it's an old woody guthrie song? does anybody remember old woody guthrie?ocus on which i will not sing for you. but basically which side are you on? and right now we need policies in washington that reflect the needs of the working families of this country who have been to too long neglected. we need to raise the minimum wage, living wage to 50 bucks an hour trip when he did tell the wealthy and a powerful they will start paying their fair share of taxes. we need to make public colleges and universities tuition free and cancel all student debt with a modest tax on wall street speculation. we certainly need to end this dysfunctional and cruel healthcare system and passed medicare for all. we need not to ignore the existential threat of climate change, but lead the world in transform our energy system and telling the fossil fuel industry that the short-term profit are not more important than the future of this country. but to do all of that stuff we we're going to need a government that unapologetically represents working people and not wealthy corporations,

many americans will remember a song produced by woody guthrie and sung beautifully by joan baez calleddeportee," about a terrible plane crash in which a number of mexicans being deported were killed. there were 32 people on the flight and 28 of them were mexicans. what impressed woody guthrie is that the newspapers only reported the names of the white pilots and so on who were on the plane. everybody else was referred to as a deportee and not named in the reports. in some ways, he dramatized what was going on. we had taken this labor and were using this labor and now we wanted to get rid of this labor. by the middle of the 1950's, during the eisenhower administration, there was an operation called unfortunately operation wet back, which was designed to dump even more mexicans out of the united states and across the border. in all, a little over a million were deported during operation wet back. this is the kind of love-hate relationship with labor from abroad that america had had for a long time. here it was, with respect to our southern neighbor. we wanted them when we wanted them bec

being funny to add a somber note to their comedy show to the tune of this land is your land by woody guthrie. this land is park lapd. it's columbine and thou oaks at a state of the union line dance. from santa fe high school to virginia beach murders, this stuff is not ok with me. as i keep watching this endless violence with thoughts and prayers or moment of silence, the politicians are doing nothing. this stuff is not ok with me. i agree. this is not ok with me. we need sensible gun laws and we need them right now. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the chair recognizes the gentleman from kentucky, mr. comer, for five minutes. mr. speaker, i rise today to honor try. . g countian he harold night and david hail for their coming induction into the grand national turkey collars hall of fame. next week in nashville, they will be formally recognized for this high honor with the hupting and hurricaney calling world. connecticutians are notably fashion gnat about hunt and outdoors. maybe none as much as harold and david. their impact on this unique industry cannot be understated. starting in t

woody guthrie explicitly wrote this land is your land as an answer to god bless america., y'all may have noticed, we are somewhat divided politically in the life of the country. but we always have been. it's amatter of degree , more than kind . then you crash into the 60s where really there is both the new music exploding and the cultural tensions of the world we live in.red versus blue, becomes so real. >> we tend to think of the 60s. when we talk about protest music or patriotic music. we tend to automatically go to the 60s, especially when we go to protest music. some of the first music i've never growing up in i was born in 1967, growing up in the early 70s and listening to your parents music riding around in the car those first songs i remember are songs from that late 60s era that my mom was listening to the first time as an artist that it struck me that music has more meaning than just something to enjoy. there's more to music than that. first time i remember listening and think these guys really have something to say. the not just playing a cute little song trying

this is an old woody guthrie song. you won't want to hear it. it's which side are you on? right now we need policies in washington that reflect the needs of the working families of this country who've been too, too long neglected. we need to raise the minimum wage to a living wage, $15 an hour. we need to tell the wealthy and powerful they will start paying their fair share of taxes. we need to make public colleges and universities tuition free and cancel student debt with a modest increase of wall street speculation. we need to end this dysfunctional and cruel health care system and pass medicare for all. we need not to ignore the existential threat of climate change but lead the world in transforming our energy system and telling the fossil fuel industry that their short-term profits are not more important than the future of this planet. but to do all of that stuff, we are going to need a government that unapologetically represents working people and not wealthy corporations, not billionaires. that is what this campaign is about. you may disagree with me on this issue. f

. >> they felt betrayed, like you're supposed to be our woody guthrie and you sold out. ♪ how does itlized our music to be able to reach people. >> pop musicians in today's generation are in a fantastic position. they could rule the world, man. >> well, i don't argue -- >> they could rule the world, so why don't we do more of it? we can stop world wars before they ever started. >> i disagree. i don't believe -- >> you know who starts world wars? >> i for one -- >> you know who start world wars? people that are over 40. >> really, really -- >> that conversation was unstoppable. you couldn't shut it down. ♪ he's oh so good and he's oh so fine ♪ ♪ and he's oh so healthy in his body and his mind ♪ ♪ he's a well respected man about town ♪ ♪ doing the best things so conservatively ♪ >> i think ray davies from the kinks and pete townshend from the who were the two social commentators. ♪ people try to put us down talking about my generation ♪ ♪ just because we get around, talking about my generation ♪ ♪ things they do look awful cold talking about my generation ♪ ♪ hope i die before i get old

and then he said quoting woody guthrie, what side are you on? the theme this morning was about. what side are you on? and he put -- is he putting himself on one side and pete buttigieg on the other? explain. >> for sure. you -- you and i were both there this morning, chris matthews. and we saw the case that bernie sanders made. the choice is clear for voters. do you want a candidate who fights for the working class? in pete buttigieg, you have somebody who's received donations from over 40 billionaires to cow tows to big healthcare companies and drug companies and why does that matter? because at the end of the day, he fights for policies that reward those companies. he's not going to take them on. at one point in time, he used to be for medicare for all. he's since backed away from t t that. bernie sanders clear flag planted in the sand. has been where he's always been. saying i will fight for medicare for all when i am in the oval office. >> has he been bought? he's in the tank. is that what you're saying? he's in the tank? rather than use chinese words, let's use american wor