National Defense Authorization act, and a measure ealing with the boeing max 737 crashes. Requested votes will take place after 6 00 p. M. Eastern. Live coverage of the house here on cspan. The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by chaplain father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. Loving and gracious lord of mercy, we give you thanks for giving us another day. In this single week, after a Long Campaign season and before breaking once again for thanksgiving, bless the members of the peoples house with focus and purpose on the issues facing them. We ask your blessing as well on those newly elected who will be joining this assembly for the 117th congress. May their transition into office be smooth and marked by the civility of Democratic Change of government which is the rightful pride of the United States of america. Lord, our nation continues to be besieged by the plague of the coronavirus. Send your spirit of peace that our people might be bro
The speaker pro tempore for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition . Mr. Speaker, i move that the house suspend the rules and pass the bill, h. R. 5322, the ensuring diversity in Community Banking act, as amended. The speaker pro tempore the clerk will report the title of the bill. The clerk h. R. 5322, a bill to establish or modify requirements relating to Minority Depository Institutions, Community Development Financial Institutions, and impact banks and for other purposes. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the rule, the gentleman from california, mr. Sherman, and the gentleman from sk, mr. Timmons, each will control 20 minutes. The chair recognizes the gentleman from california, mr. Sherman. Mr. Sherman mr. Speaker, i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days within which to revise and extend their remarks on this legislation, and to insert extraneous material thereon. The speaker pro tempore without objection. Mr. Sherman i yi
Merely dealing with partisan gridlock the dow inched up two points and the nasdaq jumped 1. 12 , this i what we have to think about. Six months ago it looked like the world was ending everyone in congress had a reason to reach a compromise both sides have an incentive to be more stubborn they get to blame each other in the runup to an election but as Speaker Pelosi told me this morning, the deal is still on the table. I took her full statement as a sign getting a deal done could be extremely difficult im saying this purely in micah pasty as your investing coach without a stimulus deal, there will be a ton of private company losers and could be a much worse place a year from now if we get a vaccine by the end of the year too many struggling Small Businesses cant wait that long. Now if you got a white collar job you can do from home you may not realize how bad it can be. The future is fine for anyone that can work from home whether we get another bailout or not. For millions of americans
Communicators this week is a key member of congress when it comes to telecommunications policy. Mike doyle is a democrat from pennsylvania, chair of the energy and commerce subcommittee on communications and technology. Congressman doyle, the subcommittee is key to telecom policy, isnt it . Representative doyle it sure is. It is the Key Committee in congress that deals with telecommunication policy. A lot of interesting issues come before the committee, and more to come. Peter we are about to cover those in the next halfhour, but i want to start with news this week, the fcc declaring huawei zte corporations to be National Security threats. Representative doyle that is one of the reasons you saw the bill we passed in the energy committee. Now we are just waiting for appropriators to put money in it. It is going to take 1 million to 2 million to assist Smaller Companies that want that equipment, to make them whole so they can remove the equipment and put other equipment in. We have been
Garden. Two also spoke about trade relations under the u. S. Mexicocanada agreement, and about the coronavirus pandemic. Ladies and gentlemen, the president of the united mexican states. The president of the United States, and the president of the united mexican states. [applause] President Trump thank you very much, everyone. It is a nice, hot day to put it , mildly. So we will make this quick, but it is all very positive. And it is my tremendous pleasure to welcome everyone to the white house, with my good friend president Lopez Obrador of mexico. We have an outstanding relationship. Mr. President we are truly moved , that you choose to make your first foreign visit since successfully taking office to be , with us at the white house. The relationship between the United States and mexico has never been closer than it is right now, and as the president said a while ago, the people were betting against that. They were actually betting against that. But it has never been stronger closer.