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may all members with your grace rise to the importance of this great challenge with integrity and professional excellence. may all their efforts in the days and weeks to come be for the benefit of all americans and inspire all to proclaim your greater honor and glory. amen. the speaker: the chair has examined the journal of the last day s proceedings and announces to the house his approval thereof. pursuant to clause 1 of rule 1 the journal stands approved. for what purpose does the gentleman from illinois seek recognition? mr. speaker, pursuant to clause 1, rule 1, i demand a vote on agreeing to the speaker s approval of the journal. the speaker: the question is on greeg to the speaker s approval of the journal. is on agreeing to the speaker s approval of the journal. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. the ayes have it. the journal stands approved. mr. hultgren: mr. speaker, i object to the vote on the grounds that a quorum is not present and i make a point ....
bit? a little bit. certainly we begin this week talking now about the president s reaction to the attacks in london and of course this morning, he s already out tweeting that this is again, sort of a defense of his policy as he now calls for a travel ban for travelers from six predominantly muslim nations. that will be the topic of the day. there are court hearings going on about the travel ban. that continues to be high on the agenda. but comey s going to take it over pretty quickly. the fact of the matter is, if mr. comey is allowed to speak and does, in fact, say that the president fired me because i wouldn t run the russia investigation the way he wanted it, that s going to be a big deal and it will overshadow everything else. while washington prepares for that thursday hearing this week, the president is getting out of washington, d.c., talk about his schedule and what he s focusing on. this week, they want to focus on roads, bridges, infrastructure. that s w ....
president s reaction to the attacks in london and of course this morning, he s already out tweeting that this is again, sort of a defense of his policy as he now calls for a travel ban for travelers from six predominantly muslim nations. that will be the topic of the day. there are court hearings going on about the travel ban. that continues to be high on the agenda. but comey s going to take it over pretty quickly. the fact of the matter is, if mr. comey is allowed to speak and does, in fact, say that the president fired me because i wouldn t run the russia investigation the way he wanted it, that s going to be a big deal and it will overshadow everything else. while washington prepares for that thursday hearing this week, the president is getting out of washington, d.c., talk about his schedule and what he s focusing on. this week, they want to focus on roads, bridges, infrastructure. that s what they want the focus to be on. so this is kind of one of the first we ....
[captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2017] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] reuters reported on some of the response to the secretary s speech, and china s dissatisfaction with what it labeled irresponsible remarks by the secretary on the south china sea, that the construction and militarization of artificial islands undermine the regional stability. the chinese foreign ministry says construction is aimed at improving working conditions for people stationed there, maintaining sovereignty, and fulfilling china s international responsibilities, and has nothing to do with militarization. you can read more at reuters.com. on c-span3 on thursday, live coverage of testimony by former fbi director james comey on russian activities during last year s election. we will have live coverage of the senate intelligence hearing on c-span3 thursday, starting at 10 a clo ....
but selecting the phones. we have randy in williamsburg, virginia. he is an educator. caller: good morning. good morning, america. i own a business called virginia is for education. it is a very unique business. trailermobile fitness for children k-12. had been operating for 14 years throughout the state of virginia . there are close to 1200 schools that i visit. one particular problem i operated in where we had a school called the center for educational opportunity which was a very regional district, collaborative to take care of education of long-term, expelled students. this were 120 130 kids in program. for threeservice hours every wednesday. i had a cohort before i showed up and after i did the program. we have excelled academically lease and bounds. leaps discipline go down and bounds. why? because one godhead showed up with a unique asset that he had bills and show interest in the students with academic problems. friends with many of the students my see them arou ....