House Floor Activity 

Friday, January 3, 2020

12:02 PM The Speaker announced that the House do now adjourn pursuant to section 8(c) of H. Res. 758. The next meeting is scheduled for 2:00 p.m. on January 7, 2020.

12:02 PM The Chair announced that pursuant to section 8(a) of H. Res. 758, no organizational or legislative business will be conducted on this day and that bills and resolutions introduced today will receive a number but will not be referred to committee or noted in the Record until a subsequent day. The Chair also announced that executive communications, memorials, and petitions likewise will be referred and numbered on a subsequent day.
12:02 PM PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE – The Chair led the House in reciting the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag.
12:00 PM Today’s prayer was offered by the House Chaplain, Rev. Patrick J. Conroy.
12:00 PM The Speaker designated the Honorable Jamie Raskin to act as Speaker pro tempore for today.
12:00 PM The House convened, starting a new legislative day, pursuant to the 20th Amendment to the Constitution for the meeting of the second session of the 116th Congress.
11:55 AM The Speaker announced that the House do now adjourn Sine Die.
11:55 AM The House convened, returning from a recess continuing the legislative day of January 3.
11:01 AM The Speaker announced that the House do now recess. The next meeting is subject to the call of the Chair.
11:01 AM PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE – The Chair led the House in reciting the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag.

5:00 pm H.R. 535PFAS Action Act of 2019
Committee on Rules

1941 – President Franklin Roosevelt delivered his State of the Union address to Congress asking for support for the lend-lease program aiding Allies fighting the Axis powers.

Roosevelt also defined four essential freedoms worth defending; freedom of speech,

freedom of worship,

freedom from want,

and freedom from fear.

January 3, 1823
Stephen F. Austin receives a grant of land in Texas from the government of Mexico.

Austin’s Colony was the first legal settlement of North American families in Mexican-owned Texas. Led by the Empressario, Stephen F. Austin, an initial grant for three hundred families–the “Old 300”–in 1821 opened up Texas to a flood of American immigrants, as many as 30,000 by the time of the Texas Revolution in 1835. This colonial period that brought Anglo and African settlers from the United States into contact with the governmental and ranching traditions of Spain and Mexico helped set the course for much of Texas’ history in the 19th century–and was only overshadowed later by the discovery of oil in Texas in the 20th century.

The settlement of Austin’s colony from 1821 to 1836 has been called the most successful colonization movement in American history. Many of the historical events of Southeast Texas owe their origin to this colony. Fort Bend County was one of the most heavily populated areas of the colony.

Stephen F. Austin’s father, Moses, laid the foundation for this colony in Texas during late 1820 and 1821, but died before being able to implement his plans. Stephen, although hesitant at first, decided to finish what his father had begun. Austin travelled to San Antonio de Bexar, where he was declared the rightful heir to his father’s grant. Austin was issued an empressario contract to settle three hundred families in Spanish Texas. The Spanish demanded the settlers be, among other things, loyal to the offical government and religion of Spain. Both the government and Austin realized the necessity of having colonists of reputable character, and both made this a prerequisite for immigration. Soon after gaining this contract, the eleven-year war for Mexican Independence ended successfully, and the new Mexican government affirmed Austin’s contract to settle Texas with families from the United States.

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