Today, inspire our senators to embrace your promises. May they remember your promises to supply their needs, to never forsake them, and to prevent anything from separating them from your love. Lord, bestow your blessings upon our lawmakers, making them wiser, stronger, and better, glorifying you in their labors. Use them to advance your kingdom in our nation and world, as they attune their will to your purposes. We pray in your blessed 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. The presiding officer the senator from iowa. Mr. Grassley i ask to speak for one minute in morning business. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Grassley id like to bring my colleagues uptodate on atoa bipartisan bill to lower drug prices and also at the same time give you
We break away from this portion of washington journal to fill our longtime commitment to bring you live Senate Coverage. Follow this at cspan. Org, senate gasoline and next coming up shortly. Senator Tammy Baldwin will deliver the annual reading of washingtons farewell address. After that the senate will debate the nomination of Robert Malloy to be a district judge for the Virgin Islands with the vote to limit debate on the nomination is scheduled for later this afternoon. Live Senate Coverage is here on cspan2. The chaplain let us pray. Eternal god, the center of our joy, make us your captives so that we may live liberated lives. Provide our senators with the spiritual, mental, social and physical revitalization they need just for today. May they place their trust in you and experience your profound peace. Grant that they will relinquish their worries to you, as they permit your perfect love to cast out every fear. Lord, show them your redemptive purposes in every problem they must so
Administrations response to the coronavirus and election security. The World Health Organization has now reported there are 79000 cases of coronavirus across at least 30 countries. At least 53 confirmed cases here in the United States. As the virus continues to spread, the Global Economy is already beginning to suffer. All of the warning lights are flashing brightow red. We are staring down a potential pandemic. And the administration has no plan, we have a crisis of coronavirus and President Trump has no plan. Tno urgency, no understanding of the facts or how to coordinate a response. We must to v get a handle on the coronavirus and make sure the United States is fully prepared to deal with its potential lee farreaching consequences. But the Trump Administration has been asleep at the wheel. President trump, good morning, arthere is a pandemic of coronavirus, where are you . Where is your plan . Its just amazing, the crisis grows and grows and we hear nothing. Coronavirus, no coronavi
Cases of the COVID-19 variant Omicron BA.2.86, also known as Pirola, have tripled in two weeks, comprising between 5% and 15% of all infections, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The COVID-19 variant Omicron BA.2.86 as well as its offshoots, including JN.1 has been reclassified as a "variant of
Cases of the COVID-19 variant Omicron BA.2.86 have tripled in two weeks, comprising between 5% and 15% of all infections, according to the CDC. A doctor weighs in on the risk.