Pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20, the Unfinished Business is the on ordering the previous question on House Resolution yeas and nays he are ordered. The clerk will report the title of the resolution. Numberrk house calendar 74, House Resolution 866, esolution providing for consideration of the bill h. R. 2339, to amend the federal food, drug, and cosmetic act with respect to the sale and marketing of Tobacco Products for other purposes. The speaker pro tempore the question is on ordering the previous question. Members will record their votes by electronic device. This is a 15minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc. , in cooperation with the United States house of representatives. Any use of the closedcaptioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u. S. House of representatives. ] the speaker pro tempore on this vote the yeas are 224. 189. Ays are the previous question is ordered. Th
Decade talking about their books. You can watch our series at 4 00 p. M. Eastern here on American History tv on cspan3. Announcer 2 three College Professors discuss the ways they teach about u. S. Involvement in the vietnam war. Panelists talk about their personal participation in peace and Antiwar Movements and how those experiences translate into their classrooms. This discussion was part of a conference in washington, dc posted in conjunction with the waging peace in vietnam traveling exhibit. And with that, i want to begin with two things. First, there are so many people here to credit. There are so many people who helped create exhibit which is now on the second floor in the atria. If you havent seen it, we invite you to go down during lunch, take a look at it. You have heard a lot about the book waging peace in vietnam. Com, what you havent heard about the publisher which is new village press, distributed by nyu. We are fortunate to have the director of the press Lynn Elizabeth i
Impeachment proceedings. It seems like morning, noon, and night the relentless effort to unseat the president of the United States is a toxic strain of potomac fever infecting capitol hill. Now if only congress would channel every waking minute to fix problems in the real world, wouldnt that be wonderful. Let me provide a reality check. For People Living in the real world, impeachment inquiry is not what keeps americans up at night. Its not what wakes up moms and dads worried sick about paying for their childs insulin. Its not what drains the pocketbooks of seniors and takes a big bite out of peoples paychecks. The issue that unites americans from maine to iowa to oregon is the high skyhigh prices that americans and the taxpaying public pay for are paying for prescription medicine. As chairman of the Senate Finance committee, i am working in a bipartisan way to fix whats broken in our drug supply chain. In february we called the heads of big pharma to testify before the finance committ
Years ago well ceremonies are taking place at locations across the city throughout the day it was exactly 30 years ago on the night of november 989 that east germanys communist regime surprised the world by lifting all travel restrictions on east german citizens the move allowed ordinary people to cross freely to the west for the 1st time since the wall was built in 1961 it enabled friends and family to reunite after being separated for decades and it paved the way fluent german reunification just a year later. Well the w. Will be covering events throughout the day taking us through this mornings activities r. T. W. Thomas aspira the berlin wall memorial here in the capital and in the studio im joined by john beric great to see you both thomas id like to start with you then because tell us what is in store where you are. We are right here as you said in the wall memorial in the center of. The wall divided this city you can probably see part of the memorial behind me on a such this was
It will pick up this evening. Very warm today. Nationally if its quiet here it must be active everywhere else and thats about the case. You could see how everything goes up in over the ridge of High Pressure and drops down. Montana and north dakota into the plains and look at the low in the great lakes. Most of the country has very active weather and as you can imagine, cool temperatures. Some very cold ones as well. A lot of snow coming in over the next 57 days. Not here. Its record heat. We seen this so many times. Sfo, 87 yesterday breaking the old mark of 85 in 1965. 80s for the forecast highs today. Near 90. They are all away above. 82 and 60 for the city. They hit 60 and are now at 63. Way above average on both. It looks like a pattern were not much will change but as that system digs into the intermountain region, the wind will pick up later tonight into tomorrow. Not too bad now but it is a north, northeast direction from many locations around the bay already. 40s, the fees and