As to when everything will be clear. And you can get by for the morning rush. Back to you. I knew there was bars on there and they wasnt able to get out through the upstairs. The upstairs was on fire and there was no basement door. And were hearing from two men who rescued their new maybes from a fire in Prince Georges County. Their quick thinking kept a story from aring a very different ending. Good morning, im eun yang. And im chris gordon in for aaron gilchrist. Flames erupted last night trapping two people and a child in the basement of their home. Megan mcgrath is at the scene with the incredible rescue story. More from her in a moment, but first we want to check in with chuck bell because the rain is starting to move in this morning. Yeah, still dry inside the city limits, but rain showers across parts of the Shenandoah Valley. Take a look on max 2. Weather headlines for today, rain finally back in the forecast. Weekend likely to start out with plenty of clouds on your saturday m
I will yield the balance of the time to dr. Harris. The Affordable Care act is the law of the land. Quite frankly, a reckless behavior on the part of the majority. What you have done is to shut this government down and instead of wasting time trying to play politics and instead of cherry picking important programs like the nih to fund, we should be working on the budget for the entire government. N the government and new and move to negotiations. With regard to healthcare issues, its important to note and thats why we should not be opening the government on a piecemeal basis. Comprehensive, short term continuing resolution that keeps the entire government open and at work. What other activities are engaged in health that you are bypassing or ignoring or dont believe they have any priority . Or dont believe they have any priority. Center for the Disease Control. Two thirds of their personnel are now on furlough. Important programs like protecting public health, going by the by. Monitori
To fund the government unless it is defunded. How many times have we heard delay, defund and all that little jingle they do . That is why we are here. And now we have people coming to the floor piously urging for funding for d. C. And young people and all this kind of stuff. You know, its as if they didnt know that when they shut down the government that d. C. And young people and n. I. H. Were going to be cut. Obviously they knew it. Did they just find out after they read their bill . No, they knew it. They knew it all the time. They know it now. And we can solve everyones problem by putting the clean c. R. On this moment. The speaker pro tempore the gentlemans time has expired. The gentlelady from connecticut reserves. The gentleman from georgia. Mr. Camp mr. Speaker, if i we have how much time left . The speaker pro tempore the gentleman has 2 3 4. The gentlelady from connecticut has 1 1 2. Mr. Camp mr. Speaker, i yield myself 30 seconds. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from g
Thank you for being here. Thank you to the men and women who serve our public. This is not only about the men and women who serve their country every day in the civilian work force and military, it is about the people we serve. We are their Public Servants. Lets be very clear about the shut down. Get three bytes of the apple in our constitutional system. You pass a bill or you defeated. You can challenge it in court. They lost that round out the Supreme Court. And then you can take it to the ballot box. It is over. Let us not hold the American People by defunding their government hostage. Nobody is going to agree to anything when a gun is that there had and that is precisely when a gun is that their heads and that is precisely what the republicans are doing. It will affect the lives of ordinary americans in every corner of this great country. For. Is what we are here we are committed to turning that around. We are inviting republicans who understand the consequences of join us in to pa
Our first panel of witnesses today. They are chairs of the National Endowment for the humanities and arts. Both witnesses are appearing for the first time before our subcommittee. Congratulations to both of you and your confirmation and thank you. Todays hearing provide us with a chance to hear more about the great work both endowments have done over the last couple of years and supporting our communities across the country economically, culturally and educationally. The National Endowment for the arts and humanities are a perfect example of how the federal government can be a positive force in communities large and small in every single state. In your statement following your confirmation, dr. Jackson, you said in addition to serving as an economic engine, arts and creativity are core to what it takes to heal our nation, communities and ourselves. I wholeheartedly agree. The fy 2020 three budget request for the National Endowment for the humanities is 200. 6 8 million 200. 68 million.