making sure that our families are taken care of. making sure that the families in our communities are taken care of. and what we ve seen in this chamber is tough. it s tough to watch. it s tough to imagine what would happen in this chamber today if we were debating social security and medicare. what would happen? what would the votes be? where would people stand? that s why it s important that hakeem jeffries leads this body. on behalf of the democratic caucus, i am nominating the leader of the governing party in this chamber, hakeem jeffries from new york. [ cheers and applause ] for what purpose does the gentlewoman from florida rise? madam speaker, i would like to rise to nominate byron donalds for speaker of the house. the gentlewoman is recognized. i ve known byron for roughly about four years now. and being that he s from the state of florida i can tell you that i ve come to know him on both the campaign trail and personally. but i want to clarify something real
meaning they don t have 218 votes to adjourn. so that s why this is continuing to go on and on and on. now, behind the scenes there are negotiations that are happening. and that is really what could be key here. because if they make progress on those negotiations, significant progress, actually shake hands, come to some sort of of tentative agreement, that could change the dynamic tonight. and i am told from a source that is directly involved in these talks that their hope is to get that deal tonight. that is the push, to get that aspect of the deal done. that includes a number of rules changes, many of the things we have been reporting including giving them more leverage over the speakership, giving them more power over the house rules committee and the like. as long as they get those hammered out, they believe at that point they can get the vote agreement to adjourn the chamber because some republicans may come along the lines and adjourn the dham behr. this is the other complicating
they were there? as ron mentioned everyone s trained and the first thing you want to do is to try to get out of the coal mine. as a last resort you go into a dham behr. i don t know what would go through my mind it i was trapped in a situation like that. if i started out and i saw that there had been an explosion and i was crossing over debris, we have to give these miners, i guess, the opportunity to go somewhere else if they did not feel they could make it out of the mine and they could have made it to the refuge chamber. as ron mentioned, that s our hope and that s what we have to go after right now. we know they didn t come out, so the next option would be for them on go to the refuge chamber. just to be clear, you re talking about six out of nine. so we re talking about three unaccounted for miners right now. what about the fourth, which i know is there debris in front