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Benefit of a clean energy economy. It is time to wake up. I yield the floor to my friend, the distinguished senator from louisiana. The presiding officer the senator from louisiana. Ms. Landrieu thank you, senator. Im so happy to follow him on the floor today and some to see him again. Weve worked together on so many important issues, mr. President , wonderful to see you and to be back on the floor. I come today for a very special reason. I am so proud to present to the senate a package of lands...

Im happy to do that. I know we are still a very fluid situation, but we reached out and asked we were talking about pts and whether they could get health provided their City Employees of the Indian Health service would provide direct Health Service to travel citizens and would largely be unaffected by the shutdown and that they would continue to provide correct Clinical Health Care Services as well as referrals for Contract Services that cannot be provided through their clinic. So, again, we jus...

Quorum call mr. Durbin mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from illinois. Without objection. Mr. Durbin discharged from further consideration of s. 250 and ask the senate proceed to its immediate consideration. The presidingthe presiding offik will report. The clerk s. 3250, a bill to amend the d. N. A. Analysis backlog elimination act of 2000, and so forth and for other purposes. The presiding officer without objection, the committee is discharged. And the senate will proceed to t...

Was halper being paid hundreds of thousands of dollars just month before the fbi secured a warrant to spy on the Trump Campaign through carter page and we had hearing the story from the inside for the First Time Ever with an exclusive audio tape that he says is a smoking gun in the Michael Flynn case, plus the president ends the stimulus madness signing four executive orders into law to keep coronavirus aid flowing even if congress leaves for recess, gop house leader Kevin Mccarthy is here with ...

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Tell us more about the what it could be like in the United States senate over the next couple of weeks with the house managers releasing and filing with the clerk of the senate the document that is essentially the trial brief that is a road map for how they plan to proceed over the next couple weeks. And a lot of this is information weve heard before. Some of it is about the facts. Some of it is about the procedures relating to impeachment. And some of it is about the guidance from the framers o...

Should embrace the gay community. Im john berman. Christine romans is off today. It is tuesday, october 14th. 4 00 a. M. In the east. There is clear concern among cdc officials this morning. The fear is there could be more cases of ebola transmission like the dallas nurse who became infected. Others who cared for Thomas Eric Duncan could become infected the same way. That nurse has now been identified as nina pham. Cdc director Thomas Frieden says pham is stable. She has received a blood transfu...

Atlanta, im George Howell. We will have those stories in a moment. First, were getting new video from the Regional Government of kurdistan that shows the u. S. Raid on an isis compound inside iraq. U. S. Special forces and kurdish fighters storm the compound on thursday in a mission to rescue hostages believed to be in danger of execution. A u. S. Soldier was killed during the operation. 70 hostages were freed but not the kurdish captives they were september in to rescue. That raid has critics r...

Yasmin vossoughian and louis burgdorf. Well, this morning, cleanup continues across the southeastern United States in the wake of Hurricane Irma, the president and first lady are expected to travel to florida tomorrow to see some of the damage first hand. At least 54 deaths have now been blamed on irma. 12 of those in florida alone. In the watered florida keys, fema officials estimate at least 1 in 4 homes have been destroyed by the storm. In jacksonville, it could take a week for floodwaters to...

More. First time this has happened in a long time. Also means jobs, jobs, jobs. But the deal nearly did not happen. The senate vote delayed for hours after multiple objections from senator rand paul and opposition from budget hawks and some democrats in the house that threatened to derail the deal. Tensions were clearly visible throughout the marathon late night session. Its a compromise in the wrong direction. We should be compromising in the direction of going towards spending only what comes ...