A senator mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from oklahoma. Mr. Coburn i ask unanimous consent the quorum call be dispensed with. The presiding officer is there objection . Without objection. Mr. Coburn and i ask unanimous consent to speak for at least five minutes. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Coburn first of all, id like to spend a few minutes just talking about my colleague and chairman of the Homeland Security and the Government Affairs committee. The last two years has been a real pleasure on my part and grown to have a great friendship with the chairman of the committee. And i can truly say in our committee, we have done a lot of great work. Weve both compromised on a lot of issues to try to move the country forward, and to him i am thankful for that. And i dont think either of us have had to break on any principles that we had to be able to do that. I think its been a model our committees been a model in terms of doing bipartisan bills and bipartis
A senator mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from delaware. Mr. Coons mr. President , are we currently in a quorum call . The presiding officer the senator is correct. Mr. Coons i ask unanimous consent the proceedings of the quorum call be vitiated. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Coons mr. President , as we come to the close of the 113th congress id like to speak for a few minutes about why i think we should be optimistic about the future and what we can and must do to take advantage of the opportunities that lie ahead. Mr. President , despite economic slowdowns throughout much of the world, among developing and developed nations alike, americas economy continues to steadily grow. Just last friday we got great news that our economy created more than 300,000 jobs in the month of november. That marks 57 straight months or nearly five years of positive job Growth Numbers and for the First Time Since bill clinton was president of this nation weve averaged more
Wit vote . The presiding officer are there any senators in the chamber wishing to vote or change their vote . If not the ayes are 53. The nays are 41. And the motion to invoke cloture is agreed to. Under the previous order, all postcloture time is expired. The question occurs on the saldana nomination. Is there a sufficient second . There appears to be. The clerk will call the roll. Vote vote the presiding officer does any member wish to change their vote or to vote . If not, on this the yeas are 55, the nays are 39 and 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. Under the previous order, the senate will proceed to the consideration of the following nomination which the clerk will report. The Clerk Department of state, Anthony Blinken of new york to be deputy secretary. The presiding officer under the previous order, the time until 5 00 p
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And now live to london for british punishes question time. Each week the house of commons is in session we bring you Prime Minister David Cameron taking questions from members of the house of commons live wednesday mornings on cspan2. We invite you for to station via twitter using hashtag pmqs. Prior to question time members are finishing up a business. And now live to the floor of the british house of commons. If you look at the cash flow, as you know were working hard in place like somalia to make sure they can still be made by families back to the relatives in somalia. Shes quite right to say one of the best thing we do is get competition in the market so people have more choice. Stewart andrew. Thank you, mr. Speaker. Can my right honorable friend and form the house to work our department is doing on behavior change in those areas affected by ebola . Does she have an assessment . Socalled social mobilization is being key to bearing down on the transmission rate. We now extend credi