Health workers across india doctors say grieving relatives of patients targeting them. Islam on the brink of even more despair the coronavirus fears for a desperately poor part of argentinas capital. With your sport origin time strike and carlos tevez thats called a nice fellow footballers to open up their wallets and help during the current coronavirus crisis. So that the economic devastation caused by a corona virus is becoming clearer with the United States announcing a major rise in the Unemployment Rate a record 6600000. 00 americans applied for Unemployment Benefits thats 3000000. 00 more than last week it is a similar story in spain a lot down there cause more than 800000 redundant. These in march many of them Seasonal Workers such as in the Tourism Industry the 3 and a host of 1000000 spaniards do not have a job and the number of british people applying for government benefits is 10 times higher than normal almost a 1000000 britons claimed universal credit in the last 2 weeks t
The presiding officer are there any senators wishing to vote or change their vote . On in vote, the yeas are 62, it is nays are perform and the nays are 38. The motion is not agreed to. The clerk will report. Mr. Mcconnell mr. President . The presiding officer the majority leader. Mr. Mcconnell are we in a quorum call . The presiding officer the senate is not in a quorum call. Mr. Mcconnell i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to the immediate consideration of calendar number 151 s. 1599. The presiding officer the clerk will report. The clerk s. 1599 a bill to provide antiretaliation protections for antitrust whistleblowers. The presiding officer without objection, the senate will proceed to the motion. Mr. Mcconnell i ask consent that the committeereported substitute amendment be agreed to the bill as amended be read a third time and passed, and the motion to reconsider be laid on the table. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Mcconnell i ask unanimous consent that
I would like to thank the attorney for his and his offices work as well as a dedicated terry from the Department Civil Rights Division and extend my thanks to the solicitor for being aa partner in this matter. We have a strong working relationship and look forward to continued collaboration at the parallel state and federal prosecutions worked their way through the respective court systems. Thank you for your attention. [inaudible question] yet to be determined. Both cases will proceed through the court system and we will work to reduce unnecessary burden to the families. [inaudible question] deciding who goes 1st. There are a number of factors. Both cases are in the early stages and have yet to have motions. It is difficult to say. This seems to fit the definition of domestic terrorism. There is no specific domestic terrorism statute. However, hate crimes are the original domestic terrorism. The behavior alleged to have occurred his archetypal behavior. We havewe have a defendant who
Effective inspections and i hope our witnesses will deal with that today because that is a matter of major concern. We need to know the answer to that. Have we cut off all pathways for iran to obtain a Nuclear Weapon particularly the Covert Military use operations . We know that is a major concern. That is why the pmd is particularly important, the chairman mentioned the pmd and the work that iaei, our International Inspectors. They have great credibility in this area. But we want to know whether they have the capacity to do what we are asking them to do and will they have the access they need because we need to know about the prior military dimension to go forward to make sure we can contain any opportunity they may use for covert activities and will we discover it and be able to take action. These are questions were going to ask. We read the agreement. And we still have questions. And we hope well get answers as to whether we have effectively prevented iran from using covert activiti
Contingency over seas in the near future . You would have to do one of two things. You would either have to grow the force. We believe that the force is 186,000 marines. And elsewhere, we could take services that are deployed in the far east and okonawa. We did that in the combat in iraq. And its only through the past few years we have been able to reestablish our presence in the pacific. We have some options. The other option is we go all in. We activate our reserves and we go and do what needs to be done. We have done that before too. You can do that for a short period of time but as you mentioned, that is not sustainable. What is a short period of time . In your best estimate i dont want to hold you to it. But we are wrestling with Big Decisions about the middle east and Irans Nuclear capableility and there are some in the senate that i believe are tempted by the idea that we can go in and bomb iran and set off what could be a war much bigger than any contingency we have been trying