Funding expires. Bills on energy and clean air and forced labor. Announced Ruth Bader Ginsburg will lie in state in statuary hall at u. S. Capitol friday. The ceremony will only be open [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc. , in cooperation with the United States house of representatives. Any use of the closedcaptioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u. S. House of representatives. ] the speaker the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by conroy. Plain, father chaplain conroy let us pray. Ord, merciful god, we give you thanks for giving us another day. E give you thanks for the life and work of justice ruth ginsburg. Americans be inspired to be their best selves because of her example. She rest in peace. Bless those throughout our ation who are suffering from the pandemic, fires, hurricanes, and flooding. Needs continue. Our political leaders to tend to those needs with sp
Withdrawing the amendment. If there is no further debate, the amendment we are back live at the House Appropriations committee. Theyre working on 2021 spending levels for the defense, commerce, justice and transportation department, as well as the department of housing and urban development. The markup is excited to go into the evening. You are watching live coverage on cspan. Chair lowey for what purpose does the member from california rise . The member of california . Thank you. I havent amendment at the desk have an amendment at the desk. Chair lowey the clerk will read the amendment. I ask unanimous consent to dispense of the reading. Chair lowey without objection, the reading of the amendment is dispensed with. Thank you. This amendment is straightforward. It would block a president from starting a war with iran absent expressed authorization from congress. This amendment consists of language that the house is already adopted as part of h. R. 550 in january of this year. Let me be
61,000 in the state of illinois. Sadly, we are quickly approaching a death toll of 100,000 americans, while more people continue to contract this coronavirus, another alarming trend has come to light. The coronavirus disproportionately affects minority communities. Black illinoisans make up less than 15 of the states overall population. However, they account for 34 of all coronavirus deaths. In chicago, black residents account for 52 of the total coronavirus deaths despite comprising only 30 of the citys population. Madam president , recently a survey of latinosat in illinois who make up 17 of our state population surpassed lack illinoisans in confirmed cases of coronavirus. Now latino illinoisans account for 23 of confirmed cases in the state, the most of any race or ethnicity. On a call last week i learned of the 34,000 africanamericans who had been tested in illinois, 36 were positive for coronavirus, of the 24,000 latinos tested 62 tested positive. 622 . Compare that to the 73,000
Francisco is preparing for what could be the First National election in the midst of a for struggling businesses. Global pandemic. That program ran out of funding more now from Christien Kafton last week. President trump said he would who says city leaders are sign the bill, which passed the calling for and preparing for senate by a voice vote without all senators being present. Everyone in San Francisco to vote by mail. Reporter americans im glad they seem to have reached some sort of agreement because the need is really traditionally vote for great out there. I hope we will also see some substantial improvements to the program. The house of representatives is not in president the first tuesday in session right now. November in this Election Year is no different. But what may be different is members though are being called how people cast their ballots. To fly back to washington to in light of the coronavirus vote on this stimulus measure pandemic, the chair of San Franciscos Democrat
Here on cspan2. The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Black, will lead the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Eternal god, your words are true. Guide our lawmakers with your precepts. Give them a passion for whatever is just, worthy, and honorable. Guide them to cultivate such reverence for your providence that they will repeatedly pray for your will to be done. Remind them that if they faint under pressure, then their strength is too small. Help them, therefore, to look to you, for you are able to doi am measurably, abundantly above all that they can ask or imagine, according to your power working in and through them. We pray in your powerful name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to our flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Mr. Grassley madam presi