Impeachment proceedings. It seems like morning, noon, and night the relentless effort to unseat the president of the United States is a toxic strain of potomac fever infecting capitol hill. Now if only congress would channel every waking minute to fix problems in the real world, wouldnt that be wonderful. Let me provide a reality check. For People Living in the real world, impeachment inquiry is not what keeps americans up at night. Its not what wakes up moms and dads worried sick about paying for their childs insulin. Its not what drains the pocketbooks of seniors and takes a big bite out of peoples paychecks. The issue that unites americans from maine to iowa to oregon is the high skyhigh prices that americans and the taxpaying public pay for are paying for prescription medicine. As chairman of the Senate Finance committee, i am working in a bipartisan way to fix whats broken in our drug supply chain. In february we called the heads of big pharma to testify before the finance committ
Big rally underway better than 1 . S p 500 and the nasdaq up three quarters 1 after stock soared yesterday as well closing for the fourth consecutive day. Investor shaking off early losses after the price index rose more than expected in the month of january. Market started off lower and ended up higher. Similar story come and take a at the indices of two thirds of a percent. The cac at 1. 5 in the dax in germany up 1 . Asia overnight stocks in the green at the close they are. Nikkei average of 125 . Hang seng up 2 . Markets in china and korea closed for the Lunar New Year. Driven to talk all about it, Fox Business Network they can make towel. Homeland security adviser redmond strategy president , Michael Balboni is with us and investment in investment strategist with the ballots here. Good morning. But to talk about this morning and i guess michael, we learned a lot about the suspect in his usage of social media. The picture is very disturbing, but they had some things when you take a
Unspeakable evil of Human Trafficking and the compelling reasons why we ought to do something to address it. I know that thats where the thats where the hearts are thats where the hearts are of all of our colleagues but somehow we have just been stuck and we need to get unstuck and i hope today will be that day. Of course Human Trafficking is a plague in all 50 states and my state unfortunately has way too much of its share. Id like all of our colleagues have had the chance to meet many of the brave victims of Human Trafficking. One i met last week in austin broken axle. Our friends at google convened a meeting there in austin. The Technology Community understands a lot of the solicitation of underaged girls and victims of Human Trafficking occurs on line and so they have come together to try to work with Law Enforcement, work with victims Rights Groups to come up with a comprehensive way to combat it so it google last week in austin i met rick brooke when she gave a moving speech. Bac
I would agree. Thank you. Mr. Emerson, mr. Emerson, dhs was created as a maid merger of 22 agencies following the 911 attack. Today dhs is tasked with protecting our borders and airspace. However they have made dhs funding the object of political gain fullness. What other challenges of managing the Department Tasks with such a array of responsibilities. That can have an effect on morale. Anything you all can do to help us in that area. It wasnt the entire government going through that. It was dhs and thats hard for employees who work hard every day to protect this country, as you are were pointing out our employees do an amazing job. They have a lot of work that they deal with and their jobs are difficult but they come to work every day and give 110 . Hopefully our colleagues are listening to your concerns and the points that you raise today. Government wide federal Employee Engagement has declined 4 from 2011 to 2014. There are number that have sustained or increased that level during
With the unfolding of your loving providence. Bless our senators. Enlighten and illumine them that they may know you and your precepts. Touch their lips so that they may speak no words that grieve you. Give them faith for every challenge, strength for every temptation and wisdom for every perplexity. We pray in your majestic name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to our 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 Human Trafficking affects every state in this nation every single one of them. In kentucky, weve heard reports of victims as young as two months old two months old victims of Human Trafficking. Weve heard about a kentuckian who said she was sold for sex from the age of 5 until she was able to physically break