Sanitation and water crisis on the streets of guys that will be reporting on how diseases are spreading across the street from it, fears of color and ukraine issues restrictions on passports from military age men outside the country to address a shortage of troops at home. The restore at this news hour with the student protests in the United States. The camp setup at Columbia University in new york and solidarity with palestine as turned into a movement that spread across to the United States to europe and beyond students or demanding their schools divest from israel and columbia. They are promising to maintain their encampment until their demands are met. The universities have made several offers, promising to examine and review the investments. But its not enough for the students more than 550. 00 protesters have been arrested so far. Today is day 203 of genocide for palestinians in gaza and nearly 75 years of colonial violence from the apartheid state of israel and a meant anguish f
View o governmt. We are funded by these telesi companies and more, including cox. This syndrome is extremely rare. Hi but friends dont have to be. This is joe. When you are connected, you are not alone. Cox support cspan as a Public Service along with these other television dividers giving you a front row seat to democracy. The house today passing a shortterm 45day government funding measure that includes Disaster Relief and continues current spending on ukraine. Here is a look at the debate. Ths ago when republicans took back the majority in the house, our commitment was to regular order for proceedings. No more omnibus measures released in the dead of night, no more Christmas Eve votes on thousands of pages of texts that members of congress have not read. Unfortunately, there were a few stumbling blocks as we sought to change the process. For example, the administrations budget request was more than a month late. It then took months for the president to come to the table on the debt
Powered by cable. U. S. Defense secretary general lloyd austin announced an additional 6 million security assistant package through the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative and called it the largest security assistant package the u. S. Has committed today. He made that announcement to reporters at the pentagon after he and the joint chiefs of staff tarek met privately with ukrainian president zelenskiy and members of the Ukraine Defense Contract Group. Good morning and thank you everyone for being here today. It is my pleasure to introduce Territorial Defense lloyd austin roman 3rd, and general of the joint chiefs of staff general charles brown, jr. We will have time to dig a few questions. I will moderate these questions and, and journalists and due to time constraints, we ask that the site, plan to limit their questions to give your call is a chance to answer questions. My first question for you is, who pulled the fire alarm . [laughter] ok. [laughs] well, i didnt. But, thanks for
Recognition . Madam speaker, i move the house suspend the rules and pass h. R. 5860. The speaker pro tempore the clerk will report the title of the bill. The clerk h. R. 5860, a bill making continuing proceedings for fiscal year 2024 and for other purposes. The speaker pro tempore pursuan t to the rule, the gentlewoman from texas, ms. Grainger, and the gentlewoman from connecticut, ms. Delauro, each will control 20 minutes. The chair recognizes the gentlewoman from texas. Ms. Grainger i rise in support of h. R. 5860, a bill that keeps the government open until november 17. While id rather be speaking on the hill about final Appropriations Bills, i want members to understand what passing the short term funding bill today is so important. First i want to explain how we find ourselves in this situation. Just nine months ago when republicans took back the majority in the house, our commitment was to regular order for proceedings. No more omnibus measures released in the dead of night, no m
While id rather be speaking on the hill about final Appropriations Bills, i want members to understand what passing the short term funding bill today is so important. I want to explain how we find ourselves in this situation, just nine months ago house, our commitment was to regular order for proceedings. No more omnibus measures released in the dead of night, no more Christmas Eve votes on thousands of pages of texts that members of congress have not read. Unfortunately, there were a few stumbling blocks as we sought to change the process. For example, the administrations budget request was more than a month late. It then took months for the president to come to the table on the debt ceiling negotiations. But even before the debt sealing agreement spending framework was in place, the Appropriations Committee got to work. In fact, this year we held more than 70 hearings. We reviewed roughly 80,000 requests for members. We listened and then we acted. We began markups in may five months