The presiding officer please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to the flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. The presiding officer the clerk will read a communication to the senate. The clerk washington, d. C. , april 4, 2016. To the senate under the provisions of rule 1, paragraph, of the standing rules of the senate, i hereby appoint the honorable bill cassidy, a senator from the state of louisiana, to perform the duties of the chair. Signed, orrin g. Hatch, president pro tempore. Mr. Mcconnell mr. President . The presiding officer the Senate Majority leader. Mr. Mcconnell id like to welcome our colleagues back from their state work periods. The senate has gotten a lot done under e new majority and will continue well continue our work today. But first i want to remember the daily sacrifice of our Capitol Police in light of the inciden
Good morning, everyone. My name is bruce katz, im Vice President at the brookings institution, founding director of the metropolitan policy program here. I want to welcome you to brookings both for people in the room, who are watching on cspan and i via webcast to the closing event of infrastructure week. So a lot of folks public, private, civic have been involved in designing infrastructure week and pulling it off, and to all of you from brookings, thank you. And also thank you to the foundations and corporations that really have made our work possible. The ford foundation, the [inaudible] foundation, hitachi, aig, ge, rbc, kkr and all the members of our metropolitan leadership council. They really have made our research possible. Now, the timing of this week could not be better. And i know congressman delaneys going to talk about this. There are clearly shortterm federal actions involving the gas tax and the Highway Trust Fund that are critical and really a new way of the National Go
Pro tempore on this day. Signed, john a. Boehner, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the house of january 7, 2014, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour ebate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties with each party limited to one hour and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and the minority whip but in to five minutes, no event shall debate continue beyond 1 50 p. M. The chair recognizes the gentleman from oklahoma, mr. Lankford, for five minutes. Mr. Nkford thank you, speaker. Mr. Speaker, today i just want to come and reflect for just a moment on a lady i met a few weeks ago on loyalty day. Many americans dont know about loyalty day. Its a day of remembrance around may 1. Its the celebration time. Its remembrance and a time to recognize the freedom we have in america. This lady, zona, shani, oklahoma, she stood and sha
Quorum call mrs. Shaheen madam president . The presiding officer the senator from New Hampshire. Mrs. Shaheen madam president , is the senate in a quorum call . The presiding officer it is. Mrs. Shaheen i ask that the quorum call be lifted. The presiding officer without objection. Mrs. Shaheen thank you. Madam president , more than 50 years ago, president kennedy signed the equal pay act making equal pay for equal work the law of the land. And yet today, wage discrimination still persists. Today women i continue to be pad just over threequarters of what their male counterparts receive for performing the same work. More women than he have before are graduating from college, but over the course of their careers, they will each make an average of 1. 2 million less than a man with the same level of education. Unfortunately, thats not unique. Across a wide array of industries and within all different occupations, wellqualified women continue to earn an average of 77 cents for each dollar th
He said, i will need it, i will not meet with you, i will meet with you, and will not meet with you. They did not have a meeting. Bush left the country. Then later he held a conference and denounced bush for not meeting with them. I bet he regretted the way he acted when bush was there earlier. He had personal and intellectual reasons for supporting isreal. He only got 19 of the vote in 2000. Of the jewish vote in 2000. He got a big bond to 24 in 2004 against john kerry. Big bump to 24 in 2004 against john kerry. Bush really benefited from his outreach. I will come to a conclusion, but i want to talk briefly about obama and romney. Obama has a reputation as a reader. There is one time he was asked about reading a book, but he said, i only have time to floss my teeth and watch tv sports. Homeland, theorado la sopranos. He mentioned snooki a couple of times. It was suggested that obamas approach it does not necessarily suggest that obama read the book, but he said obama might have taken