The speaker pro tempore for what purpose does the gentleman rise . As the member designated by ms. Chu of california, pursuant to House Resolution 965, i inform the house that ms. Chu will vote yes on House Resolution 1161. The speaker pro tempore on this vote, the ayes are 225. The nays are 188. The resolution is adopted. Without objection, the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. The chair will receive a message. The messenger madam speaker, messages from the senate. The secretary madam speaker. The speaker pro tempore madam secretary. The secretary i have been directed by the senate to inform the house that the senate has agreed to h. R. 3337, an act to continue appropriations for fiscal year 2021, and for other urposes. The speaker pro tempore the hair will receive a message. The messenger a message from the president of the United States. The secretary madam speaker. The speaker pro tempore madam secretary. The secretary i am directed by the president of the United States of
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Schuyler cheryl, jason, all the other victims of covid19. But thanks to the heroism of so many frontline healthcare workers, scientists and others were making progress. This progress is possible in large part because of the incredible women a minute hhs, the worlds finest scientists and Public Health experts. I want is a personal thank you to each and every member of the hhs team was contributed to this response and i want to underscore my commitment to the work today. I started my first job at hhs nearly two decades ago, since my first job i recognize and promoted the valley of science and evidence and the Civil Servants who are so dedicated to our mission. That does not mean especially in an unprecedented crisis that there are no debate or disagreements within an agency or an administration. But my highest priority will always be to ensure that our efforts are science and evidence driven and consistent with the rule of law. Institutions like the cdc, the fda and the nih are household
Duplicitous and on august date this is designed to hurt this president for the reasons which i am not interested in. Same email the cdc director homicide read and agree how they wrote it and to ensure it is fair and balanced and complete. These emails show clear political interference with the cdc efforts to carry out the science based mission. Mr. Secretary will you renounce this political interference and commit this will not happen again . As i said i support the base and challenging each other i do not support the statements doctor alexander is no longer employed at this department. I would like to get into Personnel Matters that is appropriate to let me be clear about that second quotation i do not know of any circumstance of anyone that would have authority and then to that knowledge she never had that authority i would not have supported that. When the statements came out i wrote you a letter asking these people appear before the select subcommittee. Not a single one was made av
And politicians are angry after its revealed that american firms provide the Technology Used to shut down the internet during the disputed president ial election. Good morning from russia just turned 11 am here now this thursday the 17th of september live from. Moscow its kevin owen with the update for you for the next 30 minutes i can stay with me as we go through it and the news event coming up now then the European Parliament imminently going to vote on a resolution urging sanctions on russia if it should fail to carry out an open investigation into the alleged assassination plot against alexina valmy the kremlin those urged the bloc not to politicize the case looking forward to what might be coming up over the next hour or 2 peter all of it in berlin with more. Be voting later on thursday in the European Parliaments on a resolution to do with russia relations between e. U. Member states and. What this resolution does is it calls on russia to cooperate with an investigation into wha