host: delegate stacy plaskett, democrat of the virgin islands.ber of the oversight and reform committee as well as transportation and interest-rate or committee. guest: thank you for having me -- transportation and infrastructure committee. guest: thank you for having me. host: what you think of the term cover up by nancy pelosi? guest: what i think we are seeing, we are seeing that there has been mechanisms used by the president, discussions he is having to kind of lay over issues that we have been investigating and this is outside of the mueller report. this is related to a variety of issues. on oversight we have been , aking at a moments clauses coverup of issues related to health care and other issues throughout congress. i think when she is talking about cover-up, she means the president obstructing us from doing the work that the people of the unit states have brought us to congress to do -- of the united states have brought us to congress to do. host: saying the democrats are getting nothing done in congress, all that effort about a redo o

host: delegate stacy plaskett joining us for this conversation. our next caller on the democrats line. caller: thank you for being here. on the point of impeachment, i believe it guest: i think we need to have the information come out generally in the public so those who are members of congress believe that's what in fact our constituents want. now, an individual like yourself in north carolina, we need for those members who are in areas where individuals do not believe that the president should be impeached, we want them to have the confidence of their constituents that they're doing the will of those individuals who put them there in office and that way they will be fulfilling their duty. listen, during the impeachment of president nixon, there was an overwhelming number of members of congress, particularly on the judiciary committee, who voted that out. members who were both democrat as well as republican who agreed to that. at this point we only have one republican in the house who has said that, yes, he thinks we should move towards impeachme

joining us is congresswoman stacy plaskett from the virgin islands and the house oversight committee, where she has a view of a lot of investigations going on right now. thank you for joining us. president trump as you sa you in that piece a few moments ago, siding with kim jong-un in attacking the former president joe biden. your thoughts on that. >> well, i understand that there is a campaign gentleman to be coming up. the president sees former vice president biden as an adversary, but being in the foreign place and having a discussion about senator, with, you know, vice president biden at that time was completely inappropriate. >> that should be something that should be left for the campaign trail and to side with a dictator, an individual who you are negotiating with, who negotiations fell apart with, decide with him against a fellow american seems to be untenable. >> and what's your response to president trump referring to vice president biden as a low iq individual as he put it? obviously, we don't want to get into the weeds too much on these personal attacks. but, i mean, this

host: delegate stacy plaskett, democrat of the virgin islands. we take you to the house of representatives. the speaker pro tempore: the house will be in order. the chair lays before the house a a communication from the speaker. the clerk: the speaker's rooms, washington, d.c. may 23, 2019. i hereby appoint the honorable elaine g. luria to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. signed, nancy pelosi, speaker of the house of representatives. the speaker pro tempore: the prayer will be offered by the guest chaplain, chaplain major thomas e. fussell, united states air force, patrick air force base, cape canaveral, florida. the chaplain: will you pray with me. good morning, lord. in a few days our hearts will turn toward our armed forces as we observe memorial day. many of america's sons and daughters have fought and died valiantly for the freedoms we now enjoy. we're grateful for the ultimate sacrifice they have made for us. may your peace rest on their loved ones who continue to grieve. lord, as the many debates of great importance echo through thi

1354, the territories health equity act, introduced on the very 25th, 2019 by our delegates stacy placket plaskett. we are requesting the congress and the administration work with us to support the following five-year medicaid funding request. we are requesting 100% federal medicaid matching rates, and extended to the u.s. virgin islands for two additional federal fiscal years and we are currently projecting that at least 251 .5 million additional federal federal and medicaid funding be provided during this period as was done in the 2018. secondly, we are requesting at least an additional 377 million in federal medicaid funding based upon our current projection in lieu of our medicaid cap be provided to the u.s. virgin islands. unless the congress and the administration act with support for the two requests i have outlined above before september 30th, 2019. we will be faced with potentially catastrophic damage to our medicaid program and our healthcare system. to include having to remove upwards of 15,000 individuals from our medicaid program who still need medicaid services and having it to deny

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