It is the republicans turn and mr. Mcclintock has tried to be recognized on a point of order. There is no point of order. Who seeks recognition . I seek recognition for a point of parliamentary inquiry. I would like the chairman to cite the house rule requiring members to wear masks in a house proceedings. If we had such a vote, i dont recall it. If we have such a vote, i will vote against it, but i will be happy to abide by it if the house so decides. Until then, i would like you to save me the rule. The chairs authority to enforce the preservation of authority and the quorum throughout pursuant to clause one of rule 11, the rules of the house by the rules of its committees and subcommittees. Committee chairs have long been responsible for the enforcement of general quorum. The quorum. I am enforcing general the quorum. M. That means the safety of the measures members of the committee. The gentleman is recognized. You choose to wear a mask, i do not. I ask you to respect my choice as
Deeply held beliefs on all sides. The bill we intended to consider last night strengthened privacy protections and made substantial improvements to the law. The bill as amended by the senate is a good and important package of reforms. Now you may disagree with that assessment. You may genuinely believe that the bill doesnt go far enough to reform the fisa system or perhaps that it goes too far with those reforms. If you disagree with me on the merits of the bill i respect that disagreement. I cannot accept and what i accept Many Americans will not accept is a transparent, inexplicable, totally unjustified flipflop on this bill. A bill important both to the security and the privacy of the United States. Just a few weeks ago, 126 republicans joined 152 democrats in support of a nearly identical measure. Differed only in that the senate added one amendment, a good amendment with almost universal support. Virtually all of those 126 republicans change their position in the past 24 hours. Mr
Significance, that infection rates fall after lockdown orders are lifted. Repeat, thats jpmorgan saying that. Big deal. All right. Now listen to this. Scuffles between probeijing and prodemocracy hong kong legislators. Why are hethey doing that . Thats the wrong tape. Show me the legislators scuffling, please. China just moved to take control. Those freedoms promised to hong kong when the british left are being wiped out. U. S. china relations turning very sour. Initially, that didnt go down well on the market. Futures turned south but then substantially recovered. Right now, were up about 20 points for the dow, modest gain for the s p, tiny, actually, fractional loss for the subpo p. This is a very important day. You will see the president at the white house saluting veterans. You will hear from officials and businesses across the nation about the great opening up. And we will tell you what you are allowed to do this weekend, and where you are allowed to do it. Varney company is about
Perhaps that it goes too far with those reforms. If you disagree with me on the merits of the bill i respect that disagreement. I cannot accept and what i accept Many Americans will not accept is a transparent, inexplicable, totally unjustified flipflop on this bill. A bill important both to the security and the privacy of the United States. Just a few weeks ago, 126 republicans joined 152 democrats in support of a nearly identical measure. Differed only in that the senate added one amendment, a good amendment with almost universal support. Virtually all of those 126 republicans change their position in the past 24 hours. Mr. Speaker, the American People see through those excuses. Nobody believes that the sudden reversal has anything to do with complaints about proxy voting. Nobody believes that the flipflop is about Michael Flynn or roger stone or even President Trump whose cases have nothing to do with the authorities we hope to reform. There have been no real policy demands to expla
Youre in warfare all the history going back 100 years or more is the executive branch lies lies lies the u. S. S. Me Mexican American war illicit u. S. S. Greer a gulf of tonkin resolution every time so we know theyre probably lying about this stuff. Bruce fein a former senior official and department of justice and a constitutional scholar has identified 12 impeachable offenses committed by donald trump but as he notes many of these constitutional violations are not unique to the trumpet ministration they have been normalized by democratic and republican administrations these longstanding violations for this reason were ignored by the Democratic Party leaders seeking to impeach the president they chose to focus exclusively on trumps attempt to get the ukrainian president to open an investigation of joe biden and his son. Hunter in exchange for 400000000. 00 in u. S. Military aid and a visit by the ukrainian leader to the white house ignoring these institutional violations during the im