Be conducted as a 15minute vote. Remaining electronic votes will be conducted as fiveminute votes. The Unfinished Business is the vote on the motion of the gentleman from michigan, mr. Bishop, to suspend the rules and pass h. R. 4318 as amended on which the yeas and nays have been ordered. The clerk will report the title of the bill. The clerk h. R. 4318. Bill to amend the harmonized tariff schedule of the United States, to modify temporarily certain rates of duty. The speaker pro tempore the question is, will the house suspend the rules and pass the bill as amended. Members will record their votes by electronic device. This is a 15minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc. , in cooperation with the United States house of representatives. Any use of the closedcaptioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u. S. House of representatives. ] the speaker pro tempore on this vote, the yea
Recognition between the parties. All time shall be equally allocated between the parties and in no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. Each member other than the majority and minority leaders and the majority whip shall be limited to five minutes. The chair recognizes the gentlewoman from missouri, mrs. Artzler, for five minutes. Mrs. Hartzler here we are again having to vote on a continuing resolution instead of a fullyear appropriations deal because of political reasons. Mr. Speaker, i am appalled that muchneeded defense dollars are once again being held hostage for political reasons. We have heard time and again from military leaders about the devastating readiness crisis plaguing every corner of the miliy. We have planes that cannot fly, troops that cannot deploy, and we are literally running out of bombs. It is irresponsible and morally wrong to send our troops into harms way without adequate resources and training. Last year alone, there were 80 deaths related to readi
Is allowing anyone to purchase a firearm who is prohibited under current law or regulations. I want that to be very clear. I want it to be very clear right after the bat so that no one misinterprets this as some effort to let people own firearms who would normally be prohibited. This legislation is needed because a very disturbing trend has occurred in the past decade share the glory with someoneade else and we think theres good in legislation and every piece of legislation has hat the Veterans Administrations relying are way back if the 1970s. That predates even the National Instant criminal background check system and is way, way long before the Supreme Court held the Second Amendment to be a fundamental, constitutional right. These regulations grant limited authority to determine incompetence only in the context of financial matters. The regulation reads like this. Quote, rating agencies have Sole Authority to make an official determination of competence or incompetence for the purp
Make sure were doing all that state. As a casey cagle. Ant governor kat. Thanks to our partner necessary as well. Or that, we now go to the house of representatives. 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 room, washington, d. C. , january 30, 2018. I hereby appoint the honorable michael k. Simpson to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, paul d. Ryan, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the house of january 8, 2018, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties. All time shall be equally allocated between the parties and in no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. Each member other than the majority and minority leaders and the majority whip shall be limited to five minutes. The chair
Weak ahead of the jobs number tomorrow. A handful of ugly misses, store cuts and outlooks, macys, kohls, l brands all moving low sgl er. And market slipping away from 20k. A day of record auto sales. And trio of news to get to on apple, the app store and a new 1 billion investment from that company. Were going to fill you in. But first up in about a half hour from now the Senate Armed Services committee will hold a hearing on Cyber Threats against the u. S. Sparked by allegations that russia engaged in hacking to influence the u. S. Election. Committee chairman john mccain favors creating a special committee to investigate russia while president elect trump has expressed obvious skepticism about the russia hacking probe. Journal today reports the president elect is working with top advisors to revamp the office of the director of National Intelligence which is this nations Top Spy Agency created after 9 11, guys, to sort of coordinate intelligence from various officials. Question is wh