Chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties. All time shall be equally allocated between the parties and in no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. Each member other than the majority and minority leaders and minority whip shall be limited to five minutes. The chair recognizes the the gentlewoman from North Carolina, ms. Foxx, for five minutes. Madam thank you, speaker. Madam speaker, i rise to congratulate wanda k. Brown on her inauguration as president of the American Library association. The oldest and Largest Library association in the world. Ms. Brown has an exemplary record as the director of Library Services at winstonsalem State Universitys c. G. Owe Kelly Library in North Carolinas fifth district. She also served as associate dean of the z. Smith Reynolds Library at wake forest university. During her tenure as president of the North Carolin
Prison in tehran. We will also get an update on the civil fraud trial of donald trump. No matter how powerful you are, no matter how much money you think you have, no is above the law. It is my responsibility and my duty and my job to enforce it. Today in court, we will prove our case. Amy we will also speak to an attorney suing Columbia University and its affiliated hospitals on behalf of some 300 more patients who say they were sexually assaulted by former Columbia University gynecologist Robert Hadden while they say the university shielded the sexual predator. And we will look at the largest strike of healthcare workers in u. S. History. Were here because we want the world to know kaiser is being unfair to us. We worked to the pandemic and hard times, we are understaffed and underpaid. They are not giving us what we need to take care of our patients properly. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Pre
Here is how it all went down. The yeas are 216. The nays are 210. The resolution is adopted. Without objection, the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. The office of Speaker Of The House of the United States House Of Representatives is hereby declared vacant. And i just want you all to be clear. This was a catastrophe of Kevin Mccarthys own making. It was Kevin Mccarthy and no one else who after saying this after the January 6th Insurrection the president bears responsibility for wednesdays attack on congress by mob rioters. He should have immediately denounced the mob when he saw what was unfolding. These facts require immediate action by president trump. Accept his share of responsibility. Got on a plane, flew to florida, and crawled on his knees to maralago to kiss trumps ring and sell his soul to the maga king. He did that. All in pursuit of the precious, the speakers gavel. Which he held for just nine chaotic, pointless months, in which he routinely lied on tv about who was
Governor king for a couple of quick remarks. This ithis is a very quick r. Its just that we have been joined by somebody who has been very important to me and to us who was active members of the 9 11 commissioner richard was an watergate prosecutor and brought the skills to the commission. And we have also to people testify before the 9 11 commission. The one commissioner they were sort of scared of was richard because his questions were always good, always to the point, and always penetrating. They didnt want to always be penetrated. So i just want to welcome him here. Richard, thank you for your contributions. Its wonderful to have you. [applause] thank youthank you, governork you to richard for joining us today. Its not a pleasure to introduce nathan, the newly confirmed and appointed coordinator for characters of the u. S. State department. He was sworn in about four weeks ago on august 10 pick is a think one of the First Assistant sectors of the state department. Before joining th
You can find todays entire session with british Prime Minister theresa may answering questions from members of the house of commons on our website at cspan. Org. During thursdays washington journal, we are launching our 50 capitals tour for the cspan bus. Join us at 7 00 a. M. Eastern to learn more about your plan to visit every u. S. State capital. The 50 capitals tour, celebrating 25 years of the cspan bus program. Coming up next here on cspan3 a discussion on the evolution of terrorism since 9 11. Nathan sales is the state departments new coordinator for counterterrorism and he talked about the threat of isis and initiatives to combat terror groups. This is hosts by the Bipartisan Policy Center here in washington, d. C. Its now my pleasure to introduce nathan sales, the newly confirmed and appointed coordinator for counterterrorism at the u. S. State department. He was sworn in about four weeks ago on august 10th. As i think one of the First Assistant secretaries of the state depart