There Patrick Conroy issuing a prayer. I want to remind people about when the founders argued for what would call on the removal of a sitting president. They landed on treason, bribery and high crimes. One of the high crimes was the desire of foreign powers to gain an aye concern dent in our council. That is the question today did President Trump elicit foreign influence in our elections. The vote today will set up a senate trial on the charges that the president pushed ukraine to investigate his political foes. The president has been tweeting this morning calling the impeachment a terrible thing and asking supporters to say a prayer. That follows that sixpage letter he sent to nancy pelosi yesterday calling the impeachment an attempted coup. This is the first time in American History that this is happening just before an election year. The president is correct the voters will ultimately have a final say. Our cbs news team is ready to coverall cover all of todays developments. We want
Cspan radio app. We will take you to the house of a present ofs. Of representatives. [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 the house will be in order. The prayer will be delivered by chaplain, father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. Loving god, we give you thanks day. Iving us another during these cold, early, darkening days, we ask your upon those who labor in the nations capital. Members of the house and those of the senate to act carefully in the important work they do. Days of this session, may they continue to heed the voices of all their both those who voted for them and those who did not. The ll that is done within peoples house be for your glory. Honor and amen. The speaker the chair has examined the jo
Well postponed motion to suspend the rules on which the yeas and nays are ordered or votes objected to under clause 6 of rule 20, the house will resume proceedings on postponed questions at a later time. For what purpose does the gentleman from South Carolina seek recognition . I move the house suspend the rules and report the bill as amended. The speaker pro tempore the clerk will report the title of the bill. The clerk h. R. 6544, a bill to advance the benefits of Nuclear Energy by efficient, timely predictable licensing, regulation and deployment of Nuclear Energy technologies and for other purposes. The speaker pro tempore pursuan t to the rule, the gentleman from South Carolina, mr. Duncan, and the gentleman from new jersey, mr. Pallone, each will control 20 minutes. The chair recognizes the gentleman from South Carolina. Mr. Duncan i ask unanimous consent all members have five legislative days in which to revise and extend their remarks and insert extraneous materials into the re
anyone can get this disease, but one community may be more at risk right now. thank you so much for joining us. it is election day in america. voters are heading to the polls in five states today. much of the attention right now is on georgia. the key battleground state in 2020, sure to be important in 2024, and right now it is a test of donald trump s sway with american voters. the represent can primary for governor is its current governor, brian kemp, versus former senator david perdue. it s also basically turning into a mike pence versus donald trump matchup as well. and in the final minutes, there is a question today of what is david perdue trying to do, really, on camera making racist remarks about the democratic candidate in this race, stacey abrams. let s get to it, let s start there. kristen holmes is live in atlanta for us. kristen, early voter turnout has been huge and today is the day. reporter: this is huge. it has become a proxy war between the maga election
state. whoever does win that race will take on john fetterman in november. he easily won the democratic senate primary last night, though may be the first candidate to do so from a hospital bed. he underwent surgery for defibrillator hours before polls close. this is after he suffered a stroke a few days ago. he seems to be recovering and in good spirits this morning. so many races, so many states, important results for both parties. another race we re following in north carolina, congressman madison cawthorn is on his way out. the trump favorite conceded late last night. cawthorn was once viewed as a rising star in the gop, however his political career tarnished by recent scandals from video, salacious video, claims that put him on the outs within his own party. we re following both parties in these states as only cnn can. let s begin on the ground in two states, let s go to the state where things haven t been called yet on senate side in pennsylvania. democratic side, j