I am so excited you all are taking it. Announcer there is still time to enter the competition. You have until january 20 to create a 56 minute documentary wantexplores an issue you a president ial candidate to address during campaign 2020. There is a grand prize of 5,000. For more information, go to our website, studentcam. Org. Washingtoncspans journal, live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. Coming up wednesday morning, on new years day, we check in with talkshow hosts from around the country asking whether their audience is optimistic or pessimistic about the year ahead in washington. Be sure to watch cspans washington journal live at 7 00 eastern wednesday morning. Join the discussion. Announcer next, a look at workersto protect , directed at Land Management agencies. Subcommittee on National Parks and public land will come to order. Statements are slim to the chair in the ranking minority member. Therefore, i ask unanimous consent that all other members Opening
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
[chatter] we will not bow down. We will not bow down to injustice we will not bow down to exploitation stand, i am going to stand no will not obey, no, racism we will not obey, exploitation staaand i cannot tolerate, races and racism. I cannot tolerate injustice i cannot tolerate exploitation. I am going to stand, i am going to stand [applause] i am going to stand what are you going to do . I am going to stand [applause] how are we doing today d. C. . Let me hear you, how are we doing today [applause] you all are great today. Rise. Song we use our music to is buyer action through song and to remind us where we have been and where we are going together. [applause] we hope that these next songs inspire you today to keep marching, to keep singing, to keep voting, to keep running for office, and to keep your mind on freedom [applause] i woke up this morning with my mind standing on freedom morning on up this freedom you know, i woke up this morning with my mind standing on freedom, hallelu
Eastern, author walter starr, and Howard University professor on abraham lincolns friends and enemies. Watch this week in prime time on cspan3. Now, to the womens march on washington. Organizers held it to an to oneyearte the anniversary of president trumps inauguration. Up . Good afternoon, ladies and friends. It is indeed a pleasure to join you here this afternoon as we celebrate the oneyear when we sent a message to the world that women are here to stay, that we will not go quietly into the night, and that this is our time. My heart is so full at the site of the array of beauty out here today. 2016 was undeniably a check for us all. No one could have predicted the predicament we landed in. But i must say, no one had a more appropriate response and solution to the mess we are in than women. Year, millions of women organized, mobilized and marched. This year, the we are still marching, we have taken it a notch further and now we are running. [cheering] ms. Clanton we run so that women
Wouldnt a level Playing Field as you said from your testimony, we have concerns about things like there is a some Data Retention obligations and we think you could do it differently. There is a best interest contract framework and weve heard feedback from folks saying it is clunky and there is a more streamlined way to do it. We have a point of sale disclosure requirement and people have said that that is not necessary. And so what weve done in every circumstance when someone said that the best interest contract is clunky, our response is tell us how to do it better. How do we retain that north star of enforceable best interest contract and still get it done and that is the feedback weve been getting and it has been helpful. And youve incorporated it. We havent made final decisions yesterday. We wont put out a rule until weve gotten all of the comments. Im confident if history is a guide the final rule will be materially different than and better than the proposal because you have to b