Most importantly we are blessed to be with officer evans family, his mother, janice, his children, logan an abigail, and their mother shannon and sister julia. [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. 2021] we leave this because the u. S. House is about to come in. Its cspans commitment to bring you live gavel to gavel coverage of congress. Now here live to the u. S. House on cspan. Speaker. The clerk the speakers rooms, washington, d. C. , april 13, 2021. I hereby appoint the honorable Nanette Diaz Barragan 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 chaplain kibben. Chaplain kibben holy god, be with us this evening as we reconvene from having honored our fallen brother to resume the business of the day. In this profound inst
They usually would be. White house correspondent peter doocy is on the north along with a quick preview of what we would expect to hear tonight. Good evening peter. Good evening brett and martha. President biden would argue that the solution of some of the countrys most pressing issue is to make the government bigger. And making improvements on something since Inauguration Day with this line. Now after 100 days, i can report to the nation that america is on the move again. Turning peril into opportunity. The president will try to make multitrillion dollar prep impressive proposals easy to understand. Officials here say one thing you wont hear from the president tonight as acronyms. Bret peter doocy on the north lawn, thank you. As all of the lawmakers continue to get income at their senator pat lahey, senator dick durbin and Bernie Sanders of course, you can see that familiar figure making their way down the aisle there. So as you mentioned, its all separate. There is Amy Klobuchar mak
Five years has to in honor of the mass shooting in indianapolis. Live coverage of his here on cspan2. The senate will come to order. The senate will come to order. Chaplain doctor black will lead the senate in prayer. Keep our senators surefooted as they travel through these challenging times. Lord, lead them safely over the treacherous heights they must sometimes move. Open their eyes that they may see glimpses of truth from your divine precepts that will illuminate their path. Lord, remind them that victory comes from you, the god of our salvation. Continue to use our senators as guardians of freedom. And, lord, we thank you for the life and legacy of former Vice President of the United States walter mondale. We pray in your great name. Amen. The presiding officer please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to the flag. 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
And so, im convinced that well be able to stop this, because it is the most pernicious thing. This makes jim crow look like jim eagle. I mean, this is gigantic. What theyre trying to do. And it cannot be sustained. Im going to do everything in my power, along with my friends in the house and the senate, to keep that from becoming the law. Is there anything else you can do about it besides passing legislation . The answer is, yes, but im not going to lay out a strategy in front of the whole world and you now. And then, on a related note, have you decided whether you are going to run for reelection in 2024 . You havent set up a Reelection Campaign yet as your predecessor had by this time. My predecessor needed to. My predecessor. Oh, god, i miss him. No, and the answer is yes, my plan is to run for reelection. Thats my expectation. And on one other note, on bipartisanship, your old friend, Mitch Mcconnell, says you have only spoken to each other once since you took office and that you ha
And he set a new goal of reaching 200 million vaccinations during his first 100 days. Lets go right to alabama for the latest on lifethreatening weather. Cnn Meteorologist Derrick Van Dam on the ground there. What are you seeing . Reporter we have witnessed significant damage across this Eagle Point Community where i am located right now. This is south and east of birmingham. What youre looking at behind me is the tornado that moved through this Community Just hours ago. You can see some of the shrapnel from the homes behind me. Theres also some tiling from roofs. Trees have obviously been snapped. Theres also been light poles and electrical poles that have been completely taken out. This is just a taste of the damage that is in this area, because in our attempt to report this evening to you guys live tonight, we have been turned around multiple times by local authorities, because they dont want to clog up the roadways within this area trying to do Search And Rescue operations. Theyve