer, -- mr. holzer, thank you for doing the show paired i did not know this was built so late, 1920. mr. smith goes to washington is one of my favorite movies. i was there meant by brother invited me and my folks there, and i hate to be so flippant, but 27 years ago they had a problem with pigeons getting in there and doing their business. you still have a problem with pigeons in there? guest: it is not flippant, they do damage to statues. i must say i haven't seen any birds in there, so they must have figured out. i think it was doing things with shortwave vibrations that inhibit birds. whatever they are doing, it is working in flee. the statue was even washed down with hot water the other day. the picture was in the washington post to get ready for the rededication on sunday. the park service takes magnificent care of the structure. i think you are overdue for another visit. you have to come back. host: in talking about the changes of the lincoln memorial, you talked about

you know minnesota you know minnesota well.minnesota is blessed because we have such a diverse agricultural economy in really always. particularly, we have smalley, indigenous, and black farmers that play an important role in minnesota's agricultural sector. during your confirmation hearing, i asked what you thought the usda could do internally and externally to break down barriers facing farmers and business owners of color. i have asked this question of pretty much every nominee that has come before the committee. the need is to address the systemic and historic challenges the department has faced. i know you understand this. you and i have talked about it frequently. i wonder if you could give us a sense of how you have made equity and fairness a priority at usda and give us some examples of the work you have been doing. sec. vilsack: thank you, senator. we have asked each of the missionaries to establish a review of their programs with the use of the equity lens in everything they do and to put together a strategic plan to

minnesota senator tina smith will join us live. >>> and today marks one month since a gunman killed 19 elementary school students and two teachers in uvalde, texas. we'll speak with texas state senator roland gutierrez about the investigation and how the community is doing. plus, an nbc news exclusive with richard engle speaking with ukrainian president zelenskyy. we'll play for you what he had to say about the americans captured by russian troops. and this morning, we remember the 98 lives lost in the surfside condominium collapse one year ago today. >>> we begin this hour with breaking news. congress is one step closer to passing the most significant measure to reduce gun violence in nearly 30 years. right now, the house is holding a rule debate on gun violence prevention bill, after it passed the senate overnight. these are live pictures from the capitol. final passage expected in the house some time later today. in a 65-33 vote, 15 republican senators joined democrats in passing the bill. the historic progress being made on capitol hill comes just one day after the supreme court is

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the presiding officer: the senator from minnesota. ms. klobuchar: thank you, senator cornyn, for the work you're doing and working with senator murphy and so many other senators. you and i have done so many bills together, including the historic save our stages bill, which made such a difference. and i am very pleased that we are finally advancing gun safety legislation, and a lot of these provisions are things that we have been working across the aisle on for many years. the boyfriend loophole, something that i introduced in 2013, mr. president, ten years ago, to close the boyfriend loophole. that is a part of this negotiation, part of the framework. we have so many women killed, one every 14 hours from domestic partners. one every 14 hours from domestic partners with guns in this country. and sadly, half of those involve dating partners, people who aren't married to someone but they're in a romantic relationship with them in some way. and the way the law works in all but 19 states where it is fully closed, in many of these states, you g

so, your state minnesota -- reporting that multiple minnesota republicans running for governor, attorneying number of statewide candidates, nationwide, to promote false claims of the 2020 election was not legitimate. how is the big lie impacting politics in your state? >> well, it's sad but true, we do have a number of people who are uttering this falsehood that the elections were not legitimate. well, in many ways we're seeing this, a gubernatorial candidate who's threatening to lock up our secretary of state, who's our chief election official, one of my opponents isn't acolyte and chief counsel lawyer for the pillow guy, my pillow guy, who is one of the major big lie proponents. we see him on all fronts threatening and denying the outcome of the last election, including endorsing and saying that the insurrection is the violent insurrectionists, who took action, which led to the death of police officers, were patriots in fact. so, we have this going on in the state [inaudible] it's shocking, were organized to stop it. so, that's how it is. >> let me play this for you, this was conservat

we've had shoot out on front row at the university of minnesota. we're desperately calling for more police officers to deal with that. but are people should people be allowed to bring a concealed weapon on our campus? how about onto an airplane? is that now going to be a constitutional right? would people board an airplane in the united states to carry concealed weapon? how far is this going to go? and i believe the court has been very unreasonable here, not allowing the states to impose regulations that are reasonable when the 2nd amendment itself refers to a well regulated militia. i'm hoping that this court will stop here, at least, and not go further. as i say, could we have future cases where students and staff are suing for the right to bring a concealed weapon on to the campus of the university of minnesota to deal with our escalating gun violence. will there be a right, a constitutional right right to take a gun on an airplane. i mean, how far is this going to go before? the supreme court realizes that they have infringed upon the right of

