Representativ any use t csecaptioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercialurposes is expressly prohibited by the u. S. House of representatives. ] the speaker pro tempore on this vote, the yeas are 279, the nays are 137. The bill is passed, without objection, the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. The speaker pro tempore members and staff, will you please take your conversations off the floor. Members and staff will take their conversations off the floor. Thank you very much. The house will be in order. Please take your conversations off the house floor. Thank you. The chair lays before the house the following personal requests. The house will be in order. Please take your conversations off the floor. Thank you. The clerk mr. Honda of california for the afternoon of thursday through friday, february 13. Mr. Pearce of new mexico for today and the balance of the week and mr. Swalwell of california, starting at 1 30 p. M. Today and the balance of the week.
The speaker pro tempore the prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. Almighty god of the universe, we give you thanks for giving us another day. We pray for the gift of wisdom to all with great responsibility in this house, for the leadership of our nation. May all the members have the vision of a nation where respect and understanding are the marks of civility and where honor and integrity are the marks of ones character. As members take time in the coming week for constituency visits, give them the ability to hear the voices of all in their districts, even those with whom they disagree. This is difficult to do so endow them with patience and a discerning ear. Bless us this day and every day and may all that is done within these hallows halls be for your greater honor and glory. Amen. These hallowed halls be for your greater honor and glory, amen. The speaker pro tempore the chair has examined the journal of the last days proceedings and anno
House. And sunday on in depth, our conversation with documentary film maker and writer jon ronson whos written many books including so youve been publicly shame, the men who stare at goats, and the psychopath test a journey through the madness industry. Well be taking your phone calls, email Facebook Comments and tweets. Get the complete schedule at cspan. Org. Sunday night on cspans q a, Washington Post National Security reporter Walter Pinkus on the situation in the middle east and his opinion on the 2003 invasion of iraq. I think one of the things about the Bush Administration and paul wolfowitz, who never claimed to be an expert on the middle east or on iraq, and proved it, and historys proved it is that we look at things from our own point of view and get deceived by it. You can go back to vietnam is a great example of the first time we sort of did it openly, but we have a history of trying to think other people are like us or want our standards, and the world is different. And pa
Okay. You projected what you thought might be the most likely Coalition Government which could come in 2024. But i didnt understand clearly who the participants were. There are essentially four players in the political space at the moment. Theres the African National congress which has about 40 of the vote of potential vote, 60 of the actual vote. Theyre player number one. The Second Player is the largely liberal or classically liberal these things arent always clear opposition in south africa. And theyre sitting at about lets talk about the actual vote anc has about 60 liberal opposition sitting around 25 or so. And the marxist left is sitting at about 7 and a few other rats and mice parties. The likely coalition for me is that the anc loses its absolute majority, so it loses another 10 or 11 Percentage Points moves to just below 50. That is attrition both from the marxist left and from the liberal right of the party. If through that process of attrition the young marxists can gather
The U.S. Senate has approved an amendment upholding the 1,500-hour flight training rule for co-pilots that was initially approved in the wake of the 2009 crash of Colgan Flight 3407