In 30 seconds or less tell us your pic a why. Be sure to watch books a shaped america live every monday at 9 p. M. Eastern on cspan. The u. S. Senate is gambling in now on the agenda today Vice President Kamala Harris is expected to swear in Laphonza Butler as he ascended her. Shes California Governor Gavin Newsom stick to fill the late senator Dianne Feinstein sea. At 5 30 p. M. Eastern there was a vote scheduled with advance the nomination of James Obriant to the assistant secretary of state for european and eurasian affairs. And now live to the senate floor here on cspan2. The presiding officer the senate will come to order. The chaplain dr. Barry black will lead the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. O god, most holy, you are more ready to hear us than we are to pray, for you know our needs before we ask for help. Give us listening ears, responsive hearts, and willing spirits. Bless our senators. Fill their lives with meaning and shower them with your wisdom. Reveal the is
Republicans and democrats are talking, just not to each other as the shutdown stalemate drags on. House Speaker John Boehner called for negotiations while the house called for a funding bill to reopen the government. Wall street is watching, and ill get out of the way here. The dow up closing at 76 points. And furloughed employees calling for an end too the shutdown. And then lets go to capitol hill now where congress is sit stuck. Al jazeeras libby casey is there for us. What is the latest on efforts to unstick this educatio situationd the shutdown. Reporter this has come from house democrats. This is a group that has been disem powered. Its between the house and senate. House democrats said if Speaker Boehner would allow a clean bill if he would let that go to the house floor they believe it would pass because they believe enough republicans would say lets just get this thing moving forward. The house has a work around, its a petition. They need 218 members to sign on to this petitio
Good morning. Welcome to aljazeera america. Im stephanie sy. Today is day four of the Government Shutdown, but a wild chase and shooting through the streets of washington led to a different kind of shutdown, with police putting the capitol itself on lockdown. Erika is here with more details about the chase from the white house to the peoples house that brought washington to a stand still. Good morning, erika. Good morning. Officers say the woman at the center of the chaos has a history of mental illness. This is 34yearold miriam carey. She grew up in new york city, but grew up in connecticut. She suffered from serious post partum depression after girl birth last year, which was around the time she was also fired from her job. While police are convinced she did not ram the gates of the white house by accident, they still dont know her motive. Investigators worked late into the night at the home of the woman who police say caused chaos at the capitol thursday afternoon. The 34yearold was
Ms. West, you talked about how Foreign Countries have not perceived how we ratified the convention, and i wonder if what you heard from Business Leaders around the world is further concerns about u. S. Leadership on the issue of disabilities and the extent to which you think that might continue to be a road if we are not able to pass the treaty in this session of congress or of the senate. Well, we see the convention as the means for us to really have a very first time way of Understanding Market requirements whether its developed country or a developing country, and that by not finding the crpd, we will be in cases, excluded from some of these discussions which could lead to solutions, and for business community, its all about being able to understand the customers requirement whether its by country or industry, so we think it is a very important that we be at the table and be able to glean from these discussions about different industry whether its transportation or banking or Retail