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Heavens that bring blessings to our earthly pilgrimage. Today, guide our lawmakers with your glorious wisdom. In the greatness of your majesty, fulfill your purposes for their lives as you order their steps. Show them such unfailing love that they will walk before you in wholehearted devotion. Lord, place your Healing Hands upon our nation and world, delivering us from this Global Health crisis. We pray in your powerful name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance i pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic f...

Relief measures congressre has passed there was 150 billion sent to the state and local governments, much of which have yet to be spent and frankly we dont know what the actual need is until we have a better sense of what the revenue loss is to the state and local governments. They are sounding the alarm and justifiably worried about what happens if the downturn in the economy continues and what that dght mean for their revenues. So, they are looking to washington, d. C. For assistance, and i think that as i said earlier, there was 150 billion that went out to state and local governments and t...

Colleagues have come to the floor and spoken here or elsewhere about the importance of providing assistance to state and local governments, and that if that doesnt happen that theyre there are going to be police officers, First Responders and people who have essential jobs that we rely on every single day and for whom were so grateful, that wouldnt be able to get paid. I would just point out that already as part of the Coronavirus Relief measures that congress has passed, there was 150 billion sent to state and local governments, much of which has yet to be spent. And, frankly, much of which w...

Them have generated some degree of a bipartisan controversy in the past and the attorney general just wanted to underscore again the importance of these provisions that were enacted in the wake of the 911 attacks and they are still relevant to our effort to go after terrorists today just like they were after 911. There is a tendency with the passage of time for these measures to lose support because you have been so successful. We have had animal attacks here at home from foreigners and these tools have been overwhelmingly useful and according to our intelligence advisors and i hope that when ...

Remember your promise to never leave or forsake us. Finding power in your presence, give our senators the ability to discover solutions to the problems that confront our nation and world. May they strive to make a positive difference for all americans, permitting your light to illumine the way. Lord, provide our legislators with a new vision of faith and a fresh venture of hope as they seek creative ways to help a troubled world. We pray in your powerful name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in the pledge of allegiance to the flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United S...