Before they have procedural votes. Bottom line i do not expect any rapid action on this with the house dead set opposed to whatever the senate will come with, even if Mitch Mcconnell gets the votes he needs ultimately to get this through. Nfl football returns. Thursday night football tonight. All eyes on the kansas city chiefs, houston texans. The stadium can hold 76,000 people im told. It is going to be at 22 of capacity, so 15,000 folks in the stands. What is odd, there will not be mascot the or cheerleaders. It will be very thin population on the ground besides players and coaches. It might seem a little weird but football is on. Well look at potential impact what we might be seeing and might not be seeing. Meanwhile politics is it still on. The president plans to visit michigan today, a battleground state he won by little more than 10,000. Polls are tightening. Blake burman. Reporter six president ial, President Trump flipped it around by slimmest of margin,. 2 . Joe biden is leadi
Legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material on the bill under consideration. The speaker pro tempore without objection. Mr. Neal madam speaker, i yield myself such time as i may consume. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman is recognized. Mr. Neal first, thank you. We are here today in these very trying and unprecedented times to act on an emergency interim funding package that i am pleased has strong bipartisan support. But we did not arrive here without significant efforts by our democratic colleagues. When we began negotiation was the senate, we were presented with an insufficient proposal that did not address the Public Health crisis that has now claimed the lives of nearly 48,000 americans. The measures that we fought for will now bring real leaf to the American People relief to the American People, and prioritizes resources to combat this virus. This means more funding for hospitals and Health Care Workers. It also means resources designat
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. April 23, 2020. I hereby appoint the honorable kathy castor to act as splote on this day. Signed, nancy pelosi, speaker of the house of representatives. 7 the speaker pro tempore the a prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. Merciful god, thank you for giving us another day. Send your spirit of peace and comity among the members of the peoples house. These are days of great political, social, and economic stress in our nation, and those whose work is to legislate through this pandemic are naturally under considerable pressure. Give us all patience, especially with one another. May all our citizens in the midst of great turmoil be filled with gratitude for those in our nation whose work must go on when it would be so easy not to assume their responsibility to do so. Continue to bl
Friend. Were watching that very closely. Were keeping close eye on washington. Were focused on capitol hill. The house taking up the stimulus measure, relief measure, whatever you want to call it, to the tune of 484 billion. Now the house physically there, in person, some Wearing Masks to make sure they get this done. Lets get the latest from chad pergram, how this will all sort of fan out. Chad . Reporter hey there, neil. This is the debate. They started 15 minutes ago on this bill, about 324 billion of this goes to Small Businesses. You might recall a couple weeks ago that fund ran dry. The cupboard is bare. The cost of this bill ballooned from 251 billion specifically to Small Business, to 484 billion as you say. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says democrats improved the bill. There is money in here for hospitals and testing. Listen to the speaker. Im very pleased that it was transformed from a bill two weeks ago on the floor where the leader in the senate said, this is it, 250. Were no
President trump. This is 20 minutes. Hello. Now, this is going to be our last Weekly Press Conference for the year and decade. Before we begin if i dont get to see you i want to wish you all a very, very Merry Christmas and prosperous new year. Being our last press conference were going to start where we started about a year ago, talking about impeachment. You watched what transformed last night on this floor. Its something weve said all the time. The weakest, the thinnest, the fastest in u. S. History. Schumer admitted trying to ask for more witnesses that what happened over here was wrong. Now we have the own speaker of the house who is so embarrassed that she admits the failure of this impeachment that she will not even send it to the senate. So embarrassed that i watched in her press conference she wouldnt even take your questions. That is not a good legacy to have. Shes admitting defeat by not sending it, by refusing to send the impeachment over, she knows this outcome is not good