[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 pro tempore the house will be in order. The chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. The clerk the speakers room, washington, d. C. , july 18, 2019. I hereby appoint the honorable Tom Malinowski to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, nancy pelosi, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore the prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. We give you thanks, o god, for giving us another day. This has been a difficult and contentious week in which darker spirits seemed to have been at play in the peoples house. In your most holy name, i now cast out all spirits of darkness from this cham
Lowincome families will never see a dime of benefit from the Child Tax Credit because they simply do not earn enough. Instead of improving the credit and placing it within reach for working families, republicans would do the opposite under their proposal. While the credit would be expanded to 1,600, the restrictive eligibility requirements that prevent lowincome families from claiming the credit would still remain in place and the new quote unquote, Family Flexibility credit created under this bill would expire after only five years. Many families have enlisted military members with more than two children would continue to be ineligible for the full credit and rural families as well are left behind because many do not earn enough to qualify for the full credit. Adding insult to injury more than 4 million low income immigrant workers would no longer be able to claim the credit for their u. S. Citizen children. My amendment would ensure that all families are able to benefit from the Chil
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
Us, for we need you every hour. May our lawmakers remember that their success comes from you. Give them the wisdom to seek justice, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with you. Lord, free them from any entanglements that dishonor you. Protect them from dangers seen and unseen, as they strive to return good. When they feel overwhelmed, remind them that in everything you are work being for the good of those who love you. Help us all to strive to dploarfy you gluerfy you in to glorify you in every action, both large and small. We pray in your strong name. Amen. The president pro tempore pleae join me in reciting the pledge f allegiance to our flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Mr. Mcconnell mr. President . The presiding officer the majority leader. Mr. Mcconnell id like to bring a little perspective to todays vote on the clean c. R. Zika package.
I know its been bad for a while. I know its been bad for a while. If youre asking me to explain why the influx over the last cup of months all of the sudden if you could, yeah, sure. Im not sure i have the answer to that question. I do believe that the Smuggling Organizations are putting out a lot of disinformation about the conditions, the legal conditions here in the United States to induce this activity. And i agree with you, congressman, that we have to put in place, and i think were doing this, a number of deterrent factors. Increased housing to detain parents, adults who come to this country with their children, expedited removals, and the Public Relations campaign. And one of the things that im doing in addition to Everything Else weve done on the Public Relations front is im talking to the u. S. Conference of catholic bishops about how they can help. And ive had very good conversations. And i think that they will. Because they realize that the dangers of a parent sending a chil