Leading up to the vote. Nized. Mr. Butterfield thank you, mr. Speaker. I bring this legislation to the floor today on behalf of the committee on house administration. I want to thank our chair, congresswoman zoe lofgren, for her leadership. I thank Ranking Member rodney davis for his friendship and leadership on our committee. Thank you, mr. Davis. I said this to you privately, thank you for the spirit in which you have approached this important but delicate issue. Recognizing the issue of removing confederate statues from the capital has been simmering for years. Since i recognize that, ill now approach the issue today with the utmost respect for those who are opposed to the goal of the legislation. But, but i ask the dissenters to consider that america has been a divided nation since its founding. And its past time for us to close this chapter of American History that remove statues that depict an era that caused enormous pain to africanamerican citizens. Mr. Speaker, as you, i grew
That converted the selloff into a rally. Then came news that European Manufacturing is recovering rapidly from the virus lockdown. That helped the market. Look at it go. The dow is going to be up close to 300 points at the open. The s p, 31. The nasdaq, very solid gain, 70 points. Now, heres another reason for the rally. Big tech, it continues its run. You are looking at premarket prices for apple, microsoft, facebook and netflix, amongst others, all four hit record highs monday. The big tech surge dominates the market. Big tech is pushing higher. Investors this morning ignoring scenes like this. Chaos in d. C. Last night. Right outside the white house, demonstrators vandalized a church, they tried to pull down the statue of Andrew Jackson and they also tried to establish their own seattlelike autonomous zone. This is happening in our Nations Capital right in the center of government. The president s had something to say about this. He obviously doesnt like it. But no word yet from joe
Politicians from holding their 1st parliamentary session in a month. In sports there is in a recurring returns as manager of spain the former barcelona boss returning to the job 5 months after the death of his baby daughter. The United Nations says israeli settlements in occupied palestinian territory. A breach of International Law thats after a u. S. Decision to not longer consider israeli settlements and legal well russia has also reaffirmed at stars that the settlements are illegal while palestinians have been condemning the decision israels Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu went to the west bank he celebrated the announcement as a quote huge achievement that fixed a wrong rosalyn jordan reports from washington d. C. For 41 years the u. S. Has called israeli settlements built in the occupied west bank illegal under International Law that u. S. Policy changed on monday calling the establishing of civilian settlements inconsistent with International Law hasnt worked it hasnt invents t
Information ok. And and ultimately the Vice President went to canada for a u. S. M. C. I. Event thats right during this. This window of time correct correct so its entirely conceivable that the president decided that he wanted the Vice President to go to canada on behalf of u. S. M. C. A. Instead of doing anything else correct im really not a position to speculate what the motivations were behind the president s decision you know the various president s and quite a bit of us m. C. A. Events correctly yesterday and are you aware of whether the. Any one of the state department inquired with your office about the Vice President s availability for the trip to canada for the trip at what point. Early may may be may 8th. I i was on volved in the trip planning for canada and one of my colleagues who covers western hemisphere was in charge of that song not aware of specific ok requests about the Vice President s bill dudley i was aware from my colleague who is planning the trip that we had com
First of all, thank you for having me. What has surprised me about the process and it probably should not have been a big surprise but it was great to see it up close. The voters in the early states really do take this process very seriously. And so, that has been a very positive surprise in terms of the engagement of the voters in the early states. And i think of other americans could see that, they would be much more comfortable with the early state process we engage in. What surprised me on the negative was the fact that it seems like a kind of social media primary has been inserted ahead of the iowa caucus and the New Hampshire primary. In other words, the race got very nationalized very early. There is no invisible primary . That is right. To some extent historically, the early states really were the first indication in terms of what voters are thinking that things like what the dnc did with the debate rules and requiring candidates to have a certain number of small donors that ki