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We will send the conference and jean will send out a notice with the particular details just more a follow up. This will culminate with an event on capitol hill that will do that well do in the spring with members of congress and the senate. So im announcing that now. I want to get your commitments. Ill stop you before you walk out of the room and headache sure that you join and make sure that you join us for that, because we have to headache sure that we protect this program. So with that, as i said, the good news is that cdbg is funded at 3. 030 billion in py14. The House Appropriations comm...

Mr. Blumenthal madam president , i ask that the quorum call be lifted. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Blumenthal thank you, madam president. This month we celebrate the 41st anniversary of the Supreme Court decision in roe v. Wade, a ruling that assured every woman her constitutional right to make her own decision about whether and when to have a child, based on her fundamental right to have her privacy protected. I had the honor to clerk for the author of roe v. Wade, Justice Harry blackmun, in 1974, shortly after that decision. And i can say that in that year few of us expected...

With that has come incredible demands on bandwidth. The kids were telling us stories about how they would hit enter, and if it was simultaneously, everything would choke. Okay . They were telling us about taking their computers and Walking Around the room until they could get, you know, a good signal. Ask, you know, the president and, you know, the president has said, he said back in june that we need to connect 99 of the schools within five years to at least 100 meg per thousand students going to a gig, okay . And the only thing that i would add to that is five years or less. We have responsi...

Get broader sanctions. And thenians seernational community crimea as lost, at least for the short term. I do not think we could afford to see effective occupation twoee de facto operation in inces inive provoin Eastern Ukraine. Whatever can be done to find moscow accountable would be very important. My second question. In much broader question about the future of nato and the future of article five protections. I agree europe will certainly react if there is a movement of troops across the border. The idea is that they are protected under the mutual defense covenant in nato, but russia is perf...

Mr. Thune under the previous order, the question is on the sorokin nomination. Mr. Thune ask for the yeas and nays. The presiding officer is there a sufficient second . There appears to be. There is. The yeas and nays are ordered. The clerk will call the roll. Vote vote vote the presiding officer are there any senators in the chamber wishing to vote or change their vote . If not, the ayes are 91, the nays are zero. The nomination is confirmed. Under the previous order, the question is on the boulware nomination. Is there a sufficient second . There appears to be. There is. The yeas and nays ar...