A des prit need for blood donations as coronavirus patients crowd hospitals. I thought it was terrible what he did. To write a letter . This isnt a literature. A naval captain and bay area native fired for speaking out about the safety of his crew. Did he did anything wrong . The calls for an investigation. High School Seniors across the country having to make a big life decision without ever leaving their homes. What universities are offering as they cancel campus tours. Stooint more than 3,300 cases have been confirmed in the bay area with more than 1,000 of those in santa clara county. 87 people have died from the virus in the area. Good afternoon newsom calling for more to be done when it comes to testing. Let me acknowledge on the outset, the testing space has been a challenging one for us. And i own that, and i have a responsibility as your governor to do better and to do more testing in the state of california. Across california more than 126,000 people have been tested for covi
And in one u. S. Territory join us at 7 00 tonight on cspan. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2020] 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 rooms, washington, d. C. , march 3, 2020. I hereby appoint the honorable john a. Yarmuth to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, nancy pelosi, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore please be seated. Pursuant to thed orer of the house of january 7, 2020, the chair will now remember recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour detpwhafmente chair will alternate recognition between the parties with time equally allocated between the parties and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and minority w
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Senators. Republicans now pushing a 618 billion stimulus package, thats about a third of the size of bidens proposal and with this pretty big gap the question is, how are they going to narrow it . It was a very Good Exchange of views. I wouldnt say that we came together on a package tonight, no one expected that in a twohour meeting. But what we did agree to do is to follow up and talk further at the staff level and amongst ourselves and with the and while a number of republicans have stayed quiet on the controversy surrounding congresswoman Marjorie Taylor greene, last night the most powerful republican in the senate broke his silence in a very big way. Late last night Mitch Mcconnell released his statement writing this, loony lies and Conspiracy Theories are cancer for the Republican Party and our country. These words, a sharp contrast to the Statement Mcconnell released this morning defending House Chairwoman liz cheney who has come under fire for voting to impeach trump. Mcconnell
Wisconsin, the house is coming in. Thank you so much. 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 rooms, washington, d. C. January 16, 2020. 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 the prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. Gracious and merciful god, we give you thanks for giving us another day. The house prepares to recess for a week of constituent visitation and in home districts. As the nation anticipates the Martin Luther king long weekend. As we remember the heroic struggle of the civil rights movement, the badges and incidents of slavery from continued through policies still operative today, though recently being addressed through efforts at criminal Justice Reform and sentencing reform. The pains of racism,