Know. Ready great american. A decent american. A wonderful member of this body. Elijah cummings, who died early of illnesses he suffering from for a time. Icant period of members of the house, the people people of the e United States of america woke up and shocking news that we had lost this dear a devoted public patriot whoedicated reflected courtesy and respect for all. Confrontation and and, yes,nt and anger beacon s hate, he was a of ivility, of fairness, justice. He was chairman of the oversight reform committee. Too early. Way at 68 years of age. Of us who served with him justice, passion for his sharp intellect, having kappa from i beta howard university, where he was president of the Student Government association. We knew his wit. We knew his devotion to the cause of making government work the people. Will be surely said of elijah that he worked hard until the very end. Was on a telephone call with on sunday talking about how we ought to proceed ith the heavy duties that confr
Session. We will bring you gaveltogavel coverage as we always do. Its go to the house floor. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2019] the speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. House ir lays before the a communication from the speaker. He clerk the speakers room, washington, d. C. , october 17 2019. I october 17, 2019. Hereby appoint the honorable Henry Cuellar to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Pelosi, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the house of january 3, 2019, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties. All time shall be equally allocated between the parties and in no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. Each member
Demeaning process, very demeaning on the other side and look as bad as possible. It could be very demeaning but im sure the press would be dignified in this case but that is the word. I really think hes a dignified man and i would like to see him go through a dignified process. I think he deserves that and hopefully it will go quickly. And we folks in the room give yourself, a quick name and a little introduction and wayne, i would say they know you, perhaps they know you better than they know me. I doubt that. Wayne laperriere, National Rifle association. Ceo and president of concerned women for america. Im sharmane yost, with american values. Thank you, mr. President for this nomination. Thank you very much. Im juanita dougan, National Independent Women Business association. Thank you. With the u. S. Chamber about commerce, mr. President. Congratulations on a fantastic nomination. Thank you very much. Er norquist, americans for tax reform. Thank you for the election. Youre doing a go
Moscow are obviously watching the situation very carefully on that epicenter of resistance after a night of street battles between protesters. The pictures are amazing. Theyre throwing stones, clubs, molitov cocktails, all of them trying to hold their grounds in those hours but being slowly pushed back this morning by riot police themselves using flash bangs or stun grenades and water cann cannons. Much of the square, more than half of it, while some protesters seem to have taken refuge behind reinforced barricades and behind their bonfires. The number of injured is in the 200s. We understand some 250 seriously wounded are being treated in the hospitals. Also, one local ukrainian journalist has reportedly been shot and killed in that melee, as well. Becky, back to you. One of the questions we wonder and youre watching from moscow where they are keeping track of the situation closely, is there a sense that anyone else might get involved in this or is this people watching from afar still
Either about i believe its other about the culture of wall street or lil wayne, i think its young money, they toll me that is what they call lil wayne, i dont i dont really know that. laughter [bleep] i am old. Right now i think three hip young interns are doing this. laughter but in honor of young money we turn to the worlds youngest money, who is a new currency, you are, yes, are you. Along with the dollar and the euro there is a new kind of currency called the bitcoin. You cant put it in your pocket, it trades only on the internet. Jon it only exists online t is the tomorrow gachi of currency. laughter that reminded me, i should feed mine. I got him laughter jon 12 years ago so hes 12 i wonder how hes doing, that no oh are those digital maggots . He was my best friend for the 15 seconds i played with him. But is the world really ready for unpocketable money . I believe it is a game changer. I think bitcoin is as big as the internet. I see it as the new gold, gold of the future. Jon