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The house is getting ready to come in for the day, to gavel in. Live coverage begins in just a minute and we will see you tomorrow morning at 7 00 a. M. Eastern and 4 00 a. M. Pacific. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] order. The chair lays before the house a communication. The clerk the speakers rooms, washington, d. C. June 28, 2017. I hereby appoint the honorable mike bost to act as speaker...

Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. The takeaway for me is that weve got to be mindful of culture even as we talk about the importance of individual responsibility. One of the things i thought was interesting about your book, we talk about personal responsibility but you wrote, you didnt know how to take responsibility for your life in a lot of ways. You joined the marine corps later and learned basic things with how to do things but the housing equation, whats helpful for people who are poor is to be...

A troubling statistic i discussed in the book is 40 of the sons born to fathers in the lowest quintile of income remain in lowest quintile of income and so demography is often destiny. If you are born to a father who was very polar, theres a very good chance, not overwhelming chance, but a very good chance youre going to be poor as well. To the discussion that poverty relates to blacks and i discuss why that is the case then why much of this discussion can be very misleading. The poverty rate is...

[inaudible conversations] good afternoon, everyone. I karlyn bowmanim karlyn bowmar fellow at the American Enterprise institute and i would like to welcome all of you and the cspan audience to this lecture by peter schuck. This will conclude 20162017 bradley lecture series. We are as always grateful to the lives of milwaukee Wisconsin Foundation that supported the lecture for more than a quartercentury. When peter emailed me and colleagues to say he might be able to give a lecture about his new ...

In two years more than 12,000 guns were stolen. I called atf which is in charge of regulating gun stores and then make sure the owners are keeping track of inventory and sales and encourages stores to take security seriously by locking out guns when the store is closed and using trigger locks. Atf can require guns stores to do t change that. I reached out to local congressmen and women to ask if they push for tougher security requirements for gun store owners. So far i havent heard back but i wi...

The inferno in this east Tennessee Mountain town is something firefighters and residents had never imagined. Supt. Cassius m. Cash, Great Smoky Mountain National park service all the previous fires ive been part of could not have prepared me for what weve experienced over the past 24 hours. New video today shows some of the hundreds of buildings that were torched. More than 10thousand people evacuated as the flames ripped gatlinburg, nearby pigeon forge. And the dollywood resort were all evacuat...

Government closes, what benefit do we have from that . We have in two weeks, we have the government is not only going to close down, were going to lose the Credit Rating because theyre talking now about not raising the debt ceiling. Mr. Schumer madam president . The presiding officer the senator from new york. Mr. Schumer madam president , you know, i sort of feel sorry for Speaker Boehner. He has this hard right Tea Party Group that is adamant about shutting the government down. Many of them ta...

You have goal its, you have that hope to get you there. Ifill those are just some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by at bae systems, our pride and ive been around long enough to recognize the people who are out there owning it. The ones getting involved, staying engaged. They are not afraid to question the path theyre on. Because the one question they never want to ask is, how did i end up here . I started schwab with th...

Ifill those are just some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by at bae systems, our pride and ive been around long enough to recognize the people who are out there owning it. The ones getting involved, staying engaged. They are not afraid to question the path theyre on. Because the one question they never want to ask is, how did i end up here . I started schwab with those people. People who want to take ownership of their i...

Thank you. Thank you. Car and members of the board. Its an honor to be honored. Its embarrassing. I debated not coming only because i did not want to stand here and say thank you. I really have appreciated the opportunity to grow up here as an educator and leader. I feel like i spent 13 years at monroe learning how to be a leader and it was an amazing opportunity to come to this school at buena vista and have an experience where we look at issues of equity and really focus on whats important for...