Were waiting for todays briefing to get under way with press secretary sean spicer. He was expected about 25 minutes ago. Obviously, running a bit late at the white house. Reporters in place waiting for the press secretary to appear. The house and senate are both in today. You can watch the house on cspan. The senates live on cspan2. Government funding will run out tomorrow night meaning without congressional action the government would shut down. We are expecting the house to take up a oneweek extension of government funding. A house vote on that bill could come today or tomorrow. Then it would have to be passed along or passed by the senate and then signed by the president. Meanwhile, House Republicans also want to take up legislation to repeal the Affordable Care act. That could come as early as next week. Again, you can watch the house and senate on our companion networks cspan and cspan2. Here on cspan3 waits for the White House Briefing. It should get under way in a few moments.
Vote on in the senate . Guest they are not. Earlierboat we all saw this week was for the motion to proceed. All that did was start a debate on the bill. , theret was a big hurdle was no actual legislation it was basically just a shell bill. Now, they have this whole process to fill in the bill. 20 hours of debate, but they can stop it and leave for the night and all these things. We still have 10 hours left. That is when you will see members go up and either say they are for it or against it. The bill that was basically the Senate Leadership bill tried to make rob portman and ted cruz happy nine gop senators voted against it. Yesterday, the straight repeal of obamacare failed. We are still in that debate stage. After that ends mothers something called after that ends, theres something called votearama. Saidnight, Chuck Schumer we are not going to do that. We are going to let republicans completely own it. We are not going to potentially offer a amendments that might make the bill a bit
Gavel in for the morning session, we will of course bring gavel to live for gavel coverage. Thanks for watching. Day. The rest of your 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. , july 27, 2017. I hereby appoint the honorable matt gaetz 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 3, 2017, 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 minority whip shall be limited to five minutes. The chair recognizes the gentleman from illinois, mr
Vote on in the senate . Guest they are not. Earlierboat we all saw this week was for the motion to proceed. All that did was start a debate on the bill. , theret was a big hurdle was no actual legislation it was basically just a shell bill. Now, they have this whole process to fill in the bill. 20 hours of debate, but they can stop it and leave for the night and all these things. We still have 10 hours left. That is when you will see members go up and either say they are for it or against it. The bill that was basically the Senate Leadership bill tried to make rob portman and ted cruz happy nine gop senators voted against it. Yesterday, the straight repeal of obamacare failed. We are still in that debate stage. After that ends mothers something called after that ends, theres something called votearama. Saidnight, Chuck Schumer we are not going to do that. We are going to let republicans completely own it. We are not going to potentially offer a amendments that might make the bill a bit
Afternoon. It is good to be back. You guys dont seem nearly as excited. I thought for sure there would be balloons. We will save that for next time, i guess. Are there this week from the president delivered his first primetime address to the nation on our path forward in afghanistan and south asia. His tragedy is based on conditions on the ground, not arbitrary timetables. It will ensure terrorists never again use afghanistan as a haven to attack united states. The brave women and men of our military have given extra nares sacrifices extraordinary sacrifices. The president recognized the sacrifices on monday at his speech. A gentleman from santa fe, letteree sent his son a nearly 10 years ago while he was serving our country in iraq. Now, his son is on his second were of duty in afghanistan and his father has generously shared the letter and mailed it to the president. Hes been a Police Officer for this30 years and he sent letter to his son and onto the white house in hopes that the pr