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Speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the house of january 3, 2013, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour ebate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties with each party limited to one hour and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and the minority whip each, to five minutes but in no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. The ch...

Told says mayor declaring Civil Emergency and announcing at 10 00 p. M. Curfew tonight near the arena which protests could get out of hand. As police near the area surrounding the arena with people on both sides of the issue, whatever their issues are. Meanwhile, critics are raising alarm as the city and state see a spike in covid 19 cases. They are warning it is the perfect storm of potential overthetop transmission. Its a perfect storm that we cant afford to have. The arena where the event as ...

1 15. Up until then from this mornings washington journal, senator sanders from vermont. Host senator bernie sanders, senator from vermont, here. Thank you for being here. You served on the Budget Committee. We saw senator patty murray, the chairman, introduce her budget plan. Heres the headline in the Washington Times there are no sacred cows that calls for 1 trillion in new taxes. Whats your takeaway . Guest well, what it does is also call for substantial cuts, but it deals with deficit reduct...

Next, the 25 minute debate on the senate floor. It is now time for us to vote up or down on the nomination for many reasons. The nomination has been before us now inadequate time to get the information which our colleagues have asked for. There is also the looming fact of sequestration. We need to have a secretary of defense who is not only in office, but whose leadership is not in limbo, but is there. Our troops need it. Their families needed. Our country needs it. We have 66,000 military arsen...

Were made and paid for by foreign governments that may not be friendly to us. That story died before it was aired. It was apparently based on a hoax. These are unfair innuendos. They have been answered. You know they are unfair. Senator hagel has an extensive record of service to his country. As a young man, he enlisted in the army, served with distinction in vietnam, he served as the deputy administrator of the va during the reagan administration, he was a businessman. Many of are bit him durin...

Msnbc naval exercises. Then it happened again in june, the following month june 16th be with the usds fitzgerald and american destroyer, collided with a much heavier freighter off the coast of the japan. That was a deadly and very damaging collision. 7 u. S. Sailors drowned after the sleeping quarters flooded in less than a minute following the crash. The seven sailor posthumanously promoted. Another guided missile destroyer the uss John S Mccain named for the father and senator john mccain both...

The authorization to use military force right after 9 11 in the lead up to the war in afghan. That vote in congress was 4201. Congresswoman barbara lee was the one. Congresswoman lee is fighting to repeal that 2001 authorization to use force now that weve spent 16 years and counting using that 9 11 specific authorization as legal basis for every combat operation the United States has conducted since. Shes had surprising success just this year in terms of bringing other members of congress, repub...

Removed a black shroud protesters used to cover up a statue of Thomas Jefferson during demonstration on campus. The Daily Progress reports a group of 100 people gathered tuesday night to protest the universitys response to White Nationalist rallies in charlottesville this summer. Senator Bernie Sanders is introducing a bill to establish singlepayer health care system. Medicare for all. The government would foot the bill. There would be no more individual or employerprovided insurance plans. That...

What . And there you have it, you heard Somebody Just saying to chairman grassley, what . Were adjourning two hour rule. What we have seen there, i do not believe we have at least in the open era ever seen and that is senator jeff flake went into that small ante room that we were speaking of just before they took the vote and he cut a deal of some sorts with the democrats and then it wasnt clear what he cut. So, chairman grassley said a point of personal privilege allows senator jeff flake to ex...

The All Progressives Congress, APC, Enugu State has expressed shock and sadness over the passing of Senator Ayogu Eze, who represented Enugu North