Extended period to get. I call this joint hearing of the power Projection Forces of the House Armed Services committee to order. We are here in honor and memory of the 7 uss fitzgerald sailors, shiancoe douglas, xavia martin, hsubien and the ten uss john s. Mccain sailors. Jacob drake, Timothy Echols, john, cory ingram, abraham lopez, Kenneth Smith and logan palmer. And we are very grateful that today we have miss rachel. Miss echols, we send our deepest sympathies and profound sorrow for your loss and appreciation for your sons service to our nation. I want to welcome members to todays hearing. I want to especially recognize that we have with us the committee chairman, thornberry, part of ongoing efforts to eliminate our military Readiness Challenges and thank him for leadership and being here today to hear about the challenges illuminated by the tragic collisions in the pacific. I also want to have a warm welcome to elizabeth from connecticut and congressman rodney davis from illinoi
Host the house will be in order. Puffer sunt to clause 8 of rule 20 the Unfinished Business is the volt on the motion of the gentleman from washington, mr. Reichert on h. R. 606. The clerning will report the title of the bill. The clerk h. R. 606 a bill to amend the Internal Revenue code to remove Public Safety officers and their dependents from gross income. The speaker pro tempore the question is, will the house suspend the rules and pass the bill . Members will record their votes by electronic device. This is a 15minute vote. [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 pro tempore the yeas are 410. The speaker on this vote 413 yeas, no nays. 2 3 being in the affirmative, the rules are suspended the bill is passed and
Higher tax revenues from both individuals and corporations in an improving economy combined with flat federal spending. Melissa, back to you. Melissa peter, thank you so much. I want to go to trader Teddy Weisberg at New York Stock Exchange to see how they are reacting to this. The market is slipping a little more right now. What is the mood like . It is a kind of a disappointing day, melissa. We started on the plus side. Gave that away pretty quick and were now trading near session lows, off a little more than that but down 180 points, pretty much at session lows. Concerns out of europe. Concerns about china. With the stock market that pretty much is priced to perfection, doesnt leave a lot of room for error. Melissa no, it doesnt. Look at different e 6 emails making round crossing trader desks, one that stand out is china. The idea that were suspicious of numbers coming out in terms of growth. Now more than ever, seems like we could have been greatly overestimating the power of china
Welcome to the viewers in the United States and around world. This is cnn newsroom. With the debate raging in washington over mail in voting and democrats accusing the Trump Administration of trying to sabotage the Postal Service the u. S. House speaker is taking action. Nancy pelosi calling on lawmakers to return this week to vote on legislation to protect the Postal Service and prevent any changes to level of service before the election. President trump flat out admitted he opposes at least some emergency funding for the system because he believes an up tick in mail in voting will favor democrats. This all comes with a Democratic National Convention Set to kick off in less than 24 hours. This will be a scaled down version of what were used to. Not crowds this year. Because of the coronavirus. Instead all the speeches and events will be done virtually from across the country. Later this week with joe biden accepting the democratic nomination for president. Over the next four nights we
We did a lot. Look, look. You know youre a fake, you know that, your whole network, the way you cover it, is fake. Frances president macron extends his countrys lockdown for another month but spain and italy allow some people back to work amid economic fears. Scientific advisers for the uk government are to meet later to review the impact of the lockdown measures but Officials Say therell be no early relaxation of the restrictions. Welcome to viewers in the uk and to viewers on bbc world. In the last half hour, the office for National Statistics has released figures for the total number of deaths in england and wales including deaths in the community. And also tax in care homes. Tests in care homes. According to the ons, more than 6,000 people have died in england and wales due to coronavirus. Thats up 15 on the number of deaths previously reported by the government, whose figures only include hospital deaths. It covers the period up until 3rd april. There have been outbreaks of covid