U. S. Senate here on cspan2. The senate will come to order. The chaplain will lead the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Eternal god, the king of glory, your never failing providence sustains us. Today, inspire our lawmakers with the music of your wisdom that they may bring hope, joy, and unity to our nation and world. Remind our senators that even in the darkness, you are a sure guide. Lord, energize them to strive, to transform dark yesterdays into bright tomorrows. And lord, in this new year, go before us to show us the way, behind us to press us forward, beside us to give us courage, above us to provide protection. And within us to give us your wisdom and discernment. We pray in your loving name. Amen. The presiding officer please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to our 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 presidin
Disaster aid for puerto rico following a catastrophic Hurricane Season last year. And etiquette senator Richard Blumenthal recently returned from a trip to the island. Lifted. The presiding officer mr. Blumenthal thank you, mr. President. Im here to talk about our sen. Blumenthal i am here to talk our about our former sen. Blumenthal i am here to talk about our fellow citizens in puerto rico. The hurricane that hit that island 106 days ago. I visited puerto rico with my friend and colleague senator murphy yesterday and the day before to bring back to my colleagues here a factbased report on how the recovery effort is going and how ample federal support has been. And i come to the floor today furious and frustrated. And the people of puerto rico have a right to be furious as well. Because they have been denied the basic help and relief that this great nation, the greatest in the history of the world, owes to all americans. Let there be no doubt the people of puerto rico are our fellow a
Are secure. And so we believe that we should increase funding for the department of defense, but we should also make sure that our schools have teachers. We should also make sure we have cops on the street. We should also make sure that our bridges arent falling down. Thats National Security as well. And its not too much to ask to make sure that our security is taken care of internationally and domestically as well. Let me give you a perfect example of how you cant just plus up defense spending and leave the rest of the budget unattended to. Okay, we love defense spending in connecticut. Why . Because we make a lot of bigticket items for the department of defense. We make the helicopters at sick tkor i ask. We at sikorsky. We make the submarines. Were proud of all of that. Let me tell you what happens at electric boat if you plus up pt Defense Department if you plus up the Defense Department at the expense of all the other discretionary accounts. Were going to be building a lot more su
Observation gray are in a cold bowl there. Ox dental 39. Still a few 30s hanging on and otherwise once we get cranked up sunny for everybody. Systems continue to dig in east of us. And that is why they done produce much moisture but it can be a big wind producer. About 10 minutes. 70s, upper 80s, a few near 90. 5 01, made it through the first hour okay. Good morning to you, traffic is moving along pretty well. If you are driving on many of these roads. Altamont pass slowing on 580 as you drive to 205 and 580 we had an earlier accident. The traffic is still a little bit slow in the area. No problems from livermore to castro valley. Continues to move on well to interstate 880. 580 as well. Preparation for the game. This is a look at westbound bay bridge, can you see traffic is going to be light. 502 back to the test. All right. Sal. We have developing news, a magnitude 6. 0 earthquake centered off the east coast of japan near almost nearly destroyed the power plant which was hit by the 9
And tomorrow and then wednesday things go downhill. We got 70 back in boston right now, last hour you dipped into the 60s. So warmup is underway. Beverly 66, plymouth 67 . , lower 60s still in norwood and bedford, nashua, New Hampshire at 64 . In worcester at 67 for you out there now. This is warmup hourbyhour metrowest. So that means by 9 00 this morning, mid70s, 80 back on the map by 11 00 a. M. , 1 00 this afternoon. It is low or mid80s and thats where we hang most of the afternoon. Inland towns and cities will be the warmest and go to 87 . , coast in boston 82, the cape, cool spot, at 80 this afternoon, so all of us really scoring with forecast today and all of that sunshine, and i will talk about the middle of the week changes coming up. Julie is up now with monday morning. Volume starting to build just a little bit, hit the is 7 00 mark and route 1 in saugus a little bit slower than when we medford into somerville. Slowest spot of the commute right now is the expressway, but that