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Emergency aid is being rushed to the philippines bringing desperately needed basic essentials to the victims of typhoon high, the recordbreaking super storm destroyed villages and hundreds of thousands have no power, food, water or shelter and hospitals are over run and good morning and welcome to al Jazeera America, the philippines red cross said 1200 people were killed in the storm but could top 10,000, slowly relief efforts are going to efforts caught off by bridges and roads and they reached the airport on sunday seeking supplies or a way out. A 2 million Relief Program from the United Nat...

The presiding officer the senator from tennessee. Mr. Alexander i want to join in this a little bit because i recognize two things about the senator from oklahoma, one, hes been out front in trying as the senator from maryland said get value for the taxpayers dollar and second, hes working in a cooperative way to help us get a result. Those are two great characteristics in a body of 100 people that operates by unanimous consent. Im grateful for that. On the first point i agree with the Early Childhood money. We really have about 18 billion there. From various streams of federal dollars that ar...

Ahead of liberal environmental groups. I encourage my colleagues on the floor with me today, mr. President , to continue pushing for policies that make energy more abundant and more affordable, unlike the heavyhanded regulations weve seen from the Obama Administration, these policies will actually create jobs and help grow the middle class in this country. Im going to continue fighting along with my colleagues who are here, joined me on the floor today to ensure we get votes on these policies and begin to rein in the outofcontrol regulations from the Obama Administration. Mr. President , i yie...

States objections and dispense with it and then move on and could be going on all the day and night and the ultimate outcome will not be affected. Joe biden will be have the votes affirmed on the way to be sworn in january 20th. We should just remind people there is no credible evidence of any widespread voter fraud to change the course of the election. None whatsoever. This is all based on lies and Conspiracy Theory and the fact that President Trump has decided to become the sorest loser in american history. Lets go to Phil Mattingly now. Reporter jake, senate democrats, combination of gleefu...

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