justice sotomayor: hello, i m thrilled to be a new jasper. president o donnell, i thank you and the board of trustees of this college of bestowing on me my honorary degree. i take great pride of joining the great class of 2019. [cheers and applause] justice sotomayor: it is an honor for me to share this occasion with all of you. it is elastically lovely for me to be here because it lets me return to my home borough, the bronx. [cheers and applause] a place that makes my heart smile whenever i come back to it. you can send a girl to washington, d.c., but you can t take the bronx out of her. [cheers and applause] just notice how i have been saying the bronx, the right way. president o donnell, you began your tenure at manhattan college in 2009. i became a justice a month later in august 2009. we are both celebrating our 10th year anniversary and i congratulate you on your 10 years thus far. as a baseball fan, i am thrilled to be here at the birthplace of the seventh inning
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gavel-to-gavel to gavel coverage of the house as a debate a short-term spending bill. discuss the shutdown with california democratic congressman salud carbajal and with washington examiner contributing editor jason russell. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2019] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] good morning. it is thursday, january 17, day 27 of the government shutdown and speaker pelosi says no state of the union until it opens backup. your take on that this morning. democrats, 202-748-8000. republicans, 202-748-8001. and independents, 202-748-8002. if you are a federal worker, we want to hear from you. 202-748-8003. join us on twitter @cspanwj or facebook.com/cspan. in a letter to the president, nancy pelosi wrote this, both the u.s. secret service and the department of homeland security have not been funded for 26 days with critical department hamstr
the speaker pro tempore: by the guest chaplain, dr. reverend c. black, chaplain of the united states senate. the chaplain: let us pray. o god, our way, our truth, and our life. we worship you. quicken our consciences by your holiness that we will find nourishment in your truth. as this partial government shutdown continues, help our lawmakers to open their hearts to your love and to surrender their desires to your purposes. lord, in this tangled world we re conscious of our woeful inadequacies to sit in the seats of judgment, to balance the scales of justice, and to respond with equity to the myriad calls of human needs. need you, eternal god, to crown the deliberations of this to fit with your wisdom these challenging times. we pray in your mighty name. amen. the speaker: the chair has examined the journal of the last day s proceedings and announces to the house her approval thereof. pursuant to clause 1 of rule 1, the journal stands approved. for what purpose does the gentl