Congressional quarterly, he calls the presidency of wikileaks William Mckinley. This is just over one hour. applause good evening ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to kansas city public library. Robert merry, this is his second representation. Y applause he is a graduate of the university of washington. He has a masters degree from Columbia University school of journalism. He has been a reporter for the observer, the wall street journal, managing editor, executive editor and editor in chief of congressional quarterly, and more recently, editor of the National Interest in the american conservative. The american conservative he says its collaborative, but it sounds a lot like robert merry. This is a description of their philosophy. We believe in constitutional government, fiscal prudence, sound policy, clearly needed borders, protection of civil liberties, and mixed with diplomatic we had here closely to our institutional maximum ideas of ideology principles one could wish that there was mor
Mr. Mcconnell mr. President. The presiding officer the majority leader is recognized. Mr. Mcconnell for the information of all senators, after the Senate Adjourns today, we will have our regular pro forma meetings through the end of the state work period. If the speaker of the house and the minority leader of the senate decide to finally let another rescue package move forward for workers and for families, it would take bipartisan consent to meet for legislative business sooner than scheduled. As has been the case, the senators would receive at least 24 hours notice before any unanticipated votes. The American People need more help. Coronavirus is not finished with our country, so congress cannot be finished helping our people. Republicans have been waiting and trying to pass bipartisan relief literally for weeks. I would hope our democratic colleagues will let the senate act sometime soon. I move to proceed to executive session to consider calendar 771. The presiding officer the quest
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
Cspan radio app. We will take you to the house of a present ofs. Of representatives. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc. , in cooperation with the United States house of representatives. Any use of the closedcaptioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u. S. House of representatives. ] the speaker the house will be in order. The prayer will be delivered by chaplain, father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. Loving god, we give you thanks day. Iving us another during these cold, early, darkening days, we ask your upon those who labor in the nations capital. Members of the house and those of the senate to act carefully in the important work they do. Days of this session, may they continue to heed the voices of all their both those who voted for them and those who did not. The ll that is done within peoples house be for your glory. Honor and amen. The speaker the chair has examined the jo
Beginning in afghanistan, the general advised President Biden against his disastrous Foreign Policy decision. I now recognize myself for an Opening Statement. On april 14th, 2021, President Biden announced the United States woulderally withdraw its military forces from afghanistan. For months before that announcement, the Intelligence Community and his senior military advisers, including both gentlemen testifying here today issued dire warnings about the withdrawal one, 23 state Department Employees in cable channel, secretary blinken, warning of their grave concerns for afghanistan s stability and for their safety. Yet, nothing was done. Instead, our investigation uncovered the white house refused to listen to warnings about the situation on the ground, and disturbingly, we have uncovered the state Department Leadership prohibite uttering the word neo shorthand for emergency evacuation until as late of august of 2021. Too little, too late. Eventually, this committee learned the state