Our society had trouble with in recent years. That makes us wonder how strong our institutions will prove to be, how we will rise to a challenge like this. You cant help but see it as a time of crisis but because it is the time of testing it is also time to think about what americas strengths are, what we are good at and how we can build on that to address the enormous problems we confront. Host how did we get here . Guest that is an awfully complicated question. Our country has always tried to strike a balance between the dignity and the quality of the individual on the one hand and some form of strength of community on the other. Every free Society Faces that. Our society has in the past century emphasized the individual, emphasize liberty, emphasize freedom and diversity and that has brought some enormous advantages and benefits but there is another side to that coin and the other side look Like Division and fragmentation and isolation, it can look like alienation and loneliness and
Allow North Macedonia to join nato. Also on the agenda, debate on an executive nomination. Now to live Senate Coverage here on cspan2. The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Black, will open the senate with prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Come, mighty king, your throne stands firm, even in the midst of chaos. You speak and it is done. Lord, your our strength and shield. Our protection comes from you. Today, guide our senators as a shepherd would lead the lambs. May our lawmakers find in you Green Pastures and still waters. Lord, support us with your powerful hands until the shadows flee away. Forgive all our sins and rebellion, empowering us to glorify your name in our thoughts, words, and deeds. We pray in your great name, amen. The president pro tempore amen. Please join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of americ, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with l
For the 1st time in the months of unrest in Hong Kong Police have shot a protester with a live round leaving him in a Critical Condition the incident and the large scale protest in the city overshadow the 70th anniversary of the peoples republic of china a day when the communist leadership wanted to present its best face to the world adrian brown reports from hong kong. The police had warned the choose day would be very dangerous it was the pitch battles carried on into the night with protesters defying repeated Police Warnings for people to stay off the streets even diners ignored the cool though this clash spread from one side of Hong Kong Island to the other and then back again police a day earlier banned all marches but people still took to the streets not to celebrate 70 years of chinese communism but to mourn it dont come up to them when they have. This is an illegal notch designer of the oh oh oh no there were more than 100 arrests some of the most intense violence was on the ot
Sequestration is a place you go when you cant Reach Agreement and you start cutting how we meet the needs of the American People in a very indiscriminate way. Its harmful to children and other living things. Its harmful to our national security. Its over. We avoided a shutdown for the moment. We still have to go through the appropriations process, but the way the legislation was written for bipartisan agreement on any for us to proceed on any extraordinary measures, i think we have forestalled any prospect of a shutdown. Offsets, they wanted overwhelming offsets, we have half of what they wanted. They even wanted more than hat. It was good because what we were offset investments we make in people. And we just werent going to go to that place. Parity, im always fighting for parity. To the extent you increase defense budget, you have to increase the domestic budget. Except this time we got 10 billion more than parity. Our fight was to get more funding for our veterans. That was a constan
Speaker pelosi good morning, everyone. Well, yesterday, we had a culmination of a lot of work over a period of time to pass the caps agreement in a very strong bipartisan way on the loor of the house. Of course, i always want more, but it was bipartisan, and it was a compromise. It ended sequestration. For what that means in the lives of the American People, sequestration is a place you go when you cant Reach Agreement and you start cutting how we meet the needs of the American People in a very indiscriminate way. Its harmful to children and other living things. Its harmful to our national security. Its over. We avoided a shutdown for the moment. We still have to go through the appropriations process, but the way the legislation was written for bipartisan agreement on any for us to proceed on any extraordinary measures, i think we have forestalled any prospect of a shutdown. Offsets, they wanted overwhelming offsets, we have half of what they wanted. They even wanted more than hat. It