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And pray for our elected officials and, god, pray for wisdom for them in areas they need it and guidance to follow you, lord, in all things. God, we pause today and ask you to use us as your servants. We realize our dependence on you and look to you for answers to the problems that face our country. And i pray that the discussion and the decisions made in this chamber today, god, will reflect your heart and your direction and, lord, we pray in jesus name. Amen. The speaker the chair has examined the journal of the last days proceedings and announces to the house his approval thereof. Pursuant ...

Mindful of opportunities to help, to share, to protect, to welcome and to proclaim what is just and what is good. We ask your blessing on this house, this government, and all those who serve the common good. By your holy spirit, grant that they might have the courage to do just that. And may all that we do or say give honor and glory to you, almighty father, now and forever, amen. The speaker the chair has examined the journal of the last days proceedings and announces to the house his approval thereof. Pursuant to clause 1 of rule 1 the journal stands approved. The pledge of allegiance today ...

World. Good afternoon to all of you. [laughter] thank you all for being here. And we have a number of senators who will be joining us. Senator schumer will be here, as well as a number of other people, but we are going to go ahead and get started today because this is a critical issue because this week republicans put out their true position on abortion. A national ban and punishing doctors. For months, they have been posturing and hiding their extreme views and ignoring the health care crises that they are causing. But republicans cant pretend they just want to leave abortion to states and th...

Afghan military. According to u. S. Military officials and dod officials, thats what happened here today. At camp carga in kabul. Military Training Facility that was established by the british. Now, there was some kind of event or two that are ongoing that involved u. S. Military officials when suddenly a lone gunman opened fire, shooting and wounding at least a dozen, mostly americans. We heard some german soldiers may also have been wounded. Were told as many as three have been killed. Dont know if they were americans or germans. In fact, dod officials have asked nbc news not to identify at ...

Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. For the first time a patient being treated for ebola on u. S. Soil has died. Thomas eric duncan, the liberian man with first case of ebola diagnosed in the u. S. Died this morning in dallas just under two weeks after first reporting symptoms. This hurts deeply, and we were hoping this was not going to happen. But on behalf of the city of dallas, i extend our deepest sympathies to the families and the friends of mr. Duncan. Duncans girlfriend louise, the woman he came to the u. S. To marry and who is herself currently under quarantine released a state...