When emilys list first started there were only two women in the u. S. Senate. Now there are 26 of us. You allowed so many more women to hold elected office and that made our nation better. They have the power to make a difference. I want to say thank you to Ellen Malcolm for getting this Party Started and im so appreciative ofyour vision. Thank you for starting an organization that brings women together and making this a better place. To stephanie, i am so grateful for your amazing leadership. You have the ability to see what is possible. Thank you for your courage. We will make sure more women are at the table then ever before. Especially more women of color arerunning for office than when it. Id like to see women like me become elected officials in the us in every corner of this country you helped elect new democratic prochoice women to the congress of the United States. So much has been accomplished in these 35years and so much more needs to be done. In 35 years i want to see women
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Fouryearold recently released in a hostage exchange. This is just over one hour. Ladies and gentlemen, i am grateful to welcome you today to the roundtable. I want to thank the very brave and courageous families who are with us today to discuss the hostages that have been kidnapped by hamas. To show how important this hearing is, i am just very grateful as chairman of the middle east subcommittee i have the opportunity to chair the committee but we are really fortunate to have the chairman of the Foreign Affairs committee and the Ranking Member, texas republican greg make. It is also significant that we have a Brandnew Congress member brandnew and all the way from rhode island. Hello and thank you for being here. We are very fortunate to have so many people. Before i begin, i want to let everybody know that we have a full house of members of congress very distinguished people from new york and texas but we also have congresswoman eliana ross layton who is visiting. Shes the foreman for
thanks for being here. i m stephen romo in for yasmin today. it s a busy final day of 2023. just hours before the ball drops, the security is tight in new york s times square. celebrations are set to get underway, despite the heightened threat environment, following the october 7th attack on israel. we are live on the scene with the latest. of course, in many parts of the world, it is already 2024. we will show you the sights and sounds and the hopes so many have for the new year. meanwhile, tensions are high across the red sea at this hour, as the u.s. navy sinks three houthi boats and downed ballistic missiles fired from houthi controlled areas. we will have more on that. legal action in donald trump s world is not stopping. we will reveal that question special counsel jack smith has for an appeals court that took more than 80 pages to ask. and we begin this hour with a countdown to the new year. up to 1 million people are flocking to times square to witness new yor
the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from new jersey seek recognition? mr. pallone: as the member designated by mrs. kirkpatrick, mr. sires, mr. pascrell, mr. doyle and mr. payne, they will vote no on the motion to recommit. as the member designated by mr. mceach eachin mceachin, i inform the house that he will vote no on the motion to recommit. the speaker pro tempore: the yeas are 209 and the nays are 2818, the motion is not adopted. the question ois passage of the bill. those in favor, say aye. thoipped those opposed, no. the ayes have it. for what purpose does the gentlewoman from washington seek recognition? i request the yeas and nays. pursuant to 3-s of house resolution 8, yeas and nays are ordered members will record their votes by electronic device. this is a five-minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-c