In our nation and world. Guide our senators thoughts and words so that their speech will glorify you. May their speech engender a spirit of cooperation and a willingness to discover ways to accomplish laudable goals for the common good. Lord, lead them away from divisive rhetoric that provides fuel for chaos and discord. Shepherd of love, we pray each day to you because we know you will answer our prayers. Continue to show us your unfailing love in your creative and wonderful ways. We pray in your great name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to the flag. 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. The president pro tempore the majority leader. The clerk will call the roll. Quorum call the presiding officer the majority leader. Mr. Reid i ask unanimous consent the call of the quorum be terminated. The presid
Regulation worked. Well talk about that at another brookings event. Airline regulation, not quite so much. More people can fly now. If you adjust for consumer price, Airline Deregulation has worked, i agree with you, a lot of airlines suck, but that is not because flying sucks, i just was on an airplane yesterday. I know this is going to be tweeted now. No but that line. A lot of people dont like airlines. And its important to talk about this, because people will say, oh, my god, if you do it for if you do this for communications, look what happened to airlines. I think a lot of what happened to the airlines since, first people misperceived, said rates havent come down, but the planes are all full because they are like buses, okay . But people dont remember the back in the old days, planes were 60 full, all right . And it was a tremendous economic waste. And it was a disaster, all right . And i think the Justice Department probably has allowed too many mergers, all right . And as a res
Dealing with light rain at the start of. I cant work this morning streets were bone dry and San Francisco. Its like we will continue to drag things out into the afternoon we are keeping an eye on the we impulse bringing of the late things of shower later on this evening. Reporter 02 that a future cash coming up in just a few minutes. Take a look at rainfall totals over the past 24 hours. Not very impressive compared to what the forecast originally called for. The system did not go north they like original expected. Its all over mid peninsula on itself by rainfall totals a little higher in those spots compared or resaw north of the Golden Gate Bridge. Reporter with saw less than an inch for sfo. Impressive monster cerros the tune packages their. And we saw over an inch for concord and on the roof. Reporter continued sees rainfall totals go up into tomorrow because are tracking a Second System is a warm front that could produce under and to 3 in. Of rain for the north bay. We will have t
There is nothing that exist to keep Certain Companies from doing things. Today, as i see it, if i try half of what i am interested in doing, i would be hung by my customers. The outrage would be intolerable. And we have made some major decisions, Building Networks in a different way, i think that would be a radical business shift to start doing things. I did not anticipate, i argued that they should not be, but you know, i think it is a cautionary tale that regulation grows and expands, not contracts over time and i think that will be a reality. So when you go into can you go into why you are taking on this issue in the first place and if you had to do it all over again, would you . Yes i would. I am starting to feel old, but i do have a front row seat at the revolution. I was there when it was a commercial enterprise during the clinton administration. This is something that we havent seen before. These are organic questions about why things were said. We wanted to make it thrive, expl
Russia brought down malaysian flight 17. Prorussian militias need to be neutralized said some republicans on msnbc. If the president decides to move forward you will have the support of congress . That will be interesting. Reporter aides say president obama is considering tougher sanctions on russia. And u. S. Intelligence knocking down claims that Ukrainian Government shot down Malaysia Airlines flight 17. A memorial outside the Netherlands Embassy in northwest d. C. Is growing and now there is a new way for people to share their thoughts. The embassy has placed condolence registers in its lobby. If you would like to drop by those books will be out tomorrow from 10 00 a. M. Until noon and from 2 00 to 4 p. M. There is also an online registry. We have a link to that on nbcwashington. Com. Just search the word condolences. It cost lesz than 2. Police say a guy in his 60s attacked a driver. Pat collins is at the scene in northwest d. C. With more. Reporter let me set the scene for you. T