Vote vote the presiding officer are there any senators in the chambesh votor change their vote . On this vote, the yeas are 5,the nays are 38. The nomination is confirmed. The clwill rort the nomination. The Clerk Department of the treasury, Brian Callanan of new jersey to be general counsel. The presiding officer the question is on the nomination. Is there a sufficient second . There appears to be. The clerk will call the roll. Vote vote the presiding officer have all senators voted . Any senator wish to change their vote . The yeas are 55. The nays are 39. The nomination is confirmed. Under the previous order the motions to reconsider are considered made and laid upon the table and the president will be immediately notified of the senates action. A senator mr. President. The presiding officer the senator from texas. Mr. Cornyn mr. President , i ask unanimous consent that notwithstanding rule 22 the senate proceed to legislative session and resume consideration of the motion to procee
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Well and it is the Bloomberg Consumer comfort index at 10 00. Fed had had, so apple of days ago. We also had the Kansas City Manufacturing number. Why do they do regional numbers . If you add them up, you get it picture of the country as a whole. We are federalists. Before the bell, best buy, scarlet fu will break that. Hewlette bell, the gap, and packard and obama is speaking in cooperstown today. Thats because the orioles are in first place. Lets do a data check. Equities, bonds, currencies, and commodities. The equity markets have a surge. Weaker and nymex crude is elevated bigtime. Vxx shows under 12. The euro dollar is so important. There is iron ore. In shanghai. I have no idea what the number means but iron ore is cheap. This is the volatility in the market. It is gone. This is the 25 year average. Over the lastgst five years and down we go bearing down to a new complacency. This is the conundrum. Thank you Central Banks and janet yellen yesterday saying considerable . We are mo
Them plans to defend kavanaugh. And now this wrinkle. Now these allegations, and a leading democrats calling these new claims powerful, compelling and highly credible. They are all but daring republicans to question new accusers and the victims they say must be believed. Heres a selection selection of the charges. I saw Bridget Bishop with the devils. I saw somebody else with the devil. Tucker thats a scene from the crucible which as you may remember it was Arthur Miller play about the witch trials. Miller wrote it as an allegory about the mccarthy hearings. Mccarthy hearings were a period that the left deeply hated when they took power and recreated it themselves. Now you wonder if progressives still read millers play and if so, are they outraged by it . It might seem completely reasonable to them. Bob accuses villager of witchcraft and they deny it, because i always deny it. The witch cant prove without a doubt that she is in fact a witch so to the stake she goes. Chris would underst
Thousands of Argentine women marched Saturday through the streets of Buenos Aires and other cities nationwide in the now traditional Ni Una Menos (Not one [woman] less) demonstration against gender violence and femicides.