Understand the unfolding of your providence, we place our trust n you. Show our lawmakers the path they should choose, rescue them from the traps of their enemies, and remove their fears with your might. Continue to renew their strengt. Protect our legislatures with your might, reassure them with your presenc, and comfort them with your goodness. Lord of heavens army, we give our lives to you, for no one who depends on your compassion will ultimately fail. We pray in your merciful name. Amen. The presiding officer please join me in reciting the pledge f allegiance to our flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. The presiding officer the clerk will read a communication to the senate. The clerk washington, d. C. , october 25, 2023. To the senate under the provisions of rule 1, paragraph 3, of the standing rules of the senate, i hereby appoint the hon
Country. Host the process starts. We take you to the house of representatives. The prayer will be offered by guest chaplain, reverend Jeremy Leganski from Immaculate Conception church, elmhurst, illinois. The chaplain let us pray. Good and gracious god, we praise you, we love you, and we thank you for this day. Draw near to these members of congress. Remind them of their calling to serve the true common good. Help them to be instruments of unity, peace, and reconciliation in our country and throughout the world. Bless them, guide them, and fill them with an abundance of your grace. May they decide everything for the wellbeing of all, and may they never turn aside from your will. May all that they do begin from you and by you be brought to completion. In your name we pray. Amen. The speaker pro tempore the chair has examined the journal of the last days proceedings and announces to the house the approval thereof. Pursuant to clause 1 of rule 1, the journal stands approved. The the pledg
So hes been representing the louisiana Congressional District now since 2016. Hes in the leadership, but hes not too high in the leadership. So hes the vice chair of the House Republican conference. Heres the other big thing. He served on trumps first Senate Impeachment trial defense team. Hes a defender of donald trump, and we can see that in his efforts to overturn the 2020 election, so what we see is that johnson, in fact, had drafted the house gop legal brief supporting the texas suit. And he objected to Certifying The 2020 Election Results. Now perhaps theres some interesting sort of back and forth. Perhaps some republicans want to forget about it. Lets look back and compare it to now. We have a solemn responsibility today, we must vote to sustain objections to states of electors smutted by states that we genuinely believe clearly violated the constitution and the president ial election of 2020. This is the threshold before us, and its an issue before us for the state of arizona.
Margaret goes straight to look at the money. The market is coming back nicely we were down to a point on the dow industrial, never down 50, the nasdaq is the 34point modest losses in the early morning, the ten year treasury about 5 this morning now its come all the way down to 4. 93 , substantial reduction in the yield right there. Maybe that is helping the market, the price of oil coming down 1 lower 87 a barrel. Surprise of the morning, bitcoin 30600 per coin, ryan payne to look at the market in light of the word developing situation. We are down a little bit the lefthand side of the screen, where do stocks go from here. I think they will go up from here, there is a famous saying from Benjamin Grant in the short term the stock market is a voting machine and in the long term away machine. It is a weighted machine we have unrest going on in the middle east and we dont know how that will pan out. Stuart somebody negative 5 treasury, 8 mortgage, wider war in the middle east do you still
The next order of business is the election of speaker of the house of representatives for the 118th congress. Nominations are now in order. The chair now recognizes the gentlewoman from new york, ms. Stefanik. Ms. Stefanik mr. Speaker pro temp mr. Speaker pro temp, madam clerk, colleagues, i rise today to nominate the gentleman from ohio, jim jordan, as speaker of the peoples house. We are at a time of great crisis across america. A time of historic challenges in this very chamber. And a time when heinous acts of terror and evil have been committed against our great ally, israel. As this body convenes for the sacred responsibility to elect the next speaker of the peoples house, i am reminded of the book of esther. For such a time is this. Jim jordan will be americas speaker for such a time as this. A time when hardworking American Families are struggling under the vice of inflation. Not able to afford groceries, heat or gas because of the trillions and trillions of dollars of reckless