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Enter this session our priorities in 2020 have been shaped by the events and circumstances our state has faced over the last year. As i have said before i believe 2019 will be remembered as nebraskas finest hour. [applause] when we were faced with the most widespread and costly Natural Disaster in state histor history, nebraskans responded with heroic grit and determination and resilience and generosity. For 318 days through december 19 nebraska had a flood watch warning or advisory somewhere in our state. Through it all nebraska show the world what it truly means to be nebraska strong. The re...

The presiding officer have all senators voted . Any senator wish to change their vote. The yeas are 72. The nays are 22. The motion is agreed to. The clerk will report the motion to invoke cloture. The clerk cloture motion, we the undersigned senators in accordance with the provisions of rule 22 of the standing rules of the senate do hereby move to bring to a close debate on the nomination of sherri a. Lydon of South Carolina to be United States district judge for the district of South Carolina signed by 17 senators. The presiding officer by unanimous consent, the mandatory quorum call has bee...

Funds cost 7 billion every month, and thats just for the army. Mr. President , we have an opportunity to correct this or we have an opportunity to waste another 20 by a yearlong c. R. I am urging the American Public to make it known to those of us at veterans day programs this weekend and next week. Im urging my colleagues to stress this when they talk to the public. There are there are appropriation bills that are not yet worked out but for heavens sake, lets at least do the bill that pays the troops that sends a signal to the rest of the world in these trying times that we are at least going...

Its back to 32 a share. Down 6. 58. Overall, the markets holding pretty steady as the profit reports roll in. In fact, id say stock prices are real solid and some of the profit reports, thats keeping the market at very high levels. No big pullback at this point. The dow industrials will open up about 40 this morning, s p up 6. By the way, the s p is only 22 points away from the alltime high. Whats that, just one big rally . The nasdaq, look at it go, up a half percentage point premarket. Big deal. Now let me lay out what we have for you. An important speech from Vice President pence on china. ...

>> leaders of the world's wealthiest democracies sent a message to russia and china during the second day of the g7 summit. ukraine president volodymyr zelenskyy is among the non-member leaders invited to the summit. he is boosting support for his country in the war with russia. zelenskyy is expected to address some leaders tomorrow, but today he held sit-downs with some leaders. >> providing military aid to ukraine was one of the items for the g7 leaders, but the leaders of japan, germany, italy, united kingdom and the u.s. issued statements on china to help end the war in ukraine a...