Confident, yet humble, wise, yet dependent on your guidance. Give them the wisdom to cultivate a faith that preserves, keeping them from growing weary in doing what is right. Strengthen their ability to see among their colleagues your divine image. May our senators increase in favor with you and humanity. Fill them with a passion to live for your glory. We praise you for being our helper and we desire to magnify your holy name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance. 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. Mr. Grassley madam president. The presiding officer the senator from iowa is a recognized. Mr. Grassley i ask one minute in morning business. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Grassley quite often in our newspapers you can read about a lot of city, state Pension Funds that are in trouble. Theres
Will lead the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Eternal god, who makes us one, use our lawmakers today as agents of reconciliation. Give them the wisdom to build bridges that will enable Diverse People to accomplish your purposes on earth. Lord, inspire our senators with such oneness of spirit and resolve that they will provide our nation with a model of cooperation. Remind them of the wisdom of matthew 12 25, which states that a house divided against itself cannot stand. Lord, we thank you for giving senator grassley another birthday. We pray in your unifying name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance. 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. Mr. Grassley madam president. The presiding officer the senator from iowa. Mr. Grassley i ask for one minute. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Gr
University North Carolina chapel hill. My parents earnest jones and mom pertis jones. Dad, a farmer born and raised on a farm. That was his life. Thats what he loved to do. Im a member of a family of ten children, 6 boys and 4 girls. And the first five children was born as routen because their dad was routen and he was killed cutting logs in the wood. So that first five were very young when he died, and then my dad, earnest jones married my mama and has five more children. But my dad raised all ten of us because they were very, very young when their dad got killed. And basically what he did was we were very disciplined, had a seventh grade education. Mom had a seventh grade education but very bright, brilliant people. And one of the ambition they had and they gave us as we were little kids he had two goals for us. He wanted all of us educated and he wanted to see all ten of us in heaven. And so he wanted us to be committed to church, hard work and school. So i had the pleasure of going
The manner of death or did it take you to take you to minneapolis to hear what those demonstrators are demanding tonight all right its time to boost your news i. Q. Less than 24 hours after protesters were met with tear gas outside of the white house today they are back on the streets of washington d. C. The growing crowd of demonstrators as demanding changes to the way blacks and other minorities are being treated in this country and just a little while ago the curfew went into effect for protesters here in d. C. Sending them all home that argues for an fronsac has been covering those protests all week and tonight protesters organized a vigil for george floyd. You know we are just about 2 blocks north from the white house here and k. And 16 that you could see behind me there. There are thousands of protesters from all walks of life you have black lives matter you have white people brown people you know all of them in the name of peaceful protesting now moments ago the video to show yo
Of that will be technical selling. The bond market is a little bit unusual not so much happening in yields here, but in europe you are seeing pretty strong support. The time now for the market moving news from our new york team. We want to begin with china and that historic economic slump. Ae first contraction in backdated. We have our correspondent with all of the details. Mike it was actually worse than you expected, 6. 8 decline, the worst since they started reporting quarterly in china back in 1992. The economy has not contracted the fullyear basis since 1970s. We will watch that. One reason the numbers were not worse, if you look at the second number, smaller than expected, Industrial Production of on. 1 , factories returning to work. The problem for them is with the rest of the world unlock and there is nobody to buy their stuff. Consumers are not buying. Lockdowns were lifted but people are still reluctant to go out and spend. Retail sales down 15. 8 this is important because th