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The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Barry black, will lead the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Almighty god, all power and authority belong to you. You even rule the raging of the sea. Guide our lawmakers, as they strive to serve your purposes for their lives in this generation. May they acknowledge you as the source of their strength, finding their security in the wisdom and love of your unfolding providence. Make our senators a shining example of trustworthy and responsible stewardship. Use them to strengthen the moral fiber of our nation an...

Laying out a revised version of the repeal and replace effort. On thursday morning we hope to have a score by the end of the week and motion to proceed to that next week. Also, due to this unprecedented level that we have been experiencing, you may have noticed we had to get cloture on a district judge in idaho. We are getting zero cooperation on the personnel power of the Senate Portfolio which is confirming the nominations and therefore, we will be in session the first two weeks of august that we had originally anticipated not being here. Weve got the defense authorization, the debt ceiling,...

The 2016 we learned from the New York Times weve lost roughly 60,000 people to Drug Overdoses. That is more in one year that all the names on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall and likely, that number is underestimated because much of the data will not be in until the end of this year, 2017. Its staggering. For every fatal overdose its estimated there are 20 nonfatal overdoses and for 2016 that could mean your 1 million. 183,000 lives have been lost in the us from overdoses between 2015. Thats about 50,000 we lost over the last, 500,000 we lost over the next decade. The roots of this crisis be...

Obamacare. The failures of obamacare are well dowcted and while they dont documented and while they dont necessarily apply to everyone, in particular individuals and Small Businesses in the socalled individual market have seen a meltdown of the insurance exchanges. The presiding officer in her home state of ie warks youve had insurance iowa, youve had Insurance Companies pulling out to the point people cant find an insurance carrier that will sell a policy that qualifies under the Affordable Care act. That is because the Affordable Care act was, unfortunately, a partisan exercise and a failed ...

Version of the repeal and replace effort. The text of that on thursday morning. We hope to have a c. B. O. Score by the beginning of the week and a motion to proceed to that bill next week. Also, due to this unprecedented level of obstruction that weve been experiencing for example, you may have noticed, we had to get cloture yesterday on a district judge in idaho. Think of the as of june 28 , there were 178 president ial nominations up here and only 46 confirmed. Were getting zero cooperation on the personnel part of the senates portfolio which is confirming nominations. Therefore, we will be...