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On the agenda today, resolution on the peaceful transfer of power after the president ial election, live house coverage at cspan. The speaker pro tempore the ouse will be in order. The chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. The clerk speakers rooms, washington, d. C. September 29, 2020. I hereby appoint Emanuel Cleaver to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, nancy pelosi, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore the prayer will be offered...

Victimized at high and sometimes alarming rates. Kpleks complex jurisdictional patterns still too often hamper investigations and impede justice and resources remain scarce. Report by the tribal law and Order Commission noted the need for almost 3,000 tribal Law Enforcement officers, a 50 staffing shortfall. Thats why the resources requested in the president s budget are vital. Excluding funding for prisons, the budget allocates almost 300 million for Public Safety activities in Indian Country. ...

I agree with your comments about the challenges, the situation being unacceptable, saying if we arent talking about the problems, we arent addressing them. Aggressively working in the great plains area. Members of the senate a couple weeks ago who werent on the committee such as senator thune were here because of the concern that we have with regard to the conditions of the Indian Health service in the great plains areas specifically. In fiscal year 2016 i know youve only been on the job for a s...

Say, in their language about the ruling. All too often lawmakers leap to conclusions that are not warranted by the facts. Simply put, the court ruling does not outlaw contraceptives, does not allow bosses to prevent women from seeking Birth Control, and does not take away a persons religious freedom. I ask consent to include in the record the factcheckers full remarks. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Alexander today women have the same rights before obamacare. The Supreme Court deci...

Midtier firms and or services to people in the Services Business . We are going to take take a look at this next year. For the pilot we literally went down our largest suppliers by dollar value to come up with a feasible approach here. But in doing that what doing that what does breakout is a lot of different size so you have the heavyweight against a lightweight and while we normalize all this through the system we would need to be careful that what we are not doing is excluding superior suppli...

Homeland security secretary jeh johnson discusses the federal governments response to the unaccompanied children at the u. S. mexico bordzer. Joining him, craig fugate and Customs Enforcement and health and Human Services department. This is about 30 minutes. Good afternoon. Im joined by fema administrator craig fugate, cbp administrator gill correspond cowski, i. C. E. Removal operations associate director tom holman and health and Human Services acting assistant secretary mark greenberging. We...

Kind of breakdown from you. I would like to request well, one of the things that i learned from my department of defense experience is clear guidance in is indispensable. You dont issue clear guidance to the field and the how it is implemented is not going to look at all like what you intended. D. O. D. , whatever they issue new guidance, they always socialize, train to it the field and down the chain of command and so i spent a lot of time talking to our work force about how to better implement...

Good depending on which side of the aisle you were, with one lawmaker brings a bucket of fried chicken. It was a not so subtle message aimed at the attorney general. That was congressman steve cohen of tennessee. When he walked in, he tapped the chicken and said, he is here, he is here. He is referring to the attorney general who boycotted the hearing because he didnt want to be questioned by Committee Staffers, those subject Matter Experts on issues related to the russia report. Im joined by co...

Joyce Beatty, D-Columbus, and Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, are requesting a federal investigation into the events leading up to the death of 16-year-old Ma’Khia Bryant on behalf of her parents, Paula Bryant and Myron Hammonds.  Their letter to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Acting Assistant Secretary of the Administration for Children & Families J ooYeun Chang and  Robinsue Frohboese, acting director of the departments Office for Civil Rights, is below.  The Columbus teen ...