the prayer will be offered by reverend emanuel cleaver, st. james united methodist church, kansas city, missouri. the chaplain: let us pray. we bow before your thrown of grace as we leave behind the politically and socially clamorous year of 2020. we gather now in this consequential chamber to inaugurate another chapter in our roller coaster representative government.

the prayer will be offered by reverend emanuel cleaver, st.ames united methodist church, kansas city, missouri.

prayer was ledhe by representative emanuel cleaver, the democrat of missouri. that is because the new admiral, retired rear is expected to be sworn in tomorrow. she was not in place today to deliver the prayer. she will be the first women chaplain to serve in congress. she will beat the house members in daily opening prayer, according to npr. the chaplain also provides counseling to house members, arranges memory services for house members and staff. she was elected by a bipartisan committee of house members, whose recommendation was accepted by both democratic leader speaker pelosi and kevin mccarthy. reverendou may know pat conroy who start in that role, a roman catholic priest, he served as chaplain since 2011 and he retired. let's go to the beginning of today's proceedings. we begin with the house prayer by methodist minister emanuel cleaver, followed by the senate chaplain reverend barry black. >> we bow before you as we leave behind the politically and socially challenging year of 2020. we gathered out in this consequential chamber, to inaugurate another

capitol it was an attempted coup d'etat missouri democratic congressman emanuel cleaver is one of more than 200 democrats backing the effort was feared for my life, he fears the president could still more chaos of congress does not act we don't know what he's going to do every day he serves in office is a danger to our country but so far few republicans are on board i think it's a ridiculous discussion republican senator roy blunt says even if the house and peaches the president there's not enough time for the senate to act before inauguration day. and he believes president trump will do no further harm the president surrounded by people who are encouraging. >>of the show this last few days of this administration. really begin to focus on the. >>because think democrats are urging vice president mike pence to invoke the 25th amendment to remove the president they say pen has 24 hours to act before they do. house lawmakers return to the capitol tomorrow morning to formally urged vice president pence to take action. >>but the bright vice president cannot invoke the 25th amendment by himse

capitol it was an attempted coup d'etat missouri democratic congressman emanuel cleaver is one of moren 200 democrats backing the effort was feared for my life, he fears the president could still more chaos of congress does not act we don't know what he's going to do every day he serves in office is a danger to our country but so far few republicans are on board i think it's a ridiculous discussion republican senator roy blunt says even if the house and peaches the president there's not enough time for the senate to act before inauguration day. and he believes president trump will do no further harm the president surrounded by people who are encouraging. >>of the tow this last few days of this administration. really begin to focus on the. >>positive things democrats are urging vice president mike pence to invoke the 25th amendment to remove the president they say pence has 24 hours to act before they do. lawmakers will return to the capitol tomorrow morning to urge vice president pence to act but in order for him to invoke the 25th amendment will need the majority of the president's ca

the prayer will be offered by reverend emanuel cleaver, st. james united methodist church, kansas city, missouri.

capitol it was an attempted coup d'etat missouri democratic congressman emanuel cleaver is one of more than 200 democrats backing the effort was feared for my life, he fears the president could still more chaos of congress does not act we don't know what he's going to do every day he serves in office is a danger to our country but so far few republicans are on board i think it's a ridiculous discussion republican senator roy blunt says even if the house impeaches the president there's not enough time for the senate to act before inauguration day. and he believes president trump will do no further harm the president surrounded by people who are encouraging of the tow this last few days of this administration. >>really begin to focus on the. >>positive thing democrats are urging vice president mike pence to invoke the 25th amendment to remove the president they say pence has 24 hours to act before they do. lawmakers will return to the capitol tomorrow morning to urge vice president pence to act but in order for him to invoke the 25th amendment will need the majority of the president's ca

we begin with the house prayer by methodist minister and congressman emanuel cleaver, followed by the senate chaplain, reverend barry black. we gather now in this consequential chamber to inaugurate another chapter in our roller coaster representative government. >> the members of this august body knack knowledge your supremacy and therefore confess with your favor and forebearence we enter this new year relying dangerously on our own fallable nature. god at a moment when many believe the bright light of address is beginning to dim empower us with a extra dose of commitment to its principles and may we of the 117th congress refuel the lamp of liberty. liberty so lamp of bright that generations unborn we witness its flame and mo may we so feel your appearance that it may not be oiled by utterances or acts of the high office and insert in us a light so bright we can see ourselfs in our politics as we really and oiled by selfishness invagled by ideology and the god who created the world and everything in it bless us and keep us. may the lord make his faith to shine on us and be gracious

