Court panel on monday and will bejoined by Court Panel on monday and will be joined by creators who make their living on the platform. Department ofjustice lawyers will follow with the governments view. All the parties in the case have asked for a ruling by mid december, that would give the Us Supreme Court the opportunity to take the case up before any potential band could take effect. Joining me now is grace nelson, analyst at assembly research. Grace, welcome to the programme. Just tell us more about what will happen today. Sure. Today we are expected to see two different versions of a case by out about the law at the centre of this disagreement. The us government will be for the first time she giving us a look into those national security concerns under which they are proposing to ban tiktok or the divestments of bytedance from the app. However, from their perspective, we will see them try their case on the grounds of First Amendment or free speech protections alleging that the us
On the welcome to the program democratic candidate joe biden has won the u. S. President ial election after sealing victory in the battleground state of pennsylvania of the 99 percent of votes counted and Sylvania Biden won 49. 7 percent and trump won 49. 2 the 20 electoral votes biden takes home in the state allowed him to surpass the 270 needed to win the election according to projections by the Associated Press he also picked up 6 and nevada giving him a total of 290. 00 electoral votes to republican president Donald Trumps 214. 00. Democratic supporters across the country have been reacting to the news of president elect by success from philadelphia to black lives matter plaza in washington to New York Times square people didnt want to hide their relief and excitement lets take a look at those reactions. To me me every time my mother is a disabled woman who goes directly to medicaid and medicare and said no a day. Out and you can no longer mess with those programs is the thing we w
For one minute. The speaker pro tempore without objection, the gentleman may proceed. Mr. Hoyer thank you, mr. Speaker. Last week, mr. Speaker, i shared with the house that my office has launched a website where americans could learn about the George Floyd Justice in policing act. Weigh in with their opinion on the bill, and list themselves as citizen cosponsors. If they support it. Thousands of americans, mr. Speaker, have become citizen cosponsors. Many have also shared their own stories and called for Senate Action on this bill. Sadly, Senate Republicans refused to do anything to address the crisis of systemic racism in our country. More than a month has passed and ey have taken no action, nor on their own bills. The George Floyd Justice in policing act. Thats an irresponsible abdication of its duty to address the challenges facing our country. Today, mr. Speaker, i will begin submitting the names of more than 7,000 George Floyd Justice in policing act into the congressional citizen
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 rooms, washington, d. C. July 31, 2020. I hereby appoint the honorable Dianne Degette to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, nancy pelosi, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore the prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. Loving god, thank you for giving us another day. We turn to you, much as the psalmist did of old. Though we walk in the midst of dangers, you guard our lives with when our enemies rage. You stretch out your hand, your right hand saves us. And again we are surrounded by enemies who are like lions hungry for human flesh. Show your greatness in the sky, o god, and your glory over all the earth. And yet again look, your enemies are in an uproar and those who hate you have raised their head against your people. They devise deceptive schemes and lot toget
Distinguished professor of history at North Carolina university. Hes the author of six bucks, editor of four. Others his latest book in the reason that we are here this evening is ulysses s. Grant, the buck will be available for sale and signing outside of the conference room. Hes the founder and society of the his story guilt in this era, hes held several research grants, we are thrilled to have him here tonight, and of the year all in for a great presentation. Thank you on behalf of the smithsonian for joining us. We welcome you to the stage. Good evening. Thank you very much elizabeth for that introduction. As all of this with said, i have spoken here, before my wife and i have attended many all the events here. I find a lot of these audiences are intelligent, curious, enthusiastic, and have Attention Spans of more than 140 characters. Speaking of technology this is actually the first presentation ive given with powerpoint, i know what shocked you but it happens to be true. So any g