Gaveltogavel coverage of the u. S. House. Members will begin work on an bill. R trading live now to coverage of the u. S. House here on cspan. The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father con rye. Chaplain conroy let us pray. God of wisdom, we give you thanks for giving us another day. Prior to the great compromise, Benjamin Franklin addressed the constitutional convention. Quote, we indeed seem to feel our own want of political wisdom since we have been running about in search of it. This situation of this assembly, groping, as it were, in the dark, to find political truth and scarce able to distinguish it when presented to us, have we now forgotten our powerful friend . Lord, you are the powerful friend referred to by franklin and we turn again to you to ask that your wisdom might break through the political discussions of these days. Bless the members of the peoples house and all of congress with the insight and foresight to
Looking day in the bay area as we look at a live picture of the bay bridge and San Francisco bay. I tell you what, business is booming now. I would say mike and gossia, backup generators right. Are probably flying off the shelves, because we might have power shut off this week. We havent taken that step. We have a number of shut offs at our house. We have flashlights at the ready, charging our batteries, filling up the gas tank, buying the ice after work. We were knowledge the hundreds of thousands we knew it was going to be extended. We had 48 hours the last time around last month. Its going into a 3rd day. This time around its not expected to be that long. Im not getting the generator. I do have friends who say, no way. Were going to get them. Well, they are flying off the store shelves, because there might be another majored planned power shut off coming. The National Weather service has issued a red flag warning for several parts of the bay area. It begins early tomorrow morning. B
I want to thank the panelists for your patience. Thank you for being here and being with us and were looking forward to your testimony. Rather than go through the record well start. Thank you. So first of all, id like to thank the committee for the extraordinary work that you did with all of the stakeholders to get a longterm faa reauthorization bill passed. It had been a long time since that had happened and everyone came together, and the votes that you received, we are 393 in the house and 93 in the senate. This is a clear mandate to move forward with very important safety provisions for our Aviation System. Among those was our issue of ten hours rest for Flight Attendants. Now, this is an issue of safety, health and equality. Safety, we had been raising the flag on this issue for more than 30 years, identifying Flight Attendant fatigue, getting through other faa reauthorization bills the commission of fatigue studies, seven in fact that determined that Flight Attendant fatigue does
Make their way into stores. Nordstrom opening up a monster Flagship Store in new york city. Well take you there. That and so much more on making money. Charles Vice President mike pence remaining defiant in the face of china, doubling down on his harsh criticisms from a year ago. His message was clear today. America is not standing down. Edward lawrence joins us live with what the Vice President had to say, edward . Reporter charles, Vice President mike pence took a hardline on china with some issues, but toned down part of the speech in the past 24 hours about the Economic Future of u. S. China relations. Vice president blasted china for creating one of the Worlds Largest surveillance states. He says china is starting to export that technology around the world to some countries that may not use it for good. Mr. Pence saying the u. S. Is watching what happens with hong kong. Saying china should show restraint or it may affect the trade talks. Hong kong is a living example of what can h
A senate agent on robo call fraud. A pennsylvania sheriff, u. S. Postal inspector and Telecommunications Consultant testify on the impact of robo call scams and how to better educate the public. An hour and 45 minutes. The hearing will come to order. Good morning. Protect american seniors from scammers who seek to defraud them is a central goal of this committee. In the past six years we have held 23 hearings on fraud and scams targeting our seniors. Using phones and the internet, they have proven to be relentless. To protect our nation seniors, we must continue not only to prosecute con artists who steal literally billions from our seniors, but to also find new, more effective ways to block a legal spoofing and robo calls at the network level. Last year robo callers generated more than 26 billion unwanted calls that reached American Mobile phones. When land lines are included, the number soars to 48 billion. In may alone, our residents received an astonishing 93 million robo calls las