House of january 3, 2019, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour ebate. 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 minority whip shall be limited to five minutes. The chair recognizes the gentleman from pennsylvania, r. Thompson, for five minutes. Mr. Thompson thank you, mr. Speaker. I rise to recognize july as park and recreation month. Its a fitting time to celebrate our local parks and recreation systems as so Many Americans will visit them this summer. An avid outdoorsman and spending my life as a recreational therapist, i enjoy our parks and facilities. It provides Educational Opportunities for individuals and families to enjoy the outdoors. This month recognizes the roles they play in lives of americans and contributions o
The house will be in order. This years cspan celebrates 45 years of covering Congress Like no other. Since 1979, weve been your primary source for capitol hill. Providing balanced, unfiltered coverage of government. Taking you to where the policies debated and decided, all with the support of americas cable companies. Cspan, 45 years and counting. Powered by cable. Now a discussion on technology and Government Policies featuring Biden Administration cabinet officials and members of congress. Speakers addressed the issues of Artificial Intelligence and a potential ban on the tiktok video app during their remarks. This is about two hours. All right. Welcome back, everyone. If youre coming in, grab a seat because youre not going to want to miss this. I think everyone in this room you probably have friends who dont know so tell them to make sure they know about our [indiscernible] im pleased to announce the first details of our upcoming a. I. Plus summit. So last year we did two summits. O
News overseas, where the search is on for irans president after his helicopter crashed. Staged, corrupt, and rigged, republicans are already attacking the president ial debate, a debate that has yet to happen. What are they so afraid of . The gops chances of winning control of the senate are higher than ever. What will democrats do about it . Lets do it. We start this hour with breaking news. The Search And Rescue efforts are underway for the iranian president after his helicopter suffered what officials have called a hard landing in the northeast portion of the country. Drones, dogs, and helicopters are part of the Search Effort as fog and treacherous weather continue to hamper them. The president was on board with high ranking members of his cabinet and other officials. Josh letterman is tracking the developments. Josh, what can you tell us about the current state of the search and whether or not there other countries involved in trying to find where the iranian president and that he
Video app during their remarks. This is about two hours. All right. Welcome back, everyone. If youre coming in, grab a seat because youre not going to want to miss this. I think everyone in this room you probably have friends who dont know so tell them to make sure they know about our [indiscernible] im pleased to announce the first details of our upcoming a. I. Plus summit. So last year we did two summits. One in june in washington, d. C. , here in this building, and one in San Francisco. And this year were going to do one, the first will be june 5 in new york. And then well be back in San Francisco on december 17. The reason these events matter, axios events are the ways that we continue our conversations with you, our audience, and news makers. It really does complement what were able to do each day. One of the things that i like is youre able to start a broad conversation, talk about the way things are going but then check back. Our next speaker wanted to come back to talk about ho
Difference for families. Also to make sure for family business, family farms, that kind of thing, Small Business, we double the estate tax, the death tax unified credit and we include the stepup in basis. Hugely important to make sure that you can transition a Small Business or a farm or ranch from one generation to the next. To save for college, we enable the 521 savings accounts to continue for parents that are saving for that college education. Another one thats very important is we encourage businesses to provide paid family and medical leave by giving them a tax credit to partially offset an employees pay while caring for a child or a family member. Other things that we keep in terms of deductions that are very important again to hardworking families. The mortgage interest deduction. We make sure that they can continue to deduct the interest on their home morning. The deduction of charitable contributions. Obviously very important for the greater good of our society, that people c