House suspend the rules and pass bill h. R. 1964, as amended. The speaker pro tempore the clerk will report the title of the bill. The clerk h. R. 1964, a bill to provide for the recognition of of north tribe carolina, and for other purposes. The speaker pro tempore the ant to the rule, gentleman from california, mr. Huffman, and the gentleman from utah, mr. Bishop, will each minutes. 0 the chair recognizes the gentleman from california. R. Huffman thank you, mr. Speaker. I ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and and include remarks extraneous material on the consideration. The speaker pro tempore without objection, so ordered. Mr. Huffman mr. Speaker, i yield myself such time as i may consume. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman is recognized. H. R. 1964, the lumbee recognition act, introduced by our colleague from North Carolina, mr. Butterfield, ill finally extend recognition to the lumbee tribe of North Carolina. He lumbee tribe resides
Im sorry kelly welcome to the program as vote counting continues more than 2 days after the u. S. Election Democrat Joe Biden is inching closer to the white house the momentum of most tallies an undecided states have swung in favor of Donald Trumps challenger lets have a look now at the latest figures which show the fighting with 264 electoral votes President Trump with 214 lets go down to georgia where 16 electoral votes are up for grabs and it is an extremely tight race here bitin polling ahead of trump with just over 900. 00 votes 99 percent of the votes are counted there meantime in pennsylvania it is the biggest. Prize get to be decided 20 electoral votes at stake donald trump currently holding a narrow 3 tenths of a percent lead that gap though however has been narrowing rapidly and arizona votes are still being counted but the a. P. News agency has called the state for biden most other Media Outlets have not called it yet elect 11 Electoral College votes are at stake there which
Welcome to squawk box. Im becky quick along with joe kernen and Andrew Ross Sorkin. Futures are indicated higher this morning, triple digit gains for the dow up by about 167 points but yesterday was a big down day for the markets. Dow was down by over 400 points, 1. 4 the s p and nasdaq done evz nasy even more. This morning s p indicated up by about 25 and nasdaq looks like it would open up by over 100 points fairly significant obviously everybody watching what will be happening with the stimulus talks with the deadline that nancy pelosi has said for later today. Lets take a look at the treasury markets ahead of that, you will see that the ten year looks like it is yielding 0. 777 so a little stronger yields for the treasury markets right now but andrew, obviously washington is where people are watching and that is exactly where well go because House Speaker nancy pelosi and Steve Mnuchin are saying that they are making progress in their latest stimulus talks with time running short of
Visit arlington to see the contents with tim frank and caitlin smith. To talk about this memorabilia box, we really have to take you back to 1864 in order to bring you forward to 1915. In 1864 we buried the first soldier here in maine. And then the secretary of war set aside 200 acres to become a national cemetery. By the end of the civil war there were 15,000 confederate soldiers buried here as well as union soldiers. And general john logan established Decoration Day, she declared may 30 of every year. The idea is that people would visit the graves and place flowers. Decoration day became a more real day. It became so popular that in 1873, quartermaster general Montgomery Meigs held to Decoration Day ceremony and at the time it became a small venue. Every year thousands of people would show up to arlington. One year we found that 25,000 people showed up to decorate the graves read in 1913, congress authorized this memorial empathy under that we are standing in. And in 1950 as part of
We begin on this sunday with the new numbers on covid19 as the 0 weh toll surpasses 800,00 are dividing. The eastern or pacific 202 7488002, those in the ,ountain region 202 7488001 those in the western regions 202 7488000. Passingh toll is now 800,000. In thethe pandemic began past week nine out of 10 countries with the most deaths per capita have been in south and Central America or the caribbean. In the United States, they have her in your sevenday average of about 1000 per day or two deaths , with more than 175,000 deaths recorded to date. Midwest,ee the south, and out west in california and parts of washington state. The political gridlock over this continues with this from House Speaker nancy pelosi. The house and the senate still not in agreement on the steps moving forward. [video clip] daysmorrow will be 100 since we passed the heroes act. It is even more urgent for us to have the values this is not a discussion about just dollars. It is about values and how we value the healt