Nation and world. We praise you that your plans succeed and your precepts are sure. Lord, you know our thoughts before we think them. Encourage our lawmakers to do your will. Give them the wisdom to totally depend upon your unfailing love, remembering that unless you help them they labor in vain. Lord, when doubts fill their minds, provide them with the renewed hope in the ultimate triumph of your purposes. We pray in your strong 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 recognized. Mr. Grassley i would like to have one minute for morning business. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Grassley thirty years ago today, the freely elected parliament of lithuania declared the restorati
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This is an advertisement . What this is doing is just encouraging people to game the system. When my mother came here, she did not come here to try and get welfare benefits, she came here to be selfsufficient. What this administration is doing is trying to create people not selfsufficient but dependent. Tom jonathan, what happened to the day when immigrants set i want to go to america to have a better life . Are they still doing it . Land of the free is now land of the freebies. We turn the American Dream into the dependency dream. I am vehemently antientitlement. We have had generations of generations of successful immigrants who came here and succeeded prior to the migration of the entitlement state. Were advertising a thing as having a damaging impact not only on the economy, but of the culture overall. Tom what is your take on this . Should the government be advertising all of these . Lets be clear, calm is approved these benefit programs as well as the appropriate budgets to go wi