Come to expect from the 2 Party Dictatorship that brought us a crippled infrastructure neverending regime change wars an economy based on 21st century indentured servitude and the biggest prison proper relation in the world not to mention the now over 400000 factored in over 16000 deaths from coded 19 but fear not my fellow americans because at the rate at that at the rate were going our elected officials are her calling him combating this pandemic most of us might not even live to see election day this november on thursday after being asked whether a nationwide testing system for the virus is necessary before sending people back to work our great brand name in chief donald trump said simply. No. In response to the donald dr david rob davidson an emergency physician and executive director of the committee to protect medicare told the media quote if he tries to open things up without adequate testing we are doomed on this donald trump is the wholly wrong and is setting us up for a 2nd w
Wisconsin, the house is coming in. Thank you so much. 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. January 16, 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 the prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. Gracious and merciful god, we give you thanks for giving us another day. The house prepares to recess for a week of constituent visitation and in home districts. As the nation anticipates the Martin Luther king long weekend. As we remember the heroic struggle of the civil rights movement, the badges and incidents of slavery from continued through policies still operative today, though recently being addressed through efforts at criminal Justice Reform and sentencing reform. The pains of racism,
Appointing and authorizing managers for the impeachment trial of Donald John Trump, president of the United States. The message will be received. The majority leader. I ask unanimous consent that, pursuant to rule one of rules and procedures and practice, when sitting on impeachment trials, the secretary of the senate inform the house of representatives the senate is ready to receive the managers fully purpose of exhibiting for the purpose of exhibiting articles of impeachment against the president of the United States. Agreeably to the notice communicated by the senate further that, at the hour of 12 00 noon thursday, january 16, 2020, the senate will receive managers on the part of the house of representatives in order that they may present and exhibit the articles of impeachment against Donald John Trump, president of the United States. Is there any objection . If not, so ordered. I ask unanimous consent that, pursuant to rules three and four when sitting on impeachment trials, that
Were covered up. We covered technical edits yesterday and those were edits where the staff and the Committee Members made edits. Those edits did not substantially change what was written. In most cases, it made it clear to the reader what was intended. Yesterday, there were several times where we had to stop what we were discussing because it needed to be discussed or deliberated in the public forum or Public Meeting today. When we get to those points, i will turn it over to the chair and she will discuss and handle that discussion. After you all come to a consensus, or dont come to a consensus, we will have a vote for what is going to go into the final report. We will start with the table of contents and page one. The edits that were made were approved by the general, as we move to page four, once again, those edits were approved yesterday because they did not have any substandard change to the report. Now we are on page six. Once again, we have no substantive change to the report of
Thats not the right one. Tackling the Opioid Crisis a whole government approach and ill go ahead and start with Opening Statements from the Ranking Member and myself and i believe senator durbin has opening remarks and will die then to eyewitness testimony as well. Since 1999 more than 700,000 people have died from a Drug Overdose in the United States. Increased opioid addiction and a production of deadly synthetic opioids have exasperated american staggering overdosed death rate. In 2017, more than 70000 people died from Drug Overdoses making it the leading cause of injury related death in the United States. Of those, 60 involve prescription opioids and illicit opioid such as fentanyl. Americans fared no better against Opioid Epidemic in 2018 when more than 10 Million People aged 12 or older of abused opioid in 2 Million People suffered from an opioid use disorder and on average 130 americans died each day from an opioid openers. We did not know that some cost and disrupted lives or u