Republicans, 202 7488001. Independents, 202 7488002. Also, send us a tweet if you would like, or you can go to facebook. Com cspan. We will get to your thoughts in just a minute. What is your message to washington over this impasse . Here is how it played out on the senate floor last night. [video clip] there are many other issues out here. Make no mistake about it. National death live hasow long we declined because of opiates. This resolution does nothing on opioids. Veterans. In my state and your states, veterans are waiting on line for treatment after ey risked their lives for us. This resolution doesnt fund it. May be will do it after a month . We havent done it for six months. What about pensions . Millions of americans, working people have paid in months after months, who lost salary, declined salary increases so they knew they could live a life of decency and they were tired. That is being extinguished. We have an urgent obligation to deal with those people. We feel it. So many
Questions. Both of them cover education beats for their publication Michelle Hackman of wall street. Journal and Michael Stratford of politico. As we get started, we are taking taping this on thursday, yesterday, betsy devos gave a wellcovered speech where she was highly critical of the bush and obama era law, no child left behind and essentially said it , had no tangible results and is seen as the death knell of of the federal Education Departments. Is your critique of the legislation as strong as hers . No tangible results . Rep. Foxx only knows what the research has shown. No child left behind had great motivation behind it. The title, no child left behind, make sure every child receives as long and as good of an education as you could possibly give him or her. In the Implementation Phase by the bureaucrats, they put carved up cells of students come up with them in little cells and did an enormous amount of testing. I think it is a bad good example of micromanaging at the federal le
Neighborhood, and he has a train to catch in a few minutes, so i ask consent, and after i make a few remarks about todays event, the voting today, that the senator from delware be recognized and, and following his speaking, that i be recognized again. Without objection. I thank the president mr. President , today the senate voted on immigration. Immigration is a passionate issue. Affects the lives of people, affects the american creed which involves the rule of law, the fact were a nation of immigrants. Goes to the heart of our country and we have strong opinions. All of us know that. Of course, mr. President , thats why with have the United States senate. Not something that the National City council can solve. We cant solve the problem of our nations borders. We cant solve the problem what to do about people who were brought here as children illegally through no fault of their own. Thats our job. Thats the job of the president of the United States can the job of the United States sena
Basis of an amendment process that might have produced the bill and its essentially at least on an immediate basis the collapse of something that comes after months of consensus seeking in the chamber. We have had the number two leaders in both chambers meeting with the administration to come up with some kind of compromise, and we have had democratic snort dick durbin and Lindsay Graham meating to come up with a plan, that the president rejected. Todays votes there are four votes but a key faceoff between the compromise crafted over, again, many weeks by 25 senators, by Susan Collins of maine, republican, joe mansion, a West Virginia democrat, plan that is basically reflecktive of what President Trump wants, which will yous Border Security plan, a pathway to citizenship for dreamer. He also wanted an end to a diversity series a visa lottery and strong redistributions on family based immigration. That alternative had a pathway to citizenship and had a 25 billion Border Security package
Around the highs of the session, we are singing seeing bigger point swings returning to the markets over the past several weeks. The telecoms index is the best performing group, up by about 1 . Technology has also been gaining. When you look at the telecoms and the networking of equipment stocks, at t, verizon, cisco, all on the rise. A couple of events going on this week could be giving them a boost. First, you have the mobile World Congress going on in barcelona. Thats the meeting of various telecom and mobile phone companies. They have talked about the push for five g technology and how it could be beneficial. Media, the Morgan Stanley tech conference will be going on over the next four days or so. Looks like these companies are catching a bid, going into that. Then there is technology. Looking at technology ever since the broader stock market hit it flows of the year, it is the group that has done the best. Incidentally, it is the leading group for the year to date. Tech has contin