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. October 31, 2019. I hereby appoint the honorable paul tonko 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. Haplain conroy let us pray. Dear god, we give you thanks for giving us another day. We ask your special blessing upon the members of this peoples house. They face difficult decisions in difficult times with many forces and interests demanding their attention. Give them again rossity to enter into their work generosity to enter into their work. May they serve you in the work they do as you deserve. Give of themselves and not count the cost, fight for what is best for our nation and not count the political wounds. Toil until their work is done d not seek to rest and labor without
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From Stewart Frankel welcome, steve thank you are we going to end the sixday win streak here . If we did would it be a shock . And its still plenty of time for us to turn around, turn green. We bounced about 6 off the lows but we are not overbought. So to your point, i dont think that we necessarily have toned today but its a good stop to say lets take a breather, were still above all the moving averages in the overall market about 10 handles lower in the s p cash but i still think were on good footing. Is 2900 a tough footh for the s p . It is because its a big fat round number so i think the 2954, the alltime highs, thats the tough number you have to worry about, not the 2900 lets focus in on the big stories we are watching. Bob pisani has whats driving todays market which of course has been up and down ylan mui is watching a tech antitrust hearing on capitol hill and phil lebeau is covering teslas Shareholders Meeting bob, lets start with you. Lets take a look whats going on its ver
people how open technological innovation is arming tomorrow s terrorists. this event will be rebroadcast on c-span and will be available on our web site. today s discussion will focus on some of the contours of terrorism in terms of the direction is taking taken in the procurement of use of 21st century weaponry from ai to smartphones to sophisticated uses and distribution of older weapons including nuclear weapons. we look at what changes have occurred and what vulnerabilities still new to be addressed and in what ways. all of this begins the backdrop of continuing new developments in terra strategies inability to procure nuclear technologies. we have the task ahead of us in this next hour but we have just the panel to do this but are distinguished panels include author of the book audrey kurth cronin the founding director of the center for security innovation and technology at american university. in 2007 from 2011 doctors grown and was back as director and director on war
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