Itself issues. Texas a quand m, university of texas at austin, the university of houston, other institutions, these arell public universities. And these individuals, these students, pay tuition to go to these public universities. And in response, theyre issued identification vehicles. Identification cards. But the state of texas has seen fit to say, thats not valid in order to vote. And i think that one example, and weve heard several others, basically exposes the fact that the movement to impose voter identification requirements is a fraud itself. Its a sham. The whole argument behind it is that were trying to protect the integrity of the Voting System. Heres the problem. Youre protecting the integrity of the Voting System by imposing a solution in search of a problem. Because none of these individuals in any of these states has been able to produce a scintilla of evidence of fraud. In fact, there are studies that have shown that there have been over a billion instances of americans e
Ace and later a rather than sending them to prison. Friends, colleagues, country men. And lets today welcome all of the new members and all of their families to what we all know would be a truly today is an important day for our country many senators took the oath this afternoon, 13 for the first time and a new republican majority accepted its new responsibility. We recognize the enormity of the task force. We know a lot of hard work awaits. We know that a lot of follow the Gopled Congress and see the new members. The best access is on cspan television cspan radio and cspan. Org. New congress best access. More than 1,000 American Children are involved in sex trafficking, up next, several sessions from an event focused on stopping the sex trade around america and around the world. First we hear from Rob Portman Portman welcome, everybody here. Some late arrivals. Some of you may have heard the red line is running late or incapacitated or something, so we have been getting a bunch of ema
Bit, you have to take a stance. And my Technical Work is in maximum analysis of the social policy, and you have to take a stance of what the right question of the analysis would be, and what the decision of the government criteria would be. And so as well as the subtleties. Let me understand that point. So there may be circumstances where the government thinks that sitit is the National Interests to respond to uncertainty by taking the action now, but there may be other circumstances where where you come to the different conclusion . Well, i have a paper that came out this this past year in the economic journal on the Infrastructure Spending. And the big uncertainty is the productivity of spending, and what implication of tax policy. And then i crank out, because i am a technical e cop mist, i crank out the solutions to the problem for the government and i see that i can support higher or lowerr Infrastructure Spending based on what the decision criteria the government is going to p be
Forward in whatever their path of life to make a positive contribution to the strength of our democracy. Bless us this day bless us this day and every day and all that is done within these hallowed halls n for your greater honor and glory amen. The speaker pro tempore the compare compare and announces to the house his approval thereof. Pursuant to clause 1 of rule 1, the journal stands approved. The pledge of allegiance will be led by the gentleman from ohio, mr. Chabot. Mr. Chabot please join me in the pledge. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. The speaker pro tempore the chair will entertain requests for oneminute speeches. For what purpose does the gentleman from nebraska seek recognition . Request unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. Revise and extend my. The speaker pro tempore without objection, the gentleman is recognized fo
Will the biggest Election Year factor is the number you see there on the top of your screen. 121,000 americans now perished from the coronavirus. The president says the virus is fading away. The numbers tell us something very different. A check of the map shows 26 states now recording more cases this week than they did last week, and this is important. The average of new cases each day just below the 30,000 threshold right now. That is very close to the pandemic level we were counting every day back in april. The president places the increase on testing and dismisses the value to guide the pandemic response. First breaking this morning in the back and forth legal fight over the Michael Flynn case. The d. C. Circuit court of appeals a short time ago ordering judge Emmett Sullivan to dismiss the case. Sullivan said he wanted to vet the Justice Departments decision to drop the decision against the former Trump National security adviser. The president giving his nod of approval on twitter.