A senator mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from arkansas. A senator are we in a quorum call . The presiding officer we are in a quorum call. Mr. Pryor i would ask that it be dispensed with. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Pryor mr. President , i rise to talk about the business on the floor, which is the omnibus appropriation bill. Let me start by thanking chairwoman mikulski for her leadership. She has put long hours in this over the christmas and new years break where most people were home with families and doing things in their home state and on vacation, she never stopped working, and her team, her staff on the Appropriations Committee never stopped working, and the staff as always is kind of the unsung hero around here. They did so many great things to put this together, both democrats, republicans, house and senate. Everybody had to Work Together to get this done. Im proud that they did. Im also proud to be the one of the appropriations subCommittee C
5 00 lets go to the desk. They are dealing with two watermain breaks. We have alex savage there right now, what is going on right now, alex . Reporter people in pittsburgh will be waking up without Running Water and we will show you why, right here. This is that broken watermain and you can see crews are working on it to try and get access and obviously do the repair work necessary to get the water back on. This is the crews in the city of pittsburgh and they are working between york and cutter. This watermain break is running and at this point, both of the streets in this area are dry. We will show what you this looked like when we first got here as crews were pulling water out of the street. The call was about 8 00 this morning and it sent water rushing down the street. We talked with a man who lives a couple of blocks away and he said at the height of this break he had water flowing down his street. It was so high that it was causing belts to slip and squeal. It was so bad. Reporter
Vote vote the presiding officer any senators in the chamber wishing to vote or change their vote . If not, the vote is 44 aye, 52 nay. The motion fails. The presiding officer the senator from arkansas. Mr. Pryor i ask unanimous consent that there be two minutes equally divided in the usual form prior to the vote on the motion to waive. Further, that the remaining votes in this sequence be tenminute votes. The presiding officer is there objection . Hearing none, so ordered. Who yields time . Mr. Sanders mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from vermont. Mr. Sanders could we have order in the senate, please . The presiding officer could we have order in the senate, please. The senator from vermont. Mr. Sanders mr. President , this budget point of order that were now going to have in very significant ways tells us who we are as a people. If you vote for this budget point of order, you are saying that in this great country, we do not have the resources to help our veterans wit
Good evening. Welcome to wqed newsroom. The top political watchdog scored a major win this week and californias fptc announced 1 million fine in a case of Campaign Money laundering. The settlement is against two nonprofits until last years election. The nonprofit and the donors to them thought to exploit loopholes in california disclosure laws. The contributions were intended to help defeat governor browns proposition 30 to raise taxes and pass the antilabor measure proposition 32. They went to court before the november election pushing the group to disclose the true source of the contribution. Shes now headed to washington d. C. To serve as president obamas appointee on the federal election commission. Before thursdays settlement was announced, she spoke with scott shafer about the challenges of informing voters about the flood of money in todays Political Campaign. Welcome to newsroom. Thank you very much. Well, the fair Political Action commission, which you chair, or have chaired,
Good evening. Welcome to wqed newsroom. The top political watchdog scored a major win this week and californias fptc announced 1 million fine in a case of Campaign Money laundering. The settlement is against two nonprofits until last years election. The nonprofit and the donors to them thought to exploit loopholes in california disclosure laws. The contributions were intended to help defeat governor browns proposition 30 to raise taxes and pass the antilabor measure proposition 32. They went to court before the november election pushing the group to disclose the true source of the contribution. Shes now headed to washington d. C. To serve as president obamas appointee on the federal election commission. Before thursdays settlement was announced, she spoke with scott shafer about the challenges of informing voters about the flood of money in todays Political Campaign. Welcome to newsroom. Thank you very much. Well, the fair Political Action commission, which you chair, or have chaired,