Welcome the Morning Blend. Good morning, everybody. How was your labor day . It was great. No, it was. I appreciated the extra time. My dogs got haircuts. Thats good. That was the combination i accomplished. And i fixed a broken sprinkler with my husband. I cant plan anything to get to the pipes, and i have no ideas. I finished the nursery. Pictures my hand hurts from all of the you guys put together ikea furniture . Yeah, its great furniture, but man, after a while your hand starts to almost bleed. It gets raw. How many hours did it take . Enough. A crib, and the drawers, and you put the toys in, and you got the other thing with the thing. You put the books in. Too many. Its done. Getting ready. First up, sorry. Little bit of a rampage. States pageant is to provide a lifechanging experience for young women a crosscountry, gives them a voice to those, needing to be heard. And two local students were crowned winners. There they are. Yes, they are local las vegas, joining us to talk abou
Breakfast organized this morning. But there does seem to be that sibling thing a little bit. They love each other but they have to go at each other a little bit. To be always found louie unbelievably gracious every time i see him. I dont watch tv i have to admit. [laughter] but he is a good man and a great storyteller and jan was reminding me the first time we saw each other was at one of my first events when i ran for office. Its wonderful to see all the friends who are here today to the president s and prime ministers, the leaders of business and the Nonprofit Community to my incredible friend and Vice President joe biden to my cabinet members who are here and members of the administration who do such great work every single day to my fellow hawaiiian, i should tell you my surfing is not that good but my buddys surfing is pretty good. Justo raj shah, who is such an incredible young leader and is out there every day. I could not be more proud of his outstanding leadership. [applause]
Quorum call reid mr. President i ask unanimous consent the call of the quorum be vitiated. I ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to a period of morning business. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Reid i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to executive session to consider nominations 597, 598, 601, 602, 603 with the exception of colonel mark baird and colonel Robert Stanley ii, and 604, 605 with the exception of colonel andrew e. Salas. 606 with the exception of Brigadier General john k. Kelk. And then 607, 608, 609, 610, 611 and all nominations on the secretarys desk in the air force and army. That the nominations be confirmed en bloc, the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid on the table, there be to intervening action or debate, that no further nominations be in order to any of the nominations and that any related statements be printed in the record, that president obama be immediately notified of the senates action and the senate then resume legisla
Also, in many cases, they have their own initiatives. Oftentimes to help women and children. And what we want the first ladies from around the world to know is that they can also do that. There is a role for first ladies to have. To talk about especially womens issues and especially issues that have to do with children. We started this First Ladies Initiative and we began with first ladies from africa with a conference we hosted. Then we invited all of the african first ladies to a luncheon in new york when they were all there with their husbands for the United Nations general assembly. Many came, more came for that luncheon. We just talked about two programs after that luncheon was just to have a festive and friendly luncheon, but we had wendy who founded teach for america. She talked about teach for all of which is her international program. And then we had our daughter, barbara, talk about her nonprofit, Global Health court. Health core. She got the idea from teach for america. She
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