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Bill with a final vote scheduled for this morning. Theyll also work on the nomination of Justin Walker to serve on the u. S. Court of appeals. Live Senate Coverage here on cspan2. The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Black, will lead the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Lord, god of heaven and earth, today teach our lawmakers to do things your way, embracing your precepts and walking in your path. Lord, make them powerful instruments for goodness in our nation and world. Remind them at the narrow and difficult road leads to life and few find it. You honor those who honor you. As our senators receive guidance from you and following your leading, replace anxiety with calm and confusion with clarity. Give them attentive hearts and open minds as they seek to find in the diversity of ideas what is best for our nation and world. We pray in your great name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to o
Sen. Graham good morning everybody. We are making progress, we are somewhat closer together now. Hello senator grassley. A little brief update and we will take up the business, next week we are having a hearing about policing, community policing, use of force, we will have two panels, it will be a long day and hopefully an important day. Last time we talked about witnesses regarding the inquiry to the Mueller Investigation to senator feinstein and her friends on the other side, i promise you if you want to call mr. Mueller or his designee, thats fine with me. Over, whenynn cases that ever happens, i want the doj to tell us why they decided to drop it and if you want to call mr. Gleason or judge , we willr anybody else do that. I think theyll be a good topic for this committee. Having said that, the business before the committee was senator feinsteins amendment. Would you like to vote or talk or what would you want to do . Like to maken id Opening Statements. Sen. Graham yes maam. Its y
Celebrated the building of the 200th mile of border wall. An he hailed his administrations efforts in winning the fight against illegal immigration. My administration has done more than any administration in history to secure our southern border. Our borders never been more secure, other things that weve done. During the last two months, weve seen the lowest number of illegal border crossings in many years. Illegal immigration is down 84 from this time last year. Illegal crossings from Central America are down 967 . 96 . Lou and after the president s appearance at the border, he talked with an enthusiastic crowd of some 3,000 students for trump. At that event the president called upon those students for trump to stand up against radical leftwing ideology. And wednesday he began with the day with vindication as a d. C. Appellate Court Ordered judge em met sullivan to dismiss the federal cause against general michael flynn. The Justice Department releasing notes of former fbu agent peter
Arizona, to be specific where he celebrated the building of the 200th mile of border wall. And President Trump also held a round table event in which he hailed his administrations efforts in winning the fight against illegal immigration. My administration has done more than any administration in history to secure our southern border. Our borders never been more secure, other things that weve done. During the last two months, weve seen the lowest number of illegal border crossings in many years. Illegal immigration is down 84 from this time last year. Illegal crossings from Central America are down 967 . 96 . Lou and after the president s appearance at the border, he talked with an enthusiastic crowd of some 3,000 students for trump. At that event the president called upon those students for trump to stand up against radical leftwing ideology. And wednesday he began with the day with vindication as a d. C. Appellate Court Ordered judge em met sullivan to dismiss the federal cause agains