tamika you first, you spoke out on this on day one. make of president biden's response that we just played? >> i mean, it sounds good, you know, of course now after all of the trauma has set in, after we have seen the images and people for many reasons are distraught about what we now have learned about what's happening at the border, what has happened at the border, you know, to hear that there will be someone held accountable and all of that sounds good. but i think we've got to go a little bit beyond that. i think at this point it is important for president biden to address the disparities in terms of how black people particularly are being treated at the border. i think it is also time for there to be a conversation about the history of the relationship between america and haiti and how there has to be a re-examining of it and some new policies put in place. i think we have to go beyond just talking points and really get down to some deep things that, you know, that i think people don't necessarily want to address, but it's that ti

at that point, tamika had to worry about putting food on the table while fighting to stay alive. this is who i am fighting for. tamika and so many other american women in this country who do not have access to paid family and medical leave. the challenges with covid-19 and the challenges working families have been absorbing for many years have brought us to this inflection point. my colleagues want to talk about everything, but they don't want to talk about what is actually in this universal paid family and medical leave. why? because it helps you. they want to distract to other issues because they know this will make your life better. tamika henry, and the millions of americans, particularly women that have tirelessly advocated for universal paid medical leave, i have heard you. this committee has heard you. we will vote today to get us one step closer to providing universal paid family and medical leave to every working american in this country and make it so that no one else has to lose a job or hundreds of thousands of dollars in earned wages to care for themselves or a sick

at that point, tamika had to worry about putting food on the table while fighting to stay alive. this is who i am fighting for. tamika and so many other american women in this country who do not have access to paid family and medical leave. the challenges with covid-19 and the challenges working families have been absorbing for many years have brought us to this inflection point. my colleagues want to talk about everything, but they don't want to talk about what is actually in this universal paid family and medical leave. why? because it helps you. they want to distract to other issues because they know this will make your life better. tamika henry, and the millions of americans, particularly women that have tirelessly advocated for universal paid medical leave, i have heard you. this committee has heard you. we will vote today to get us one step closer to providing universal paid family and medical leave to every working american in this country and make it so that no one else has to lose a job or hundreds of thousands of dollars in earned wages to care for themselves or a sick

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laura: tamika hamilton arrived with her children. >> the biggest thing is schools and school choice andas sending his kids to private school while our schools were closed. laura: gop front front front frt convince democrats to vote for him. >> breaking the democrats have had over black and brown people. laura: and jobs -- cobbs made a quick stop at a restaurant he called to genesis of the recall efforts. >> they have mr. newsom is the entitled, rich, good looking governor. laura: cobbs believes he has a chance. >> undecided was leading and i think people are still undecided and waiting to vote. laura: although the bay area could decide the recall, cobbs and elder will spend the final day of the campaign in southern california. ama: earlier this evening there was a roundtable discussion about the recall. the group spent time overseeing it all, surely weber. first up, -- shirley first up, voting. >> it is not in conflict with saying you do not want to remove the governor. ama: they broke down the race and candidates. >> this is politically we have seen a long time and it has blown out in

. >> tamika hamilton arrived with her two young children. >> the main thing for the black community isnd school choice and not being able to -- zoom was a huge problem for so many kids, including mine. gavin newsom was sending his kids to private schools while my schools were closed. >> gop front runner larry elder spent his day in southern california trying to convince voters, including democrats to vote for him. >> what they are afraid of is that larry elder from the hood, who attended a public school is going to break the stranglehold democrats have had over black and brown parents, specifically over the issue of school choice. >> in the meantime, another gop candidate, john cox made a quick stop here at a restaurant, the french laundry that he called the genesis of the entire recall effort. >> we've got mr. newsom as the entitled rich good-looking governor. >> cox still believes the recall has a chance, and that he does too. >> i think i last polls show undecided was leading the race. i think there are still people undecided and there are still people waiting to vote, even today. >

search for "the state of the emergency" tamika mallory using the box at the top of the page. >>> i'm delighted to discuss the new book "killing season, a paramedic dispatch from the opioid epidemic". peter cannon, his first book "paramedic on the front lines of medicine" details his journey to the care giver on the cities. since 2006, peter has been the author of the influential ems blog street watch, notes of a paramedic. he's also a graduate of the iowa writers workshop. he attended an academy in the university of virginia. he's worked many jobs in his life, tennis -- tennis instructor, aid to a u.s. senator, book and author and others before he found his place as a paramedic. he is also ems coordinator at a hospital in connecticut. without further adieu, i would like to welcome peter cannon. hi, peter. hang on, i think -- let me see. there we go. >> thank you very much. >> thank you for attending. can you talk about your new book "killing season". >> "killing season" is a book that just came out. it is about my experiences as a paramedic over the last 25 years in following the opi

tom: tamika that istom: -- tom: to me, that is front and center.f america, difficult to deal with. we are hoping to get vaccinated here at some point. we have a rare treat right now. lloyd minor is one of the most different physicians i know out there. he is someone with world-class, first-order research on the balance of the year. he has taken that over to medicine at johns hopkins, a residency at duke of here years ago, and holds court in palo alto right now. what is your biggest headache right now? >> i think the biggest concern is that we continue to takes care about 18,000 students on our campus, and that we comply with the federal mandate the biden administration has issued with regard to the vaccine mandate. tom: what is your strategy with your unvaccinated staff? lloyd: we have a highly vaccinated group, between 95% and 97%, within our hospitals. and around the university, it is similar. we are still gathering that information. we want to make sure we are providing those who wish to apply for religious or medical exemption that we provide t

in my earlier comments, i spoke about my constituent, tamika henry, "voluntary" does not mean compensated, right? that means they are shouldering the burden to care for the loved one on top of not being compensated. that hurts their future ability in social security and the retirement benefits and other issues that address inequity. women with minor children of any age are significantly less likely to be working than men. what i really want to point out, though, right now, one of five employees have paid access to paid family leave, and these workers are proportionately higher paid and working for larger businesses. according to the joint committee on taxation, 33% of workers in the highest income get paid family leave from their employers, but only 8% of those in the lowest quintile deal. so why are you pitting one group of wage earners, who are trying to have the opportunity to take paid leave for their families, against the higher people who get it? why is it bad for lower income of a good for higher income people to receive it? and specifically, for this amendment, i know that we work