Morning, your take on day two of the Government Shutdown. 202 7370001, 202 7370002, and independence 202 6280205. 12 can email us at journal cspan. Org. Phone is davidhe hawking, Senior Editor with roll call. What will happen today . What is the latest . I do not think we know too much about what will happen today except almost certainly what happens today, whatever , we think the piecemeal bill we will have today is opening the National Institute of health. There were reports yesterday that some young all in a Clinical Trial at nih for cancer treatment, that the trial had to stop and the kids did not get their treatment. What through social media and capital. Almost certainly that will face the same fate as the bills that moved yesterday, which would have involved allowing the District Of Columbia to locally. Aise money to stay open the National Parks and Veterans Administration to keep going. All of those got republican votes, but that was not enough to pass the bill under the two th
Speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, john a. Boehner, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the house of january 3, 2013, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties with each party limited to one hour and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and the minority whip imited to five minutes, but in no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. The chair recognizes the gentleman from oregon, mr. Lumenauer, for five minutes. Mr. Blumenauer thank you, mr. Speaker. Since 2006 when i introduced the legislation that game the Iraqi Special immigrant visa, ive been haunted by the prospect of the brave iraqi and afghan nationals that risked their lives to help american efforts in these troubled countries that they themselves would be victims because of their trust in us. As my friend, kirk
This afternoon. A federal Appeals Court rejected the Trump Campaign latest effort to stop the state from certifying the election for president elect joe biden. The casee had been argued last week in a lower court by the president s attorney. Rudy giuliani who claims widespread voter fraud in pennsylvania. But the Third Circuit court of appeals will today the campaigns claims have no merit. The number of ballots specifically challenges is far nmaller than 81,000 vote margin of victory and it never claimed fraud or that any votes were cast by illegal voters. In a response the member of the legal team, the activist continues to cover up the allegations of massive fraud. On to the Supreme Court. But the three judges on the panel all appointed by republican president and Georgetown University law professor Jonathan Turley noted otthe judge who wrote the opinin is a trump appointee. The district judges a federal Society Member and this type of language is reckless and wrong. It will be very
Of joe biden as the 46th president of the United States. Tonight as we move ever closer to a second Covid Vaccine we are also on the threshold of a sad new milestone. Almost 17 million confirmed coronavirus cases in our country. Sadly, over just the past 24 hours, weve lost another 3200 people, roughly one death now every 27 seconds in america. The onslaught of the virus has hospitals in this nation under siege as coronavirus admissions are reaching new record levels. Consider this. Exactly six months ago today in an oped piece for the wall street journal, do you remember . Vice president mike pence downplayed what was then the summer surge as we referred to it back when medical experts were warning everyone of the risks of not getting the virus under control. Heres what pence wrote back then, and we quote. The media has tried to scare the American People every step of the way, and these grim predictions of a second wave are no different. The truth is whatever the media says our whole
Sadly, over just these past 24 hours, weve lost another 3,200 people, roughly one death now every 27 seconds in america. The onslaught of the virus has hospitals in this nation under siege as coronavirus admissions are reaching new record levels. Consider this. Exactly six months ago today in an oped piece for the wall street journal, do you remember . Vice president mike pence downplayed what was then the summer surge as we referred to it back when medical experts were warning everyone of the risks of not getting the virus under control. Heres what pence wrote back then, and we quote, the media has tried to scare the American People every step of the way, and these grim predictions of a second wave are no different. The truth is, whatever the media says, our whole of america approach has been a success. Weve slowed the spread. Weve cared for the most vulnerable. Weve saved lives. And weve created a Solid Foundation for whatever challenges we may face in the future. Just a reminder, mi