Madame VP Kamala Harris’ Closet

 1) She joined President Biden to receive the President’s Daily Brief at the Oval Office.

2) Then she welcomed and received disabilities advocates to discuss at a round table meeting about voting rights at the Vice President's Ceremonial Office.

She also heard about their experiences about casting their vote, and discuss protecting the right to vote. According to the media present at the close door meeting, "Much of the conversation revolved around handicap ramps and transportation issues. During the pandemic last year, Babis said, many access issues were exacerbated."

3) Then she received American singer-songwriter and actress Olivia Rodrigo to her office. Ms. Rodrigo who was earlier received by President Biden in the Oval Office. President Biden was joined by Dr. Anthony Fauci for a vaccination campaign on social media which will involve a few social media celebrities.

4) Then she joined the President for a meeting with a bipartisan group of Governors and Mayors to discuss the importance of the critical investments in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework to States and cities across the country. Also attending were Secretary Raimondo of Commerce, and Secretary Walsh of Labor also attend

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 Here is her schedule for Monday July 12th:

1) In the morning, she joined President Biden in the Oval Office to receive the President's Daily Briefings.

2) Then she departed for the State of Michigan onboard Air Force 2 at Joint Base Andrews where she landed at the Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport in Romulus, Michigan for her first day trip in Detroit. 

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During the trip from Washington, Kate Childs Graham, director of speechwriting, and Rohini Kosoglu, domestic policy advisor, two staff members of the Office of the Vice President traveling with the Vice President were celebrating their birthdays. Vice President Harris joined her staff with cupcakes which shared.

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On descending Air Force 2, she was welcomed by Rep. Brenda Lawrence (D-MI), Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), and Lieutenant Governor Garlin Gilchrist

3) First on her schedule was a round table panel discussion on voting rights where she was joined by Michigan’s Secretary of State, Jocelyn Benson at the TCF Center. VP Harris is leading the Biden administration's initiative on voting rights, said the Texas legislators “are showing extraordinary courage and commitment." 

4) Still at the TCF Center, she attended a vaccination mobilization event then delivered remarks. She was joined by Democratic U.S. Reps. Rashida Tlaib of Detroit and Brenda Lawrence of Southfield. During the event, she urge Detroit residents to get vaccinated, emphasizing its importance and the fight against COVID-19, as well as talking on voting rights.

In her remarks she praised front-line workers who during the pandemic served in various capacities including nursing home workers, food distribution volunteers, health care administrators and others as "heroes." She touted the Biden administration's progress in vaccinating millions of Americans, with 48% of the population fully vaccinated.

5) Later in the afternoon she attended a political fundraiser for Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in the evening. 

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 On Thursday, here's Vice President Harris' publicly known schedule:

1) In the morning she was in the Southern Auditorium, where she hosted a virtual “National Vaccine Month of Action” event with community partners from across the country.

During the session, she thanked hundreds of grassroots and community organizations and volunteers across the country who are working to get their communities vaccinated. 

2) Then she joined President Biden in the Oval Office to meet with a bipartisan group of Senate Leaders to negotiate on the Infrastructure spending bill.

After a bipartisan agreement was made, President Biden and the attending Senators gaggle with the press on the historic deal, with Vice President Harris looking on with other members of the Top negotiating team which included: Steve Ricchetti, counselor to the President, Brian Deese, director of the National Economic Council and Louisa Terrell, WH legislative affairs director.

Then she joined President Biden in the East Room where the President deliver remarks in the bipartisan Infrastructure Deal.

 So sorry for the long silent over here, between power(electricity) shortage over the week and being ill, I hadn't had the time to post anything, so here is a catch up.

On Monday June 21st, Vice President Kamala Harris arrived in Pittsburgh accompanied by Secretary Marty Walsh for her daylong visit as part of what is being dubbed “Child Tax Credit Awareness Day” by the Biden administration.

Air Force Two departed Joint Based Andrew and landed at Pittsburgh International Airport just after 11 a.m. Monday where she was welcomed by Federal and state officials like U.S Senator Bob Casey.

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1) Then she headed to the Brookline Memorial Recreation Center in Brookline, where she spoke with a class of students participating in the Citicamp summer program and the held a private roundtable meeting with staff and government officials. After which she delivered remarks on the Child Tax Credit at a press conference. 

She informed the general public that the monthly Child Tax Credit payments will begin going out in July, and she says she hopes to extend the program and continue it for at least five more years.

Attending were Local leadership, Rep. Conor Lamb, Pennsylvania's AG Josh Shapiro, County Exec. Rich Fitzgerald, Mayor Bill Peduto and Sen. Bob Casey.

Then she met and took pictures with some Day Campers which included Stella Quatrini.

