Further legislative session. We now bring you live coverage here 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. November 18, 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 pursuant to the order of 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 redskin nation 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 f
9 12 this morning the soon to be former president tweeted, stop the count i guess nobody listened because half an hour later he retweeted, stop the count why are they still counting . I tweeted stop. He also wrote, stop the fraud, which should have been a note to self. There was so much false propaganda coming out of twitterlers bunker. Any vote that came in after election day will not be counted. The planes going down and all he can do is keep hitting the call button to get the Flight Attendant to bring him another diet coke. By the way, a lot of ballots that come in from election day are from troops serving overseas. The irony of a draft dodger trying to negate those votes is more delicious than the 12 dunk cups of Honey Mustard he dipped his mcnuggets in today. Trumps lead in georgia and pennsylvania is smaller than these little boodles of baby carrots he calls hands. The race being so close in georgia was a big surprise. But pennsylvania, the reason joe biden is strong in pennsylva
Candidate person burden of prbe. Nikki haley trying to sell a softer version of the Republican Party message to suburban women that have been fleeing Donald Trumps column for months. Bernie sanders, talk to the Labor Union Members who maybe are not big fans of the Democratic Party culturally but like bernie and i kind of like trump. Holding a virtual unity town hall tonight. Vice president pence is making a stop in allegheny county, kicking off a busy weekend. And we saw a lot of activity here in pennsylvania in 2016, too. But there is one difference. As the election nears, there are fewer and fewer voters who have not voted yet, since this time, unlike four years ago, all pennsylvania voters can vote by mail or with a bailin ballot. Lauren, with 11 days until election day count on nbc 10 to make sure you have all the information you need to cast your vote. We have a full voting guide on nbc 10. Com. We have a map of mail in ballot drop box locations. Go to nbc 10. Com voterguides. Pol
The presiding officer the senate will come to order. Under the previous order, all postcloture time is expired. On the wiegand nomination. The question now occurs on the nomination. Is there a sufficient second . There appears to be. The clerk will call the roll. Vote vote vote vote the presiding officer are there any senators in the chamber wishing to vote or change their vote . If not, the yeas are 82, the nays are 14. The nomination is confirmed. Under the previous order, the motion to reconsider is considered made and laid upon the table, and the president will be immediately notified of the senates action. The clerk will report the motion to invoke cloture. The clerk cloture motion we, the undersigned senators, in accordance with the provisions of rule 22 of the standing rules of the senate, do hereby move to bring to a close debate on the nomination of thomas t. Cullen of virginia to be United States district judge for the Western District of virginia. Signed by 17 senators. The
Hi im Steve Clements and i have a question is there a way to root out the racism in Americas Police and courts and what would that look like lets get to the bottom line. When george floyd was killed last month it unleashed demands that went far beyond justice for one man some are calling it a battle for americas soul as demands for reform moved from the streets to City Councils to congress and even the white house were fortunate to be speaking with a man at the front of the battle lines our guest today is Keith Ellison the attorney general of minnesota is a man of many firsts the 1st muslim to be elected to congress in 2006 and the 1st black american to be elected to a statewide position in the state of Minnesota Attorney general allison great to be with you today i wanted to ask you your wrist about the court case in which you are now the person responsible for prosecuting those 4 officers that were involved in the case and murdering george floyd what can the public expect by way of t