Thank you madam speaker. I would also like to thank many of my colleagues for the opportunity to not only speak today at but the many members from both sides of the aisle who have reached out to me in support following an incident earlierr this week. About two days ago i was walking up the steps of the capitol one representative yoho suddenly turned a corner and he was accompanied by representative Roger Williams. He accosted me on the steps right here in front of our nations capitol. I was minding my own business walking up the steps and representative yoho put his finger in mydi face and he they called me disgusting. He called me crazy. He called me out of my mind and he called me dangerous. And then he took a few more steps and after i had recognized his comments as rude he walked away and said im rude . Your policy as rude. I took a few steps ahead and walked inside to cast my vote. My constituents sent me here each and every day and to make sure they are able to keep a roof over t
Issue of mailin voting and whether you think it is a safe and trustworthy alternative to in person voting. Cane lines are open, you join in on the conversation. Republicans, 202 7488001. Democrats, 202 7488000. If you are an independent, 202 7488001. You can also send us a tweet, cspanwj, or join us on facebook, journal cspan. Org facebook. Reuters, negotiations continuing into the weekend with this from yesterday, secretary of state mnuchin taking up this role. [video clip] wetheres a subset of issues agree on, we are interested in extending enhanced unemployment insurance, schools, jobs, as you mcconnell hasr said several times, Liability Insurance is important to us. Ppp, theres a lot of bipartisan support. We discussed the issues we agree on and the issues that we dont agree on. I would characterize it as their still being a lot of work to do and we agreed that tomorrow the staff will meet and make additional progress. Of specificnch followup items and then monday, chief meadows an
And april, we had at that point added about 3 trillion to the national debt. We then of course ended up with a debt the size of our economy for the First Time Since world war ii, which is concerning. I said i thought we needed to push the pause button. I began to see the impact of the cares act and related acts that passed during that time. See how we did when the economy began to reopen and take another look at what the country needed in july. Senate republicans and the administration have been consulting over the last few weeks to come up with a realistic proposal with what we think is an appropriate amount of Additional Debt to be added to the economy at this time. We think it is about a trillion dollars. We have allocated that in a way that we think makes the most sense for the country at this particular time. It will include liability urance, which senator liability protections, which senator cornyn is going to describe. There will not be a bill that passes the senate but does not
On twitter or facebook. Lets start with yesterdays hearing. Chairman of the house judiciary antitrust subcommittee kicking off this hearing in the opening remarks saying that he believes these Companies Need to be reined in. The practices have armful economic effects. They discourage entrepreneurship, destroy jobs, and degraded quality. Simply put, they have too much power. This power staves off new forms of competition, creativity, and innovation. While these firms produce individual products, the dominance is killing Small Businesses, manufacturing, and dynamism that our engines of the american economy. Several firms harvest and abuse peoples data to sell ads from everything to new books and dangerous miracle cures. They cant run away fast enough. There is no escape from the surveillance because there is no alternative. People are stuck with bad options. Open markets are predicated on the idea that if a company harms people, consumers, workers, and Business Partners will choose anoth
The speaker pro tempore on this vote the yeas are 223, the nays are 194. The amendments en bloc are adopted. Without objection, a motion to reconsider is laid on the table. Pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20, the Unfinished Business is the question amendments en bloc number on amendments en bloc number 3 printed in house report 116459 offered by the gentlewoman from new york. The clerk will redesignate the amendments en bloc. The clerk en bloc number 3, consisting of amendments 74, 76, 15, 25, 36, 68, 101, 89, 90, 95, 96, 112, 120 and 124 printed in house report 116459 offered by mrs. Lowey of new york. The speaker pro tempore the question is on the amendments en bloc offered by the gentlewoman from new york. Members will record their votes by electronic device. [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 pu