Administrator nominee Steven Dixson today. The senate will vote on his nomination at 11 eastern. On the other side of the capital Robert Mueller is testifying before two house panels today. Now live Senate Coverage here on cspan2. The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Black, will open the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Eternal god, our shelter in the time of storms, we thank you for this land we love. Were grateful for its history, government, discoveries, knowledge, creativity, and vision. As our lawmakers seek to keep our nation strong, may they act and speak in ways that make us proud to be americans. Use our senators to banish hate and bigotry, inspiring our citizens to live together in peace. May the words of our legislators mouths and the meditations of their hearts receive your approval. We pray in your great name. Amen. The president pro tempore amen. Please join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of
Only accelerate when a business may deduct certain deductions and not whether the costs are deductible in the first place. However, the most costly of what i term general business incentives is also likely the most popular. Im going to show you in just a minute. The most popular because it has such an overwhelming number of cosponsors in both bodies. That is the shortline tax credit. This provision offers a tax ched to shortline railroads for qualified maintenance expenditures. This credit isnt available to the largest railroads, what we call the class one railroads. This credit benefits smaller railroads that are critically important for farmers and many manufacturers to get their products to the global markets. For example, in my state of iowa, according to a recent data from the american short line and Regional Railroad association, there are nine short lines and Regional Railroads. This credit isnt just supported by an and important to the railroads themselves. Its also supported b
Fbi open investigation into our president because they thought he was either knowingly or potentially unwittingly being a tool for the russians. Some of the top levels of the fbi were out to get the president. What are you doing . [laughter] sugar this is what you are are bruno mars is really good. He is a treasure. He is a National Treasure. As are you rachel camposduffy and as are you, america. Griff good morning. Happy saturday. Bruno mars Pretty Amazing when he had the super bowl thing not last year with it but two years ago they did a whole story on him. He grew up in a homeless sort of lifestyle living in National Parks in hawaii. Pretty amazing what he has done with his life. But, we have news. Todd yes, we do. Griff that is the Government Shutdown is day 22. It is now officially, america, pour your cup of coffee, you can now say that you are living in the longest Government Shutdown in history. Last one 1995 to 1996 under speaker gingrich was 21 days, today is 22. Rachel 800,00
Did not save. Very fascinating. First, we go live to detroit where the host of fox news at night is here with the on the Ground Reaction to the standout moments from tonights debates. In shannon, what are you hearing . Laura, we saw tonight that was getting a lot of steam agai is a growing division between the wings of the party. You could hear the cheering for the two different size the more progressive and the others on the stage come back from the clubs, we are going to lose thi reelectionel to President Trump. One of the strongest warnings came from democrat congressman tim ryan. He had sent over and over and night that weve got to pull back from this edge of. Heres how he spelled it out to those who want to go for left. In this discussion already tonight we talked about taking private health inc. From Union Members in the industrial midwest. Weve talked about decriminalizing the border, and weve talked about getting Free Health Care to undocumented workers when so Many Americans a
The judge said there is no question Rena Merker "was subjected to abusive language, gender-related jokes, and occasional teasing." But it didn t rise to an actionable hostile work environment.