The country is looking to inflict a historic nightmare on the united states. Late yesterday, one of the Key Developments was the pentagon dispatching 2200 more marines to the persian gulf as part of Amphibious Assault group. It is interesting that the secretary, pressed on the intelligence, said a lot of intelligence was what he had already done. He had already attacked americans. That is an anticipatory selfdefense. Bill the first reaction from the u. S. For the first commentary was there was an imminent threat posed by soleimani. Iranians and iraqi officials have said solomonic was on some kind of Diplomatic Mission soleimani was on some kind of Diplomatic Mission. Pompeo mocked that and said this guy had a lot of blood on his hands. David what about iraq . What about baghdad . Where with the notion we might leave the country and pull our forces out of there . Confusion when what appeared to be a draft letter from u. S. Military officials starting to talk about repositioning of u. S.
Welcome, everyone, to brookings. Im bill, the managing director here. And were delighted that were joined today by senator murkowski. One of my favorite johnny cash songs growing up was called springtime in alaska and if you remember the chore us, he says, when its springtime in alaska its 40 below and by that standard its downright balmy here tpwheasheds. Were delighted that senator murkowski is here today. We wanted to make her feel at home so we deviled up some summer weather for her and im sure shes wondering what the big deal is all about. The senator is the Top Republican on the Senate Energy committee. From the largest state in the nation, nearly as big a territory as the u. S. West of the mississippi, she thinks in large terms about issues like energy and in particular energy. And she has a big track record on this issue. So today were here to discuss the implications on the domestic economy, on our National Security and our Energy Security. And with the polar vortex being all
The presiding officer the senator from alabama. Mr. Sessions mr. President , i would ask that the consent that the quorum call be dispensed with. The presiding officerwithout objection, so ordered. Mr. Sessions mr. President , on roll call vote number 140, i voted aye. It was my intention to vote no. Therefore, i ask unanimous consent that i be permitted to change my vote, since it will not affect the outcome. The presiding officer without objection, so ordered. Mr. Sessions i thank the chair. And i would just note that these the issues revolving around judicial confirmations on which were routinely voting on cloture off the execution of the Nuclear Option and were having more of these votes that we used to have. I thaip thank the chair and woud yield the floor. Mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from alabama. Mr. Sessions i would note the absence of a quorum. The presiding officer the gentleman is correct. The clerk will call the roll. Quorum call quorum call a senator
Billion dollar regulation and was the top priority by osm. In the report, you detail how the director called the former Regulatory Support Division chief to his office and expressed concerns about the leaked job loss numbers and how they could embarrass the president , since he had just delivered the state of the Union Message indicating that jobs would grow in the administration. The report cites and osm official who was the project manager, who quoted the director is telling him that obviously , andhing needs to change he was to figure out a way the assumptions could be changed so the numbers did not look so bad. Another osm employee testified that her impression was that this direction ultimately came from the director. The job lossheard number was going to be hard to overcome. Yet when reporting on your interview with the director regarding changing the baseline he said he did not know who made the decision. Is that even believable . All of theman, things you have just expressed ar
Example of the bureaucracy of the government. So many levels of management and no one does anything. President obama is requesting a nearly 4 billion of emergency funding from congress to address the influx of children coming across the u. S. Border. Heres more about that. The administration has requested 3. 7 billion of emergency funding from congress for stopping some of the influx of children dealing with the situation along the southern border with mexico. Laura is with the wall street journal and writing about the story, what is in the administration request to congress . A lot of the money is to house the children and families crossing the border. That is where the crisis has been. A huge influx created children traveling alone and adult traveling have come across the border. And in each of those cases there are sort of special needs for housing them and the administration is not able to handle right now and that is what a lot of the money would go to work. The white house propos