Good morning. Welcome to the department of state. We have quite the full room. My name is susan and i am the ambassadoratlarge for the office to monitor trafficking of persons. Thank you all for joining us today for the release of the 17th annual tracking in persons report. I was looking for a copy to hold up because im a prosecutor and i like my props, but a quick word about our program. First, or host, secretary of state tillerson will share keynote remarks with us following additional remarks by ivanka trump, we will honor our eight wonderful heroes and hear brief remarks from one of them. After the event concludes, ill invite you to pick up your own copy of the report. It is an honor to be here this morning with secretary tillerson and miss trump and i thank you both. And now, ladies and gentlemen, secretary of state, rex tillerson. Thank you so much and welcome to all of you to the stapt department for this important event and particularly im honored to welcome members of congress
Is longertrump trump. Ka this is about 30 minutes. Good morning. Welcome to the department of state. We have quite the full room. I am the ambassador at large for the office to monitor and combat trafficking in persons. You all for joining us today for the release of the 17th annual trafficking in persons report thank you all for joining us of theor the release 17th annual trafficking in persons report. I was looking for a copy to hold up because im a prosecutor and i like my props. First, secretary of state tillerson will share keynote additionalllowing remarks by advisor to the president , ivanka trump. The event concludes, ill invite you to pick up your own copy of the report. It is an honor to be here this morning with secretary tillerson and ms. Trump, and i thank you both for elevating the issue of Human Trafficking. Now, ladies and gentlemen, secretary of state rex tillerson. [applause] secretary tillerson thank you so much, susan, and thank you to you all for joining us. I want
The house is gaveling back in for more work on the Defense Authorization bill. Will the gentleman from pennsylvania, mr. Thompson, kindly resume the chair. The chair the house is in the committee of the whole house on the state of the union for further consideration of the bill, h. R. 2810, which the clerk will report by title. The clerk a bill to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2018, for military activities of the department of defense, and for military construction. To prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes. The chair when the committee of the whole rose earlier today, amendment number 14 printed in part b of house 212 offered by the gentleman from california, mr. Mcclintock, had been disposed of. Pursuant to House Resolution 440, no further amendment to the bill as amended shall be in order except those printed in house report 115217, and amendments en bloc described in section 3. Each further amendment printed in the report shal
The house is gaveling back in for more work on the Defense Authorization bill. Will the gentleman from pennsylvania, mr. Thompson, kindly resume the chair. The chair the house is in the committee of the whole house on the state of the union for further consideration of the bill, h. R. 2810, which the clerk will report by title. The clerk a bill to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2018, for military activities of the department of defense, and for military construction. To prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes. The chair when the committee of the whole rose earlier today, amendment number 14 printed in part b of house 212 offered by the gentleman from california, mr. Mcclintock, had been disposed of. Pursuant to House Resolution 440, no further amendment to the bill as amended shall be in order except those printed in house report 115217, and amendments en bloc described in section 3. Each further amendment printed in the report shal
Worlds most open economies. A Chinese State run firm will bear about onethird of the construction project led by a French Energy project. Thereeresa may she cited secy concerns because the plant would be considered critical infrastructure. Some observers warned that it could aggravate bilateral ties. In another advance to the Space Program, china is one step closer to having its own space station, an unmanned Experimental Laboratory was successfully launched on thursday. It blasted off from a facility in the gobi desert. People across china watched it on tv as they celebrated the harvest moon holiday. The space lab is an upgrade to the previous version launched in 2011. The modification allows astronauts to stay on board for an extended period of time. Its a complete success. China plans to launch a spacecraft next month to ferry two astronauts to the lab. Theyll conduct various experiments dug their 30day stay. China is beefing up its Space Program to establish itself as a space power