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Passed after members adopted the rules for debate on two other bills, which included a 1. 2 trillion Senate Infrastructure Package and voting rights legislation. Up next, a look at some of the Floor Debate before the vote. Rules committee met and reported a rule, House Resolution 601, providing for consideration of three measures. First, the rule provides for consideration of h. R. 4, under a closed rule. The rule provides one hour of debate equally divided and controlled by the chair and the ranking Minority Member of the committee on the judiciary or their designee. The rule selfexecutes a Managers Amendment from chairman nadler, provides one motion to recommit, and provides the Judiciary Committee with the authority to insert in the congressional record explanatory material related to h. R. 4, no later than august 24. The rule also provides for consideration of the Senate Amendment to h. R. 3684. The rule makes in order a motion offered by the chair of the committee on Transportatio
The eastern Prop Vince Enough Anderson is still in the threat of another Terror Attack in kabul. Troops are before chewed Tuesdays Deadline. Two hours, ago the u. S. Embassy in afghanistan issued another Security Alert urging citizens to avoid for Airport Gates at the kabul airport. During a Morning Meeting Today with his national security team, President Biden was told another attack in kabul is likely but that measures are being taken to protect u. S. Forces at the capitol airport. Earlier today, as he spoke of yesterdays bombing, that killed 13 u. S. Service members, biden spoke of the evacuation efforts. The mission there is dangerous. It is now its come with significant loss of american personnel. But it is a worthy mission because they continue to evacuate folks out of that region, out of the airport. Evacuated more than 12,000 additional people out of the airport in the last 24 hours. Tonight the White House says that since august 14th, the u. S. Has evacuated more than 109,000
Going to take to find out what happened . It will take talking to a lot of people, thorough investigations. We want to do this expeditiously. We dont want to drag this out. But we want to know i think is kind of like the shot we have as a country to get answers to what led up to it, what really happened and what happened in the aftermath. And so i would expect to see a significant number of subpoenas for a lot of people. Would you support subpoenas to the republican leader in The House and to Jim Jordan . I would support subpoenas to anybody that can shed light on that. If thats the leader, thats the leader. And in those Comments Kinzinger is echoing comments from the chairman of the committee, Bennie Thompson, who says they will not hesitate to subpoena members of congress. From the Washington Post reporting, quote, the leaders of the House Committee investigating the January 6 attack on the capitol are promising a vigorous inquiry into a day they have called a threat to american demo
Lives. We have a lot of members feeling frustrated trying to do the jobs they were elected to do. The internal mechanisms we previously relied upon to help us solve institutional problems are not working. Maybe it is time to consider new ideas. Maybe congress can learn from techniques of experts who work closely with opposing factions on corporate boards, foreign governments, rival gangs and within families. I am looking forward to hearing what our Witnesses Today recommend. The select committee will make use of committee rules we adopted this year that give us flexibility to experiment without we structure our hearings to the goal is to encourage thoughtful discussion and a civil exchange of ideas and opinions. In accordance with Clause 2j of House Rule 11, we allow 30 minutes of extended questioning for each witness and without a section, the two hours will not be segregated between witnesses and members. Vice chair timmons and i will manage time to ensure every member has an equal o