Festivals. I justha really want to say thak you to all of you for coming out today and having come out for 15 years. I also want to say thank you Madison Public Library for taking this event on when it was unsure whether someone would and for giving us this beautiful space to keep putting on the fence for the public in medicine and just in where you came from today. I also wantt to thank the madisn Public Library foundation. They do all the private fundraising. It keeps these events free and t open to the public. Weve been doing this is our fifth festival at Madison Public Library at all our events have been free. We can break even about that and we hope you do, too. I want to say a huge thank you h to them and to all the sponsors who helped put on this festival throughout the years. I would ask you now to please silence your cell phones. That goes for date as well. And probably me. Youve got to check. I really would just like to start my introduction today by saying im not a scientist
Direction and provides leadership for the civil works programs of the u. S. Army corps of engineers. In this position, mr. James will play a central role in ensuring the navigatability of the waterways. He will oversee the storm Risk Management and responses to emergencies like hurricanes that we saw in florida and in texas this past fall. He will also play a central role in modernizing americas aging water infrastructure. This week the committee on environment and public works, which i chair, has look at the needs of americas water infrastructure. These hearings are important steps as the Committee Works towards a new Water Resources Development Act which will be reauthorized this year. Its critical to have mr. James confirmed so he can partner with us in this important process. I look forward to working with mr. James on projects important to my state of wyoming. He has committed to me that he will work to prevent icejam floods like those that caused the water in our state to flood.
Wisconsin book festival, i wantk you for coming to see dave levitan for his book, not a scientist. This is the 15th anniversary of the wisconsin book festival. So many authors, so many attendees and so much time has gone into giving us 16 book festivals, and i just really want to say thank you to all of you for coming out today and having come out for 15 years. I also want to say thank you to Madison Public Library for taking this event on when it was unsure whether someone would and for giving us this beautiful space to keep putting on events for the public in madison and from anywhere you came from today. I also want to thank the Madison Public Library foundation. They do all of the private fundraising that keeps these events free and open to the public. This is our fifth festival here at Madison Public Library, and all of our events have been free. We care deeply about that, and we hope you do too. I want to say a huge thank you to all the sponsors. I also would ask you right now to
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A senator mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from colorado. A senator thank you, mr. President. I ask that the quorum call be vitiated. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Bennet thank you, mr. President. All year this year, the majority has tried to ram through legislation to repeal the Affordable Care act and replace it with proposals that in effect cut health care for millions of people to finance tax cuts for those who make millions of dollars in income. All year the American People have made it perfectly clear that this was the opposite of what they wanted. Unfortunately, those re and fortunately, those repeal efforts failed. Now instead of listening to the american peemg and learning from people and learning from that failure, the majority has doubled down its tax plan. Like health care, theyve made no attempt to bring both sides together. In the senate we only saw the bill last thursday, mr. President. Im on the finance committee. Ive been on there for ye