A quorum call quorum call quorum call quorum call quorum call mr. Mcconnell mr. President . The presiding officer the majority leader. Mr. Mcconnell i ask consent that further proceedings under the quorum call be dispensed with. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Mcconnell i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to executive session for the consideration of calendar number 519 through 545 and all nominations on the secretarys desk, that the nominations be confirmed en bloc, the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table with no intervening action or debate, that no further motions be in order, that any statements related to the nominations be printed in the record, the president be immediately notified of the senates action and the senate then resume legislative session. The presiding officer without objection, so ordered. Mr. Mcconnell i now ask unanimous consent the senate now proceed to consideration of calendar number 189, s. 1875. The presiding o
Another busy news morning. Well go live to brussels in just a moment where there is new information about the suspects, their connection to the attacks in paris, and how one of them was caught and then let go. President obama and Hillary Clinton take the opportunity to blast candidate ted cruz for his comments about patrolling muslim neighborhoods as ted cruz relishes being attacked by obama and clinton. And joe has a strong new column in the Washington Post about that. Well read part of that for you. Speaker of the house paul ryan laments the ugly state of politics in a passionate speech yesterd yesterday, then as if he was handing exhibit a, donald trump and ted cruz engage in a twitter battle over their wives. And a new poll this morning shows a majority of republican primary voters are not into the idea of a contested convention. Thats really interesting. The polling on this president ial election in terms of where people are at signal that we are headed toward a really ugly battle
Itself as a large land mass. About 7 of ukraine with the occupation of Eastern Ukraine and as i said with a ceasefire with the beginning to pull back of heavy weapons those that have access to that territory increasingly monitors have had access to encourage and accelerate that process. Is the answer is zero . As of todays zero. How has it delivered against ukraines ability against syria . Drew bipartisan generosity we have supplied over to a hundred 66 million of support that is training for the National Guard and providing lots of really. What about weaponry . What has been given to the Ukrainian Government to recapture the territory . Those including shortrange or longer range have not provided that assistance but we have provided with that, that protection. With your indulgence another minute . Their reason the congressman from new york the house passed a resolution in march of this year about 88 bipartisan vote that is overwhelming and a little unusual. That resolution is an overw
We are taking your comments on twitter, facebook and by phone. As always, every Campaign Event we cover is available on our website at cspan. Org. Republican president ial candidate senator marco rubio took part in a town hall format Saint College in New Hampshire on wednesday. He took questions on numerous issues including immigration and foreign policy. This is 45 minutes. Good afternoon everybody, thank you for being with us today. Im kate, i am the president and ceo of, this is the first event of the series. We were not expecting the small house so i hope you are accountable for the next 45 minutes. The idea behind this is a partnership between state, work, play to bring a different discussion to pinnacle conversation. We want to offer you the chance to get to know senator rubio, to find out what he is like as a person and what his political policy and ideas are. We have a number of questions and we really want to have you engage throughout the course of the morning. We want to tha
Chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties with each party limited to one hour and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and minority whip limited to five minutes. But in no event shall debate continue beyond 1 50 p. M. The chair recognizes the gentleman from pennsylvania, mr. Thompson, for five minutes. Mr. Thompson thank you, mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the 25 fund act of 1980 required 25 of the tax receipts from timber harvested from the u. S. National forest to be returned to the counties where the tax receipts originated. Since local property taxes cannot be leffveed on federal lands, these dollars along with payment in lufe taxes, or pit funding, are critical in National Forests and other federal lands. This is because the 1908 law specifies that they directly support local schools and road activities in National Forests. Unfortunately