Commitment to bring you live gaveltogavel house coverage. You can continue watching this event from the Heritage Foundation online at cspan. Org. Right now, to the u. S. House. 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 13, 2020. I hereby appoint the honorable henry c. Johnson jr. To act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, nancy pelosi, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the house of january 7, 2020, the chair will now recognize members fromliesed submitted by the from theliesed submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. The 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 whip limited to five minutes. But in no event shall debate continue bey
Noticed, but judging by the turnout perhaps you did. Outset, i wanted to say a couple words about the election in taiwan on saturday, just a couple, and then turned over turn it over to our Panel Speakers to offer insight. First, i think that the election says more about taiwan then it says about anything else. That only highlight because i think we all are immediately moving to what it means for china. For all practical purposes, taiwan is not a part of china. Why do we move immediately to talk about what this means for china . What it means most is that taiwan values the same things the rest of the free world values. It has conducted its seventh residential election president ial election. It is getting to be such a normal thing that it barely even merits congratulations anymore. We have an election every four years, every two years. The world does not congratulate us on having made this achievement. It has become commonplace in taiwan. It has become commonplace because they value th