Mcconnell filed cloture on brian mcguires nomination to be deputy undersecretary of the treasury. We expect a vote on his nomination today. The senate live 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. Savior of humanity, your unfailing love sustains us. Stagger freedoms enemies and bring them to their knees. Use our lawmakers so effectively that our citizens may rejoice because of your mercy. Be for our nation a towering rock of safety, a shelter in the time of storm. Lord, we wait quietly before you, so use your strong arms to bring us your peace. We pray in your great name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to our flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Mr. Grassley madam president. The
add to that the court knocking down joe biden s student debt relief and saying a web designer can t be forced to design a same-sex wedding sight, and site, and you have many infuriated democrats. congressman ted lou says he wants to expand the high court because of its radical, extreme supermajority. keep in mind that court pack turned into a fiasco for fdr are. affirmative action has always had a contradiction at its heart, hurting some people like asian-americans who are also a minority, or helping others such as blacks and hispanics. and it s brought out plenty of ugliness. the atlantic s jemele hill, who is black, saying you gladly carried the water for white supremacy and stabbed the folks in the back whose people fought diligently for asian-american rights, white supremacy? it s perfectly fine for pundits to attack coe discuss i rulings they don t like scotus rulings they don t like, but is it going too far to try to undermine the institution? i m howard kurtz9 and
motivated violent extremism. we ll bring all the resources of the federal government to bear on this case. this is the number one priority of the department of justice, and i can assure the citizens of this community that anything we can do at the federal level with this case will be done and justice will be served for the victims. on the hate crime issue as well. i asked our hate crime task force to investigate as well. it s absolutely a hate crime. i have been in touch with officials in washington and the white house on the issue of what we are doing here so aggressively as well. i appreciate the fbi investigation as well. reporter: that s the governor of the state of new york, kathy hochul along with the local district attorney from erie county talking about the horrible news out of buffalo. an 18-year-old suspect drove from the binghampton area from the pennsylvania-new york border. drove several hours west and north to the buffalo area and began livestreaming as he got
My watch says 11 20, so were going to get started. My name is curtis taylor, a person in longterm recovery. What that means for me is that i have not used alcohol or any other drug in almost 15 years now. [applause] mr. Taylor preeze understand that is strictly by gods grace and mercy. Like marty walker, i take no credit whatsoever for all the good things that god is doing in my life today. This particular panel is what my passion is. Im helping men and women transition in a successful manner such that they never, ever go back to prison. Thats where my heart is. And actually by gods grace and mercy again, thats what i get paid to do today, imagine that. So over three quarters of the oxford house population has done some jail or prison time. How many people in here have been to jail or prison . Wow. Only the senators aide has not. Im not going to say that. Thank you for stopping me, lord. In america today, approximately 60 of those in jail and or prison are addicted to alcohol or some o
The last election and threatening, planning to spend 400 million in the next election in the midterms, that is a huge footprint and theres a lot more going on behind it. The second piece of that is bringing home the longterm effort of the Republican Party to put business friendly judges in the courts so that the courts are increasingly hostile to regular folks, and increasingly interested in protecting corporations. Watch afterwards sunday night at 9 00 eastern on cspan2s booktv. A panel examines the spread of populism in certain regions of the world including the us, europe and latin america including van smith and the origins of populism and contributing factors in the 2016 president ial election. This is about 90 minutes. We will start. Is everyone prepared . I want to thank everyone for coming, this kicks off our afternoon session. I will explain what we did in the morning and afternoon session which is a public discussion, debate about populism, entitled the rise of populism, a gl