President yee good afternoon. Welcome to the january 21, 2020 special meeting of the San Francisco board of supervisors. Madame clerk, will you please call the roll. Fewer present. Haney present. Mandelman present. Mar present. Peskin present. Preston present. Ronen present. Safai present. Stefani present. Walton present. Yee present. Mr. President , you have a quorum. President yee thank you. Will you please join me in the pledge of allegiance. 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. President yee so, on behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff of sfgovtv, jessie and james. Who record each of our meetings and make the transcripts available to the public online. Madame clerk, any communications . None to report today, mr. President. President yee okay. So i want to thank all the Board Members for being here today. This is a special m
Global tugofwar. Critical tests. A spacecraft explodes minutes after launch. Why Todays Mission was a success. And a world war ii veteran finally gets the recognition he earned at 103 years old. Gods been good. Announcer this is the cbs overnight news. Welcome to the overnight news. Im omar villafranca. The countdown has begun to the Historic Senate trial of President Trump. It begins tomorrow morning. House managers who will prosecute the case against the president met on capitol hill sunday to work on strategy. Senators are getting ready for what could be a grueling few weeks listening to hours of testimony with no questions allowed. Ben tracy starts us off from the white house. Well be sitting there in our chairs probably on the order of six hours a day. Reporter senators are now preparing to be jurors, deciding in just weeks whether or not President Trump remains in office. Republicans dont have enough votes for a quick dismissal, but they are confident the president will be acquit
321 democrats, 191 republicans, one independent, with four vacancies. We take you live to the u. S. House here on cspan. The speaker the house will be in order. A call of the house is ordered to ascertain the presence of a quorum. Members will record their presence by electronic device. The speaker pro tempore on this roll call, 384 members have recorded their presence. A quorum is present. The chair has examined the journal of the proceed offings january 3, 2020, and announces to the house his approval thereof. Pursuant to clause 1, rule 1, the journal stands approved. Members, please carry your conversations off the floor. The pledge of allegiance will be led by the gentleman from new jersey, mr. Payne. Mr. Payne 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. The speaker pro tempore for what purpose does the gentleman from maryland seek recognition . Mr. Hoy
Representatives former florida senator, respected attorney become a person highly engaged in our community and the friends of the college, congressman lincoln deas. [applause] thank you, very much. It is a privilege for me to be here today to introduce a man that i have not met until today dance i already admired. Senator tom cotton was a student at Harvard Law School on september 11, 2001. One of the most tragic venice day of the internation. On that day tom cotton made the decision that he was going to serve the United States in uniform on the front lines. After law school he joined the 101st Airborne Division of the u. S. Army. When he volunteered for service the recruiter was taken by surprise. Tom cotton the harvard law graduate did not wish to be a jake lawyer, he wanted to be an infantry man, while serving here in the bronze star, the combat infantry man badge in the ranger he served in iraq and subsequently in afghanistan. After serving in iraq before serving in afghanistan he
Fy 20 National Defense authorization act. We appreciate the strong demonstration of support from the house and from the senate. This legislation is a big step forward. This will enable the department byadapt to challenges posed great powers. And i look forward to the signing of this into lot later today. Importantly, this authorization establishes the establishment of the space force. I want to think the president for the leadership of this historic initiative. It will posture us to defend our National Interest in space. The last time we developed a new branch of the military it was over 70 years ago when we separated the air corps from the army in 1947, creating the United States air force. Back then we saw how power had expanded during world war ii and we recognize the need for a Single Service to focus on the air domain. Similarly, reliance on space based capability has grown, and today it has evolved into a domain of its own. Maintaining american dominance is now the mission of the