Head of the u. N. Heralds the role sputnik we can play in the battle against time damage. A very warm welcome to the program from all of us here at our church here in moscow thanks for joining us this hour. The simmering spat over covert Vaccine Supplies has seen the European Commission publish its contested contract with anglo swedish drugs maker astra zeneca their disagreeing over definitions the firm says its of hearing to the specified best reasonable efforts while the e. U. Insists the supply volume is a binding number you members earlier met to decide whether nations should be able to ringfence their own local production charl devinsky explains. This ra is really heating up in brussels made the threat that it will look to ban exports of the 19 vaccines from the blog thats going to have massive implications not just for the but also other countries in the world and this comes amidst a huge shortage of the curve in 1000. 00 vaccine here in the e. U. Now leaders are meeting on frida
Watch is online at cspan. Org or listen to cspan radio out. The senate will gavel in considering William Emanuels nomination to the National Labor Relations Board. He will then give the republican majority. The vote is scheduled for about 90 minutes from now at 530 eastern. Live from the senate floor here on cspan2. The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Barry black, will lead the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Yew did eternal, lord god, in these dangerous, divisive and challenging times, you to be our refuge and strength. Deliver our lawmakers from fear, doubt, weariness and impatience as they learn to trust the unfolding of your powerful providence. Lord, eliminate from their lives the forces that would destroy their peace of mind. Give them your mercy that will make them more forgiving, your strength that will make them more resolute to do your will, and your grace that will empower them to experience the ultimate triumph of your purp
Tougher penalties on undocumented immigrants who reenter the u. S. After being deported. The second bill would penalize socalled century cities that refuse to cooperate with deportation forces. It passed in a mostly partyline vote. Here is part of that debate. For what purpose does the gentleman from virginia, mr. Goodlatte, seek recognition . Mr. Goodlatte mr. Speaker, pursuant to House Resolution 414, i call up h. R. 3003, the no sanctuary for criminals act. The speaker pro tempore the clerk will report the title of the bill. The clerk h. R. 3003, a bill neend the immigration and nationality act to modify provisions relating to assistance by states and political subdivision of states and the enforcement of federal immigration laws, and for other purposes. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to House Resolution 414, the bill is considered as read. The gentleman from virginia, mr. Goodlatte, and the gentleman from michigan, mr. Conyers, each will control 30 minutes. The chair recognizes t
We do want to check the forecast. It looks like were dealing with wet and cold. Heres brandon orr. Yeah were dry so far today. Thats not going to last too much longer. Not much going on downtown. Temperatures 32 degrees. It was down 27 overnight. Its been slowly starting to creep up to that freezing mark. Its going to continue to rise. The wind coming out of the south warming up. Precision doppler white as snow and you can see this band of snow slowly moving into cincinnati. Notice how its breaking up . We have layer of ground air and a lot of snow is drying up before it makes it to the ground. So thats why were not seeing too much snow fall but i suspect its coming down a little heavier. Thats where were seeing the chance for snow falling. And temperatures are cold enough that we could see slick bridges snow makes to it the ground. Keep into mind we bear we could have slick spots on the roadways but right now were not seeing anything. It may take a couple hours to see anything over do
Dont fare much better. Of the 20 companies which spend the most on lobbying in washington according to figures by opensecrets. Org, only google is on the list, spending 50 million on influence in washington much the nation a association of realtors spends twice that. And kind of pretty sure that Julie Samuels is a lobbyist though. Her organization, engine, prefers to say it supports the growth of technology, entrepreneurship through economic research, policy analysis is and an advocacy. Let me introduce John Schwartz of usa today, mick hall efram of fortune. Are you or are you not a lobbyist . For starters there is a Legal Definition of lobbyist and i am not one. Okay. Register as a lobbyist. You have to say i am a lobbyist. Correct. We will get to why an undocumented lobbyist . Well, i work in at vo cassie. I work in at vo cassie. We will get to the difference in a second. When one registers as lobbyist, what does that mean that youre not . What is the difference that my understanding