Mr. Mcconnell madam 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 move to refer the house message on h. R. 601 to the committee on appropriations with instructions to report back forthwith the presiding officer morning business is closed. Under the previous order, the senate will resume consideration of the house message to accompany h. R. 601 which the clerk will report. The clerk house message to accompany h. R. 601, an act to enhance the transparency and accelerate the impact of assistance provided under the foreign assistance act of 1961 and so forth and for other purposes. Mr. Mcconnell now, madam president , i move to refer to the house message on h. R. 601 to the committee on appropriations with instructions to report back forthwith with a paul amendment numbered 816. The presiding officer the clerk will report. The clerk
Schultz, thehe partys chair. We will get the latest on the leaked dnc emails and why Bernie Sanders supporters oppose the selection of tim kaine as her running mate. And we will go to the streets of philadelphia, where thousands marched sunday calling for democrats to embrace clean energy solutions. Pennsylvanians against fracking. It represents the things fracking has taken from us, clean air and clean water. It has taken people, our friends, that we can never get back. It has takaken our bush andnd or wildlife. It has taken justice away from us. Amy we will hear from two of the founding members of the newly formed group, National Puerto rican agenda, which held an allllday summit in new jers, and we will speak with a longtime Philadelphia Community activist who recently became part of the Philadelphia City council. All that and more, coming up. Amy welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, were breaking with convention war, peace, and the presidency. There is Massive Party turmoi
Scandal that led to the resignation of Debbie Wasserman schultz, thehe partys chair. We will get the latest on the leaked dnc emails and why Bernie Sanders supporters oppose the selection of tim kaine as her running mate. And we will go to the streets of philadelphia, where thousands marched sunday calling for democrats to embrace clean energy solutions. Pennsylvanians against fracking. It represents the things fracking has taken from us, clean air and clean water. It has taken people, our friends, that we can never get back. It has takaken our bush andnd or wildlife. It has taken justice away from us. Amy we will hear from two of the founding members of the newly formed group, National Puerto rican agenda, which held an allllday summit in new jers, and we will speak with a longtime Philadelphia Community activist who recently became part of the Philadelphia City council. All that and more, coming up. Amy welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, were breaking with convention war,
Shuster was touting the open process laid out a Leadership Conference today to reporters. Its boasting that this process, which basically splits consideration of the highway bill from the house policy portions today and the senate and other provisions tomorrow and for the rest of the week as a process that gives members greater time and greater levels of consideration on both bills. However, the house rules process limits amendments on the floor. So technically, this isnt the most open process but with a highway bill thats spanning hundreds of pages and over 200 amendments submitted from the house, leadership has to do something to try to kind of limit the floor procedure process. And you mentioned bill shuster. Heres a tweet that you sent out. Ive been waiting three years for this, so here we go, he tells the house rules committee. Why did it take so long and what is the current deadline . One of the major contentions behind the surface transportation reauthorization bill is the diffi
Staff can start putting together this information to put it in front of you what would be involved and i think from that meeting we did really, you know, our next step is to really kind of work with the small Property Owners and the Real Estate Industry to kindly of discuss and take a look at well, if we really pushed this kind of program, could it have some other kinds of impact to the Real Estate Market that we may not necessarily think of whats the cause and effect and also for the small Property Owners who would be an incentive for them to subdivide you know, do a vertical subdivision and retain the residential portion and be willing to sell off the commercial portion so those are some things to take a look at and then i also did have a meeting with sf heritage the Historical Preservation staff and tim fry and sf travel again doing some exploratory discussions around criteria and also how can we work to Work Together to sort of leverage what will then be when we establish a legacy