After the Takeover of the majority in the U.S. house of representatives, the opposition Democrats are setting political priorities: you have to deal with gun violence and climate change.
“The Republicans can no longer argue that climate change does not exist, because throughout the country the citizens feel every day its negative impacts,” wrote the Chairman of the Committee on natural resources, the Democrat Raul Grijalva, in the short message service Twitter. That’s why the Democrats were organized in the Committee the first hearing on the subject for eight years.
the same Time, the Committee of the house of representatives began in the right to a hearing on gun violence. The democratic Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler expressed disappointment that US President Donald Trump have not addressed the issue in his state of the Nation. The gun violence in the United States was a “national crisis” and an “international embarrassment”. Every day would be killed in the United States average of 34 people with a firearm.
The Democrats had taken over after their success in the congressional elections last fall to the beginning of the year, the majority in the house of representatives. Previously, the Republicans had eight years to Say that. In the Senate Trumps the Republicans have a majority. (sda)
Created: 07.02.2019, 05:32 PM