We ask your blessing upon the men and women of this, the peoples house, who are settling into new spaces and committees here on capitol hill. As the new session begins, help them and indeed help us all to obey your law to do your will and to walk in your way. Grant that they might be good in thought, gracious in word, generous in deed and great in spirit. Make this a glorious day in which all are glad to be alive and ready to serve you. May all that is done this day be for your greater honor and glory, amen. The speaker the chair has examined the journal of the last days proceedings and announces to the house his approval there. Pursuantolaole the journal stands approved. The pledge of alenalsance today will be led by the gentleman from allegiance today will be led by the gentlelady from North Carolina, ms. Adams. Ms. Adams 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 justic
Exponentially in ways we cant envision. Think of the notion there are 40 Million People that dont have full access to the american promise, what would our country look like if they did . It would be a phenomenal its a huge Untapped Potential we have that were not accessing. Which programs would fit neatly in this package, how the money would be transferred and how you would deliver these benefits and there has to be some level of accountability in the states to ensure these programs are delivering on what the money is being given for so thats what we are working on developing now is those details of what it would look like. Via not large the way with that is you would take your existing funding or your levels of funding you have then transferring them into his engel agency who would then Fund Innovative Programs at the state level meant to address whats going on in each of those states individually and you would do it in a revenueneutral way. The first endeavor here is not to save mone
Overregulation or overspending, as u. S. Trade representative i had the opportunity to travel around the world, it was an honor, telling people the benefit of knocking down barriers, to increase growth and opportunity. It works. Interviewers and job creators have lifted more people out of poverty around the world over the past few decades than any Government Program ever could could because the Free Enterprise system does work. We need to get back to that. Lets do something we can be proud of in this chamber today. Lets empower the American People instead of the american government. Lets not kick the can of spending down the road any longer. Lets take some vote not all easy votes and shouldnt be. After all, thats what were elected to do, take tough votes. These votes we take today, though, can make a real difference in peoples lives. Lets start today, lets pay for this legislation, lets use these payfors we talked about that are bipartisan, that are sensible than that can be supported
A senator mr. President . The presiding officer the senior senator from connecticutmenconnecticut. Mr. Bd and proud to the presiding officer the senator is in a quorum call. Mr. Blumenthal i apologize, mr. President. I ask the quorum call be vitiated. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Blumenthal mr. President , im very proud to follow my colleague from New Hampshire and thank her for her leadership in offering the military retirement restoration act, which i am very pleased to support, as an amendment to the Unemployment Insurance extension bill. For all the reasons that ive stated and others have expressed even more powerfully than i, this bill makes sense. We must extend Unemployment Benefits for the longterm jobless. And the merits of this bill are absolutely indisputable and undeniable. This bill offers us a really critically important opportunity and we ought to seize it to correct and fix a deeffect in the budget a fix a defect in the budget agreement that was reached
He served as chancellor of our twoyear college system. He can bring some insight to educational reform. He succeeds one of our closest friends, all of us on both sides, jo bonner. And although we miss jo, we welcome bradley. And that makes up for some of the loss of jo. And i think youre going to, youre going to get to where you know and appreciate this gentleman that has joined us today. Thank you. Prison [applause] at in this time i yield the flo. As a lawyer, former Alabama State senator and as a former chancellor of alabamas twoyear college system, bradley has a proven record as a principled servant leader. I know bradley as a man of strong character who has dedicated his public life to strengthening his community and improving our state. I believe bradley will ably toll in the tradition of his predecessors in rowdily representing alabamas first congressional district. I look forward to working with you, bradley, especially on our shared constituents in clark county. Recently, a lo