The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The the clerk i hereby appoint the honorable Henry Cuellar to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Igned, nancy pelosi, speaker perfect house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the house of january 3, 2019, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties. All time shall be equally allocated between the parties and in no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. Each member other than the majority and minority leaders and the minority whip shall be limited to five minutes. The chair recognizes the gentleman from california, mr. Aguilar, for five minutes. Today,ilar mr. Speaker, i rise to honor the life of tim husband, devoted brother, son, and teacher. Working to life save the life of another. Volunteer for the intesan countys search andres could you team, tim searche
We are going to get started. Reason for the early hearing is we have votes and people go back to the district today. I wanted to make sure i got this hearing in. Other members will be walking in as the hearing is progressing. Come to order. Ll we are focusing on the extent to assistance has been effective in strengthening section protecting human rights. Objection, all members may have five days to submit questions and materials for the record. I will now make an Opening Statement and then turn it over to be Ranking Member for his Opening Statement. Before i open with my statement, i want to thank everybody that is here early. It is miserable outside and i want to thank the witnesses for being here. Good morning. Thank you for being here today. In reading the news over the last few weeks, the shocking headlines from mexico have been impossible to escape. Last week i saw kids as young as six are arming themselves to defend their families in a rural part of the United States. As cartels
The minimum wage. Tech entrepreneur Richard Wayne on the skills gap, the future of work, and rethinking traditional Fouryear College degree or rims. College degree programs. Host good morning. T is friday, january 3 u. S. Airstrike near the bank that airport killed the top corps. Er of the guard could stoke a cycle of retaliation with the islamic republic. We are tracking reaction and we want to hear from you. Let us know what you think. Democrats, 2027488000. Republicans, 2027488001. Ndependents, 2027488002 you can send us a text message this morning. That number, 2027488003. If you do, please include your name and where you are from cspanwj cspanwj. On twitter, it is. On facebook it is, facebook. Com cspan. A very good friday morning, you can start calling now as we show you the Statement Released last night from the department of defense. This is how it read at direction of the president. The u. S. Military has taken action to protect u. S. Military abroad by killing the head of gua
Online soon now our commitment continues we will not stand idle while the corrupt officials make the iraqi people suffer today i am affirming that states will use our legal authorities to sanction corrupt individuals. That are stealing iraqis wealth and those killing and wounding Peaceful Protesters like the iraqi people taking to the streets that our sanctions will not discriminate between religious sect or ethnicity they will simply target those who do wrong to the iraqi people no matter who they are turning now to israel. The Trump Administration is reversing the Obama Administrations approach towards israeli settlements u. S. Public statements unsettling that timothys in the west bank have been inconsistent over decades in 1998 the Carter Administration categorically concluded that israels establishment of civilian settlements was inconsistent with International Law. However in 1901 president reagan disagree with that conclusion and stated that he didnt believe that the settlements
Democracy movement worldwide. To week two of impeachment hearings, President Trump says he will, quote, strongly consider testifying in writing after nancy pelosi invited him. Tonight the update. Voters react. A new reuters poll shows the majority of americans tuned out to the hearings. The New York Times reporting, quote, voters are wornout by the fog of political news. Tonight, the latest on adam schiff, the speech by the impeachment leader this weekend, where adam schiff applauded the quote resistance against trump, claiming that he is ready to kick out the quote charlatan trump. The debate. The legitimacy of the hearings at stake. The field in chaos, democrat leaders now warn according to the Washington Post that the primary fight to pick a democrat frontrunner could last into the summer. Just months before the election. This as both president obama and pelosi increasingly warn that the far left 2020 democrats, the average american will not want what they are selling, that american