As you know i announced i was not running for reelection and if i had known everyone was going to be so nice to me to my my have announced it earlier h. I am not the only senator who is giving a farewell speech. Many of us got to hear Lamar Alexander last week. He is the perfect example of what a United States senator should be. Before i was wet behind the ears in the senate, a first one my first week here he invited me and my wife to dinner. There it began to become fast friends and we grew closer pulling that kind of friendship that is essential here in the senate. We Work Together to get things done for our state and National Laboratories and conserving the great outdoors. Something else we shared with the harbor in the senate barbershop with mario. [laughter] and to be honest thats the place on the best place to learn the wisdom of the Senate Sitting in marios chair. Friendships like with four more and mario are what i willfr missik most the friendships and because is any good cent
Alexander last week. Lamar is the perfect example of what a United States senator should be. Before i was wet behind wet behs in the senate, my first week here, lamar invited me and my wife jill to dinner. There it began, jill and lamars wife honey became fast friends and lamar and i built the kind of friendship that is essential in the senate. We worked together to get things done for our states, bolstering our National Laboratories and conserving our great outdoors. Something else we shared was mario, our barber in the barber shop and to be honest, that is the best place to learn about the senate, sitting in marios chair. Friendships like i have with lamar and mario is what i will miss most about the senate, the friendships. And because as any good senator will tell you, friendships are what gets you over the finish line. I will cherish the friendships i forged over the last 12 years, i will miss serving the people of new mexico and congress, the greatest honor of my life has been do
The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Barry black, will open the senate with prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Mighty god, you are the strength of our lives, our safe fortress and shelter from lifes storms. During this season of a raging tempest, speak your peace to our senators. Remind them that you continue to rule your universe through the unfolding of your prevailing providence and that your truth continues to march on in our nation and world. Lord, prosper the works of the hands of our legislators, as they strive to glorify you with their thoughts, words, and actions. May faith replace fear, truth defeat falsehood, justice triumph over greed, and love prevail over hate. We pray in your great 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
Pro forma session, we do expect Mitch Mcconnell to ask unanimous consent to pass the latest Coronavirus Relief measure. Reports are that ideal has been reached on nearly 500 billion for Small Businesses, hospitals and further covid19 testing. The House Majority leader says members are ready to return to the capital quickly to pass the measure. Likely by the end of the week. Take you cliff and after the senate floor on cspan2. The presiding officer the senate will come to order. The clerk will read a communication to the senate. The clerk washington, d. C, april 21, 2020. To the senate under the provisions of rule 1, paragraph 3, of the standing rules of the senate, i hereby appoint the honorable daniel sullivan, a senator from the state of alaska, to perform the duties of the chair. Signed chuck grassley, president pro tempore. Mr. Mcconnell mr. President. The presiding officer the majority leader. Mr. Mcconnell i ask consent to be recognized notwithstanding the order for a pro forma s
A girl named tamara, lived on an indian reservation. She suffered great tragedy early in her life at age two. She was in a foster home. She was beaten very severely at a drunken party. Her arm, her nose, her leg were broken and she laid in a room with no medical attention. A horrific story. To tell you a little bit about how i came to write a book about it, she was featured in a news story about abuse of children at foster homes with a very large photograph in a newspaper about two years after this happened. And i went to the indian reservation when i read this story and raised a lot of hell with everybody. And i met with this girl and her grandfather. And we, you know, we visited. Then i sent her a couple of christmas gifts. Then her grandfather died and i lost track of her. I would always ask at the indian reservation, does anybody know what happened . The answer was no. No one knew. And 27 years later, i got an email from her. It turns out she has been homeless in minneapolis. Went