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. August 22, 2020. I hereby appoint the honorable brenda l. Lawrence 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. Chaplain conroy let us pray. God of us all, thank you for giving us another day. Bless the members of the peoples house gathered here at the capitol for an extraordinary session in extraordinary times. Inspire them with wisdom as they hope to address the needs of our nation in such a difficult period of our shared history. Continue to bless those who labor to attend to the sick among our citizens and those also who strive to find effective treatments and vaccines. Keep us all safe in your divine mercy. May all that is done this day be for your greater honor and glory. Ame
In language while seeming to try to help yates whenever he could. The senator promised to dig into the political corruption of the intelligence agencies and their efforts to subvert and to overthrow President Trump. Yates answers were predictable as she tried to deflect any responsibility for her role in obamagate. Yates blamed the fbi entirely for obamagate. Heres what she had to say about former fbi director james comey sending agents peter doc and joe pientka to question former National Security adviser general Michael Flynn in january of 2017. When you heard about the interview, you got upset, didnt you . I was upset that that wasnt coordinated. They acted unilaterally, yes, i was. Okay. Did comey go rogue . You could use that term, yes. Lou yates also confirmed that the logan act was brought up in a nowinfamous Oval Office Meeting on january 5th of 2017. But she said she remembers only comey talking about it and not former Vice President joe biden. It just so happens others say th
In language while seeming to try to help yates whenever he could. The senator promised to dig into the political corruption of the intelligence agencies and their efforts to subvert and to overthrow President Trump. Yates answers were predictable as she tried to deflect any responsibility for her role in obamagate. Yates blamed the fbi entirely for obamagate. Heres what she had to say about former fbi director james comey sending agents peter doc and joe pientka to question former National Security adviser general Michael Flynn in january of 2017. When you heard about the interview, you got upset, didnt you . I was upset that that wasnt coordinated. They acted unilaterally, yes, i was. Okay. Did comey go rogue . You could use that term, yes. Lou yates also confirmed that the logan act was brought up in a nowinfamous Oval Office Meeting on january 5th of 2017. But she said she remembers only comey talking about it and not former Vice President joe biden. It just so happens others say th
And Melinda Gates foundation, bill gates, for a wideranging interview about the pandemic. The Foundation Contributed almost 350 million to fight covid19 around the world. We also talked about the possibility of microsoft buying tictoc. We are standing by for a news briefing with the president , after secretary of state mike pompeo signaled the u. S. Will try to ban other Chinese Technology beyond tictoc in the name of National Security. I want to get to nick, who ,overs the state Department Secretary of state pompeo signaling the u. S. Would urge apple and google from removing certain chinese apps from their app stores, which would be quite dramatic. Talk about what he is saying. Moment, it looks like what secretary pompeo is doing is issuing guidelines or recommendations, warnings, i guess, where he is telling app apps, these chinese tictoc and we chat, are not safe , and we dont think you should include them in your app stores. He also said, we dont think you should allow your apps t
With Democratic Leaders in the house to extend relief payments. , asre negotiating right now we speak. We will see how it works out. If democrat leaders put partisan demands of side, we would reach an agreement very quickly. It would happen very quickly. Meantime, my administrations executive actions to provide protections against you actions. Eviction is a big problem and unfair to a lot of people. The virus came from a faraway land. Towell as additional relief those who are unemployed as a result of the virus. Very importantly, i am also looking at a term limited suspension of the payroll tax. Something that has great support from many, many sides. Especially some of our Top Economists and people that we have Great Respect for. So we are looking at a suspension of the payroll tax. The democrats are primarily interested in a 1 trillion bailout of the poorly run states. We have some states and cities, you know them all. Run over been poorly the years. We cannot go along with the bailou