There was a moment of silence for donald payne, jr. Who died recently and who served on the committee. The committee on Homeland Security will come to order, without objection the chair may declare the committee in recess at any point. Before we have the hearing, id like to take a moment to recognize the loss of our dear friend on this committee, Congress Donald payne, jr. And his legacy, along with his fathers legacy will serve as a reminder to us all what it means to be a true public servant. I really appreciated the time that i got to work with congressman payne on the Colorectal Cancer caucus. He was a fierce fighter against that disease. I now recognize for a moment the Ranking Member, Ranking Member thompson to honor the life and legacy of representative payne. Thank you so much, mr. Chairman. This morning, we remember the life of congressman donald m. Payne, jr. Our colleague and friend. He was a union worker, a toll collector, he literally kept the buses of excess county, new j
Major investis in our countrys history by the u. S. House and senate. Each week, writers and historians tell the stories and see historic footage from the periods and examine the impacts of key congressional hearings. This week we look at the investigation that followed the deadly 1993 siege at the Branch Davidian compound near waco, texas and what its meant in the years that followed. Watch congress investigates, 7 p. M. Eastern on saturdays, cspan2. Up next, state and local Law Enforcement officials talk about the challenges facing their local agencies. Some of the topics covered include gun violence, Work Force Recruitment and retention and the ongoing fentanyl crisis and shared by congressman mark greene. At the start of the hearing there was a moment of silence for donald payne, jr. Who died recently and who served on the committee. The committee on Homeland Security will come to order, without objection the chair may declare the committee in recess at any point. Before we have th
November 30th, 24,000. 25,000 this week, well, we are very close. The latest gains are all about tax cuts, the house votes today, it will be a yes. The senate votes later today or tomorrow, yes, looks almost certain. The president could sign it into law on or before christmas eve. Yes, this has been a remarkable story. Weve had a frontrow seat to financial history. What a ride . Get ready for another big day, we are running right at 25,000 and Varney Company is about to begin. We are moments away, literally from white House Homeland Security adviser tom bosset holding a briefing. He is going to publicly blame north korea for the wanna cry cyberattack that crippled Computer Systems around the world. We are going to watch this to see if calls it act of war, important, ashley. Ashley very important. This virus that link back to north korea went out on may 12th, computer worm with ransom ware. More than 200,000 and ep crypted the encrypted the data and the ransom part, you pay us money and
Thursday to vote on this Senate Budget version, you heard morning, earlier this talk about it, if that gets passed, it paves way to efforts tax reform on house and senate side. With that in mind, lets go to the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. , clerk the speakers room washington, d. C. , october 25, 2017. I hereby appoint the honorable scott perry to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, paul d. Ryan, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the house of january 3, 2017, 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. All time shall be equally allocated between the parties and in no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. Each member other than the majority and minority leaders and t