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Our nation, surrounding it with the shield of your favor. How worthy you are of our praise. Strengthen our lawmakers for todays journey. Give them strong hearts, sound minds, and diligent hands. May they do their ethical best to represent you, joining their plans to your will in order to accomplish your purposes. Incline their hearts to your wisdom and love as you keep them on the path of integrity. We pray in your sacred name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in reciting the pledg...

2. 6 million federal grant to pursue Health Care Delivery innovations that would result in better care at lower costs for virginians. Just this past week the governors access plan begin processing applications ensuring that up to 20,000 virginians with serious Mental Illness could get medical and behavioral care that they need to lead healthy and Productive Lives that they deserve. Mr. Speaker the men and women of this General Assembly a healthy virginia is no substitute for Medicaid Expansion b...

More opportunity for the middle class, class and more flexibility in a complex age with complex demands. That is why we try to pursue common sense jobs ideas including those with bipartisan support. Things like; reforming a broken tax system to make it friendlier and simpler the job creators, opening more markets to create american jobs at home and moving forward with bipartisan Infrastructure Projects like the keystone xl pipeline. Americans are changing this congress and president. And they ar...

The presiding officer the senate will come to order. Mr. Menendez [inaudible] and after having had the benefit of having a hearing on the pipeline ive decided to oppose this bill for four basic reasons. First, on the bill i am deeply concerned that if approved, this pipe lynn will be the first of many pipelines opening one of the largest sources of carbon on earth to exploitation. Second contrary to what many believe, im convinced this pipeline will simply not enhance, help, or in any positive w...

Much. Thank you mr. President and members of the senate, mr. Speaker numbers of the senate, Lieutenant Governor, members of the Governors Council and including that constitutional officers elected. Thank you for being here. Former senator scott brown governor Chris Christie we salute you. [applause] [applause] i have always admired and appreciated you both for years and i have admired your commitment to serve its for all of us and i thank you very much for being with us today. [applause] [applau...

The productive use of Americas Energy resources in this congress and where we will be able to capitalize on our countrys energy prosperity. And i am excited and looking forward to an open amendment process where we can do our jobs where we can offer amendments where we can debate those amendments. And most importantly where we can vote, because that is the only way that we are held accountable to our constituents, the American People. Thank you mr. President. I yield the floor. A senator mr. Pre...

Happening in the street, they get away from that. I think theres a real possibility with cities and towns in the country to step up and make a difference when it comes to wage gaps. [applause] yesterday we inaugurated the 114th senate of the United States congress. We welcomed back many dedicated members and swore in many new ones. I have high hopes for our new colleagues. They share the resolve of my conference to restore the senate to a place of high purpose and they are determined to make a p...

Sometimes the people who are most affected by these rules dont even know they are subject to the changes. My bill would mandate that agencies provide warnings, appropriate default rules and as closure requirements to the public. Right now just the opposite takes place. The administration skirts Stakeholder Input by issuing an interim final rule, theyre called i. F. R. s and they become Effective Immediately upon publication. My bill allows delay of implementation if that rule is challenged in co...

Cspan, created by americas Cable Companies 35 years ago and brought to you as a Public Service by your local cable or satellite provider. Today independent vermont senator Bernie Sanders Ranking Member of the budget committee, outlines his ideas on the economy and the middle class and his legislative priorities. Live coverage at 10 30 a. M. Eastern here on cspan2. Treasury secretary jack lew testified thursday before the Senate Finance committee on the president s 2016 budget request. He discuss...

Together and its not going to look like these old models of lobbying, and i tell you what that looks like inside congress is this tendency to use a Campaign Technology for governing and what its doing is making governing look like campaigning. I think people who look at congress can see this. It cant be petition sites and cant be like the correspondence Management System of congress sorts sentiment, not substance. Unless we figure out a way to privilege certain kinds of information that match in...