Press, former chairman Richard Greene never agreed to the vote and former chairman leavitt rarely took the matter to a vote unless there was a 50 vote. Are there any areas you can work on with the other two commissioners to reach a unanimous decision and if so give us some examples. We certainly strive for consensus. We know everything is not unanimous. I havent figure verified it but 65 of those a unanimous but obviously it is still a percentage that has not been unanimous. I discussed with you, mister chairman and senator brown and other members of the committee as well, one thing i found as chairman, striving for that consensus, unanimity on our rulemaking, so many mandated rulemakings have been particularly the doddfrank act which the controversy was adopted continued into the implementation of those rules that we end up with an extra challenge reaching consensus because of that. In 2013 you post a comment, study on Asset Management in the office of Financial Research requested thi
Lift their minds to the pure, t serenity of your presence challenges with faith and challenges with faith and optimism. May they find delight in doing your will because your precepts are within their hearts. Remind them that all that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing. Deliver them from sins of commission and omission. As you liberate them from all lessor loves and loyalties until they find in you their reason for being. We pray in your holy name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to the 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. Mr. Mcconnell mr. President . The presiding officer the majority leader. Mr. Mcconnell yesterday the Justice Department released a transcript of the orlando terrorist 911 call in which he claimed responsibility for the attack and declared his loy
And his wife, until the day he died, he died in his sleep, almost at the age of 80, two days before my wife and i were supposed to have dinner with him and his wife here in washington with his other friends to celebrate his impending 80th birthday. But he had the courage to keep out of step when everybody was marching to the wrong tune. He how do i say this . He would face wad dilemma, like maybe voting with his caucus or voting with the president , and something that he just thought was wrong, he was amazingly he would, like, say, what is the right thing to do . Ive heard him say this moreen this a few times. As governor, chairman of the National Governors association, here, he would say, what is the right thing to do . He wouldnt say, what is the easy thing to do, what is the expedient thing to do, but what is the right thing to do . He was a person of deep faith. We have a Bible Study Group that meets here every thursday, just upstairs not far from this floor, about seven or eight o
Minority leader harry reid congratulated chris murphy for leading the 15hour debate against gun violence on wednesday in the senate. His remarks were followed by Mitch Mcconnell criticizing senate crast democrats for the debate calling it a talkathon. This is 20 minutes. Mr. President . For 14 hours and 50 minutes, beginning Late Wednesday morning and ending early thursday morning, the entire nation watched the senator from connecticut teach our republican colleagues a lesson and another things not the least of which is courage. It is easy to say we stood for 14 hours. We talk a lot about filibusters in the senate. They dont happen very often. I have been in congress for 34 heres and i have probably led two more than anyone else. They dont happen much. There are a lot of fake filibusters but this was real. I admire and appreciate the junior senator from connecticut very much. Four days after 49 innocent americans were gunned down in a nightclub, senator murphy stood here as indicated f
You get a little bit of leeway, so you can pretend people are in fifth grade. And dont use sarcasm. Its not funny. Its just snarky. Some people are really good at sarcasm. Theyre rare. And you typically come off as a jerk. And no one is going to read you if they feel like youre insulting them or agreeing with them right off the top. Now, im going to go through this fairly quickly, in case everyones got a question. But bill buckley, founder of Young Americans for freedom, one of the original conservative journalists and one of the most successful he founded National Review in 55, Young American freedom in 1960, conservative party of new york in i think 64, right after Barry Goldwater got his butt kicked, ran for mayor of new york, a very liberal place. When asked what the first thing he would do in office was, he said id demand a recount. He founded firing line, one of the longest syndicated talk shows ever and is celebrating its 50th anniversary next week . I dont know, silver . Whats