National Defense Authorization act, and a measure ealing with the boeing max 737 crashes. Requested votes will take place after 6 00 p. M. Eastern. Live coverage of the house here on cspan. The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by chaplain father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. Loving and gracious lord of mercy, we give you thanks for giving us another day. In this single week, after a Long Campaign season and before breaking once again for thanksgiving, bless the members of the peoples house with focus and purpose on the issues facing them. We ask your blessing as well on those newly elected who will be joining this assembly for the 117th congress. May their transition into office be smooth and marked by the civility of Democratic Change of government which is the rightful pride of the United States of america. Lord, our nation continues to be besieged by the plague of the coronavirus. Send your spirit of peace that our people might be bro
On the agenda today, resolution on the peaceful transfer of power after the president ial election, live house coverage at cspan. The speaker pro tempore the ouse will be in order. The chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. The clerk speakers rooms, washington, d. C. September 29, 2020. I hereby appoint Emanuel Cleaver to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, nancy pelosi, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore the prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. Haplain conroy let us pray. Lord, father of us all, we give you thanks for giving us another day. As the stresses of the pandemic and as economic and educational effects stubbornly continue, we ask you once again to send your spirit of peace and healing upon our nation. Bless those who labor to bring healing and teaching during these difficult times. Comfort all who are ill with coronavirus and those who mourn the loss of loved ones because of it. As the members
Protects access to new medicines and cures and lowers out of pocket spending and strengthens transparency and accountability and champions competition. H. R. 19 acts in the interest of hardworking americans. I urge my colleagues to support this bipartisan, commonsense amendment. I yield back. The chair the gentlewoman from california is recognized. Ms. Porter claims that h. R. 3 ill stop cures is fear mongering. H. R. 3 makes substantial more ment to help create cures and most importantly will make sure those cures can actually help people in their lives. Fair that the government, elected by the taxpayers, and the appointed by , elected officials, should get to negotiate drug prices, and it not come at the expense of innovation. I reserve the balance of my time. He chair the gentlewoman reserves. The gentleman from oregon. Mr. Walden i reserve. The chair the gentleman reserves. California man from is recognized. Speaker, how r. Much time remains . The chair the gentlewoman has 30 secon
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 ask the chair lay before the senate the house message accompanying s. 524. The presiding officer the cleachair lays before the senata message from the house of representatives, which the clerk will report. The clerk resolve, that the house insist upon its amendments to the bill s. 524 entitled an act to authorize the attorney general to award grants to address the National Epidemics of prescription opioid abuse and heroin use and ask a conference with the senate on the disagreeing votes of the two houses thereon. Mr. Mcconnell i move that the senate disagree to the amendments of the house, agree to the request by the house for a conference and the presiding officer appoint the following conferees senators grassley, alexander, hatch, sessions, leahy, murray, and wy
The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by the chaplain, chaplain kibben. Chaplain kibben would you pray with me. Almighty and powerful god. Our creator and defender, we call upon you this day to speak into the whirlwind of the life threatening storm surge and catastrophic winds that now bombard the florida peninsula and have left behind unfathomable destruction in cuba. As Hurricane Ian rages, those who are caught in its ravages are filled with dread. Their personal calamity is its own whirlwind around them. In their distress and anguish, they and we on their behalf pray to you for their safety and refuge. For you, alone, have the power with but a word to cause the tempest to still and the wind and waves to be hushed. So speak your word. Shine your light into the darkness of these days. And listen to these fervent prayers. Deliver the thousands of evacuees from their plight. Leave them to find shelter in you from all that threatens them this day.