capitol it was an attempted coup d'etat missouri democratic congressman emanuel cleaver is one of more than 200 democrats backing the effort was feared for my life, he fears the president could still more chaos of congress does not act we don't know what he's going to do every day he serves in office is a danger to our country but so far few republicans are on board i think it's a ridiculous discussion republican senator roy blunt says even if the house impeached as the president there's not enough time for the senate to act before inauguration day. and he believes president trump will do no further harm the president surrounded by people who are encouraging. >>this last few days of this administration. really begin to focus on the. >>because think democrats are urging vice president mike pence to invoke the 25th amendment to remove the president they say pence has 24 hours to act before they do. lawmakers will return to the capitol tomorrow morning to urge vice president pence to act but in order for him to invoke the 25th amendment will need the majority of the president's cabinet to

the prayer will be offered by reverend emanuel cleaver, st. james united methodist church, kansas city, missouri. the chaplain: let us pray. we bow before your thrown of grace as we leave behind the politically and socially clamorous year of 2020. we gather now in this consequential chamber to inaugurate another chapter in our roller coaster representative government. control our tribal tendencies and quicken our spirits. that we may feel thy priestley presence even in moments of heightened disagreement. may we so feel your presence that our service here may not be soiled by any utterances or acts unworthy of this high office. insert in our spirit a light so bright that we can see ourselves and our politics as we really are, soiled by selfishness, perverted by prejudice and invagueled by ideology. now may the god who create the world and everything in it bless us and keep us. may the lord make his face to shine upon us and be gracious unto us. may the lord lift up the light of his countnence upon us and give us peace. peace in our family, peac

. >> trace: missouri congressman emanuel cleaver raising eyebrows as he delivered a woke sermon as speaker man, mother, grandfather. kat timpf is a fox news contributor. we should point out amen has nothing to do with gender at all. it means so be it or so shall it be in latin. maybe a little over the top for the end of the woke sermon. >> right. that's why i wouldn't call it woke so much as nonsense. you are right. it has nothing to do with gender whatsoever and, you know, i am a woman, right? and so i have certainly throughout my life faced sexism, faced things that men don't have to face just because i am a woman. i have to admit the word amen is not among those things. so i know they're trying to appear tolerant and woke but if anything i feel they're making a mockery of issues that women do face because we are women. none of us are worried about that. >> trace: nancy pelosi very concerned about gender-specific terms. i want to put up her twitter bioto highlight it. mother and grandmother. if you go forward to the house rules to remove gender-specific pronouns, father, mother, parent,

made a painting about black cops hurting people, and representative duncan took it down, and emanuel cleaverey argued over it. then we saw all the race riots. these things have been building and we are all personally responsible, but my last point about c-span, because we are home on lock in texas and my millennial kids are here, they have had a world eye-opening with c-span. we were able to get it on our food stamp card and were never's -- never exposed to it. i think because the cable companies pay for it and everybody has a device in their hand, even if they are poor, and can get parler and twitter, but i feel like people can learn. you should have 24 hour call ins right now. you: i want to warn all of that we want to bring some video to you from what happened inside the capital. this is a portion of the video that was obtained by "the washington post," leading up to the fatal shooting by police of trump supporter and therefore supporter shealy babbitt as they stormed u.s. capitol. this video does contain graphic content. [video clip] [yelling] >> there leaving. -- they are leaving. they

made a painting about black cops hurting people, and representative duncan took it down, and emanuel cleaverthey argued over it. then we saw all the race riots. these things have been building and we are all personally responsible, but my last point about c-span, because we are home on lock in texas and my millennial kids are here, they have had a world eye-opening with c-span. we were able to get it on our food stamp card and were never's -- never exposed to it. i think because the cable companies pay for it and everybody has a device in their hand, even if they are poor, and can get parler and twitter, but i feel like people can learn. you should have 24 hour call ins right now. you: i want to warn all of that we want to bring some video to you from what happened inside the capital. this is a portion of the video that was obtained by "the washington post," leading up to the fatal shooting by police of trump supporter and therefore supporter shealy babbitt as they stormed u.s. capitol. this video does contain graphic content. [video clip] [yelling] >> there leaving. -- they are leaving. the

the callers who brought up the opening prayer that will be given today, that will be offered by emanuel cleavermethodist pastor. he was part of the search committee for a new house chaplain. the house needing a new house chaplain since father pat conroy retired officially at the end of the 116th congress, which will happen later this morning. that pelosi, through search process came up with the in election for the next house chaplain. the story from npr noting that pelosi marked another milestone for women in congress by appointing margaret cuban as chaplain of the u.s. house of representatives. she is the first female congressional chaplain since the congress was founded in 1789. the story going on to note about her military service with the marine corps and multiple chaplain's positions, including chaplain of the marine corps from 2010 to 2014 with five to limits under her belt, including at least one to afghanistan as senior chaplain and most recently she served as a consultant with the department of navy sexual assault and prevention. nancy pelosi releasing a statement on new year's eve las

the prayer will be offered by reverend emanuel cleaver, st. james united methodist church, kansas city, missouri.