Received by a president ial ticket in american history. Its task, of course, will be daunting. The darkest days of the covid19 pandemic are unfortunately ahead of us. More than 100,000 americans have been diagnosed with covid a day in more than 1000 americans are dying. Soon, thankfully we will have an administration actually acknowledges the healthcare crisis and an administration that takes its job seriously that will listen to the council scientists and doctors and work to improve the lives of all americans regardless of who they voted for. Already the Incoming Administration is preparing to hit the ground running and yesterday the president elect announced his covid19 task force in a group of the nations Top Public Health experts and scientists who advised the Incoming Administration on policy. Todays Senate Democrats will receive a briefing from one of president elect bidens scientific advisors former surgeon general. They expect will be the first of many conversations about how t
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. August 22, 2020. I hereby appoint the honorable brenda l. Lawrence 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. God of us all, thank you for giving us another day. Bless the members of the peoples house gathered here at the capitol for an extraordinary session in extraordinary times. Inspire them with wisdom as they hope to address the needs of our nation in such a difficult period of our shared history. Continue to bless those who labor to attend to the sick among our citizens and those also who strive to find effective treatments and vaccines. Keep us all safe in your divine mercy. May all that is done this day be for your greater honor and glory. Ame
The National Defense authorization bill today for 2021. There there are a number of amendment votes scheduled for this afternoon. Live Senate Coverage here on cspan2. The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Black, will lead the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Eternal spirit, grant to this nation, and to all people, a social conscience built on the vision of the ancient prophets who saw sufficiency for every person and a time when anxiety would overcome chaos and hopelessness. Hasten the day when the small and weak can make their contributions alongside the great and powerful. Lead us to the day when we will see peace among the nations of the earth, when swords shall be beaten into plowshares. Use the members of this body to bring us to the time when your will is done on earth even as it is dob in heaven. Lord, we trust you with our future. Let your glory cover the earth as the waters cover the sea. We pray in your mighty name. Amen. The pr
Im back. Great to be back. Back in the stacks with the books. Yes, yeah the Library Stacks are nice i wanted to show everybody where things are headed on this monday morning. Is it always up . I guess maybe it opens it feels like that i was told not to invoke his name when i mentioned him the other week he says everything goes up and it all seemed so crazy dow about 160 points nasdaq looking to open about 69 points higher in the s p 500 looking to open about 16 points higher treasury yields right now, lets do it. Lets show you the ten year note as we speak youre looking right now at the ten year at. 636. Melissa has news happening overnight. News out of china overnight beijing announcing sanctions and a spokesperson and the move comes after a top member of chinas Ruling Communist Party and three other officials over human rights a b abuses. Bo well ask senator rubio about this when he joins us live at 8 00 a. M. Eastern time on squawk box. Separately the u. S. Asked its citizens to be
Toward the post racial era i think if you look historically at the Mainstream Media and other things that have happened they havent reacted this way and it makes you wonder just why are they giving this so much coverage in a way that if they are its the angle of the coverage and i think like many i believe that it may have a lot to do with elections and the political narrative right now and thats incredibly wrong turning the center something where were allowing people especially these extreme leftists to come in and start fires i think were actually feeding into a much darker narrative its not about this mans death and thats unfortunate its a battle actions while many are deeply concerned about the killing of an innocent man it seems that powerful forces are not afraid to push their own political agenda it will come up and artsy new york. Earlier on saturday a former new orleans mayor blamed for an actors for the riots while appearing on c. N. N. We need to understand and we need to kn