Is about to begin their day. The speaker pro tempore the house will come to order. House ir lays before the a communication from the speak er. The clerk the speakers rooms, washington, d. C. December 18, 2017. I hereby appoint the honorable john j. Duncan jr. To act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, paul d. Ryan, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the 2017, the nuary 3, chair now wreck will now recognize members from lists by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties. All time shall be equally allocated between the parties and in no event shall debate continue beyond 1 50 p. M. Each member other than the majority and minority leaders and minority whip shall be limited to five minutes. The chair now recognizes the gentleman from kansas, doctor marshall, for five minutes. Mr. Marshall mr. Speaker, i rise today to celebrate what believe to be the most
Well take your calls and you can join the conversation on twitter. Nd is next. N journal [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2017] it is monday december 18, 2017. One week until christmas, and the selfimposed deadline for congress to pass tax reform. Good morning and welcome to washington journal. Well spend the first part of the program asking you about the anticipated action on capitol hill this week and passage of the republican tax reform plan. Your message to congress as that. Et set to do heres how weve divided the phone lines for the conversations for the first part of the program. 50,000 a under that. Year. Year the numbers are on your screen. As always we welcome your comments on facebook, cspan and send us a tweet. Well get to your calls momentarily. The headline this morning. A look at the front page of the Washington Times and their preview of the days ahead. Host youre first up this morning. Welcome. Ca
Guiding principles. You might think of it as a framework for National Security rather than a blueprint for action host one of the headlines we are seeing this morning on the speech coming up today at 2 00 p. M. Eastern is that trump will discuss trading borders and ignore Climate Change and announce a new strategy. What are some of the notable elements in the strategy that you are hearing of guest one thing you just mentioned that i think is correct, there will perhaps be an unusual amount of emphasis on Border Control and also it appears that there will be more of a change in the way, in some cases semantic or terminology in the way that major powers like russia and china are described. One interesting aspect of this is although this is going to be presented as a new strategy and in some ways its very much in line with what previous president s have followed, in fact, when it comes to russia for example, russia and china both will be copresented in the context of a new great power str
Semester, Robert Woodson, remind us again about the role of affirmative action in education . Place . It put into guest the whole issue of race and affirmative action those of us like myself, a veteran of the civil rights action, we fought to end discrimination. We were trying to level the playing field. We wanted equal opportunity to achieve. Affirmative action was put into place in certain situations to be a temporary measure. For instance, in a town with 50 people inthere are the Fire Departments and police than i think you have to take remedial action to remedy that. But it should not be a Transportation System and that is what we have done. We have morphed it into a Transportation System. The gainsonsequence, of the Civil Rights Movement has been perverted and hijacked by people who are using this as a crygeon against those who racism at every turn. Host give us an example of those instances where you say it is being used . Yes go in the education system. The Obama Administration
The house will resume proceedings on postponed questions at a later time. For what purpose does the gentleman from kansas seek recognition . Mr. Speaker, i move the house suspend the rules and pass the bill h. R. 3759 as amended. The speaker pro tempore the clerk will report the title of the bill. The clerk h. R. 3759, a bill to provide for the establishment and maintenance of a family caregiving strategy, and for ther purposes. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the rule, the gentleman from kansas, mr. Estes, and the gentleman from connecticut, mr. Courtney, each will control 20 minutes. The chair recognizes the gentleman from kansas. Mr. Estes mr. Speaker, i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material on h. R. 3759. The speaker pro tempore without objection. Mr. Estes mr. Speaker, i rise day in support of h. R. 3759, the recognize, assist, include, support, and engage Family Caregivers act o