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The presiding officer are there any senators in the chamber wishing to vote or wishing to change their vote . If not, the ayes are 61, the nays are 30. Threefifths of the senate duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, the motion is agreed to. No expressions of approval are permitted in the gallery. The presiding officer the senator from louisiana. Ms. Landrieu thank you, mr. President. Mr. President , i thank the my colleagues that led this effort on this nondiscrimination bill which was historic and pleased that we had a partisan vote to make america more accepting and just pla...

Citizens unnecessarily. This is a huge, historic week that we are about to see unfold in our nations capitol and i pray that we can pass this bill and send it over to the United States house of representatives so we can have this full debate in our nation for equality for every person who lives within our boundaries and with that i yield back the balance of my time. The presiding officer under the previous order, the senate elkvemmi gpp this version which would be ban work place discrimination on basis of Sexual Orientation or gender identity, is the, 2007 was the last time it came up. And in ...

And several members of Congress Held a press Conference Thursday on tax policy and the need for tax reform. This is an hour. Knox. My name is ryan ellis, im tax policy director for americans at tax reform. This is our annual tax day eve press conference where we highlight the irs issue along with members and senators. Before i turn it over to Grover Norquist whos going to be the emcee of this event, i wanted to just run through the handouts you have on your seats so that youre familiar with them. And all these can be found, by the way, at atr. Org. And dent forget our hash tag on twitter today...

[ theme ] bill hey, good morning everybody. Welcome to the full court press this Tuesday Morning january 8. Good to see you today. Good to be back with you. Im here with 100 brain and heart and 50 voice but well try to struggle through it with the help of our friends today. Good to have you with us. Lot of big news to talk about. President obama completing the nominations for his National Security team yesterday. Nominating chuck hagel to be secretary of defense and john brennan to be the next director of the c. I. A. The critics are already out with their sharp swords. They intend to do to ch...

Reporter police are investigating behind me. From where this is all 0 yards going on. You can look over there. There are three pickup trucks and they tell us the train tracks are on the other side. Were hearing a woman was hit on the track behind the trees. The train had stopped. Tonight an amtrak official said it made contact with an individual who was on amtrak property. Does not know if the crash was fatal but claimed, people getting off work tell me it is very unusual for someone to be on the tracks in that area. Its not like there is a stopover there or anything. We dont know if this woma...