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Meeting will come to order. Weve had a lively back and forth. The one thing we havent done is process any amendments. I want to talk about the plan for how we will proceed this afternoon. Before that, id like to say just a few words in summation of this mornings debate. So far today the debate has been almost entirely about the meeting of the latest jct distribution table. As the discussions went on, weve seen in some smoke and mirrors and weve seen members talk past each other and weve heard our share of strong arm arguments. Cutting through all of this, here are the basic facts that should at this point be beyond dispute. First, nothing in the mark impacts the availability of the Insurance Premium tax credits. Weve heard the chief of staff of jct specifically tell us that was the case. Second, nothing in the mark discourages anyone from taking advantage of available tax credits to sub sidize the purchase of insurance. Mr. Barthold confirmed that. Third, the distributional effect weve
Expect by wednesday. By the end of the week in the senates expecting the house to sentenced over the short term spending bill to fund the government until december 22nd current Government Spending expires this friday. Now live to the floor of the u. S. Senate. The presiding officer the senate will come to order. The chaplain dr. Barry black will lead the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Spirit of the living god, fall afresh on us this day. Radiate your hope and power through our lawmakers creating in their hearts an expectation of your best for them, our nation, and our world. May they face their challenges with total confidence in the triumph of your unfolding providence. Give our senators the wisdom to seek ways to Work Together to find Creative Solutions to the crucial issues of our time. As they seek to serve your purposes for their lives in this generation, may they remember the sacrifices of those who fought and died for the american dream. Lord, change and decay surro
All time shall be allocated and no debate shall continue beyond 11 50. Each member shall be limited to five minutes. The chair recognizes the gentleman from pennsylvania, mr. Kelly, for five minutes. Mr. Kelly i thank the speaker. I rise today to honor one of our football teams back home. This team this is erie cathedral prep, the ramblers from erie cathedral prep. This is an outstanding football teams. When we come here we often talk about things and we tend to talk about whats going around our district and what were proud of. These types of championships that are won, what happened last weekend, this is something that every Single Player will remember for the rest of his life, their parents will remember it, members of the community will remember it. You know, to be able to stand here today and talk about the ramblers is really an opportunity for me and truly an honor. This is the second straight pennsylvania quad a state championship. Cathedral prep beat charter last week by a score
The next panel. Before i do so, id like to take one minute to pick up on something that we touched on recently today, the tragic events in las vegas last week. And i would like to turn the mic over to our fellow, your fellow legislator and my good friend, representative chris taylor from wisconsin, who has a quick announcement in that regard. Hello, everybody. I just wanted to build on, and i talked to our nevada folks about this as well, the issue, the gun epidemic and the most recent tragedy, and share a tactic that were using in wisconsin that im happy to share with you. A lot of you may have done this already. We have obviously introduced a lot of gun safety bills, including a bump stock ban, but we also formulated a letter that were circulating to the entire Wisconsin Legislature directed at our federal representatives and President Trump, calling on them to take action immediately to pass background checks, obviously, the bump stock ban, and to allow the cdc to do the Important R