The speaker the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. Eternal god, we give you thanks for giving us another day. Send your spirit of peace and calm that all might have confidence in your faithfulness to us. That no matter what lies ahead your grace is abundantly available. Now we approach a week during which all americans will gather to remember who we are. A nation generously blessed not only by you, our god, but by courageous ancestors faithful allies, and the best good wishes of people everywhere who long for freedom, who would glory in the difficult work of participative government and who do not enjoy the bounty we are privileged to possess. Bless the members of this assembly and us all that we would be worthy of the call we have been given as americans. Help us all to be truly thankful and appropriately generous in our response. May all that is done this day be for your greater honor and glory, amen. The sp
Vote vote vote the presiding officer are there any senators in the chamber wishing to vote or change their vote . If not the yeas are 83. The noes are 9. The motion is passed agreed to. Mr. Grassley madam president . The presiding officer the senator from iowa. Mr. Grassley ive got a couple of issues i want to speak on. One would be trade and section 232 issue. That would be my second one. The first one, i want to speak about commonsense entitlement reform. In the past year weve seen a flurry of drug pricing proposals. Im encouraged by efforts from my colleagues here in the senate, especially Ranking Member wyden, colleagues in the house that agree in the house of representatives who agree with this effort to reduce drug prices and the president of the United States who has already been involved for a year and a half in lowering drug prices. All have made lowering Prescription Drug costs one of the Core Principles of our efforts and particularly a core principle for this administration
Charter Communications Support cspan as a Public Service. A lot with these other television providers. Giving you a front row seat to democracy. The head of the Environmental Protection agency talks about the biting ministration Environmental Policies at the western governance association. During his remarks he highlights issues from wildfires to water security. From boulder colorado, this is about 50 minutes. Welcome to the 2023 western Governors Association annual meeting here in beautiful boulder, colorado crete my name is jack waldorf i have the honor and privilege of serving the executive director for wga. Its your first meeting, it is mind too so we will figure it out together. Have you been to an annual meeting before, welcome back and perhaps you could give us rookies a few pointers but we are here thisiv week. It is wonderful so somebody friends in the west convene here at the theater which has a rich history since it opened back in 1906. Over the years this entertainment venu
Associations, and health care experts. The committee chaired by vermont independent senator bernie sanders. Not only is this unfair to working class and lower income americans, who cannot access a medical home when they need it, and we are losing over 60,000 people a year because they do not get to on time. But in addition to that, from a financial and costeffective perspective, what we have now is basically insane. We have a situation where people get sick, they do not go to the doctor, you know what happens when you dont go to the doctor and you are sick . You get sick or. Maybe you end up in an emergency room where the cost of primary care is ten times, or eight times more than it is if you walked into a Community Health center. If you cant afford prescription drugs, you get sticker, and you may end up in the hospital, and that will cost 100,000. So what we are talking about today is to, things my own personal view, and health care is a human right, and that we should emulate what g
Off 280e dash up with a miso is cannabis businesses that are legal at the state level cannot write their businesses off. So if they buy pens pins oy buy tables for their dispensary speeded we will break away from this discussion to keep our over 40year commitment to covering congress. You can watch all of our washington journal segments if you go to our website cspan. Org. Today the u. S. Senate is back in session following its summer recess. Sandage will be voted on the Federal Reserve vice chair nomination later this afternoon. And i like to the of the u. S. Senate here on cspan2. And now live to the floor of the u. S. Senate here on cspan2. The presiding officer the senate will come to order. The chaplain dr. Barry black will lead the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Eternal god, who rules the raging of the sea, you reign over the nations of our turbulent world. You alone subdue the winds and the rain with a word from your mouth. As we return from recess and open this ses