Subcommittee on how selections will come to order. I welcome my fellow colleagues and members of the committee, thank you for joining us for the subcommittees First Official virtual hearing. It has impacted how we are holding todays hearing. People are putting themselves at risk every day, from doctors and nurses to first responders, postal workers and many others, including poll workers. Congress, however has an option. Any do not. We can do our work in a safe, secure, online format. The highest levels of the federal government have already decided the circumstances of the covid19 pandemic by Holding Virtual hearings, that includes a house and senate, which of Health Virtual hearings like this one. It includes the Supreme Court, which has modified how it conducts its oral arguments. And it includes executive agencies which have recognize need forimacy and the remote proceedings by participating in those conducted by conference by congress and the Supreme Court. As we begin, i want to
Hit the world. I see theyve canceled their big soccer games, their championship games and a lot of other games, theyve canceled a lot over in europe and all over the world. So this is a big world problem. Weve taken some bold steps. We took the original boldest step of all when we closed very early with china. That helped us save thousands of lives. And we went very early with europe and i think that will likewise be very good and hopefully we can get it back together very quickly in terms reestablishing with china, thats on track to something happened fairly quickly. Because theyve made a lot of progress over the last three or four weeks. Certainly with europe we think we can go, hopefully, very quickly. They have hot spots that are really bad. But theyll get them germany i guess has some problems now. France has some pretty big problems and italy, of course, is probably recordsetting in terms of what theyve gone through. Italys having a revery having a very hard time. We think well r
Maybe that is something he wants to do to create well live this washington journal segment here to return to live coverage of the u. S. House. En in the following order. Motions to suspend the rules and 387 to House Resolution and pass h. R. 4508. First electronic vote will be conducted as a 15minute vote. To clause 9 of rule 20, remaining electronic votes will e conducted as fiveminute votes. Pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20, he Unfinished Business is the vote on the motion of the gentleman from rhode island, mr. Suspend the rules and agree to House Resolution which the nded, on yeas and nays are ordered. Title. Rk will report the the clerk House Resolution 387, continued condemning violence against civilians by armed groups in the Central African republic and supporting lasting o achieve a political solution to the conflict. The speaker pro tempore the uestion is will the house suspend the rules and agree to House Resolution 387, as amended. Members will record their votes by electron
And then around 12 30 p. M. Eastern time the house is going to vote on these house managers, run a 10minute debate and then vote. Why is it that the house votes on impeachment managers and then you see that procession on your full screen happening after 5 00 p. M. Eastern time, that procession of the house managers from the house to the senate. Why does that happen . Guest taking the last point first, i dont know that a procession is entirely necessary but it does emphasize the solemnity of theo cakes and also theres a tradition here that goes back literally centuries because this whole idea of having house managers, that is to say representatives in the lower house presenting the case for the impeachment in impeachment in the upper house goes back to British Parliament and thats exactly what happened in those days, the house managers would proceed from the Lower Chamber to Upper Chamber with the articles of impeachment in hand and knock on the door and be admitted formally to have the
Republicans, 2027488001. Independents, 2027488002. Us your firstext name, city, and state at 2027488003 or join the conversation on twitter cspanwj and facebook. Com cspan. We will get to your comments right after we hear a little bit more from Mitch Mcconnell on the floor yesterday outlining what we will see today in the senate. [video clip] a few minutes ago the senate was notified the house of a senates is finally ready to proceed with articles of impeachment. By unanimous consent, we have laid some of the groundwork that will structure the next several days. We have invited the house managers to come to the senate tomorrow at noon to exhibit their articles of impeachment and later tomorrow afternoon at 2 00 p. M. , the chief justice of the United States will arrive in the senate. He will be sworn in by the tem, chiefro grassley. We will pledge to rise above petty factionalism and do justice for our states and the nation and we will formally notify the president and some in the pres