For a bill combining several Clean Energy Initiatives followed by five measures dealing with veterans issues. Live now to the floor of the u. S. House here on cspan. Orde the prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. Lord god, we give you thanks for giving us another day. The advance of Coronavirus Infections continues to rise in a number of states around our nation, send your spirit of healing and wellbeing among those who suffer and your angels to protect the Many Health Care workers who place their own wellbeing in danger every day. Comfort those today in the Supreme Court who begin the blic mourning of a beloved colleague, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and console those who worked with over so many years. Bless the members of this peoples house who labor today to pass bills to advance the common wheel of our nation. May all that is done this day be for your greater honor and glory, amen. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to section 4a of House Resolut
Months ago as part of the heroes act, languishes in the senate. My bill includes the 25 billion requested by the Postal Service, leaves will be spit almost entirely by the end of 2021. The knees is that dyer. Alarmingly the Postal Service is under attack from within by its own leadership. The president s new postmaster general is using the lack of funding to justify sweeping changes for the operations and organizational structure of the Postal Service. Within a month of taking Office Postmaster general dejoy began ordering reduction and over time, limits to the daily number of trips from Mail Processing centers, removal of processing equipment and public mailboxes and more. These changes are causing huge delays, reported all across the country, threatening the effectiveness of the Postal Service and undermining our democracy. I wrote to the postmaster general several times, raising concerns about these changes only to be told by his staff that he had not ordered these changes and they
A new Prime Minister is named as president putin and frances his reform agenda. On the verge of a major eruption some residents living near the top of volcano in the philippines are reluctant to leave. And the new climate data it shows the past decade was the best on record. And im sorry a smile i have all the days sport including danger driving in the desert a lucky escape for that though alonso at the dapper rally in saudi arabia. Will begin on capitol hill where the u. S. House of representatives has voted to send the articles of impeachment against president to the senate it also passed a resolution authorizing the appointment of 7 managers for the trial and House Intelligence Committee chairman adam schiff will lead that team trump is accused of threatening to withhold military aid to ukraine in exchange for an investigation into his political rival joe biden impeachment trial is expected to begin properly next week. The task before us is a grave one but one demanded by our oath t
In a year that saw the planets hottest month on record, nick miller and Sarah Keith Lucas reflect on the most significant meteorological events of 2019 in weather world. This time on weather world, were in cambridge, where right here during 2019s record setting european heatwave, the temperature was the highest the uks ever recorded. At the uks hottest weather station, ill discover how you go about accurately recording temperature, and ill be finding out whats behind another year of record heatwaves. The science is overwhelmingly clear that the cause of this Climate Change is our activities as humans putting more and more Carbon Dioxide and other Greenhouse Gases into the atmosphere. And im at Cambridge University, where a new look at pioneering Data Collected in the 1970s is revealing the real impact Climate Change is having on our melting ice sheet today. Also on weather world, 2019s biggest storms, from devastation in the bahamas, hit by its most powerful hurricane, to the fire rava
I think whats essential, on this topic, on Climate Change, is that we have a cross party, nonpartisan approach to it. Raging bush fires are burning out of control across australia, with authorities in the state of victoria saying its now too late for people to evacuate. Temperature are exceeding a0 degrees in every state. The search continues for father of four and firefighter Anthony Knott whos now been missing for 10 days. In a year that saw the planets hottest month on record, nick miller and Sarah Keith Lucas reflect on the most significant meteorological events of 2019, in weather world. This time on weather world, were in cambridge, where right here, during 2019s record setting european heatwave, the temperature was the highest the uks ever recorded. At the uks hottest weather station, ill discover how you go about accurately recording temperature, and ill be finding out whats behind another year of record heatwaves. The science is overwhelmingly clear that the cause of this Clim