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Six. The house set the ground rules last week on the partyline vote. Now we have another week packed with scheduled depositions. Several witnesses we think will not show up and the most important thing that will happen this week is that mister schiffs Committee Says it will release the transcripts of the depositions taken so far. Those are the headlines teeseven weather representatives spears or adam schiff talking about the process and where it is heade headed, they say we will have open hearings but so far they are not saying when. Why quick. Thats a great question. Are they are working behi...

Session. We will bring you gaveltogavel coverage as we always do. Its go to the house floor. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2019] the speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. House ir lays before the a communication from the speaker. He clerk the speakers room, washington, d. C. , october 17 2019. I october 17, 2019. Hereby appoint the honorable Henry Cuellar to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Pelosi, speaker of the house o...

Honor the life of and passing of my friend, Elijah Cummings. When i first came to congress a few terms ago, i teamed up with mr. Cummings to honor to introduce a bill honoring the life and legacy of harriet tubman. When i approached mr. Cummings about this bill, he didnt ask me what party i was in, he didnt ask my what my political philosophies were, he didnt care about partisanship. He cared we had a common interest. I appreciated that antiyears since then we continued to cosponsor that bill and continue to push it. Im sad to hear of his passing. And i offer my prayers to his wife and family....

Trade impact on the economy. Lets look whats driving the action britain and the eu coming to a brexit deal although Boris Johnson still needs to win a vote back at home. U. S. And turkey agreed to a ceasefire in syria and despite ibm the overall earnings picture remains strong with beat from netflix and Morgan Stanley leading the market hire. Were happy to have stephanie link here. I know youre pretty upbeat. So far so good. There have been good reports from csx, from honeywell, from United Airlines jpmorgan, Morgan Stanley. Those have been rewarded also other earnings that have just been good...

Mr. Hoyer thank you, mr. Speaker. I have the sad task of announcing what probably most of you already know. We have lost a great american. A decent american. A wonderful member of this body. Elijah cummings, who died early this morning of illnesses he had been suffering from for a significant period of time. Members of the house, the people of maryland, the people of the United States of america woke up to this sad and shocking news that we had lost this dear friend a devoted public servant, a dedicated patriot who reflected courtesy and respect for all. In a time of confrontation and disagree...