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Ms. Collins good afternoon. Im susan collins, senator from the great state of maine. As the cochair with senator joe manson of the bipartisan commonsense coalition, im so pleased to be here with my colleagues to present our immigration security and opportunity act, which will be offered as a floor amendment sometime today. I want to thank each one of my colleagues for their hard work and their commitment to achieving a bipartisan solution. I appreciate the leadership of senator run and senator k...

Wrong when one family, the owners of walmart own as much wealth as the bottom 40 of the american people. There is something profoundly wrong when millions of workers are working longer hours for lower wages when we have by far the highest rate of childhood poverty in the industrialized world and almost all new wealth and income goes into the hands of the few. Enough is enough. That has got to end. And together, we will end it. This campaign is sending a profound message to the billionaire class....

Solution to the Iranian Nuclear issue. One that will provide the necessary assurances on the exclusively peaceful nature of Irans Nuclear program on the one hand, and the list lifting of sanctions on the other. As such, it represents a significant achievement and a tribute to the merits of patient diplomacy from all sides. It is appropriate that this deal was struck in vienna, where all this began 12 years ago when the International Atomic Energy Agency started to look into possible iranian unde...

Strong partnership between labor and management that has driven performance significantly where they are producing the work they are doing on our submarine attack fleet on schedule, under budget. A takeaway from the hearing some of the best practices being put in place that we need a better mechanism to share those among the shipyards to ensure that we can learn from each other to make sure that that Strong Partnership is there for excellent performance between labor and management and i know th...

Shipbuilding plan. Are you concerned with that and what more do we need to do, what can congress do to help you overcome that ship shortfall . Senator this is an area where navy and marine corps have been discussing and again have realized together although the requirement, the military requirement is 38, the current fiscal environment is going to drive us to 34. I appreciate the assistance of congress to getting us to 34 to address those that gap between the requirement and what we can resource...

To 346 ships. And our Combatant Commanders say they require 450 ships. With continual high operational tempo, we will continue the downward spiral of military capacity and readiness until congress acts. I look forward to discussing many of these today. First, each forward class Aircraft Carrier has experienced more than 2 billion in cost growth. This Program Continues to be plagued by Technology Immaturity and a lack of reliability test data for critical systems. This is unacceptable. I repeat. ...

Bloombergs European Headquarters in london. We are getting some breaking news in terms of pmi. Euro area figures pretty much as expected. Greek july manufacturing pmi falling to a record low of 30. 2. We were expecting a figure of 46. 9. 30. 2 is a record low but also very low indeed. Anything below 50 indicates retraction contraction. The Athens Stock Exchange has plunged this morning. We will have the latest from the greek capital in just a moment. First to manus, whos been taking a look at ho...

Lets give them a good round of applause. [applause] its a chock full day. Youll start hearing people give you insight to Social Security and a lot of it in depth of the actuarial perspective which are the lifeblood of the Social Security so youll be hearing but the key to this day, in my view and i hope to be here the whole day, is the last session real have a chance to put together a Social Security long term solvency program. Youll hear a lot of the options discussed and to do it yourself. Thi...

Any north Korean Peninsula are raised and we begin by asking our viewers what track the united days should take in response to north koreas test. Inyou believe action is order 202 7488000. If you think sanctions and economic is the right response, 202 7488002. If you think the United States should do nothing, 202 6280184. You can also catch up on social. Edia 202 6280184 a very good monday morning to you. The Un Security Council is holding its second emergency meeting on north korea in a week. W...

Have your back in terms of all people in our country, including people of color. This spending bill, it does just the opposite. I hope the members will understand the message that were sending to communities of color in this bill and rectify some of the problems. You have a chance to reject further institutionization of any quality and injustice and recognize how painful these cuts will be to people of color and women. Im going to give you my examples and my amendment shows what im talking about...