The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. The clerk the speakers rooms, washington, d. C. October 31, 2019. I hereby appoint the honorable paul tonko 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. Dear god, we give you thanks for giving us another day. We ask your special blessing upon the members of this peoples house. They face difficult decisions in difficult times with many forces and interests demanding their attention. Give them again rossity to enter into their work generosity to enter into their work. May they serve you in the work they do as you deserve. Give of themselves and not count the cost, fight for what is best for our nation and not count the political wounds. Toil until their work is done d not seek to rest and labor without
Now you lived at the academy yourself. What does west point mean to you . Oh, thats a brutal question. It was so much a part of my life that whats that . So was there anything in new york city with the Vietnam Veterans . No, i dont think. Remarks from 1985. O rrk daddy, yes, he led that march. And that was he was very proud of that. He walked down. Was it fifth avenue . I dont know where it was, but they gave themselves a march because no one else did. Wow. Yeah. Yeah. Now, your necklace, mrs. Pope gave that to you. Yeah. This is west class ring and the then i was out visiting the hopes, wes and i, on my 50th birthday. And i wasnt a very good sport about it, about being 50. I thought i was really over the hill. And dolores gave me this which says oh, to be 50 again. And she always said she, i guess she really was my best friend and i think i was probably one of her best friends. And but she always said she was 17 years older and she always said, im old enough to be your mother. And i w
Opportunity to take advantage of the capacity of opposition elements and syria that can in fact liberate large segments of the population in the region from dsh. We watch it closely, it requires we acknowledge the very delicate diplomatic relation that we have with turkey over this issue. Turkey, of course is attempting to defend itself from the pkk, at the same time manage the border and our relationship with the y pg. I think we worked well them. Just one last point, i would like to underline the point of the importance of u. S. Action against iran. I have a slightly different diagnosis that my colleagues but almost id debacle prescription. I think the missile to test was less about threatening the United States as it was about the internal battle with iranian politics. A big trend of the iranian love this deal and a big chunk hate the steel. One of the chief negotiators of the deal was threatened on the floor of the Iranian Parliament by a member that says we will kill you for what
House comes to alexandria. One day after spending 11 hours in a congressional hot seat, Hillary Clinton took the short trip to alexandria for a campaign rally. Our senior political reporter scott thuman was there. This is a Rare Campaign visit outside the state. We are hearing so much about, iowa and new hampshire. Scott it is, aldlyson. But i guess virginia now is a swing state. It has been for the last couple of cycles. It was interesting. You mentioned the testimony yesterday. Hillary clinton never referenced it. At least not directly. She instead let Terry Mcauliffe the governor of virginia do that. He had a go at it pretty good about the benghazi testimony. Instead she just continued to reference herself as a fighter. She said she is not a quitter. While she did at times tout the democratic record, the administrations record saying its one to run on, they shouldnt run away from it. At the same time she was careful to distance herself from any previous president. When i look at wha
I like paul, but these are horrible times for our country and we need very strong leadership and we need very, very strong leadership and im just not quite there. If that wording sounds familiar to you, youre right. Speaker ryan once said the same about donald trump. Im just not ready to do that at this point. Im not there right now. Paul ryan spokesman this evening said the speaker has never sought trumps endorsement. As for senator mccain whom he mocked youll recall for being taken prisoner by the north vietnamese trump said he hasnt been good enough for veterans. Philip who wrote it for the Washington Post. A lot of focus on the words he used for paul ryan. Im not quite there yet, obviously very similar to what ryan said about trump in may. Did trump give you any indication when he would be making up his mind or if he would . Its hard not to see this as anything other than a warning shot on ryan. I saw it as just that, a warning shot. He did not indicate whether he would make an end