The presiding officer the senate will come to order. Under the previous order, all postcloture time is expired. On the wiegand nomination. The question now occurs on the nomination. Is there a sufficient second . There appears to be. The clerk will call the roll. Vote vote vote vote the presiding officer are there any senators in the chamber wishing to vote or change their vote . If not, the yeas are 82, the nays are 14. The nomination is confirmed. Under the previous order, the motion to reconsider is considered made and laid upon the table, and the president will be immediately notified of the senates action. The clerk will report the motion to invoke cloture. The clerk cloture motion we, the undersigned senators, in accordance with the provisions of rule 22 of the standing rules of the senate, do hereby move to bring to a close debate on the nomination of thomas t. Cullen of virginia to be United States district judge for the Western District of virginia. Signed by 17 senators. The
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Team is defined. With a giant microsoft talk now on hold whats next for one of the worlds most popular apps. A michael thanks for joining us a state of disaster in melbourne and all of australias state of victoria the government declaration comes as the state struggles with a stunning resurgence of corona virus infections a range of new lockdown measures has been imposed including a nighttime curfew for the capital in addition residents will only be allowed to leave home for work medical care exercise or shopping for essential. Their last moments of freedom before the curfew came into effect. The new measures are the countrys strictest to date melbourne is already under a 6 week lockdown but the infection numbers are still rising victorias premier has now declared a state of disaster. We cannot longer have people visiting out as we can no longer have people simply in about for not a good reason whatsoever it is not an easy decision to mike but it is the decision that is necessary and t
York times in the newspaper, despite timely alerts, trump was slow to act. Usa today has a very similar story in this mornings paper, online, obviously, and the online headline is golf and maralago conga line squandered week highlights trump slack of covid19 focus. There is no escaping the fact that the spread of a Novel Coronavirus would soon up and american life, there were confirmed cases in two dozen states including washington where a state of emergency had been declared after a least 10 people died in the previous week in connection with a single nursing home. New york city was experience an alarming trend upward in cases, the crew should carrying infected passengers idled off the california coast waiting for a port to 11 to disembark, hospitals, Nursing Homes and Health Officials around the country worried over a lack of testing capabilities and a shortage of medical equipment. The annual Music Festival southbysouthwest was cancel that day. Joining an array of scotland movie rel
Particular the stress upon individual rights, the governments role in essentially either directing those rights if you have a more libertarian view for making it possible for you to have the full employment of the rights if you have a more progressive view. In either event, the purpose is to provide liberty or protect liberty. And part of the argument on my book, this purposeness, this is undermin undermined, the very system that brought rise to. Well get into this. But can republicans, democrats, progressives, conservatives, do they all consider themselves to be liberal democrats in the generic sense . Yeah, part of what im trying to argue in the book, basically what we think of as our the span of our political spectrum is basically occupied by rightleaning liberals and leftleaning liberals or has been until very recent times. So what weve seen in the west is largely a debate within the frame of liberalism. I think were entering an age where that may be coming to an end. You write, in