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The vote 11 40 eastern, a final vote around 1 30 this afternoon. Now, live coverage of the u. S. Senate here on cspan2. The chaplain lord god, in these difficult and challenging times, remind us that the earth belongs to you, and you have not abandoned it unite us with the understanding that you are our father, and we are all members of the human family. We pray for all who have been impacted by the pain of this us to crisis season. Use our senators to make the weak strong, the sick healthy, and the broken whole. Lord, surround those who have been shaken by anguish with your divine presence an...

Heard officials of both administrations for two decades talk about agreements that are eventually going to happen, and they almost never do. Ambassador lighthizer has been a bit of a pit bull on this piece of it, but discussing it in the interagency process isnt really the same as pushing to help statebased backers understand that this has real consequences. I am glad it is a topic for discussion, but i would just say ,n the Intelligence Community oversight in the legislature, this is an increasingly bipartisan issue that republicans and democrats believe it is important to be holding these fa...

Basis and do coordinate. I would just comment that ive worked closely with ambassador lighthizer on the china agreements and forced Technology Transfer is a major issue that weve been combatting. Fair, but weve heard u. S. Government officials of both administrations for two decades talk about agreements that are eventually going to have feet and they almost never do ambassador lighthizer has been a bit of a pitbull on this piece of it, but discussing it in the interagency process isnt the same as us pushing to help huawei and their state based actors to understand i. P. Theft has real consequ...

A senator madam president . The presiding officer the senator from minnesota. Ms. Klobuchar madam president , are we in a quorum call . The presiding officer no, we are not. Ms. Klobuchar madam president , we are here today to vote on a nominee to be a commissioner at the federal election commission, the independent Agency Responsible for enforcing federal Campaign Finance laws. I am deeply disappointed in todays vote which is a departure from the senates longstanding tradition of considering f. E. C. Nominees on a bipartisan basis and another step in eroding the fra decisions of the the tradi...

Massive local tax increases. Anyone of those alone threatens to make this economic crisis even worse and the combination of all three is almost unthinkable. The bureau of labor statistics just reported that state and local governments laid off nearly one million workers in april. That is almost one million firefighters, police officers, teachers, Emergency Personnel that should be on the front lines of the Public Health crisis but are sidelined instead. Chairman powell, let me start by asking, do you agree that our economy will get worse if state and local governments are forced to lay off eve...