Who through their silence, are spreading Donald Trumps absurd false narrative that he won the election. Each of us in this body has sworn an oath to protect and defend the constitution of the United States. Stand up for our democracy, to support peaceful transfer of power established there. My colleagues, it is time for every senator to do your sworn duty and stand up the constitution and for our democracy. Make no mistake, january 20, joe biden will be sworn in as the next president of the United States and Kamala Harris will be sworn in as a next Vice President of the United States but that does not mean that what donald trump is doing now is harmless. That does not mean that the silence or acts of complicity of republican senators is harmless. It is downright dangerous for our democracy and our National Security interests. We have enough challenges protecting our democracy from foreign enemies and foreign adversaries who seek every day to undermine faith and confidence in Democratic
To covering congress. Today in the Senate Lawmakers will debate the nomination of eileen cannon to be u. S. District court judge for the Southern District of florida. Votes are expected at noon eastern. Now live to the floor of the senate here on cspan2. The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Black, will open the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Eternal master, we honor you for your glory and strength. Your glory fills us with reverence and your strength inspires us with courage. Bless our lawmakers. Inspire them to find fulfillment in the splendor of holiness. Lord, remind them that you expect people of faith to illuminate the darkness of this world with exemplary actions that prompt people to glorify you. May our senators remember that their conduct, particularly during times of adversity, has longterm consequences. Lord, we praise you that you continue to rule our universe. We pray in your awesome name. Amen. The president pro tempore p
The House Oversight and the m subcommittee on Coronavirus Crisis held a hearing on the strategic hear from ockpile to the person in charge of keeping it filled. From estifying, officials the Defense Department and health and Human Services. Good morning. Welcome, everybody. Mr. Clyburn today, our select holding a hybrid hearing where some members will appear in person and others will webex. Remotely via since members are appearing in person, let me first remind veryone that pursuant to the latest guidance from the house attending physician, all ndividuals attending this hearing in person must wear a Face Covering. Remove themw you to s you see me doing in order to speak. I know a bit about how your and then t fogged up you dont see where youre going. Wearing a Face Covering are not permitted to remain in the hearing room and recognized to speak. So when youre not speaking, we you to have the facemask orwell not recognize you. Or we will not recognize you. Make a few reminders about hyb
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I think we will get started here. Thank you so much for joining us at the heritage foundation. I was told we dont necessarily have to talk about silencing cell phones, but i am going to say that anyway. We usually have a robust online audience and we want to minimize distractions. Thank you for joining us. We are going to talk about a new report on rebuilding the army. Its actually the third paper out, the first talked about how to think about the future, and we released one in the marine corps. This is a major paper on the army, and how to think about its relationship with National Security strategy and how the world is changing, and some recommendations for the path of the army needs to go down with a look out to a 30 year timeframe. We will follow up with a paper on the air force which is coming up next month, wrapping up by the end of the year with a paper on the navy so we have all four Services Covered and thinking about preparations for the future. These papers are meant to give