Page 20 - Amendment Senate News Today

Thats an right at the center and many of the big issues. Thank you for being with us. Let me introduce our two reporters. Press National Environment reporter. Susan is that the washington examiner. To start with your caucus. Front and center issue for americans right now. What is on the minds is is it appropriate for congress to be taking a break . Before the election is what i harry reid isvote allowing is a pure spending bill, spending more money on the illegals to house the in this country an...

Call for official at the county did say i voted for so and so. Is that who you got . They should be able to say yes i voted for the candidate, you got it right. Its time that we voted. We have the representative on the line so we are going to cut to the representative and then we will come back to the audience question and answer. Its great to be with you today and thank you for the invitation to join you remotely and especially want to thank david wilson of at the Atlantic Council for their eff...

And of course news four. This airs on all nbc stations across the commonwealth nationally on cspan and streaming live on nbc washington. Com. Lets begin by quickly covering the rules of the debate. The debate will last one hour and will begin with twominute Opening Statements from each candidate and then our panel is and i will pose questions directly to the candidates. The questions are determined by abc news on the panel is and has not been reviewed by the candidates or the Fairfax Chamber. Ea...

A senator mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from oklahoma. Mr. Coburn i ask unanimous consent the quorum call be dispensed with. The presiding officer is there objection . Without objection. Mr. Coburn and i ask unanimous consent to speak for at least five minutes. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Coburn first of all, id like to spend a few minutes just talking about my colleague and chairman of the Homeland Security and the Government Affairs committee. The last two ...

Assembled. Thank you. To the Standing Committees on banking and milcon, you have served our nation well and i know that you will continue to do so in the future. Thank you for your leadership on important issues. Im looking forward to the years ahead and the time that we will share. To my wife barbara and our three children, thank you for your unwavering support, for putting up with late night dinners, for accepting that my work demanded that i was away so many weekends and for working side by s...

Workingage native americans increased by nearly 17 million. So the 17 million is a dramatic figure. So thats not a decline as native workers as some businesses try to say. Oh, we have a demographic decline. Weve got to deal with this. Were still growing in the working ages. 17 million since 2000 have increased in the age group. So here are a few more statistics. These are not temporary trends but prolonged trends. Nearly one in four americans in their prime working years 25 2554, are not working...

2002. After the news and photographs emerged from the United States military detention of iraqis at abu ghraib, the Intelligence Committee held a hearing on the matter on may 12th, 2004. Without disclosing any details of its own Interrogation Program cia director John Mcglocklin testified that ciaer interrogationse were nothing lie what was depicted at abu ghraib. The United States prison in iraq where detainees were abused by american personnel. This of course was false. Cia detainees at one fa...

Speaks now for itself. It now comes to the senate. And im here tonight to kick off that debate. For hours after hours after hours and the last several days, i have heard what is wrong with this bill. I dont dispute my colleagues analysis. I will debate it. But now weve got to Start Talking about what are the good aspects of this bill and why we did this bill in the first place. And tonight i want to remind people what we are doing. First of all, we are funding the entire United States government...

The presiding officer any senator wishing to vote or change their vote . If not, the yeas are 53, the nays are 2. The motion is agreed to. Mr. Reid madam president . The presiding officer mr. Leader. Ahmadinejad i move to proceed to executive session to consider calendar number 1041, steven bough of missouri. A senator ask for the yeas and nays. The presiding officer the question is on the motion to proceed. Is there a sufficient second . There appears to be. The clerk will call the roll. Vote v...

Vote vote the presiding officer are there any senators in the chamber wishing to change their votes . If not, the ayes are 89, the nays are 11, and the motion is agreed to. Under the previous order, h. Con. Res. 121 and h. Con. Res. 123 are considered and agreed to en bloc and the motions to reconsider are considered made and laid upon the table en bloc. The republican leader. Mr. Mcconnell could we have attention the attention of the senate. The presiding officer the senate will be in order. Mr...