Act as speaker pro tempore on this day, signed john a. Boehner, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore the prayer will be offered by the guest chaplain, christ church, washington, d. C. Let us pray. God of all nations, you called all people to live lives of righteousness and justice. Bless those who gather in this place, to those who lead here, grant the patience and cooperation. To those who debate here grant clarity of thought. To those who decide here, grant the courage for truth. Keep ever before us the broken places of our lives together and find ways to speak hope into one anothers lives, that our hearts be in rhythm with yours and all together with people of goodwill both in this place and beyond in order that your will may be done. Amen. The speaker pro tempore the chair has examined the journal of the last days proceedings and announces to the house. Pursuant to clause 1s rule 1, the journal stands approved. The chair will lead the house in the pledge
Thank you. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2014] live next to the u. S. Chamber of commerce in washington with german chancellor Angela Merkel focusing on u. S. German relations and the importance of the transatlantic trade and investment partnership. Which is getting attention on capitol hill. A survey released by pew Research Showing 53 of americans regard a trade agreement as a good thing. Been at theor has white house meeting with president obama on a number of issues. In particular on sanctions against russia over the intervention in ukraine. The ap saying that the president says violence escalating in Eastern Ukraine is making it obvious to the world that prorussian militants are not peaceful protesters. He voiced his support for the Ukrainian Government on the day of its first major offensive aimed at driving out the insurgents occupying government buildings across the east of ukraine. We will hear from t
Characters in the family which a dress. She argues that too little remembered victorian sisters changed the course of womens rights and American History sunday night at 8 00 on cspans q and a. Live on cspan a bit of a mob scene inside the South Entrance to the Washington Hilton Hotel looking at the red carpet arrivals at the white house Correspondents Dinner. Welcome to cspans live coverage here. For the next several hours well bring you the red carpet arrivals and the dinner eist, president obamas speech and joe mchale and much more here on cspan. We are in amongst the media of the s they get shots celebrities and politicians arriving at this dinner. Not only will we have video from you but well love to hear from you on twitter and follow the reporters as they post their video and photos from the event tonight. You can follow cspan on twitter slash schat our cspan for lots more. Post your thoughts and well show you a photo gallery. Coming up a look at our schedule or later on. The gue
Join the conversation on social media at c spain. Facebook. Com, and you can also email us at well, journal cspan. Org. Want to get your thoughts on what you specifically think the president should do on these two issues of the threat of the Islamic State, as well as russias aggression against the ukraine. So start dialing in now. Well get to comments in just a few minutes. This is from the Huffington Post web site. We wont be cowed by barbaric murders. If terrorists think we will weaken in the face of their threat, they could not be more wrong. Countries like britain and america will not be cowed by barbaric killers. This from the op ed coauthored by president obama and Prime Minister David Cameron. What do you think the president should do on these two issues of isis in russia . On isis, front page of the Washington Times this morning with the headline, obama talks tough on terror, shies away from war. This piece written by ben wolfgang. They write, frustration on capitol hill reache