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. October 31, 2019. I hereby appoint the honorable paul tonko to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, nancy pelosi, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore the prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. Haplain conroy let us pray. Dear god, we give you thanks for giving us another day. We ask your special blessing upon the members of this peoples house. They face difficult decisions in difficult times with many forces and interests demanding their attention. Give them again rossity to enter into their work generosity to enter into their work. May they serve you in the work they do as you deserve. Give of themselves and not count the cost, fight for what is best for our nation and not count the political wounds. Toil until their work is done d not seek to rest and labor without
Today with senator mcconnell, and the purpose of the resolution is to let the house know that the process you are engaging in regarding the attempted impeachment of President Trump is out of bounds. It is inconsistent with due process as we know it. It is a star chamber type inquiry and a substantial deviation with what the house has done in the past regarding impeachment of other residents. One i can speak of firmly is the impeachment of president clinton. So what i want to highlight here no, this one. In 2019, congressman al green wanted to open up an impeachment inquiry, which is the right way to do it, by the way. 137 democrats voted with the g. O. P. Against impeaching President Trump. Not one republican for an inquiry, and whats happened is that the attempt to open up an inquiry of impeachment against President Trump failed miserably so they created a new process that i think is very dangerous for the country. Instead of the judiciary looking at a potential impeachable offense, t
Republican colleagues signed the resolution and said more would do so. Senator graham also spoke briefly of a military plane for syria and isis fighters. Sen. Graham you get overtime. I apologize. Starts over here . Ok, thank you very much. I have introduced a resolution today with senator mcconnell, and the purpose of the resolution is to let the house know that the process you are engaging in regarding the attempted impeachment of President Trump is out of bounds. It is inconsistent with due process as we know it. It is a star chamber type inquiry and a substantial deviation from what the house has done in the past regarding impeachment of other president s. One i can speak of firmly is the impeachment of president clinton. So what i want to highlight here no, this one. In 2019, congressman al green wanted to open up an impeachment inquiry, which is the right way to do it, by the way. 137 democrats voted with the g. O. P. Against impeaching President Trump. Not one republican for an
Host kevin weems and of the National Review, the latest book is called the smallest minority independent thinking in the age of mob politics. In this book you write that i come not to praise democracy but to bury it. Guest i dislike and reject the idea something becomes better or more important or more respectable just because more people adhere to it, a a certan idea, a certain point of view. Often its weird being a writer but that because writers are treated as politician. Sometimes people say who do to speak for . Hoosier constituency . Who do represent . I always say nobody. Im not running for office. We live in a time of politics as team sports, and a team sports aspect has really displaced almost everything else, all the other intellectual content, all the policy considers a trip consideration, tribal tribe action and its a question of whose game is bigger. I dont think its necessarily something that shows anything about whether an idea is good or not. The fact 50 of the populati
And into the fryer good thursday morning welcome to squawk alley. Were at post nine of the new york stock exchange. Dow is down 91 currently the worst drop of the year so far. The big news today though, amazon announcing the finalist for the hq2. We have details. Good morning, carl. And lets go straight to a map of the 20 contenders youll see that most of the locations, they fall in the midwest, south, and east coast of the country away from amazons current home of seattle and the west coast in general where most of the Biggest Tech Companies are. The only city from this coast, the west coast on that list is los angeles. And the only city outside the u. S. Is toronto, canada. It has tons of engineering talent close by. An interesting candidate given the current political environment. Now other contenders include cities that already have ties to amazon or jeff bezos like austin and washington, d. C. , and where he himself bought a home last year the other cities on the list like boston,