Vote vote the presiding officer are there any senators in the chamber wishing to change their votes . If not, the ayes are 89, the nays are 11, and the motion is agreed to. Under the previous order, h. Con. Res. 121 and h. Con. Res. 123 are considered and agreed to en bloc and the motions to reconsider are considered made and laid upon the table en bloc. The republican leader. Mr. Mcconnell could we have attention the attention of the senate. The presiding officer the senate will be in order. Mr. Mcconnell i want to take just a moment to speak on something that is an overwhelming bipartisan desire to achieve and this is to finish tonight. And theres no good reason not to. Were working to clear an agreement on our side to process the c. R. omnibus, the extenders bill, and tria tonight. Tonight. And as for right now, i can tell you were prepared to go forward on the extenders bill and therefore i would ask unanimous consent at the time determined by the majority leader after consultation
For a vote, i urge this committee to make sure that they also pull in the illegal work permits that will be granted by this administration before were able to get around to preventing that action. And i thank you for your attention. Yes, maam. Thank you very much. Mr. King . Thank you, mr. Chairman. I do thank the committee. You put a lot of hours here in this committee. And i know that the public appreciates it well enough. I bring an amendment here to the appropriations bill, and some of the things that it does, it recognizes i supported this date of december 11th as the deadline for the cr because the president was promising that he was going to issue his ill call them lawless edicts executive amnesty perhaps for the discussion of this committee he promised he was going to do that. It was one of the promises that he kept. I argued sometimes against my conserve conservative colleagues who wanted to do a cr that lasted until perhaps next march that we need to do have a way to stop his
Others. We will miss you. Mr. Chairman, i will never forget the day the gentleman from iowa told me earlier this term that had he known that i would one day be on the rules committee, he would have been nicer to me for the last ten years. It was at that point, i appreciated the raw power that came with this appointment. But to the gentleman from texas, i want to thank you for bringing up the i think it was the Case Church Amendment from 1973, the series of amendments ten years later. I mean, sometimes we think about defunding as some sort of exotic thing that people do. It has been a technique that has been employed by both sides of the dais in the past and sometimes it has changed the course of history. J p so i thank youu 2zr for bringing your amendment here today and certainly appreciate the time that all of you have spent with us this evening. Mr. Chairman, ill yield back. Thank you very much. Ms. Bachmann, i want to add my hearty congratulations to you, and about the best thing i
Montanas weve created over 200,000 jobs per months. Thats the first time weve had a streak of that with robust job creation since the 1990s. The 321,000 jobs we created in november brings the total number of jobs created just this year to 2. 65 million jobs. So with one month to go, weve already created more jobs, get this, than any year since the 1990s. Now those are some of the statistics about the job numbers you might read in u. S. A. Today. Manufacturing is the lynch pin of our economy. Adding 28,000 goodpaying jobs just last month. For a total of nearly 3 4 of a million new jobs. Wages as i mentioned have been stagnant. See a nice monthly gain of 0. 4 . We have not had a month this year when wages have fallen and for the First Time Since 2008 weve had four months where theyve grown at least 0. 3 . The average workweek increased to 34. 6 hours, meaning more workers are finding fulltime employment instead of parttime jobs. According to the Labor Department were seeing increasing tu
Who is tracking the change in the weather. Bill. We will see it clear out. Were still tracking a few showers and a few spots of thunder and lightning. Streets are still damp and the rain is still falling in philadelphia. View of i95. Heres why. A line of showers and some thunderstorms streaming through the reasonable gone right now. There are some spots of heavy rainfall moving into Delaware County from eastern chester county. Thats whats happening right now. You can see concord and west goshen getting heavier rainfall. To the south were seeing some pretty good rain as well. That rain is coming with some thunder and some lightning as well. Stormy start this morning. Flash flood is in effect until 5 00 this morning. Just an hour left on that in northern new castle county. For other areas in the past that is a flood advisory. Floods pushing off from the northeast into northern delaware. Forecast, calling for showers. 6 00 in philadelphia the rain is over. Weve got some breaks of sunshine