My advice to anyone that wants to compete this year is to find a topic that youre truly passionate about and pursue it as much as you can. This year were asking students to create a Short Documentary on the issue that you would like the president ial candidates to address during the 2020 campaign. Cspan will award 100,000 in total cash prizes. Plus a 5,000 grand price. Go get a camera, a microphone and go start filming and produce the best video that you can possibly produce. Visit studentcam. Org for more information today. Next, House Financial Services Committee Chair Maxine Waters holds a field hearing on combatting homelessness in the Los Angeles Metro area. And its impact on a national level. In this first portion, local government officials discuss the root causes of homelessness such as high rents, low wage growth, and a need for more government assistance. This runs 90 minutes. The committee on Financial Services will come to order. Without objection, the chair is authorized t
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 rooms, washington, d. C. February 4, 2022. I hereby appoint the honorable Madeleine Dean 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 chaplain kibben. Chaplain kibben would you pray with me. Spirit of the living god breath your grace and love into the business and the business of this day. Make us aware of our breath that we would inhale the refreshment of your peace. A peace we do not always and perhaps cannot fully understand. Then, help us to breathe out our anxiety and aggravations caused by the differences that divide us and the troubles of the world around us. Enable us to inhale your wisdom and exhale our pride, to take in your encouragement and to push out despair. Holy god, we invite you into our hearts and minds this day tha
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 rooms, washington, d. C. February 4, 2022. I hereby appoint the honorable Madeleine Dean 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 chaplain kibben. Chaplain kibben would you pray with me. Spirit of the living god breath your grace and love into the business and the business of this day. Make us aware of our breath that we would inhale the refreshment of your peace. A peace we do not always and perhaps cannot fully understand. Then, help us to breathe out our anxiety and aggravations caused by the differences that divide us and the troubles of the world around us. Enable us to inhale your wisdom and exhale our pride, to take in your encouragement and to push out despair. Holy god, we invite you into our hearts and minds this day tha
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 now recognizes the gentleman from oregon, mr. Lumenauer, for five minutes. Mr. Blumenauer thank you, mr. Speaker. This week the senate is poised to completely break Donald Trumps promises on health care. Remember, he promised insurance for everyone. It would be less expensive, and t wouldnt touch medicaid. Well, the c. B. O. Report out yesterday makes it devastatingly clear that republicans are ready to repudiate all three of those promises. Next year alone, 15 million americans will lose their Health Care Coverage. Over the course of the decade, that number will swell to 22 million americans, and because they have disguised the impact to be appear later in the next decade, well watch those numbers skyrocket. Less expensive . Well, under their proposal, a yearold with a 56,800 income, not upper middle class by any stretch of the imagination,
Please welcome aipac managing director for policy and politics, arnie christianson. Good evening. Our next guests are two leaders in congress who show how democrats and republicans can cooperate to strengthen u. S. israel relationship. They work closely in the house of the represent fs and just last week they cosponsored new legislation to impose sanctions against iran for its Ballistic Missile program. [ applause ] they also make time to travel to israel every two years with new members of congress to see firsthand the challenges israel faces. And they continue to join us on this stage for which we are very grateful. Please join me in welcoming House Majority leader Kevin Mccarthy and democratic minority whip steny hoyer. Welcome. Thank you. Good to be here, as always. With everything you have to manage, it must be a relief to be in front of an audience that just wants you to bring peace to the middle east, huh . Its a good thing to be with this audience, whatever they want. [ applaus