Dr. Schaffner we will have to end it now. We will take it to the floor now. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc. , in cooperation with the United States house of representatives. Any use of the closedcaptioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u. S. House of representatives. ] 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 room, ashington, d. C. , march 27, 2020. I hereby appoint the honorable anthony g. Brown to act as day. Ker pro tempore on this signed, nancy pelosi, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore the will be offered by the guest chaplain, reverend dr. Dan capitol worship, washington, d. C. Me. Chaplain come pray with heavenly father, this morning, humblee to remember your servant, 91yearold holocaust rabbi kahn who lost his this week and just two dais ago at
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I welcome everyone to the subcommittee meeting today to hear testimony in iraq. Your witness appearing today, before recognizing myself for the purpose of making up statement i would like to take the opportunity to recognize and thank the members of our committee who served in iraq for your service and your interest today will be invaluable. Your input. I will now make statement and then turn it over to ricky member news we can make an opening statement. Also, before beginning my time, i like to take a moment to news express my condolences to the soldiers killed in pensacola on friday. Three soldiers will dedicated to our country. They were taken far is it too soon. We want answers about the shooter and how the septet happened. The president was quick to share condolences. And certainly at this. , the president and all of us must require the kingdom, and transparent cooperation with the United States in this issue so we can understand what happened. Identify any problems of the vetting
Rematch with Anthony Joshua reclaimed his heavyweight title belts with the points win over ruiz and saudi arabia. Just a little after 11 pm in hong kong where protest leaders say 100000 people have marched through the city in a show of anger and frustration they are demanding from their leaders greater democratic freedoms and human rights this march the culmination of 6 months of widespread protests now police did approve sundays event but they warned they wouldnt tolerate a repeat of recent violent demonstrations in fact just before the march began Police Despite the handgun and some ammunition they said were recovered during a raid they said those weapons would have been used to create chaos during the march lets go to adrian brown in hong kong for us as we say adrian getting into the later hour was a lot of people have gone home but goodness me a lot were out on the streets today as well. What we got today was a flavor a reminder of what this protest movement was like when it began