Leaders are not allowing lengthy debate. Later this week theyll take up a bill funding defense related programs, also for energy, water, legislative branch, v. A. , military construction. Votes later. Live coverage now here on cspan. The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. Lord our god, thank you for giving us another day. As they are returning to the capitol, please be with the members of this peoples house and all their undertakings today. You know them through and through. You know how they relate with one another and know them as the American People do as the 115th congress of the United States. Lord, help them to know you. As ultimate truth, send your spirit upon them that you might find a dwelling place among them so that all your people can place trust in them as leaders as well as their representatives. May all that is done this day be amen. Ur greater glory the speaker pro tempo
Right based on the authority of your holy inspired word. I especially pray for the many representatives who are your true children by faith in jesus christ. Grant them your favor and blessing and raise them up. Give them supernatural strength for the work they do. Give them great wisdom for the decisions they make and the direction in which they lead this nation. God, purify their motives, protect them from pride, help them bowless they break. Make they never forget your promise, he who honors them, i will honor. In jesus name, the only name by which we have access to heaven i pray, amen. The speaker the chair has examined the journal of the last days proceedings and announces to the house his approval thereof. Pursuant to clause 1 of rule 1, the journal stands approved. The pledge of allegiance will be led by the gentlewoman from washington, ms. Delbene. Ms. Delbene i pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation unde
The heads of the washington met met metropoliton authority were having a meeting and taking questions on plans to accelerate maintenance and projects over the next year. Welcome, everybody. Today we will discuss how the washington metro system is going to address the safety and reliability issues. The issue is important to all members because when we have people coming in we want to make sure when they come to see the nations capitol they should be able to move around the region safely and efficiently. The federal government has invested billions in the metro but it is not safe or reliable. The committee is going to be watching to make sure the talk turns into actions. The fta is playing an Important Role at metros temporary oversight entity. The fta is here to share what they will to promote safety and liability. Wmata has to be held accountable to the federal, state and local taxpayers that are funding them. I look forward to a frank discussion. I am yield to Congress Woman comstock.
If you missed any of Donald Trumps speech you can watch it online at cspan. Org. Hillary clinton also spoke yesterday and you will find her remarks also online. Today, they never two of the Democratic National convention and the theme is fortyfour children and families. Latino speaker, former clintonville clinton will speak today. The convention speaking Program Starts at 4 30 p. M. And you can watch on cspan, this non cspan radio app and get video on demand at cspan. Org. The cspan bus. Dot started pennsylvania to ask about this weeks Democratic Convention in the issues most important in the president ial campaign. The most important issue to me facing our country today is gun control because to me people that should not have access to guns have access to guns and that makes me feel unsafe. Im a state senator here in pennsylvania. I am at my eight convention because i am a huge history buff and i love to come and be part of history and witness what goes on. I am representing my distri
I am honored that brian from nevada will serve as our vice chair. We will make quite a team working together. Brian and i are committed to making sure the role of the nga is recognized as we embark on a new administration coming in we want to make sure the governor is at the forefront and the new president elect to talk about the issues of join concern among all of us. I plan to move the National Governors Association Forward through my initiative which is meet the threat states confront the cyber challenge. It is important for all of us. This initiative will highlight an issue i have been focused on since first day as governor cybersecurity. In addition to providing states the cairo sources they need to meet the threat. We know firsthand that i hit this issue as soon as i took over as governor of the commonwealth of virginia. Just an example, since january 1st, virginia has had 53 million Cyber Attacks. That is a cyber attack every four seconds and 300,000 Cyber Attacks a day. We succ