The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. The clerk the speakers rooms, washington, d. C. October 31, 2019. I hereby appoint the honorable paul tonko to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, nancy pelosi, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore the prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. Haplain conroy let us pray. Dear god, we give you thanks for giving us another day. We ask your special blessing upon the members of this peoples house. They face difficult decisions in difficult times with many forces and interests demanding their attention. Give them again rossity to enter into their work generosity to enter into their work. May they serve you in the work they do as you deserve. Give of themselves and not count the cost, fight for what is best for our nation and not count the political wounds. Toil until their work is done d not seek to rest and labor without
Needs to clinch the republican nomination for president. The Associated Press reports trump reached the magic number of delegates, 1,237, with the help of a small number of the partys unbound delegates who plan to support him at the convention. Now, five state primaries are coming up on june 7th with 303 delegates at stake, likely giving him more than enough to avoid a contested convention in cleveland come july. That is the latest. Back to you now. And we have some more breaking news for you. Several children are being evaluated, some at the hospital after two transport vans crashed. News4s Megan Mcgrath is live at the intersection of route 29 and musgrove road. Reporter the two vehicles involved were 15passenger vans carrying School Children who are here from bermuda for a trip. They were on route 29 this morning when one of those vans rear ended the other. Take a look at the video here. You can see the damage that was done here. The front end damage to the one van, the air bags depl
That moment, not 20 minutes before or 20 minutes after but in that moment. That decision. When you take all that into consideration, factor all that in and compare it to our policy, her actions do not violate our policy the incident began with a traffic stop. Captured on video by a squad car dash camera. Police say bolinger was acting over and lead officers on a short chase through northwest des moines. Bolinger eventually stopped. Say he charged at millers squad car and miller opened fire from inside her vehicle. Shooting bolinger. Who was unarmed. Through the window. Chief wingert said that miller was fearful for her life which he says also lands well within the departments use of force policy. Being in fear for their life or the life of an employee or another person any loss of life is tragic and having to deal with it from that day forward is certainly difficult the attorneys for ryan reaction. The opinion of the Des Moines Police department on the matter is not a surprise to us. O
Quorum call mr. Mcconnell mr. President . The presiding officer the republican leader. Mr. Mcconnell i ask consent that further proceedings under the quorum call be dispensed with. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Mcconnell yesterday i joined congressional leaders in awarding three congressional gold medals to the memory of thousands of men and women who perished so tragically on this very day 13 years ago. Every american that morning bore witness to terrible tragedy and suffering. But that wasnt all we witnessed. We also saw incredible acts of bravery and compassion and heroism. We saw it in a great city. We saw it on the edge of the capitol. We heard about it high above the clouds. Sacrifices of those heroes of 9 11 inspired us then, and they inspire us now. In memory of every man and woman who perished so tragically that day continues to serve as a Unifying Force for our nation, and we will never stop honoring them. Mr. President , on an entirely different matter, the Am
Let me just add one clarifying d before we take the first volunteer on these questions. And, again, framing the discussion today, as youre aware, weve got an active secretary, assistant secretary. Weve got a former comptroller, and we have other people who are brainstorming. And so youre hearing different ideas in different veins, and i just want to underscore that point. I think that was something that alice was driving at earlier, and ill make start with her if you wish to begin with either of those questions. Well, let me certainly, one of the problems is theres political opposition to anything that looks like a benefit reduction to anyone, and that applies to military, to military retirees, to Medicare Beneficiaries, and its one of the reasons i think for looking at these changes across the whole system at the same time. And its certainly possible that medicare, which is at the moment having some success in holding down costs as is the military Health System can survive over the lo