Gaveltogavel coverage of the u. S. House. Members will begin work on an bill. R trading live now to coverage of the u. S. House here on cspan. The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father con rye. Chaplain conroy let us pray. God of wisdom, we give you thanks for giving us another day. Prior to the great compromise, Benjamin Franklin addressed the constitutional convention. Quote, we indeed seem to feel our own want of political wisdom since we have been running about in search of it. This situation of this assembly, groping, as it were, in the dark, to find political truth and scarce able to distinguish it when presented to us, have we now forgotten our powerful friend . Lord, you are the powerful friend referred to by franklin and we turn again to you to ask that your wisdom might break through the political discussions of these days. Bless the members of the peoples house and all of congress with the insight and foresight to
For some an apology simply isnt enough. Youre not giving up any compensation at all. You are continuing to work and make 30 million a year after these horrific to accidents that made all these people go to disappear, to die. Are we entering a new age of global revolution . Wherever we look right now there seem to be riots and demonstrations. Why . What is driving it . And are there any common themes . Plus. Trick or treat. It is halloween tomorrow well show you the minion moment that had one man wondering where to put the sweets. Hello and welcome, i am Christian Fraser in london, Michelle Fleury is in washington. In the run up to a general election, mps normally tell you they are ready and eager for the fight. There will be days spent polishing the stump speech, nervous calls to party hq for money and help, and weeks of door to door canvassing. But this year, there is a suprising number that have already announced they are turning their back on westminter, 57 by this afternoon, have d
[inaudible conversations] okay. Greetings, everyone. My name is ted. Im the editor of Frederick Douglass in brooklyn and a professor of journalism. At st. Josephs college in clinton hill here in brooklyn. I want to welcome you to the brooklyn book festival paneland assure you that books for sale are available in the courtyard after the panel. The authors will be deeply grateful for your support. Our panel today includes mr. Matt tie even by. Taibbi who is a Rolling Stone Kole Jim Nuss and hi latest book is hate inc. The next is jonathon mettle. Hi book is dying of whiteness and also a professor of sociology and psychiatry at vanderbilt university. And to my right, the president of new american leaders, an organization that promotes the incoming new immigrants into politics and her book is people like us, the in the wave of candidates knocking at democracys door. Thought we would start with a moment of silence for bill deblasios president ial campaign. And now continue. So, well start w
Democrats, democrat votes 216, republicans 64 in favor of this, totalling 280. 150 people voting against. This is over the budget deal that Speaker Nancy Pelosi worked out with the white house that earlier today, had a lost House Republicans skeptical whether or not they could support it because of the price tag. It did reach a spending cap agreement for two years and suspended the debt ceiling until july 2021. It has passed the house now so that means they kick it to the senate and the senate has its own batch of skeptics but sources i talked to familiar with gop leadership on the senate side tell me they are confident they too have the votes, at least a broad consensus among republicans and democrats to get it through the senate and then put it on the president s desk, who was a wild card really until this morning, when he encouraged House Republicans on twitter to vote in favor of this bill, saying he is totally in support of this budget deal. So we are expecting if everything goes
Good to see you. It was great hearing from you. The 1776 revolution and to the truth, this is the man who is going to bring it for us right here. Lets give it up for vivek ramaswamy. Good to see you. So glad you are here. Mr. Ramaswamy it is good to be here. Thank you for your service, sir. Another hand for my friend, how about that. A brainiac. I love people with brains that can see beyond the surface. One of the things we do not do anymore in this country share our thoughts in the open. You want to know how well we are doing as a country echo here is the metric that matters. It is not the number of ballots thank that get casts, the best measure of american democracy is the percentage of people who fill free to say what they actually think in public. Right now, we are doing poorly. We can do better and the only way we are going to do it, is all of us, not just me, all of us starting to talk openly again. That is what we are going to do tonight. I want to tell you my story, while we ar