We can and hold these families in our prayers. Thank you. Back live now on capitol hill where the House Appropriations committee is returning from its lunch break. They continue work on 2021 a spending bill. Live coverage here on cspan2. Mistaken at the best of times. They are unconscionable in the midst of a pandemic. I want to remind my colleagues that foodstamp spending is a powerful anti recession tool and has previously been estimated that for each dollar spent from benefits a dollar 70 is generated in economic activity. Let me say thank you again to chairman bishop, Ranking Member and their leadership and other areas of the bill. Their strong investments to ensure the continued availability and safety of the nation food supply as well as language designed to protect the health and safety of workers in our meatpacking plants and our poultry plants as well as the farmworkers who are out in the field every single day. I thank you very, very much that all of the attention youve paid
And nays are ordered. The clerk will report the title of the bill. The clerk h. R. 292, a bill to extend a project of the federal Energy Regulatory commission involving the cannonsville dam. 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 400 and the nays are 1. 2 3 being in the affirmative, the rules are suspended and the rules are passed and without objection, the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. The Unfinished Business is the vote on the motion of the the gentleman from michigan, mr. Upton, to suspend the rules and pa
Returning foreign fighters. Held by the Washington Institute, this is an hour and a half. Good afternoon everybody. Welcome to the Washington Institute for mideast policy. Im not let it, i directed the program on counterterrorism and intelligence at the institute and im pleased to welcome you all for the latest in our stein counterterrorism lecture series. Today were going to discuss islamic terrorism in the west and we have a fantastic panel for you. We will start with dick schoof who served as National Coordinator for security and counterterrorism in the netherlands since spring 2013. His responsibility for crisis management, Cyber Security and related efforts and briefly served as director general of the police force and played a role in creating European Unions roadmap to information sharing. We then have some comments by myself and by my two friends from colleagues, muhammad fraserrahim and Farah Pandith. Mohammed is the new executive director for north america for the londonbased
Mr. Thornberry mr. Speaker, i want to start by thanking the 63 members of the Armed Services committee, not only for all of their work in putting this bill together but for the seriousness with which they take our duties under the constitution to help provide for the common defense. Our members dont always agree, but were able to work our way through our differences most of the time and think about the larger cause. You might say we sacrifice some of our individual differences or preferences in order to support the men and women who sacrifice so much for us. And i want to thank all the members of the house. Weve had a lot of members over the last two days who have come down to the floor and talked about their amendments. Who have and all of those amendments have helped make this bill a better bill. And thats the way that for 54 straight years congresses of majorities of both parties and president s of both parties have defense bill, a last year was a little iffy but its happened. There
A senator mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from colorado. Mr. Gardner i ask the quorum call be vitiated. The presiding officer without objection. Under the previous order, the Senate Stands in recess until 2 15 p. M. And the senate and a break for weekly party meetings. When they returned at 2 15 p. M. Eastern they are expected to take a procedural vote on shortterm government funding. Current funding expires at the end of the month. The vote has been rescheduled twice as lawmakers work off afford to come to an agreement to move forward. For more details on where things stand we spoke earlier with the capitol hill reporter. Host nancy is a reporter for bloomberg. She reports on appropriations. Its less than two weeks before the deadline of the government funding could shut down. Whats the latest you hearing about the status of negotiations for the continuing resolution, a short term fix . Guest the status was the same as the status yesterday. And that they were close t