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A couple votes coming up including one for President Trumps nominee for the National Credit Union Administration board. You are watching live Senate Coverage here on cspan2. The presiding officer the senate will come to order. A senator madam president . The presidin officer senator from kentucky. Paul palm i ask that the folling be granted floor privileges, calem case, lucy, carlin gupta, and gab brie ella mastra. Thpresiding officer without objection. Under the previous order, all postcloture ...

My hotels nominee introduced Hillary Clinton to address her supporters in the nation for the concession speech. Ls the polls in the western u. S. Had just been closed about ten hours and then they called the 2016 election for donald trump. Hillary clinton had made history, she was the first woman nominee of a major woman nominee for president. Should one the popular vote by millions. She was also deeply concerned about the election itself. Oandidate donald trump openly solicited help from foreig...

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We will go live to House Speaker nancy pelosi to talk about campaign 2020. This is a Virtual Event hosted by politico. We want to thank the American Institute of architects for sponsoring the conversation today. These join me in welcoming 2020 president of the American Institute of architects. Hello, everyone. , 2020ane frederick president of the American Institute of architects. Its an honor to support this important event and introduce the speaker of the United States house of representatives,...

And now the Vice President ial candidate is san franciscos own, let Harris Kamala harris. I wonder if you could talk about your relationship with her and what she brings to the ticket . Speaker pelosi i would love to talk about that. First, i would like to thank jane for her beautiful statement and aia for their leadership over the years. Working with them has been so special because they have the beauty of design, the commitment ,o sustainability, and again anything we talk about, the climate c...

Vote vote the presiding officer are there any senators in the chamber wishing to vote or change their vote . If not, the yeas are 71, the nays are 21. The nomination is confirmed. Mr. Mcconnell mr. President. The presiding officer under the previous order, the motion to reconsider is considered made and laid upon the table, and the president will be immediately notified of the senates action. Mr. Mcconnell mr. President. The presiding officer the majority leader. Mr. Mcconnell on monday, republi...

Vote the presiding officer are there any senators in the chamber wishing to vote or change their vote . If not, the yeas are 53, the nays are 38. The nomination is confirmed. Under the previous order, the motion to reconsider is considered madeland upon the table and the president will be immediately notified of the senates action. Mr. Paul mr. President . The presiding officer the senator for kentucky. Mr. Paul i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to legislative session for a period ...

Including some turtles. Thats right. Your tax dollars actually paid for a study that put turtles on treadmills. So here we have our turtles on a treadmill. To no ones surprise, it turns out that turtles are really, really slow. Okay. Thats what our tax dollars went to. In fact, this wasteful study found that turtles moved at nearly the same pace as dead turtles on a treadmill. Arent you glad that washington bureaucrats used your hard earned dollars to conduct this study . Good grief, folks. Now ...

Were grawded and defrauded and relieved of some of all of our student debt. 220,000 student borrowers are waiting for betsy devos to do something but they havent done anything except for them having to be harder to prove it. Each of these students are supposed to get their own lawyer, their own investigator and prove the fraud. Is that reasonable for a young student carrying a student debt whos been defrauded to have that responsibility . Secretary devos thinks yes. I think no. And thats what th...

Vote the presiding officer on this vote, the yeas are 71, the nays are 21. Threefifths of the senators duly chosen having voted in the affirmative, the motion is agreed to. Mr. Leahy mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from vermont. Mr. Leahy mr. President , i think were waiting for somebody on the other side. Ill yield, but i want to thank everybody for joining senator shelby and i on this vote. Its going to help us move forward, where i noted, as i said earlier in my remarks, rep...