Yeah. Didnt scrooge send over a turkey at the end . He did something. He sent over dinner. And tiny tim was like, wow, its the best christmas. I dont know if that was the book version or the movie version. Im getting a little wait a minute there was a book huh . Yes, charles dickens. I know you know this we had this discussion there was a book it wasnt just a movie some people we know get all their news in tv which we hope is you at home. We hope you are getting your news here today. Look at the u. S. Equity futures. This is after major averages closed at record highs the s p 500 closed above 2600 for the first time as we saw this technology rally. This morning things are mixed. Dow futures up by 12 s p is down by a point and nasdaq down by 3 points. The major averages have been up three of the last four sessions. The dow had its 60th record close of 2017. The s p 500 saw its 54th record close of the year. Guess how many times, if you want to get to the record, 54 so far this year. The
Ntsb go team arrived in Washington State and came forthwith shocking infor information. That train going 80 miles an hour in a 30 mile an hour zone and we got that information from the trains event data recorder. As you mentioned, really stunning images from the scene. Showing 13 of 14 rail cars dangling over interstate five. And this is about 50 miles south of Seattle Washington and the train was making its inaugural one on faster route seattle to portland, oregon, 80 passenger where on board and five crew members and dozens were injured and many very seriously. And at least three are confirmed dead and accident investigators say there could be more. Theres a couple cars not safe enough to search. We know theres nobody alive in them at this point. And but there are we just dont know until they can shore up the train cars and get in there and search them. The tracks where the derailment happened owned by sound. There was extensive test ago long the rails and on this route before openin
Time. The presiding officer without objection. Ms. Cantwell thank you mr. President. I thank the senator from north dakota. I know were going to be going back and forth on this issue and that we have speakers coming later this morning and were going to have time divided but i appreciate the senator of north dakota allowing us to join in the debate this morning and make a few mountains. And i do want to say i appreciate the senator from north dakotas hard work on the Energy Committee in general and i look forward to working with him on many Energy Policies. He and i have worked together on a couple of different agricultural issues, and i certainly appreciate his due diligence. But needless to say i dont agree with the process of moving forward with this motion to proceed to the Keystone Pipeline bill. Many of my colleagues here are going to be coming down, talking about the issues. Two of my colleagues including the senators from utah and arkansas along with the senator of north dakota,
We are going to do our part to ask every candidate for president including Hillary Clinton and any of the others whether they agree with Elizabeth Warren on these issues like Social Security, more website reform and making college more affordable. Jenk, independent line from north carolina. Caller yes. My observation is, i think he made the statement that anybody that opposes the president s executive action on immigration does it to the detriment of the hispanic voter. But if they are illegal, they cant vote. And then you also commented on al franken winning in 2008 by 384 votes. How many of those votes were found under a church pew or came from the prison population that couldnt vote . And why is it that the Progressive Party seems to rely on the stupidity of the American Voter . Guest thats a great question. Rightwing talking points, they are still alive six years later including the al franken vote. He turned 312 votes victory margin in a high electorate president ial Election Year
Overseas. So i really dont see this as something we should preempt the laws of the United States. 2. 5 million comments. Republicans dont care much about the comments. 2. 5 million comments that are still being evaluated, raising concerns about various aspects of this project. But here, i will say, bad legislation, good politics, we are trying to help someone get elected to the senate who is currently a member of the house, the senate is potentially moving ahead with this bill. The house, with very little notice, zidded they would bring up this bill that we have passed in one version or another eight previous times. And use of the house of representatives to promotes candidacy to the United States senate, which i think is a really a disgrace to this institution. With that, i would reserve the balance of my time. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from oregon reserves. Mr. Shuster its now my pressure to yield two minutes to the subcommittee chairman of railroads and pipelines, mr. De