Coverage right here on cspan. 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 room, 24, ngton, d. C. , september 2020. I hereby appoint the honorable cuellar to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Ofned, nancy pelosi, speaker the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore order of thehe house of january 7, 2020, 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 each n the parties and member other than the majority and minority leaders and minority whip limited to five minutes. But in no event shall debate continue beyond 10 50 a. M. Chair now recognizes the gentleman from south carolina, mr. Cunningham, for five minutes. Mr. Cunningham thank you, mr. Speaker. Rise today to honor the life of amare. Amare was only 16 years young wis
Of its independence. In 2019, the Washington Post published a part of the secret documents on the us presence in afghanistan. The documents were known as the afghanistan papers. A curious journalist at the Washington Post. Craig. Whitlock, a person who had been investigating afghanistan for a while and had been gathering documents. He published several thousand pages of documents, including interviews with scores of us generals and diplomats on security issues, but how did whitlock manage to do that . 2,00 pages of documents of of interviews that had been kept under wraps for number of years in which people who were in charge of the war admitted that. Uh the strategy was a mess, that they misled the american public. This important event happened after he got to know special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction segar, an organization that was established by the us congress in 2008 to inspect the reconstruction in afghanistan. General john sapco is the head and special inspec
In terms of capability, theres going to be no circumstance where you see people being lifted off the roof of a embassy in the of the United States from afghanistan, getting out of the us embassy in afghanistan from the rooftop, what does that exactly mean . August 13th, 2021, the us embassy in coble, transferring us staff and officials with helicopter. The fall of cobble was like the incident that happened 46 years ago in the us embassy in vietnam, the incident that was known as the fall of cygon uh, what do you make of this compare . Between whats happening in cable and saigon in 1975, i mean you put them side by side, there it does appear to be a just comparison, but there was a difference, as us President Joe Biden says, fortunately, during the incidents in kabul, unlike what happened in simon, no one got into a helicopter from the rooftop of the embassy, before the exit, all of the documents were burnt. Untold stories are usually more important than those that have been revealed, i
Please put your phones on silent. Back in the day we used to tell them to turn them off but we want them on silent because would like you if you would be so inclined to live tweet this event. Is pound and pc life. We can follow that online. We would also like to take a moment while you are silencing your phone in turning off other potentially distracting devices to introduce our head table. Would like you to hold your applause until after the full head table is introduced and then you can erupt in a rapturous applause. We have starting from my left and youre right, mark heller. Hes an agricultural reporter. Paul marion, senior white house correspondent. Tamara harlingen at the atlanta journalconstitution. Sean rich, deputy commuter for secretary pretty. Philip, senior editor. Steven, deputy secretary of agriculture. Thats the number two for sonny perdue. We have betsy martin, executive and American University cochair. Skipping over our speaker for a moment, we have abby livingston, Was
The vote for the republican candidate and just over 40 for the democratic candidate. We are live in birmingham alabama where the headquarters are tonight and will have a speech coming up later this evening. The population area around tuscaloosa and Montgomery Alabama and we are live in the headquarters in Montgomery Alabama. What you are looking at right now though the headquarters in the room to listen for just a moment. [inaudible conversations] thank you very much. [inaudible conversations] [applause] [cheering] it will still be a little while you will watch the numbers as decline. With live coverage on cspan2 we will have the speeches when they come to the podium. 52 republicans and 48 democrats. The republicans are losing one seat and again our live camera in Montgomery Alabama and the headquarters and birmingham alabama. Want to go to the New York Times website to get a better sense of the votes remaining. According to the New York Times they estimate 775,000 votes yet to be coun