Good evening. Welcome to this wonderful program. As most of us, all of you, no, know, each year the partnership has a themed series of events after september 7. September 7 is the day on which boston, georgetown, and watertown were named and we always commemorate date. We have a series of events each year. This years theme is that medicine and mortality. Im here to tell you it is the most successful charter day we have ever had. Tell me if you have been to other events this year . Would you raise your hand . That is what i thought. This is a wonderful. Excellent. In addition to our fall activities, we have lectures, Reading Group discussions, and tours from april through november. We are an allvolunteer group that cares passionately about telling the forgotten history of boston from 1630 until the revolution. We do have three more programs coming up. Rescheduling the anticipated talk at the old statehouse by dr. David jones. It will be a wonderful closing to this whole theme and we wil
The chair will alternate recognition between the parties. All time shall be equally allocated between the parties. And in no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. Each member other than the majority and minority leaders and minority whip shall be limited to five minutes. The chair recognizes the gentleman from illinois, mr. Gutierrez, for five minutes. R. Gutierrez mr. Speaker, monday i returned from my third trip to puerto rico since Hurricane Maria devastated the island almost two months ago. I wish i could report a lot of progress is being made, but i cant. Its still a disaster and its a stain on the reputation of the United States of america. Most places dont have power. Generators, the sound you hear humming in every corner of the island, are running ragged from overuse. In many places the water is not on because the power is not on to pump it. And drinkable water mixes with sewer water all over the identifyland. Island. As you can see from this picture, people are tappin
Independents, 202 7488002. Virginia and new jersey residents, if you want to call us and let us know your thoughts , 202 7488003. You can also post on twitter or our facebook page, at facebook. Com cspan. Here are the front pages from virginia and new jersey. Only thelighted not governors races but also the races in the house of delegates there and the Bourbon County record this morning a new era for new jersey, the subhead of one story saying the democrat stands as the antichristie. Take a look at the exit polling that out of the states, specific we political specifically politico looking at the exit polling. Among 57 of the voters who disapproved of the president s , they beat him 87 to 11 . Nearly half of virginia voters, 47 strongly disapprove of trump, and northam 195 of that vote. In other words, nearly 45 of the votes cast were from strong race. Disapprove half of virginia voters said trump was a reason for their vote, with twice as many saying there were voting to oppose trump
Eastern. And well have it for you on the cspan networks. By the way, you can read the rest of that story at politico. Com. We also have this from the hill. Lawmakers rallied against former ceos of yahoo and equifax over Cyber Security breaches that occurred on their watch and floated potential policy solutions to crack down on the hacks impacting hundreds of millions of americans. Frustrated members of the Senate Commerce committee pressed former yahoo ceo, Marissa Mayer and former equifax ceo, Richard Smith and his current ceo, paulina de riggers barrows on how their company allowed so much breaches and pushed for answers. Lawmakers rallied against the massive Cyber Security breaches on their watch and floated those policy solutions. They also said we have not been able to identify the intrusion that led to that breach. And that quote from the former yahoo ceo. Read the entire story at thehill. Com. Incidentally, that hearing took place earlier today. We do plan to show it to you late
It. And i guess my second question, based on what weve seen this morning with a delay, is there a possibility for republicans to actually have seen and read amanda chus amendment. As we laid out, to finish the amendments. Yesterday, you indicated there are five or six more you want to have us consider. Well do that we will then take up the managers amendment to bring the Committee Work under the 1. 5 trillion budget reconciliation and then we will include this markup later today. We will, as i said yesterday, even though its beyond ordinary regular order, we will introduce to you the managers amendment, as soon as practical, and we will give you a chance to analyze it. But we will, as we do with your amendment, we will take it up on on a timely basis. Have full debate on it before a vote is called. Mr. Chairman, i have to ask for unanimous content to have two letters put in the file. One is from the county of napa regarding the tax treatment of the fire victims. And the other one is fr