Authorizing highway, bridge, aviation, and waterway projects. Members are working on 170 amendments. They plan to complete work on those amendments around midday today. That will be followed by a vote on final passage of the package. Live coverage now here on cspan. The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. Loving god, thank you for giving day. Other we ask your continued protection empowerment of those who tend to the sick and those who medical solutions to this dangerous pandemic. The work of the house these last few days to votes. Wo upport for the department of agriculture. During these times Food Production and delivery and the many e been among challenges facing our nation. Whatever the particulars of this may it proceed through the legislative process ultimately help the benefit of all americans. We ask, also, your continued protection and empowerment of hose who live heroic lives d
I want to thank everyone for their adherence to the guidelines as we continue to do our work while protecting the health and safety of our staff, families and communities. Thank you for joining us today. In pursuant to notice, todays hearing is taking place in our ways and Means Committee hearing room, with members permitted to attend remotely in compliance with the regulations for Remote Committee proceedings, pursuant to House Resolution 965. We currently have 33 members logged in and participating via the webex platform. For those members who arent here in washington and plan to participate in person, we have a limited number of available seats to ensure that we adhere to social distancing guidelines. I encourage members to watch from their office and only come to the hearing room when it is your turn for questioning. Before we turn to todays topic, i want to remind members of a few procedures as we navigate this hybrid hearing setting. First, consistent with regulations, the commit
Quorum call quorum call mr. Sanders madam president. The presiding officer the senator from vermont is recognized. Sorry. Mr. Sanders thank you. Madam president , since last week the senate has been quote, unquote, debating the presiding officer senator, were in a quorum call. Mr. Sanders i would ask that the quorum call be vitiated. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Sanders madam president , since last week, the senate ostensibly one of the great deliberative bodies in the world, supposedly, has been quote, unquote, debating the 740 billion National Defense authorization act. Its been a very, very silent debate because of the 700 amendments that have been filed to this bill. There has been no roll call votes on any of them. I do understand that in the managers amendments have been accepted, and thats fine, but weve had a vigorous debate but nobody in the world has heard that debate because theres not been one amendment here on the floor. And knowing the way the senate does
I have never used this microphone. Good morning, everyone. Thank you for joining us today. We are here to announce and discuss issues of racism in america. Now that the house has passed the George Floyd Justice in policing act, we need to ask ourselves what is next. I am here to introduce you to members of the Congressional Black Caucus. Thank you. Good morning, everyone. Worldeeks ago, the witnessed the video execution of george floyd. Within hours, protest began in minneapolis and quickly spread to all 50 states. Within days, protest spread around the world with people in other countries calling out human rights abuses in the United States. Within weeks, all 54 nations and africa called on the United Nations to hold a hearing about racism and human rights in the United States. Last week, we proudly passed with bipartisan support the George Floyd Justice in policing act. We will not stop in the movement for justice and the movement will not stop until a bill is passed in the senate an
Mr. Terra, there seems to be a good amount of dispute as to what life is like in the chaz. The gentle lady from washington says it is like a peaceful Poetry Community garden and yet we see these reports of rapes and delayed Response Time and videos of people assaulting each other and demanding raised based payments racebased payments. I would ask would you be willing to host a congressional allegation in the chaz so we might also be able to go there and show the country what is happening, observe it in real time, and if the chaz is something majority would like to have spread across the country, perhaps you can make that case in vivid color but i will yield to tell whether he would be willing to yield lead a delegation to the chaz. The time is expired. Moved to strike the last word. Chair the gentleman is recognized. I rise in opposition to the amendment for a couple of reasons. I thank the gentle lady from washington for sharing with committee what is happening in her own district. Th