National Defense Authorization act, and a measure ealing with the boeing max 737 crashes. Requested votes will take place after 6 00 p. M. Eastern. Live coverage of the house here on cspan. The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by chaplain father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. Loving and gracious lord of mercy, we give you thanks for giving us another day. In this single week, after a Long Campaign season and before breaking once again for thanksgiving, bless the members of the peoples house with focus and purpose on the issues facing them. We ask your blessing as well on those newly elected who will be joining this assembly for the 117th congress. May their transition into office be smooth and marked by the civility of Democratic Change of government which is the rightful pride of the United States of america. Lord, our nation continues to be besieged by the plague of the coronavirus. Send your spirit of peace that our people might be bro
Ourselves . I do not believe that being first lady should prevent me from expressing my ideas. Betty ford spoke her mind, pro choice and a supporter of the equal rights amendment, she and president gerald ford openly discussed her experience with Breast Cancer, through much oher familys public life, she struggled with drug and alcohol dependency and confronting it defined her postwhite house years. Welcome to first ladies, influence and image. Tonight, well tell you the story of elizabeth ford, the wife of our 38th president , president gerald ford, and here for the nebs 90 minutes to tell her story is Richard Norton smith, president ial historian. If you have been watching our series, you know him. Hes an academic adviser for the whole project and hes launched a whole number of libraries, among them the gerald r. Ford. Along the way, you developed a relationship with the fords. In the interest of full disclosure, i try to be as objective as possible, but yeah, i was very fortunate to
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And being ready to adapt when hacked. Its unclear if the two suspects had been arrested or will be arrested in romania. Bryant street northeast, police found a man suffering from gunshot wounds. 21yearold henry was taken to the hospital where he later died. So far police are working with only a vague suspect description. Police are offering a 25,000 reward. And on worder street, two young people were shot and thats not too far from the pet metro station. One of the victims was a teenager and no word on the age of the other victim. Both victims were conscious and breathing when taken to the hospital. Putin submitted the putin is seeking his 4th president ial term. His Approval Rating is about 80 ahead of the march election. Andt today crews are rushing to fix a power outage in tune town and fantasy land. The park was near capacity when they had to escort passengers off a dozen rides and the park says a transformer is blamed for the outage. Dont feel bad for them because its 70 degrees a
Parts of maryland and virginia are slammed by the snow. But some parts have as much as 14 inches of snow, the highest total in our area are a little more than two inches. The majority of the area saw less than an inch. Why were the schools closed today . Stephen tschida is live in northwest asking parents if they thought Closing School was a good idea. Stephen . Stephen strong reaction to the question. Seton Elementary School is closed up tighter than a drum like a lot of schools in the region. But check out what is on the ground. Its not knee deep. So that is why a lot of parents are not thrilled with the rationale to close schools. The weather outside isnt frightful. Still inside the Trampoline Park its unusually business for a thursday. Virginia now, this is we get an inch and they cancel school. The kids springing in action instead of studying. Some parents scrammable to find ways to occupy the children. Others took them along with them. Improvising on unexpected day off. A lot of