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2) Then Vice President Harris then met with union members for a round-table discussion with Labor Secretary Marty Walsh on organizing workers and empowerment at the Electrical Workers Union Hall on the South Side, talking about reinforcing the right to collective bargaining and eliminating intimidation.

After the meeting, VP Harris and Secretary Walsh met with and showed their solidarity with three Google contractors who formed a union in Pittsburgh becoming the first group of white-collar tech workers to vote for a union in the country.

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For the Pittsburgh visit, VP Harris wore her go-to ensembles which is, the Altuzarra Black Fenice Jacket paired with the Serge Pant. Adding to it she had on her navy silk Perla top from Lafayette 148 New York.

 On Friday, Madam Vice President was bound for Atlanta, Georgia for her second We Can Do This," vaccination state tour, on Monday she was in Greenville, South Carolina. The tour helps with vaccine education and outreach efforts in order to reach President Biden's goal of getting 70 percent of Americans vaccinated by July 4.

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She arrived at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport where she was welcomed by the State's federal legislator Georgia's 5th congressional district Representative Congresswoman Nikema Williams, Sens. Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff, Atlanta's Mayor Keisha Bottoms.

1) She began her tour at a pop-up COVID-19 vaccination site at Ebenezer Baptist Church. The Church is a historic church in the black community located in Atlanta's Sweet Auburn district where many US civil rights leaders like Martin Luther King Jr had preached in the 1960s

During informal remarks to those who were being administered vaccines, the Vice President urged people, “These vaccines are safe and effective. It will save your life and the lives of people you love,” she also said “to get the word out” to help their friends and neighbours overcome obstacles to getting vaccinated like needing childcare and fear of needles.

She was accompanied by Congresswoman Nikema Williams, from right, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, Director of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Senator Jon Ossoff, Senator Raphael Warnock, Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms and Dr. Jayne Morgan, Cardiologist and the Executive Director of the COVID Task Force at the Piedmont Healthcare Corporation

2) After she departed for Clark Atlanta University, where she gave remarks at a COVID vaccination mobilization event. During her remarks, she said,“But there are some people, a lot of people might say, ‘I haven’t been vaccinated yet because I’m just not sure," she also acknowledged people's hesitancy, "It is OK to have questions," and she urged Atlantans to tell their friends and neighbours: “We can say with confidence the vaccines are safe, they are free and they are effective.”

Clark Atlanta University is a private Methodist historically black research university in Atlanta, Georgia. The University is the first HBCU in the Southern United States founded on September 19th 1865 as Atlanta University, it consolidated with Clark College to form Clark Atlanta University in 1988.

3) After giving the remarks she participated in a close room conversation on voting rights with community leaders.

 Thursday marked a historical day. With many years of campaigning to mark Juneteenth a Federal Holiday, it finally came through with both the Vice President and then the Presidents signing into a Federal Day.

The Juneteenth National Independence Day Act bill was passed overwhelmingly by the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday in a 415 to 14 vote after clearing the Senate unanimously, was first by the House Speaker, Rep. Nancy Pelosi then signed Vice President Harris who in her role as President of the Senate signed her first bill in the Roosevelt Room with a bust of Frederick Douglas looking on.

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The bill had been championed for years by Black legislators in the US Congress led by Representative Sheila Jackson Lee, a Democrat from Texas.

Then she move on and joined President Biden in the East Room for the President's signature to the bill into law. Before that the Vice President gave remarks, “Today is a day of celebration,” said Vice President Harris. “It is not only a day of pride, it is also a day for us to reaffirm and rededicate ourselves to action.”

She also went on and reminded the 80+ White House guests who were invited which included Congress Legislators who helped passed in the bill, that they were gathered in a "house built by enslaved people," and said the holiday would be an occasion to "reaffirm and rededicate ourselves to action."

The campaign to federally recognise Juneteenth also as known as the US’s “Second Independence Day” began with Opal Lee, a 94-year-old Texan and many other Civil Rights Activists of her generation who has campaigned her entire life to make Juneteenth a national holiday.

Juneteenth which is marked on June 19th previously known as Jubilee Day, Freedom Day, Liberation Day or Emancipation Day commemorates the emancipation of enslaved Black Americans, when the last enslaved Black Americans were told they were free during the US Civil War between Confederate slave-holding states in the south and Union free states in the north

Confederate forces surrendered in April 1865, but the message of liberation did not reach the last enslaved Black people until June 19, when Union soldiers arrived in Galveston, Texas. President Abraham Lincoln had issued the Emancipation Proclamation two and a half years ago, liberating American slaves in 1863.

Most US states already recognise Juneteenth as a holiday or have an official observance of the day with most been a paid holiday for state employees in Texas, New York, Virginia and Washington, DC.