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you know minnesota well and you understand, i note minnesota's blessed because we have such a diverseagricultural economy. and really always particularly we have indigenous and black farmers all play an important role in minnesota's agricultural sector during your confirmation hearing i asked you what you thought the usda could do both internally and extra early to break down some of the barriers facing farmers of color and business owners of color. i have asked this question pretty much every nominee has come before this committee.e the idea that the need is to address some of the systemic and historic challenges the department's face. i know you understand this. you and i have talked about it frequently. important if you could give us an update, give us a sense of how you have it made equity and fairness a priority at the usda? maybe give us some examples of the work you have been doing. : : tor. we have asked each of the missionaries to establish a review of their programs with the use of the equity lens in everything they do and to put together a strategic plan to incorporate equi

senator arthur vandenberg commander harold stassem former governor of minnesota a vital and a difficult job. well done appearing before the last formal session of the united nations conference president truman congratulates, the 280 delegates and expresses the world's. hope for the new international organization. the charter of the united nations, which you are now signing. is a solid structure upon which we can build for a better world. history will honor you for it. between the victory in europe and the final victory in japan? in this most destructive of all wars you have won a victory against war itself. if we had had this charter a few years ago. and above all the will to use it. millions now dead would be alive. if we should falter in the future in our will to use it. millions now living will surely die. well, there's a time for making plans. and there's a time for action. the time for action is here now. let us therefore each in his own nation and according to its own way. seek immediate approval of this charter and make it a living thing. by this charter you have moved toward the

in 1862, there was an uprising in minnesota. the usual land squabbles, native peoples had been moved off their land, they came back, allegedly violating a treaty. anyway, there were huge pitched battles and, ultimately, almost 300 native people were arrested and condemned to death. the governor of minnesota told president lincoln that it was necessary because of the approaching off-year election, that the execution go forward. lincoln said, i am not going to hang people for votes. i want to see every case, i want to review every single case. yes, ultimately, and this is kind of a tragic half -- glass half empty story, 38 condemned men were executed. they had, according to the trial records, committed murder or rape or infanticide or other atrocities. but lincoln pardoned more than 250 condemned people. so whether you consider him a great pardoner or a mass executioner, of course, is open to discussion. and i absolutely agree with you that every part of that story needs to be told. >> you focused a bit on the lincoln memorial as

in our region, it is only possible in minnesota.reate physical capacity in our clinics where we will be be able to provide procedural abortions. i certainly appreciate everything that we are emphasizing to take action this weekend. and i think people can do is to work for abortion clinics. we are very short staff right now. we are seeing so many patients coming from additional states and we need to hire more and more staff. i want to talk about the in addition of seeing you patients because they are crossing state lines. we are starting to see more people outside and the clinics in bolden, perhaps because of what the supreme court did yesterday. can you talk about safety issues and people can take precautions? >> the best thing to do is, obviously, if you're going to a clinic, as a patient or as a worker, volunteer, and this is a clinic that is still doing legal abortions that are open. be aware of your surroundings. be aware if there are protesters there. be aware of the fact that if you are going to a clinic and you are not invite

lifelong lesson about seeing the bigger picture here's joe fryer >> reporter: on a farm in rural minnesota, michael dearing is harvesting memories. moments immortalized of 4x6 scraps of photo paper. >> this is a lifelong pursuit. it really is >> reporter: every single day dearing takes a single photo with his point and shoot film camera. his picture of the day. >> 11/1/96 with my parents having dinner. >> reporter: it's a project that started nearly 26 years ago. in that time he's captured 9,000 images stored in a fireproof safe >> besides my own family, this is probably the most valuable thing in my life >> reporter: he documents everything from the birth of his son to his father's funeral. this is i guess an autobiography. >> you want to kno where you're going, look back, right i often think of my picture of the day project as leaving breadcrumbs on the trail. >> reporter: on the day we were with him that trail led to the side of a country road. >> here it comes >> reporter: where dearing patiently waited for his one shot >> lo and behold, over the horizon. he'll never know he's part of

