National Defense Authorization act, and a measure ealing with the boeing max 737 crashes. Requested votes will take place after 6 00 p. M. Eastern. Live coverage of the house here on cspan. The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by chaplain father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. Loving and gracious lord of mercy, we give you thanks for giving us another day. In this single week, after a Long Campaign season and before breaking once again for thanksgiving, bless the members of the peoples house with focus and purpose on the issues facing them. We ask your blessing as well on those newly elected who will be joining this assembly for the 117th congress. May their transition into office be smooth and marked by the civility of Democratic Change of government which is the rightful pride of the United States of america. Lord, our nation continues to be besieged by the plague of the coronavirus. Send your spirit of peace that our people might be bro
On the director domestic policy studies at aei and i am delighted to be with you today to join by a group firstterm mayors facing challenges our studies are pretty interesting im glad you are tuning in and you will enjoy getting to know each one of them. The new generation mayors and cities i am excited because we have mayors literally for weeks on the job just got started a mayors doing interesting things dealing with challenges during this challenging time with the pandemic and urban unrest and other challenges that flow from those things. I want to dive right in and hear from them and what they are doing for Public Policy and the future of our cities but let me do a quick round of introductions. The mayor of miami was selected in 2017 i guess the longestserving mayor of firstterm mayors and previously served as the commissioner for district four at the age of 431 of the youngest in the country the first miami born mayor of the city and has a lot going on we look forward to hearing f
A host will spare no efforts to support the initiative along with help from the International Community. So historic talks aimed at ending decades of war and misery in afghanistan are finally taking place here in qatar this saturday negotiators from the Afghan Government and the taliban amazing along with the u. S. Secretary of state mike pompei oh and the Qatari Foreign minister more than 6 months it is now since the u. S. Brokered its own deal aimed at ending americas longest war that agreement with the taliban paved the way for saturdays discussions for those we want all the people of afghanistan to be reunited under one roof again after more than 42 years of upheavals aggressions jihad and resistance all the negatives we all know what happened to us throughout these years and maybe stand today we now need to address this unique opportunity to move towards a new future. We can define together we continue the afghan peace negotiation and we try. For peace and quality we will pave the
All of us are working very hard every day in our states to spur economic growth, and to build lasting Career Pathways that put more people to work in goodpaying jobs. Its more important than ever that we Work Together to find new ways to build a steady pipeline for the future, using Economic Development models, Infrastructure Projects, and talented welltrained and wellskilled workers. The governors obviously play a key role in these efforts. Many of the governors here today have shown tremendous leadership in this area, and its at the state level that bold ideas are being developed, and relate solutions are being forged. So to lead todays next panel, it is my privilege to introduce the vice chair of the nga, the governor of the great state of new york, andrew cuomo, who will tell us a little bit about the progress hes making in new york, and then lead the next panel discussion. Please welcome Governor Cuomo. [ applause ] thank you. Good afternoon. Before i get started, lets give a grea
It is more important than ever that we Work Together to find new ways to build a steady pipeline for the future using Economic Development models and Infrastructure Projects and talented, welltrained and well skilled workers. Governors obviously play a key role in these efforts. Many of the governors here today have shown tremendous leadership in this area. It is at the state level that ideas are being developed and Real Solutions are being forged. Panel, itdays next is my privilege to introduce the , thechair of the nga, governor of the great state of new york, andrew cuomo, who will tell us about the progress hes making in new york and then lead the next panel discussion. [applause] gov. Cuomo thank you. Before i get started, let us give a great round of applause to governor hogan. [applause] governor hogan, we all thank you for your professionalism, your cooperation, and your leadership. Another round of applause for governor hogan, please. It is my pleasure to be here today to open