And suspend the rules and passing h. R. 2852. The first electronic vote will be conducted as a 15minute vote. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule 9 pursuant to clause 9 of rule 20, remaining votes will be conducted as fiveminute votes. Pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20, the Unfinished Business is the vote on ordering the previous uestion on House Resolution question on House Resolution 548 on which the yeas and nays are ordered. The clerk will report the title of the resolution. The clerk house calendar number 40, House Resolution 548. Resolution providing for consideration of the bill h. R. 205, to amend the the gulf of Mexico Energy security act of 2006 to permanently extend the moratorium on leasing in certain areas of the gulf of mexico, providing for consideration of the bill h. R. 1146, to amend public law 11597, commonly known as the tax cuts and jobs act, to repeal the Arctic National wildlife refuge oil and gas program, and for other purposes. And providing for consideration of the bil
Decertify the deal. Continue to watch this hearing online at cspan. Org. Here on cspan taking you live to the u. S. House. They gavel in for legislative work, beginning work on debate rules for fridays bill dealing with whistleblower protections. Live coverage here on cspan. The speaker the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by the guest chaplain, reverend molly fraser, fwig harbor United Methodist church, gig harbor, washington. The chaplain god of many names we give thanks for many opportunities to serve and remind us we are servants of our country, our people, and the land. Let us not forget the blessings you have given us so we might use our power and influence to oorder the country in ways that allow each and every person to find life and liberty and to pursue happiness. Become, perhaps we come, perhaps already weary from an onslaught of emails, texts, fen calls, and meetings where people make demands on how we vote and assumptions on every decision we put forward.
Online. The governor collapsing. What weve learned this evening about his condition. Reporter hundreds were expecting a minimum wage increase in Montgomery County. Tonight the county executive vetoed it. Ill explain why. All new at 11 00. Announcer news 4 at 11 00 starts now. Good evening. We begin tonight with storm team 4 radar and that noreaster thats moving on out now. There are still a few showers around our area tonight but we have some big changes coming. And right now that big storm is hitting hard up the coast. Heavy rain flooding train stations in new york and new jersey, and strong winds that nearly caused a disaster with the scaffold in jersey city. Back in our area tonight, this tree came down on a Home Day Care in annandale. Were told children were in the basement at the time, but no one was hurt. In bethesda, another tree came down here on bradley boulevard. No joke, it happened at the drive. No injuries here, but it did impact traffic and take out some power lines, too.
President trump ordered an employment freeze for the federal government. There are a few exceptions, military, Public Safety and public health. This is expected to be a bigger plan by the president to reduce the workforce. If i were in the federal government, would i not government, i would not be expecting a whole lot of growth or wage increases. That would be contrary to everything that he campaigned on. The National Active and retired federal employees Association Opposes the executive order claiming it creates hiring backlogs, inadequate staffing and unlikely to save money. Tracie potts will have details on what he told congressional leaders last night, coming up in a few minutes. Right now, storms are battering parts of the northeast. A noreaster is causing a whole lot of problems, outages and delays. Lets check in we have new video in. This comes to us out of new york. You can see how bad the flooding is there. In the rockaways, new york city, storm search inundated, several inch
Morning. A few sprinkles around, mostly rain. As we go through the rest of this morning. Were not looking at winds and drier conditions, too. We dont have that around anymore. The road are still wet, 39 degrees. Feels closer to freezing. Cloudy skies, 37 degrees. By 9 00 a. M. , still cold. 30s youll want the warm jacket. By noon, were already in the 40s. But tomorrow is going to be the warm day out of the week. Feels like temperatures, around freezing blower. 27 in leesburg. 33 is what it feels like in frederick. As we go through the day, though, the temperature trend bringing us into the 40s by lunchtime. Later on this afternoon, the mid40s. Ill check the roadways good morning. Hi, still have this delay here about one mile back. That is actually growing. Maybe thats reached two now that im looking at the nap. Northbound 295. The ramp to 11 this was just issued right now, they still have that vehicle facing the wrong way. This is a bad time for this to be happening so early in the mor