Relief legislation. Why did try to move quickly because next vote. Or may have to be on the floor. But were waiting for senator duckworth and here she is. Lady of the hour. Okay, good afternoon everyone and i want to thank the senator skated duckworth joining me. Now i know this is a moment of Great National challenge. Covid19 is surging and people are dying and more people are getting sick than ever before. Families are struggling and businesses are shuttering. Peoples jobs. It is awful. Everywhere you go in this country. It is awful. So the elections over and the country is ready and eager to move to get us to move so that we can begin healing the process. The country wants us to know you got together get something done to deal with this covid19 crisis. But the Senate Republicans have continued denying the Election Results in their running america back, its a classic example was the chairman of the Judiciary Committee today. Crawling around to the states to try to intervene with the
Good afternoon. Im chris miller, acting secretary of defense and im here today to update you on president trumps plan to bring the wars in afghanistan and iraq to a successful and responsible conclusion and to bring our brave Service Members home. From kabul to kandahar and fallujah. Hundreds of thousands of americas sons and daughters who answered the call to serve in our Armed Services have brought us to this point. Us to this point. Their efforts and sacrifice will go down in history as showing the strength, commitment of a force that is unlike any the world has ever seen. Just last night, i joined Vice President pence and chairman of the joint chiefs of staff to have the soldiers who perished in the middle east. This was a somber and hum bling moment that reminded us of the tremendous sacrifices of the men and women of the United States military of our Armed Services take an oath to defend the constitution of the United States. They serve not for personal gain but for the protectio
Foundations executive Vice President dr. Kim holmes. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to the Heritage Foundation. Welcome to all of you here in the auditorium and everyone online as well. Its a great pleasure for us to be back in the building of the Heritage Foundation. We have been away for some time teleworking. This is my first day back for a while, but i am very pleased to be back here today for this very important event of launching the Heritage Foundations 2021 index of u. S. Military strength. This is the seventh addition of the index and the index has become one of Heritage Foundations flagship publications. Our goal is unchanged from the very first issue. It is to provide both the leaders of this country and also premierican public a opensource and authoritative assessment of Americas Armed forces and their ability to protect the nation. Our goal is unchanged from the very first issue. Its to provide both the leaders of this country, and also the American Public a premier open
Further legislative session. We now bring you live coverage here on cspan. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2020] 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. November 18, 2020. I hereby appoint the honorable Henry Cuellar to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, nancy pelosi, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of house of january 7, 2020, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. The chair will alternate redskin nation between the parties with time equally allocated between the parties and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and minority whip limited to f
Youre watching cspan2. Your unftered view of government. Created by americans Cable Television companies emma is a public service, and brought to you today by your television provider. Acebook market zuckerberg and twitter Ceo Jack Dorsey testified about the president ial election helped erica manng misinformation online. From this in a jewish inhe judiciary committee. This is four hours. Good morning everybody. I think weave senator blumenthal remotely, is that correct. And is it okay if we moveha forward. Absolutely and thank you very much. I will make a brief Opening Statement and this is about censorshipuppression in the 2020 election. Sort of a deep dive when i facebook. Witter and about the platforms and the decisions they make and how they make them. Can we do better. Do we need to do better. So the first thing that i want to talk about here is health risket associated with social media. A 2018 Research Center survey of nearly 75013 17 yearolds found that 45 percent online almos