A simple majority will be needed for that. And now to live coverage of the u. S. Senate here on cspan2. The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Barry black, will lead the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Eternal lord god, the giver of every good and perfect gift, thank you for this fresh opportunity to do your will on earth. Guide our lawmakers. Give them consciences void of offense toward you and humanity and honesty of conduct. May they bring you their daily challenges, casting their cares on you. Lord, help them to draw more fully from your inexhaustible resources, claiming your promise to provide for all their needs. Use them to bring peace, justice, and prosperity to our nation. And lord, bless the members of the i will lust of the fall 2017 page class as they prepare it to leave us. We pray in your loving name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to our flag. I pledge allegiance to the f
To the militant group itself. Also coming up in neighboring iraq baghdad is pushing ahead with an offensive to read to take disputed kurdish held areas as the u. N. And the u. S. Appealed for calm. And from great hope to great misery south sudan is one of the worlds newest states but today millions of people there are reliant on food aid we have a special report on one womans struggle to survive and to feed her family. Plus calls for justice grow louder in malta following the murder of anticorruption journalist tough enough to leave. And following the Harvey Weinstein sex abuse allegations stories of Sexual Harassment sweep across social media using the hash tag me to. Im sara kelly welcome thanks for joining us. U. S. Backed fighters in syria have retaken rocca the city that the socalled Islamic State considers its capital now troops fighting i say that they have captured one of the militants last holdouts that is of course the citys hospital but there are still pockets of resistance
Chance, a chance for the American People to have this on their behalf review this agreement and then vote. Time as has the Ranking Member, as has all the members, people here going through this agreement and i oppose the implementation of this bill. I oppose the presentation. The president first stated his goal, his goal of ending Irans Nuclear program,this that was something that i think achieved tremendous bipartisan support in this body. As a matter of fact, onward there were discussions about dismantling the program and as we all know today and im going to speak more on this tomorrow rather than ending it, this agreement, allows the industrialization of a program, the worlds leading state sponsor of terror and does so with our approval. Now that is a large step from where we began these negotiations and had the president achieved the goal, i think what you would have this 1 body 100 senators standing uprss and supporting what he said he wished to do with these negotiations. Ended u
Chance, a chance for the American People to have this on their behalf review this agreement and then vote. Time as has the Ranking Member, as has all the members, people here going through this agreement and i oppose the implementation of this bill. I oppose the presentation. The president first stated his goal, his goal of ending Irans Nuclear program,this that was something that i think achieved tremendous bipartisan support in this body. As a matter of fact, onward there were discussions about dismantling the program and as we all know today and im going to speak more on this tomorrow rather than ending it, this agreement, allows the industrialization of a program, the worlds leading state sponsor of terror and does so with our approval. Now that is a large step from where we began these negotiations and had the president achieved the goal, i think what you would have this 1 body 100 senators standing uprss and supporting what he said he wished to do with these negotiations. Ended u
Chance, a chance for the American People to have this on their behalf review this agreement and then vote. Time as has the Ranking Member, as has all the members, people here going through this agreement and i oppose the implementation of this bill. I oppose the presentation. The president first stated his goal, his goal of ending Irans Nuclear program,this that was something that i think achieved tremendous bipartisan support in this body. As a matter of fact, onward there were discussions about dismantling the program and as we all know today and im going to speak more on this tomorrow rather than ending it, this agreement, allows the industrialization of a program, the worlds leading state sponsor of terror and does so with our approval. Now that is a large step from where we began these negotiations and had the president achieved the goal, i think what you would have this 1 body 100 senators standing uprss and supporting what he said he wished to do with these negotiations. Ended u