Advance the measure both for 11 30 a. M. Eastern. Now live to the senate floor here on cspan2. The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Black, will open the senate with prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Eternal father, our souls long for you, for we find strength and joy in your presence. Guide our lawmakers to put their trust in you, seeking in every undertakin to know and do your will. When they go through difficulties, may they remember that, with your help, they can accomplish the seemingly impossible. Give them a faith that will trust you even when the darkness is blacker than a thousand midnights. May they always find strength in your providential leading. We pray in your strong name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in 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
Thank you for your friendship. A senator mr. Chairman. The presiding officer the senator from washington. Ms. Cantwell mr. Chairman mr. President , i rise to join my colleagues on the floor today to pay tribute to my colleague in georgia, senator isakson, and to congratulate him on his retirement after 20 years in congress, including the past 15 years in the United States senate. We worked together on key provisions of the secure act to improve Retirement Planning for millions of americans on behalf of the work hes done for veterans, the veterans v. A. Mission act, important to so many people who served our country, and specifically working together on the finance committee for the last six years on important issues like Affordable Housing. Theres been no better advocate for the Affordable Housing tax credit, hoping to secure billions of dollars in funding for Affordable Housing nationwide than senator isakson. Now, it is true that my colleague senator hatch and i had a bill to help in
So i thought i would discuss in a book to raise awareness through a letter to an elected official. Its not to respect it and try to answer, its not that people are under some dark hole. Its a major issue i think. Most young people dont realize that there is far more impact. There are lots of letters, i think think a half a million a week. Heres how it breaks down. A lot of people dont know that relatives go to the white house every morning. Everyone expects the president to answer these letters but he has staff and departments and they should all be acknowledged at least. They have robo letters for bailout that often goes like this. Or they write letters to contributors. President s do right personal letters to a governor or mayor who supports the president so anybody who says the president doesnt sign particular letters to people doesnt know what they are talking about. You said dear mr. President i want you to attend my high school daughters graduation. They have to be polite so they
I paint. Painting. I am in the process of writing a book. Im an editor, and i have been working away on which direction im going to go on a book. And there is some places i havent been. I have been 101 countries in my life, but i have never been to portugal. I have only been to barcelona in spain and i have only been to paris in france, so there is a whole lot of things that i want to do. Ski. Various parts of france and portugal. Maybe some french cooking. I mean, this is the first time in my life i can do what i absolutely want to do. Greta you seem excited about that. Rep. Mcdermott yeah. I mean i have been working since , i was 12 years old, always someone telling me what i had to do, i had to go here, i had to do that. For the last 28 years i have had 700,000some odd people telling me what they think i ought to do. Now i am going to tell myself what i think i ought to do. Greta what did you do when you were 12 . Rep. Mcdermott i was a peter boy. That was where i started. And then
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