Quorum call quorum call mr. Mcconnell mr. President. The presiding officer the majority leader. Mr. Mcconnell i ask consent that further proceedings under the quorum call be dispensed with. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Mcconnell i ask unanimous consent that all debate time on h. R. 5430 expire at 11 00 a. M. Tomorrow. Further, prior to the expiration of debate time, it be in order for senator toomey or his designee to raise a budget point of order, and if a point of order is raised, it be in order for senator grassley or his designee to make a motion to waive the point of order. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Mcconnell for the information of all senators, this means that well have two roll call votes tomorrow morning at 11 00 a. M. I ask unanimous consent the senate be in a period of morning business with senators permitted to speak therein for up to ten minutes each. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Mcconnell i ask unanimous consent the senate
The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. The clerk the speakers rooms, washington, d. C. March 5, 2024. I hereby appointhe honorable Claudia Tenney to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, mike johnson, speaker of the house of representatives. Po pursuant to the order of the house of january 9, 2024, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority lea the chair will alternate recognition between the parties with time equally allocated between the parties and each member other t majority and minority leaders and the minority whip limited to five minutes, but in no event shall debate continue beyd 1 50 p. M. The chair recognizes the the gentleman from pennsylvania, mrm speaker. Madam speaker, i rise today to honor and thank and express my sincere gratitude for an Incredible Group of students at penn state university. This group of students has spent the last year
Publicly commit that medicare reductions would not be triggered, given the amount of fear, anxiety, and misinformation that is out there. I wrote to the Senate Majority leader urging that we immediately remove the threat of an automatic cut in medicares funding. In response, i am pleased to say both the majority leader and the speaker of the house released a joint statement that pledged this will not happen. And that is the issue before us tonight. Medicare provides essential Health Care Benefits to our nations seniors. We must remove immediately the threat that an automatic reduction in the programs funding could occur which would affect Health Care Providers and diminish access that beneficiaries, including our seniors and disabled individuals have to the services that they need. Earlier this month, the aarp sent a letter to the house and Senate Leadership alluding and supporting my inquiry and Warning Congress of the potential consequences. The letter says, quote, the sudden cut to
[captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2017] good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Im the ceo of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund. I will be your master of ceremonies today. It is my pleasure to be the first to welcome you to the veterans day ceremony at the wall. Before we begin the formal program, i would like to the gold starof family members we have with us here today. Fathers, wives, siblings, spouses, nieces, nephews, and sons and daughters in touch. All of those who experienced the loss of a loved one and know all too well of the sacrifices that our military families make. To those still waiting for the return of their loved ones who are listed as missing. Thank you for joining us. [applause] id also like to take a moment to thank the wall volunteers, they are the folks you see in the Yellow Jackets and hats. Of the Vietnam Veter
Are secure. And so we believe that we should increase funding for the department of defense, but we should also make sure that our schools have teachers. We should also make sure we have cops on the street. We should also make sure that our bridges arent falling down. Thats National Security as well. And its not too much to ask to make sure that our security is taken care of internationally and domestically as well. Let me give you a perfect example of how you cant just plus up defense spending and leave the rest of the budget unattended to. Okay, we love defense spending in connecticut. Why . Because we make a lot of bigticket items for the department of defense. We make the helicopters at sick tkor i ask. We at sikorsky. We make the submarines. Were proud of all of that. Let me tell you what happens at electric boat if you plus up pt Defense Department if you plus up the Defense Department at the expense of all the other discretionary accounts. Were going to be building a lot more su