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 minority whip shall be limited to five minutes. The chair recognizes the gentleman from pennsylvania, mr. Thompson, for five minutes. Thank you, mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, yesterday the nation observed the National Miners day which was designated by congress to honor the contributions and sacrifices of miners both past and present. Mr. Speaker, im the proud grandson of a pennsylvania coal ner, and National Miners day does mark the anniversary of the worst mining accident in istory on december 6, 1907, in west virginia. The disaster resulted in the deaths of 362 miners. While technology in mining has continued to improve, mining remains difficult work. Every day our nations miners work so hardess can vating nerals hard escavatting minerals for manufacturing. Particularly my family heritage, i am proud of our penn
The vote for the republican candidate and just over 40 for the democratic candidate. We are live in birmingham alabama where the headquarters are tonight and will have a speech coming up later this evening. The population area around tuscaloosa and Montgomery Alabama and we are live in the headquarters in Montgomery Alabama. What you are looking at right now though the headquarters in the room to listen for just a moment. [inaudible conversations] thank you very much. [inaudible conversations] [applause] [cheering] it will still be a little while you will watch the numbers as decline. With live coverage on cspan2 we will have the speeches when they come to the podium. 52 republicans and 48 democrats. The republicans are losing one seat and again our live camera in Montgomery Alabama and the headquarters and birmingham alabama. Want to go to the New York Times website to get a better sense of the votes remaining. According to the New York Times they estimate 775,000 votes yet to be coun
Divisive times in American History. A time that marks the emergence of a postcivil rights racial order that defines american psyd today. Formally known as the National Advisory committee on civil disorders, president johnson establish the committee in july following violent racial confrontations in newark and detroit which left 69 people africanamericans, and city blocks burned to the ground. That summer there were more than 150 riots around the United States. Ignited byriots were incidents of Police Brutality. Of growingtime racial and Political Polarization and the retreats from the progressive reform agenda ushered in by the Civil Rights Movement and Great Society legislation or the factors were the war in vietnam, the republican sweep in the 1960 Midterm Elections, a law and a liberalismm, and insulated from the realities of black life and dismissive of lack protests after 1965 from the evolution of Martin Luther kings leadership to black power. What senator harris described as ame
Xhoentsz are lower although exxon is trying to hold on, intel, home depot, caterpillar, ge, theyre the biggest losers, all down 3 , nearly 4 for some of them. The big news around bond yields which are rising again this morning. Were waiting for the ruflts a crucial 30year bond auction moments away yesterdays bond auction was a market mover well see if todays is the same as we start to worry about just how much debt there is out there and whether or not investors are willing to buy it. Check out the stocks that are bucking todays big selloff, however. Twitter is soaring after reporting its first ever profit. Higher by more than 16 . Grub hub and the New York Times also surging. More on all three of these stocks straight ahead. Tyler. Thank you very much, michelle im Tyler Mathisen welcome, everybody lets get right to the store of the New York Stock Exchange where bob pisani is standing by pl hello, bob. Once again in the middle of the day this is becoming a regular thing. S p 500 volume
The senate, they are probably not going to be able to stop it. There will be a big political fight, it does not look to me like the deal will be in jeopardy. There are some democrats who say they want to read the deal. The key, if there is any prospect it is the senator from new york who has been a skeptic, it is possible if schumer came out against, you could have trouble sustaining the veto in the senate. Any house, the president has a third of the house already. Unless something drastic happens, this deal will go down. Josh there is room for 13 senators to defect. The other wildcard is this will go over the ss assess. You remember what happened with obamacare. Mark there will be a lot of discussions about individual provisions. The strongest argument of president has is if the deal goes down, the president has already made the case the repercussions are extreme. The president is now powerful enough and popular enough that putting this procedure online will work. I dont think there i