It is the washington journal the seven tonight President Biden delivers the state of the union. You can watch on cspan or cspan now. He pushes republicans to work on him with lowering cost, higher taxations on corporations and other measures but many measures are expected to nights. We want to hear about the top issues in the United States. For democrats 202 7488000 for republicans 202 7488001 for independents 202 7488002 if you want to text us 202 7488003 and post on social media at facebook. Com cspan or on x at cspanwj. Our coverage starts at 8 00 with your phone calls and analysis leading up to the speech. All of that is available to you as part of coverage of state of the you in. If you go to our website we posted a poll about those you in light of the state of the you and here is what you are responding. 34 said the top issue is immigration, reproductive rights 13 , bipartisanship a 10 Foreign Policy at nine, health carerime 3 . If you want to participate you can do that if you u
Ladies and gentlemen, please, speaker of the house of representatives, Kevin Mccarthy, senator fischer, governor of nebraska. James pilling, house democratic. Hakeem jeffries, representative adrian smith and Lora Lunzmann black Lora Lunzmann black. Please be seated. Ladies and gentlemen, the honorable Kevin Mccarthy speaker of, the United States house of representatives. I know your but im more excited because this the first statue i get to do as being speaker. And if you followed took me a while to get there. Okay so this is special so good morning and you for joining us for this special in statuary hall. You know, every state since two statues of, extraordinary citizens, the u. S. Capitol represent them in washington. By law, the statues have to made of bronze or marble. But make no mistake the men and women we honor here are living symbols who represent our national memory, patriotism and our american creed. E pluribus unum. Out of many one, as one of americas greatest novelist will
Promise they are going to do. Your show is real good. I love your topic. You all do your Research Real good. Host i appreciate that, gene. Thats the time that we have got. Well take you over to the house for a very quick pro forma session. We will see you again tomorrow morning at 7 a. M. Eastern here on the washington journal. Thanks for watching. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2024] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy visit ncicap. Org] the speaker pro tempore the house will beed in order. The chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. The clerk the speakers rooms washington, d. C. , march 1, 2024, i here by appoint adrian smith to act as speaker pro tempore this day signed mike johnson, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore the prayer will be offered by chaplain kibben. Chaplain kibben would you pray with you, god by all things created,
Thank you everybody for your parks with us and welcome adrian smith with Stephanie Lester of gaap i inc. Thank you for stickg with us for the closing session of the 2024 Washington International trade conference. Were delighted to welcome our final speaker on stage hes a good friend of all of us in the trade and weighs and mean Sub Committee adrian smith of nebraskas third Congressional District which im told is about 65,000 square miles it is one of the largest nonat large districtss in the country bigger thane 26 states if my math is correct. Thank you so much adrian for joining us and stephanie the Vice President of board of directors thank you for joining us as well. Thank you thrilled to be here with you chairman smith. A little bit more about you a little fun facts i its not only large geographically but your district is the number one agriculture producing district by market value right . Right. Few otherg things too. In agriculture well, youre a big nebraska volleyball fan. Tha
Thank you. Im going to give you the last word. Thank you all for joining, and thank you for having us. Thank you all very much. Next, a discussion about congressional efforts on trade policy, enforcement, and access to global markets. Republican representative Adrian Smith Nebraska and the Vice President of gap inc. Took part in the discussion. Smith criticizes the Biden Administration for not doing enough on trade. Thank you, everybody, for your patience with us. I would like to welcome to the stage congressman adrian smith with Stephanie Lester gap think of gap inc. Thank you for sticking with us for the closing session of the 2024 Washington International trade conference. We are delighted to welcome our final speaker on stage. Hes a good friend of the trade community, the chairman of the house ways and Means Committee and subcommittee, adrian smith of nebraskas third congressional district, which im told is 65,000 square miles, one of the largest nonatlarge districts in the country