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We can and hold these families in our prayers. Thank you. Back live now on capitol hill where the House Appropriations committee is returning from its lunch break. They continue work on 2021 a spending bill. Live coverage here on cspan2. Mistaken at the best of times. They are unconscionable in the midst of a pandemic. I want to remind my colleagues that foodstamp spending is a powerful anti recession tool and has previously been estimated that for each dollar spent from benefits a dollar 70 is generated in economic activity. Let me say thank you again to chairman bishop, Ranking Member and th...

Good morning again, your honor. As the court knows, in the time since the last oral argument in this case, the committee referred to the floor of the house of representatives and the house of representatives approved two articles of impeachment against the president. Neither of those articles arrived out of the events that were investigated. Neither of them concerned the event described in the report of the special counsel. We are facing a different claim by the committee. Brief, the 17 of the argument is, they need the information underlying the Mueller Report in order to prove in a senate tr...

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...

Rising tensions between the u. S. Eastern. At 2 00 p. M. Forre congress adjourned summer recess, the House Oversight Committee Held a theing on the future of Affordable Care act as certain provisions were being challenged in courts. Witnesses included advocates and a. C. A. Ast of the well as patients who have benefited from the law. Hours. Der four rep. Cummings committee will come to order. Objection, the chair is recesszed to declare a of the committee at any time. Full Committee Hearing is convened regarding the administrations attack on the a. C. A. I now recognize myself for five opening...

And ceo of the association of american railroads. Jim cb, commissioner of the southwest chief and Front Range Passenger Rail commission, and jennifer homendy, Member National Transportation Safety board. I continue to be a strong supporter of our real industry both freight and passenger. Rail service is safe and efficient. It also reduces congestion on our highways and spurs economic growth. In mississippi, for example, we have 26 Freight Railroads, 2,400 miles of track, five of the seven class ones, two longdistance amtrak routes, 10 stations, and more than 100,000 annual riders. Rail is vita...