We dont have a gavel. Committee on constitution of civil rights and Civil Liberties are called to order. Without objection the chair is authorized to declare a recess of this subcommittee at any time. Welcome everybody to todays hearing, hearing on evidence not a field hearing. On evidence of current and ongoing voting discrimination. I recognize myself for an opening statement. Todays hearing on evidence of current and ongoing voting discrimination is part of a series of hearings that the house judiciary subcommittee on constitution civil rights and Civil Liberties will hold over the course of this year to assess the current need for a reinvigoration of the preclearance requirement of the section five of the Voting Rights act 65 to consider other ways to strengthen that landmark civil rights statute. I am not sure why we say wee reinvigoration. Thats one of the words we toss arnold. It is not really a reinvigoration. It is more of a degradation that section four would cut out. We need
We dont have a gavel. Committee on constitution of civil rights and Civil Liberties are called to order. Without objection the chair is authorized to declare a recess of this subcommittee at any time. Welcome everybody to todays hearing, hearing on evidence not a field hearing. On evidence of current and ongoing voting discrimination. I recognize myself for an opening statement. Todays hearing on evidence of current and ongoing voting discrimination is part of a series of hearings that the house judiciary subcommittee on constitution civil rights and Civil Liberties will hold over the course of this year to assess the current need for a reinvigoration of the preclearance requirement of the section five of the Voting Rights act 65 to consider other ways to strengthen that landmark civil rights statute. I am not sure why we say wee reinvigoration. Thats one of the words we toss arnold. It is not really a reinvigoration. It is more of a degradation that section four would cut out. We need
our viewers in the united states, and around the world. i m becky anderson live for you today from doha in qatar. a four-day truce between israel and hamas does now appear to be taking effect. seven weeks of a punishing air ground campaign to root out of the militant group hamas now on hold. that is part of a deal to secure the release of israeli hostages captured in the october 7th terror attack. cnn s jeremy diamond and his crew near the border with gaza report what sounded like artillery fire in the early minutes of today s truce that started two hours ago. that has since stopped. according to qatar which was absolutely instrumental in brokering this deal, the first hostages from israel are now expected to be released at some point after four pm local time. that is about seven hours from now. women and children, some from the same families will be turned over. at least this is the plan, to the red cross. because amongst those held hostage in gaza. i hope that this happ
New financial and tax charges, adding to the case against him. It carried the potential for more than a decade in jail and the deal hammered out has the potential to spare him jail time and the exact terms of the deal are unclear and the special counsels office declined to comment. Turning to the forecast for your weekend its not going to be a total washout and the rain will dampen your plans. Sky 6 hd showing you penns landing at lunch time and there are cloudy skies all over and rain is falling in parts of the region and stop tonight and be back again tomorrow evening. Meteorologist, Melissa Magee is at the action news big board with the details and keep the umbrella at arms length this weekend. That is right rick, we dodge the rain drops on and off through the rest of the afternoon and into the weekend. Here is stormtracker 6 live double scan radar, we find a lull in the activity right now, still light rain showers across berks and lehigh county. And frozen precipitation where the w
Votes will be conducted as fiveminute votes. The Unfinished Business is on the vote on the motion by mr. Roe on which the yeas and nays are ordered. The clerk will report the title of the bill. The clerk h. R. 3562 a bill to amend title 38 to authorize the secretary of victory affairs for residences of veterans in rehabilitation programs and for other purposes. The speaker pro tempore the question is, will the house suspend the rules and pass the bill. Members will record their votes by electronic device. This will be a 15minute vote. [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 pro tempore on this vote the yeas are 400, the nays are zero. 2 3 of those voting having responded in the affirmative, the rules are suspended, t