Under reconciliation rules. U. S. Overage now of the house on cspan. House on cspan. Nnounces to the house his approval ereof. Pursuant to clause 1 of rule 1 the journal stands approved. The pledge of allegiance will be led by the gentleman from assachusetts, mr. Kennedy. Mr. Kennedy i pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. The speaker without objection, the gentleman from louisiana, mr. Graves, is recognized for one minute. Mr. Graves thank you, mr. Speaker. I rise today to give tribute to pastor kevin mckee who opened the prayer this morning this this chamber. Kevin and his wife have been amazing pillars in our community as we have been through extraordinary associated with hurricanes katrina, rita, gustav, isaac, a 1,000 year flood last associated year, wor spill in the nations history. Incredible shootings of five of our Police Officers last year. In
And assimilated. They wanted their children to learn english. They loved america and they wanted them to learn. We are now hyphenated americans. Well be goldberg said im not an africanamerican. Im an american. Yes, she gets that thats exactly right that we are all hyphenated now imports of subgroups. Thats the kind of thing is harmony our country. Host when it comes to the Civil Rights Movement and you touch on the distinction between dr. King and dr. Abernathy and Jesse Jackson and al sharpton the different eras but you acknowledge that if you go back to the founders and slavery in the constitution and look at most of the history of the country where legal segregation was the law you say well thats wrong but change was needed but in most of the areas you dont embrace change and you dont embrace the idea of us working as a community to improve the quality of all of our lives. Guest let me touch on one thing you said about the founders. Not all of them owned slaves and not all of them w
Is rattling the trump white house, which has built its stonewalling strategy around executive privilege. Invoking it to stop testimony of, say, star witnesses from the Mueller Probe like don mcgahn. Heres the thing about that strategy. You know i try to keep it real and accurate and fair with you. Well, heres the thing. The executive privilege strategy, it might look secretive, it might even look a little guilty, but invoking white house privilege for the white house counsel, that can be totally legally valid. It at least creates a legitimate fight in court which can take a lot of time. But the news tonight is say little different. The democrats hatching an end run around that valid strategy. They are also turning to put the heat on witnesses who never worked in the white house, and thus have no claim to white house privilege. Zero. Including convicted felons Paul Manafort and rick gates, trying to get their testimony. Plus advisors like Cory Lewandowski who we know dished to mueller a