minnesota is now a refuge for countless people who will need access to abortion throughout the uppere to get one done in their home state? both say reproductive rights are on the ballot in november since walls up republican opponent is pro life, but minnesota is in the only state in the midwest with protections for those seeking abortions. illinois is preparing for more patients to i spoke with jennifer welsh, the president of planned parenthood of illinois, who says they have added additional health centers near the indiana and wisconsin border. they're gearing up to see 20 times more out of state patients. adding team members were adding services through tele hill. um where patients can have telehealth visit and then picked up their medication for medication. abortion at a health center a pharmacy or we can mail it to an illinois address. those looking for an abortion provider in illinois are likely to face longer wait times because of so many people coming from out of state, and welsh tells me that she is concerned that they may not be able to care for all the patients that want t

that's one in 13 people and one in nine children that face hunger in minnesota. in april, 2022, minnesotans made 463,000 visits to their food shelves. that is a 70% increase compared to april, 2021. since january, 2022, food shelf visits statewide have increased by 37%. 2022 was the first year since 014 that minnesota didn't see an annual increase in food shelf visits. and the reason for that, madam speaker, is because of the pandemic relief programs. we heard from so many people from across minnesota and across the country and i would just like to share some of their stories of how some of these programs, the pandemic relief programs, helped them. eric, who is from wilmer, minnesota, recently shared how he struggles to provide for himself and his sibling right before the pandemic, his mother passed away and he became the legal forwardian of his younger siblings. concerned about providing enough food to eat, he was grateful for the meals his siblings could get at schools because of the meals act. amber, a mother from duluth, minnesota, shared how putting four kid

we'd been chronicling that violence in a database of every person killed by law enforcement in minnesota. >> police shot and wounded jamar clark early sunday. >> community members asking for answers after a man was shot and by police. >> 24-year-old edmond fair was shot and killed by the officer during a traffic stop. >> we started working on this database back in 2015. and late 2015 is when jamar clark was killed by minneapolis police. it was just the next year after that, that philando castille was shot, justine damond shot after that. we knew that we had to provide a deeper context for people of how often this happens. by the time that george floyd came around, there was just this certain numbness that this just keeps happening. it keeps happening. the point of the database is to show that these aren't just numbers, this was someone's brothe sister, mother, father. >> you guys know him as george floyd, but i know him as perry. and perry is my nephew. i'm his aunt. his mother is my sister. trying to find family ones. here's a family photo in here. there's perry right there. that's his

thank you for our interior secretary in minneapolis minnesota this weekend. he was at the headquarters of the folks who are here trying to seek the reconciliation for children who attended boarding schools. really quickly before i get to the subpoena issue i would like to address the term, such sums as may be needed. as an authorized or as i first came to congress, that was all that was in the education bills unless we were really authorizing something that had a current base number. it is custom in usage when you're a law watching something to put in such sums as needed. when it goes to ms. pin grease committee, she will have a targeted amount of money that she can spend on the interior bill. that gives her the flexibility of having all the needs of indian country within the interior bill. making sure that she works with organizations to make sure that they have the necessary funds to do the minimum, more if we can do more and the maximum they can spend if they could spend at any time. if miss ping greedy has that amount of money there. to have also risers d

we are proud of our election system in minnesota. she earned her bachelor's degree from purdue university. senator blunt will now introduce our other two witnesses. i will swear in our witnesses and we will proceed to testimony. sen. blunt: thank you. if you brag more about the minnesota turnout you will just be repeating yourself. it is a thing to brag about and i'm glad you are able to do that. i'm glad all five of our witnesses are here. let me introduce secretary of state ardoin and mr. wesley wilcox. secretary ardoin has served as louisiana secretary of state since 2018, previously serving as the first assistant secretary of state eight years prior to that. a long time being near this job and doing this job he also currently serves as the president of the national association of secretaries of state and on the election infrastructure subsector coordinating council esther wilcox has served as a supervisor of elections for marion county, florida since 2012. another decade of service in this job. he processes and possesses more tha

that's something else i worked on in the state of minnesota. we have a legacy in our state of mentally ill and other children being institutionalized and being buried in unmarked graves. so is a very difficult process to move through to get information, so subpoena should be rarely used, but when used properly they can keep someone from stonewalling, commission or group to get to the truth. ms. parker, once again, please, would you say that where there's been public money used to a catholic church, one of these other church schools, that the taxpayers have the right, a jet the right to get that information for taxpayers and how the dollars were used in many instances to abuse, torture children, and to divide families by destroying their cultural tradition? should it be a right to get that information for the taxpayers? >> yes, yes, i strongly belit should be a right to obtain those records, and we've already proven that it's been incredibly difficult to receive the records. i would agree with representative mccollum. >> madam chair, as chair of