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learned recently that the president waived f.b.i. background checks that is in el paso county. number two, puerto rico, puerto ricans are still without the federal funding that was allocated that would rebuild their lives and those are the two that would be priorities for me. reporter: would that be on day one? ms. escobar: yes. but again, i'm a new member. i know my place. ms. pelosi: we have a committee system and everything goes through the committee. and when the legislation was ready, but h.r. 1 -- did you speak on that? >> there has been a lot of discussion on investigating versus legislating and that sometimes is a false choice. my constituents want us to legislate and get things done. the package that you just heard described is in many ways a response to the lessons of what we already know happened in the 2016 election. because what we learned was that our lax rules against corruption and campaign finance rules in addition to allowing things that were wrong were a national security vulnerability and enabled some of the foreign interference that we already know without further inv