Good morning. You can applaud. [applause] i know you are applauding because you are here at the 2017 Miami Book Fair here in miami, florida. What a Beautiful Day it is here in miami this morning. That is why we live here and why it is such a wonderful destination. Welcome again to Miami Book Fair. We have a truly wonderful treat in store for you today. I hope many of you have had the opportunity all week to enjoy the outstanding presentations that have been taking place this year and hope you will continue through tomorrow evening when the 7 days closes. This fair just would not take place each and every year without the cooperation, collaboration, passion and volunteerism of many, many people in the community. Namely the students, faculty, staff of miamidade college. [applause] and really hundreds of high School Students, middle School Students and others in the community. We truly thank everyone for coming together and unifying behind this Miami Book Fair. I also want to thank the ci
Lifting of the quorum call . The presiding officer the senator may proceed. Mr. Nelson thank you, madam president. Madam president , the matter that is before the senate is the amendment that i have offered, and it simply is that in this tax bill, since the corporate rate is reduced from 35 down to 20 and that is permanent but the modest middleclass tax breaks are not permanent, in seven or eight years, they cease to exist, they sunset. So you want in this tax bill to give permanent, huge corporate cuts from 35 down to 20 , which by the way if the American Corporation is doing business overseas, its basically a zero tax rate, which is an incentive to go overseas, send jobs overseas, american jobs lost. While giving those huge corporate breaks, at the same time it is giving modest breaks to the very people who need the tax cuts. That is, hardworking American Families, the middleclass. And then, oh, by the way, in seven or eight years, vamoose, its gone. It goes back up. Its a tax increa
What is next for the president and republican party, were asking former advisor to president george w. Bush, mr. Karl rove. Liberal media cant get over this whole russia collusion story. It has been a year. We still have no evidence. You wouldnt know that talking to liberal media, Gregg Jarrett from the very start. He has real intel on what is happening right now. Lets go to blake burman. Go to President Trump es on first legislative win. Hi, blake. Reporter President Trump starting his christmas break here and the president signing this tax bill into law. He said by doing so, before christmas, that indeed is promise kept. The president c also continued o tout number of companies that come forward, because of this tax bill, they will start to reward their employees, latest of which today, could from pnc and sinclair broadcasting, giving 1000dollar bonuses to their employees. Add them all up, trish, that adds up to 55,000 workers just between those two companies alone. Inside the oval,
Thec implementation. Reporter they absolutely nailed it with this second time frame of legislation on taxes to the president s desk by christmas. There had been a couple different scenarios though over the last week as to when the president would actually sign the bill, and one of those options was that he might wait until january, until the Congress Gets back here, and that they would have some sort of celebration to start the year off with a bang. As we saw within the last hour inside the oval office. He explained it by saying he wanted to keep that promise of tax legs signed by christmas. Tax legislation signed by christmas. I am keeping my promise, i am signing it before christmas. I said that the bill would be on my desk before christmas, and you are holding me literally to that. So we did a rush job today. Its not fancy. Reporter now, over the last couple of days or so the president has touted the handful or so of major corporations that have said they will now, because of this
The punch line. Surveying our bases and installations across the world, g. A. O. Found that weather and Climate Change pose operational and budgetary risks to infrastructure. G. A. O. Recommended that d. O. D. s climate planning be increased, specifically that the secretaries of army, navy, and air force require defense installations to, and i quote, system mat cali track the costs associated with extreme weather events and Climate Change, end quote, and recommended that d. O. D. Better coordinate addressing Climate Change risks across d. O. D. Installations. This picture in the g. A. O. Report shows an unnamed military facility in the pacific that has at times been cut off by flooding from Access Points to its mao nices storage munitions storage complex. If you have a military facility that cant get access to its munitions storage, you have a problem. This is the picture of the flooded entryway, and this is the picture of a similar entryway under normal circumstances able to be travel