This process. If you would like to participate ifphone, call 202 7488000 you a democrat. Republican, call 202 7488001. If you are an independent, call 202 7488002. You can also post a comment cspanwj, that is our twitter handle. They ride to that the speaker said that she would move forward next week on sending the articles of impeachment to the senate, setting the stage for the trial of President Trump. Nancy pelosi withheld the articles for several weeks as democrats sought assurances that the senate trial would include testimony from witnesses blocked by the white house. Republican from kentucky made no such guarantees and said that he mcconnell made no such guarantees. He said he would dismiss the articles against President Trump if they were not sent over soon. A dismissal as a coverup and it deprives the American People truth,ruth, get the nancy pelosi wrote. There is a lot of reaction coming into this, including this story in the Washington Examiner blunder or brilliance is the
The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. Todays opening prayer will be offered by monsignor anthony j. Marcaccio, pastor of st. Pius the tenth from greensboro, north carolina. The guest chaplain let us pray. Blessed are you, lord god, of all creation. You are the gifter of ever good gift, of life and liberty, of peace and prosperity, of wisdom, understanding, and right judgment. We ask that in your divine mercy you would bless our republic and in a special way the work of our senators, that they may discern all that is true, all that is honorable, all that is right, all that is excellent and worthy of praise for our nation. In this moment, make us mindful of all that has brought us together as a country and how it foster passes that which can divide us. So when all is deliberated and done here, we may be preserved as one nation under god. Amen and amen. The president pro tempore please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to our flag. I pledge allegiance to the
If youre wondering what that is, so are we. And just now, ceo and president bill johnson explained what that is. He says that the jumper is a piece of wire that basically jumps the conductor over the insulator. We know that it was broken. We also know according to johnson that this is a 43yearold tower that had been inspected four times. Now as you said, this transmission line was not deenergized, and johnson explained why not. Transmission lines in the area remained energized during the wind event consistent with our established protocols and procedures. In other words, they did not meet the conditions that we forecast for transmission level outages. We didnt see the wind speeds in the forecast that we typically would see for transmission outage. And so we relied on the protocol, and we still at this point do not know exactly what happened. The utility turned off power in the area at 9 48 last night, nearly half an hour after the fire started. Pg e is working closely with cal fire to
President trump has said hes dropping his attempt to add a Citizenship Question to next years us census. The move was blocked by the Supreme Court last month. Opponents fear it could deter immigrant households from taking part in the census, lead to an undercounting of the population in democratic districts, and benefit the president s republican party. But he still hopes to press on, announcing instead an executive order, requiring all Government Agencies and departments to provide records on population. Today im here to say were not backing down in our effort to determine the citizenship status of the United States population. I stand before you are planning new steps, my administration is taking to ensure that citizenship is counted so that we know how many citizens we have in the United States. Our north america correspondent peter bowes is in los angeles. The president makes it sound like this is a very straightforward issue,in this is a very straightforward issue, in fact, who is
President trump has said hes dropping his attempt to add a Citizenship Question to next years us census. The move was blocked by the Supreme Court last month. Opponents fear it could deter immigrant households from taking part in the census, lead to an undercounting of the population in democratic districts, and benefit the president s republican party. But he still hopes to press on, announcing instead an executive order, requiring all Government Agencies and departments to provide records on population. Today im here to say were not backing down in our effort to determine the citizenship status of the United States population. I stand before you to outline new steps my administration is taking to ensure that citizenship is counted so that we know how many citizens we have in the United States. Our north america correspondent, peter bowes, explains why the citizenship issue is such a politicised and controversial issue, and so important to President Trump. It has become increasingly p