Understanding that a businessman would have when hes about to the speaker the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by the guest chaplain, ms. Verna teller, southern tiwa, pueblo of isleta, new mexico. The chaplain o creator and great mother, having asked and received your permission to invoke your blessings today to all directions, to the east, north, west, south and the center we thank you for the life you give to all your children, the two legged ones, the four legged, those who live in the waters and those who watch over us from the skies above. Sacred pollen, sacred earth mother, sacred water that man fests your desires, o creator and great mother, we thank them for the nourishment they give us equally with no regard to race, color, or creed. Creator and great mother, bless those standing before you who carry a sacred trust to all of us who inhabit turtle island, our homeland, and i pray today that you will give them the wisdom and the courage to carry out their sacre
Also tomorrow, the senate is expected to vote on the 9 11 Victim Compensation fund. In the house, legislation on Retirement Savings plans and border security. Watch the house live on our companion network cspan2. Tomorrow, Christopher Wray will testify in a hearing. Live coverage will be on cspan 3, starting at 10 00 a. M. Coming up on wednesday, the former special Counsel Robert Mueller testifies before the House Judiciary Committee and the house intelligence committee. That will begin at 8 30 a. M. Eastern, live on cspan and on our companion network, cspan3. It will also be online at cspan. Org. Listen with the free radio app. In 1979, a Small Network with an unusual name rolled out a big idea. Let they make up their own minds. Cspan opened the doors to washington policymaking for all to see, bringing you unfiltered content from congress and beyond. A lot has changed in 40 years, but today that big idea is more relevant than ever. On television and online, cspan is your unfiltered vi
Any oral Opening Statements after the hearing are limited to the chairman and the ranking vicer, the vice chair and Ranking Member this allows us to hear from our witnesses sooner and helps members keep their schedule. I am told that votes are expected in 30 minutes. We will recess for those of votes than we will come back as soon as we can get that series finished. I apologize for the inconvenience but sometimes that is the way we have to do things. Thanks to everyone for joining us to discuss International Trophy hunting today. Trophy hunting can be an incredibly divisive issue. Americans, it can be deeply disturbing to see photos with slainposing lions, elephants, or charismatic animals. Many believe the trophy hunting typically done by extremely wealthy individuals is different in character than the responsible sustainable hunting and angling traditions that are so widely embraced in our country. Illicitunting elicits mixed feelings even in sportsmans country. That is often the mos
College athlete and then went on to play in the nfl and has strong feelings and opinions about these issues and has pointed out very eloquently that we have problems out there as mr. Miller pointed out that need to be addressed. What brought this hearing together was the action of a regional director of the National Labor board who suggested these athletes are employees and therefore could, if they chose, vote to join a union. So we explored some of the possible downsides of that issue. We heard from witnesses here that talked about how would this deal with class attendance and practice times, attending games, how many games, what about walkon players, or universities that are public and dont fall under the National Labors act and a host of potential problems. I appreciate the testimony of the witness today as we start to explore that. I dont think there is a person on this committee that doesnt agree we need to address the issues we talked about. The question is is unionization of som
Cspans 2014 student cam competition is under way. This competition for middle and High School Students will award 150 prizes. Create a five to seven minute documentary on the topic, the three branches and you. Videos need to include cspan programming, show varying points of view and be submitted by january 20, 2015. Go to studentcam. Org for information. Grab a camera and get started today. Tonight on cspan, American History tv examines spying in the u. S. Well start at 8 00 with a tour of the cia museum. Then a look at spying during the civil war. After that german espionage against the u. S. During world war ii. Later a conversation about the soviet and u. S. Spies of the cold war. This weekend on the cspan networks. Tonight at 9 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan, a Memorial Service for president reagans press secretary james brady. Saturday at 9 00 p. M. Eastern former secretary of state colin powell talks about world affairs. Sunday evening at 8 00 on q a, author Robert Timburg talks about