The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. The clerk the speakers rooms, washington, d. C. October 31, 2019. I hereby appoint the honorable paul tonko 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 by our chaplain, father conroy. Haplain conroy let us pray. Dear god, we give you thanks for giving us another day. We ask your special blessing upon the members of this peoples house. They face difficult decisions in difficult times with many forces and interests demanding their attention. Give them again rossity to enter into their work generosity to enter into their work. May they serve you in the work they do as you deserve. Give of themselves and not count the cost, fight for what is best for our nation and not count the political wounds. Toil until their work is done d not seek to rest and labor without
Faster Danielle Allen National Book Award Finalist kevin Young Software engineer ellen ullman and many others. First up is to look at some of the lesserknown stories from world war ii. This is like coverage of the texas book festival on booktv. Good morning ladies and gentlemen. Good morning. My name is Jim Horne Fisher and its my pleasure to welcome you to the opening session of the 2017 texas book festival. [applause] thank you for coming out in support of our authors and second of his wonderful annual event now in its 22nd year. [applause]he and third of all the books that we discussed and enjoyed throughout this beautiful Texas Capitol complex hereom in downtn austin i would ask you to silence your cell phones t. Live tv, thank you cspan. After a session both offers authors are relocating to the book signing tent down the street to autograph their books. Books are for sale at that beautiful independent bookstore. You are supporting not only the author off the festival and a great l
Complete schedule. Next, house hearing on efforts to protect you from sports concussions. Then a house hearing on the government accessing social media is part of background checks for some employees. After that, pentagon briefing pentagon briefing on the fight against isis and a briefing on the annual report on chinas military. Now, to mothers testify before a house energy and commerce a subcommittee about concussions in youth sports. Their sons died after suffering multiple concussions. The hearing also addressed Current Research and efforts to protect Young Athletes from injury. This is two and a half hours. We are on a tight schedule today with votes. The morning and welcome to the oversight and investigation hearing. Were were here to continue the ongoing examination of concussions. The hearing follows an initial table we had in march but we had a constructive dialogue with leading experts on how to address the challenge of concussions. Well focus on youth sports, specifically the
Janz, i am the mom to jakes naked burg. My son was your typical allamerican boy devoted to sports, his friends, and her family. Jake was often referred to as her social butterfly. He had a big heart and genuinely cared for those in his life. He had a joy about him that others could not resist. His a big a big brother summed it up best when he said jake drank up life like it was pouring from a fire hose. He gave 110 and everything, especially sports. On september 18, 2004 jake got up at 6 15 a. M. In anticipation of his freshman football game. He loved football and all its offered, the physical challenge, this spirit of competition, and most of all the friendship that were involved. He was excited about playing this game because he had been held out of a few practices because the week prior he had suffered an injury where his arms and hands went numb and tingly. What he described to us sounded like maybe he tweaked his core strength is now. He had had not lost consciousness, he did not
[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] we are live on capitol hill this morning for a discussion on concussions in youth sports. Parents and medical experts will be testifying this morning before the house energy and commerce subcommittee on oversight and investigations. Talking about Research Efforts and whats being done to protect Young Athletes from injury. This is live coverage on cspan2. It should start in just a moment or two. [inaudible conversations]. [inaudible conversations] tight schedule on tights. Were here on committees ongoing examination of concussions. This hearing follows initial roundtable we had in march where we had constructive dialogue with leading experts in the field how to challenge concussions. Todays hearing focus on youth sports, specifically areas of prevention and research. While there is always particularly sports at young age shown to have many benefits. Benefits of youth sports participation, better health, increased activity, improved aca