748-8000. if you live in the mountain or pacific time zones, it is (202) 748-8001. a special line this morning for minneapolis and st. paul residents. that number is (202) 748-8002. you can also send us a text. that number is (202) 748-8003. if you do, please include your name and where you are from. otherwise, catch up with us on social media. on twitter it is @cspanwj. on facebook it is facebook.com/cspan. you can start calling and now as we show this headline from the minneapolis tribune overnight. many as police station set on fire, protesters marched downtown. thousands gathered downtown yesterday to express anger with restraint at a peaceful gathering but later, the third precinct station became a target. you can see many of those pictures this morning of the violence in minnesota and protest overnight. we want to show you tweets from governor tim walz of minnesota when he announced the national guard was being deployed to handle some of the violence. a series of tweets
you have become a labor day tradition for us. welcome. first, background, is born and raised in southwestern pennsylvania where he followed his father and grandfather into the coal mines and worked his way through college and law school. he is a graduate from penn state. graduation, he joins a legal staff of the united mine workers and became president of the age of 33. since 1989, he spent working on the executive council and elected president of the federation in 2009. there on the record here, no live blogging or tweeting. in short, no filing of any kind while it s underway. once the session ends, you can file away. we will e-mail pictures to all the reporters here as soon as it ends. if you d like to ask questions, send me a signal and i will call on you as time permits. if you like to make a brief opening remark, the floor is yours. i can t believe it s been 11 years. that s incredible. you say happy early labor day to everybody here. i want to thank you for hosting us
jeanne zaino discusses new york s electoral history and current political dynamics. hochul a.m., kathy discusses top issues facing the state. host: in a statement about the president and first lady s trip to pittsburgh today, the white house says the travel to grieve with the pittsburgh community. washington post reporting it was the ivanka trump and jared kushner, both jewish, who encouraged the president to visit pittsburgh. midterm elections are just a week away. among the top issues that will drive voters to polls is health care, especially when it comes to the future of their formal care act and what the administration says it will do regarding pre-existing conditions. maybe those issues are of concern to you. our first hour this morning is health care. we want to hear your thoughts why. for republicans. (202) 748-8000 for democrats. for independents (202) 748-8002. if you want to post on twitter about health care, it is @cspanwj. you can also post on facebook. if you lo
the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from california is recognized. ms. waters: i have no further requests for time and i m prepared to close. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is prepared to close. the gentlelady is recognized. ms. waters: i yield myself the remainder of my time. madam speaker, it s become par for the course for the majority to recklessly advance harmful deregulatory packages like h.r. 3978. my friends on the other side of the aisle are moving forward with regulatory roadblocks at a furious pace, pushing dangerous bills through the house nearly every week. it appears that they may have already completely forgotten the way that lax financial regulation allowed the crisis in 2008 to occur that. crisis badly damaged the occur. that crisis badly damaged the whole economy and harmed all of our constituents. the impact was enormous. $13 trillion in household wealth was lost. $11 million people lost their homes to foreclosure. and the unemployment rate r
i m 111 years of bipartisan land conservation, which began with president roosevelt s leadership. the most glaring example is an ongoing attack on the antiquities act in general and the national monument in particular. trying to roll back as a taxpayer weight especially at a time when the administration is proposing significant staff cutbacks. in my opinion, another management designation is that they are seers intertribal coalition inspectors working to protect these lands. i believe any action by the administration to undermine protection for any other national monument is illegal and i will strongly oppose any legislative attempt to weaken this monument status. secretary zinke, the administration also attempting to unilaterally rule that has gone into effect on the blm mapping rule. the department now statistically dubious decision to suspend the methane waste prevention rule. this is a commonsense rule that implements in 97-year-old requirement to prevent waste