The speaker pro tempore the chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. The clerk the speakers room, washington, d. C. , november 15, 2022. I hereby appoint the honorable Henry Cuellar to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, nancy pelosi, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the house of january 10, 2022, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties. With time equally allocated between parties and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and minority whip limited to five minutes. But in no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. The chair now recognizes the gentleman from indiana, mr. Pence, for five minutes. Mr. Pence mr. Speaker, its with a heavy heart that i rise today to honor a proud american, a great hoosier, an outstanding man, and a very dear fr
Discuss the Midterm Election results and introduce newly elected members who will be joining the congress. This runs just over one hour. Rep. Jayapal alright, well, good afternoon everybody, it is great to see you all here. We are back, we have a lot of good stuff happening around the country, and most importantly, we have the most credible, beautiful, diverse, capable, talented, Progressive Group of new members coming into the 118 congress. And i am so proud of all of them and all of the work that we have collectively done as a movement to build this kind of talent that represents different communities across the country in both tough frontline districts where these candidates have won on bold, progressive, economic, populist ideas, as well as in districts where some of the best ideas, in my humble opinion, also come from, and you have heard me say, being a progressive means you are first to the best and most just idea. As of now we have had 15 of our 18 endorsed cpc host pac endorsed
Talking about the midterms and things that resulted from that. Thanks for coming in. Tell us what your Organization Funds itself in and how it is funded . Guest we are a newly million member organization. We do half elections, half issue advocacy. We have raised about 35 Million Dollars in grassroots donations through the course of our history. We have a lot in the halls of power, we do grassroots lobbying to try to connect to the inside and outside. This is mostly an economic populace. Sometimes, we show up for democracy fights. The last two and a half years, our northstar has been democracy, trying to keep the train on the tracks. We are happy right now democracy has given the Election Results this week. Host that was the theme in this midterms. Do you think that was an overriding theme, or other factors as a result of how democrats did . Guest not one issue, but a swirl of different issues. Abortion was a signal for many people democracy was going off the track. And increasingly ill
The speaker the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by chaplain kibben. Chaplain kibben would you pray with me . Holy lord, you have been our dwelling place from generation to generation. Before the mountains were brought forth, even before the earth itself was formed from everlasting, you are god. As we pause in your presence and acknowledge your infinite beginning, we cannot get grip on the things of this life so its with humility we offer our prayers to you, prayers that ask for your guidance in the living of this day, your wisdom for the choices we make, and your forbearance when we fall short of your intentions. Grant us the reassurance that despite the uncertainty that hovers around us, regardless of our inevitable mistakes and missteps, that in your mercy you have already woven this day into your gracious plan for us. Remind us that you have satisfied us this morning with your steadfast love which lifts us up, dusts us off, and sends us once again on the path you
Lameduck as well. Charlie cook is the founder of the Cook Political Report which is well known as the bible for what is happening around election world. Mike allen is a cofounder of axios. Casey hunt is an anchor at cnn worldwide. And National Affairs analyst as well. Theres which chief political answer at fox news, and also the anchor on the brett bear special report. And Michael Kelly on is the Congressional Correspondent for cbs. Ok. So, how come all of you got it wrong . [laughter] i mean, everybody said it would be a red wave, and all of us were expecting a red wave. What happened . I never used that word. You called it a tsunami. No, that was 1994. The thing is we expected democrats would have a challenging night. That everything seemed to be stacked against them. The house was gone and the senate, gosh, they would be lucky if they kept the losses down to one. Things obviously changed. Most of us, i dont think we ever used the word wave. Someone said it was going to be a wave. I