Can know and share the fruits of your spirit, especially in this time, virtue of tolerance and reconciliation, of justice and righteousness. Watch over this house and cause your blessing to be upon each member that they might serve all the people in their home districts, those who voted for them and those who did not. May all that is done within the peoples house this day be for your greater honor and glory amen. That we all the speaker the chair has examined the journal of the last days proceedings and announces to the house his approval thereof. Pursuant to clause 1 of rule 1, the journal stands approved. For what purpose does the gentleman from arkansas rise . Mr. Speaker, pursuant to clause 1 of rule 1, i demand a vote on agreeing to the speakers approval of the journal. The speaker the question is on agreeing to the speakers approval of the journal. Those opposed, no. In the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it. The journal stands approved. The gentleman from arkansas. Mr. Womac
Afghanistan, a taliban leader basically issued a letter asking them to back off. I think isis realizes it cannot replace the taliban as a major fighting force in afghanistan right now. The taliban is too established in the region. But, will they try to make common cause with the taliban . I think this is what sara was getting at. Will we see a merging together of the two . This would be very dangerous for the u. S. If the speakers could address that issue, because i think what we heard from dr. Gorka was that isis is the graduate level. But does this hold up when youre looking at afghanistan . The taliban has been able to continue to fight there after 14 years. The taliban still has sway in that region. I dont think it will be so easy for isis to make inroads despite it trying. If you look at how the idea of peace talks plays into this just on tuesday, the taliban engaged in peace talks with the afghan leadership in pakistan. This is quite significant. But what is their calculation . B
On display by some member of congress, mostly republicans, as it relates to the livelihood of the director of office of personnel and management, will be on display when it comes to protecting the identity of about 22 million americans. And if that requires additional resources, both to protect the system or to ensure that these individuals can be afforded the Identity Theft protection and credit monitoring that they should get, then well certainly look forward to the strong bipartisan support it should have. Would the president or director come to the conclusion that it would be much harder if not impossible to have those conversations if she remained at the head of the o. P. M. . Josh im not aware of discussion along those lines. The president is expected to deliver a speech on tuesday in philadelphia to the naacp. Considering the context of the moment, can you suggest to us what the president , will he have a new message in a same way . Josh the president will focus on the need to r
Phases of anyone who was able faces to anyone who was able to follow him. A sad day for all raider fans. Kenny stabler passed away and we will say artedly at age 69 reportedly at age 69. Such a sad day, sad news and then to have the conflicting information going back and forth for a while. Yeah. One of the strangest deaths that i have reported. You know, or probably anyone in the News Business because it was so on again, off again. Unfortunately it seems and appears to be true and has been confirmed now by several sources. Getting a few reports now. University of alabama reported and confirmed it. We have reached out to the raiders, they have not as of yet couple moments ago not confirmed it and we have reached out to Raymond Chester and phone calls into dave castper as well. We will have more that see story progresses. More from you in a little bit. Thank you. Now to todays troubles on bat. Service is b. A. R. T. , service back to normal following the incident this morning. These are
Forecast for the year. The company is spending more on employee raises here in the u. S. We will have more on this in just a few minutes. Matt wildfires are threatening a resort town in washington state. Several large fires burning near chelan, washington have already destroyed about 75 homes and businesses. 200 activeduty military troops have been called in to help. Cory i was up in Northern California weeks ago. It is unbelievable what is going on there. Matt a suspect in the deadly explosion in bangkok was seen on security footage. A man in a yellow shirt was seen taking off a backpack and walking away. The bomb exploded in a bangkok Shopping Center popular with foreigners. Searching through Hillary Clintons emails. 305 emails were flagged. Clinton said she did nothing wrong by using a private server while in office. She joked about the messages yesterday while campaigning in iowa. You may have seen that i recently launched a snapchat account. [applause] i love it. I love it. Those