the speaker: the house will be in order. the prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. chaplain conroy: let us pray. heavenly father, thank you for giving us another day. we thank you for every day you give us to be here at the seat of participative government. breast the work of all the men and women who represent the people of the united states. fill them with wisdom and good will that they might better work together for the benefit of our nation. bless all the leaders of all the branches of our government at the end of a difficult week when the divisions in our polity and our faith have been on open display for all the world to see. father, forgive us and send us your spirit that we might indeed heal the divisions and learn to love those with whom we disagree even our enemies. may all that is done this day be for your greater honor and glory, amen. the speaker: the chair has examined the journal of the last day s proceedings and announces to the house her ppro
our deb. well, i know them. [cheers and applause] they followed me around a little bit, right, they are incredible. they are incredible. how many of you come how many rallies this isn t a rally, this is a serious deal. how many rallies would you say? a lot. [laughter] we have a lot of fun, thank you very much. mark meadows, everybody. mark. [cheers and applause] great guy, a man who is without question the greatest name in politics. i said if i had his name i would have been president at least 10 years sooner. patrick mchenry. [cheers and applause] right? best name in politics. a woman who is much tougher than any of these people, she doesn t stop, right? she doesn t stop, we love her, virginia foxx. [cheers and applause] a very popular guy who wins elections by a lot, he s a tremendous asset to congress and tremendous friend, ralph norman. ralph, thank you, ralph. we call him landslide ralph. he wins by a lot. william timmons, william, thank you. great job. [ap
begin legislative work that will take up a number of measures today dealing with medicaid block grants, labor union rights, and disaster relief for puerto rico following the earthquakes. they ll also debate on a resolution today wrought up by texas republican kay granger disapproving of the house speaker nancy pelosi s behavior of ripping up the official copy of president trump s remarks during tuesday s state of the union. live house coverage is here on c-span. the speaker pro tempore: the house will be in order. today s prayer will be offered by our guest chaplain, monsignor kevin sullivan of the chagget lick charities of the archdiocese of new york. new york, new york. dear god, perhaps our traditions weary and tire you but to your children who do we turn for guidance, strength and a god, let s make a deal. f you hear our pair, we ll s heed your wisdom or at least try to. in the midst of dark enlighten us. in the midst of discord, mend us. when we swagger with self-right
speculation he may use it to criticize democrats who have had a chaotic start to their process to select a presidential candidate for november s election it s taken almost 24 hours for partial results to emerge from that 1st contest of the iowa caucus now president trump has called it an unmitigated disaster now with 62 percent of those votes counted pete is marginally ahead of bernie sanders elizabeth warren is that while former vice president joe biden is trailing in 4th place the democratic party has apologized for that long delay in announcing those results calling it unacceptable its claim to technical glitch but says the numbers are accurate and we are still waiting for those final results but both footage and cylinders are already claiming victory well let s now go back to our white house correspondent candy how good he is at capitol hill for us this evening kimberly i know president trump is unpredictable at the best of times but all we re expecting him tonight to men
[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] madam speaker, the president of the united states. [applause] [applause] [applause] [applause] [applause] [cheering] [applause] [cheering] is members of congress, the president of the united states. [applause] [cheering] [cheering] thank you very much. madam speaker, mr. vice president, members of congress, the first lady of the united states. [applause] [cheering] and my fellow citizens, three years ago we launched the greatest american comeback. tonight i stand before you to share the incredible results, jobs are booming, incomes are soaring, poverty is plummeting, crime is falling, confidence is surging and our country is thriving and highly respected again. [applause] [cheering] america s enemies are on the run. america s fortunes are on the rise, and america s future is blazing bright. the years of economic decay are over. [applause] t