Uighur muslims. Also today possible work on a covid19 aid bill. Live house coverage here on cspan. The speaker the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. God of the universe, father to us all, we give you thanks forgiving us another day for giving us another day. During these days, these few days before the house breaks for the final weeks of the campaign, send us your spirit of peace. Inspire the members to complete their charge, to promote the common good of our nation. Comfort those who continue to suffer from the coronavirus and protect those who labor still to treat the disease and bring an effective vaccine to the world. May all that is done this day be for your greater honor and glory. Men. The speaker pursuant to section 4 of House Resolution 967, the journal of the last days proceedings is approved. The pledge of allegiance will be led by the gentleman from virginia, mr. Cline. Mr. Cline i pledge allegian
Congress. Congressman, we continue to watch the western states burn this week and you went to the floor yesterday to talk about the importance of forest esmanagement. Could you walk through what that means and what we are and arent doing for our western forests right now. Guest good morning, great to be with you. Forest management is something i love to talk about being a forrester and love to practice for history. A scene how it works. What we are talking about is applying science to make the forest healthy and resilient. In the life of climate effects is more important now than ever to apply these concepts to Management Practices to the forest and i am proposing in the trillion trees act as part of that bill i filed, for areas on public plans and these are also crossed over into private lands that we really need to focus on, especially in these fire prone areas where we are seeing higher weve got all the physics and youve got fuel, oxygen and heat and what we can do is manage the fue
Department said its too early to definitively say it is arson. We want the evidence behind the facts. If we have to say that it is and arson case, we are able to take that with complete confidence. Reporter a letter posted on the churchs website, they informed Community Members about 4 00 a. M. Thursday morning. It said somebody set the church of ways. There was a molotov cocktail thrown on the church. I was very upset. I did not want anything to happen to our church. Reporter he was somewhat relieved when the church itself was spared. Ins dead, the fire gutted the neighboring property used as Church Offices and a Gathering Place for Community Members. As you can see the devastation is too much. I was not expecting it to be this bad reporter this is a second act aimed at this community this summer alone. In july a vandals crawled vulgar graffiti. Church leaders are concerned that the two incidents are part of a disturbing pap. We think there is a connection. It cant be haphazard. Its c
That. Ill keep it short because i know wevegot time constraints here but a quick description of what an enormous challenge this is. The secretary of Homeland Security managers 240,000 people in the department. The responsibilities for Homeland Security are vast. Ill start with itthe federal Emergency Management agency that has to deal with do hurricanes and wildfires now covid amongst many other responsibilities , Border Security, a huge issue. Weve not fixed that problem by a long stretch but this administration has done a good job of stopping the outofcontrol illegal entry that we are experiencing over a year ago. Pe this department is concerned about cyber security, Election Security, security of our Critical Infrastructure and as we just witnessed with some of the protests that have sprung to right, also protecting our federal buildings and of course we have to thank David Underwood in open oakland california, a member of the federal Protection Services so the responsibilities are
We begin on the campaign trail. Check your calendar there are just 46 days to go until election day. There are a lot of key dates to keep in mind, though. Early voting begins today in minnesota. Both President Trump and his rival joe biden will campaign there today. And in just 11 days, the pair will face each other in cleveland for the first of three president ial debates. The other two are in october. The latest cbs news Battleground Tracker poll finds joe biden leading President Trump nationally with a tenpoint edge, 52 to 42 . Laura podesta is following the race very closely. Laura, how are both men trying to lure in those precious, precious undecided voters . Reporter good morning, annemarie. Well, by pointing out each others faults and spending a whole lot of time in precious swing states like wisconsin and pennsylvania where they were campaigning yesterday. President trump and joe biden campaigned in key battleground states last night. Hello, wisconsin. Reporter the president lo