Through the region right now. Most of it going north and west of the city. What does that mean for us . I want to show you a view, Storm Tracker 6 live double scan, mostly dry in the i95 corridor. Take a close look, you see the areas of red and yellow southwest of baltimore, they will ride up in the i95 corridor and bring us rain in the next couple of hours. 74 degrees right now in philadelphia. Its warm and humid, 74 in reading, 75 in millville. So still feeling oppressively humid. What to expect today, lots of clouds and showers here and there, its not going to rain constantly all day. 7 00 a. M. , 74 degrees by lunchtime. Youll be raining late morning into the afternoon hours. 3 00 p. M. , mostly cloudy skies and 77. Look at this, in the afternoon and evening we could see a shower or thunderstorm popping up, maybe a rumble of thunder and thats because you have the summertime time heat and humid, 73 in reading. 70 in philadelphia. 74 in millville. You see the scale here. Anytime you
Vote vote vote the presiding officer have all senators voted . Any senator wishing to change their vote . On this nomination the yeas are 60. The nays are 38. The nomination is confirmed. Under the previous order, the motion to reconsider is considered made and laid upon the table. The president will be immediately notified of the senates action. The clerk will report the motion to invoke cloture. The clerk cloture motion. We the undersigned senators in accordance provisions of rule 22 of the standing rules of the senate do hereby move to bring to a close debate on the nomination of allison eid. The presiding officer the question is is it the sense of the debate than the nomination of allison eid of colorado to be United States circuit judge for the tenth circuit shall be brought to a close. The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule. The clerk will call the roll. Vote vote vote the presiding officer are there any senators in the chamber wishing to vote or change their vote . If no
Are conside tee exceptionally talented women for the federal bench. Federal Circuit Court nominations are extremely important. Circuit courts sit directly below the Supreme Court in our judicial system. And because the Supreme Court reviews relatively few or a smaller number of cases, many times the Circuit Courts have the last word in the majority of our of those cases. So it is essential that we have judges on the Circuit Court who will treat all litigants fairly. When i think about what do i want in a judge, i think fairness is the first thing that comes to mind. We want someone who treats litigants fairly, who show respect for our constitution, our statutes, and the controlling precedents. So we need somebody knowledgeable in the law. That sort of goes without saying, but certainly is a top attribute of a judge. Every party before our federal courts has the right to expect evenhanded and fair judges and fair justice from those judges that are handling their case. Each of the four n
Ms. Collins mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from maine. Ms. Collins mr. President , i ask unanimous consent that proceedings under the call be dispensed with. The presiding officer without objection. Ms. Collins thank you, mr. President. Mr. President , today i rise with my colleague from new mexico, senator heinrich, in discussing the securing americas voting equipment act of 2017 or the save act which we introduced earlier this week. Mr. President , i know that youre well aware that the Senate Intelligence committee has been conducting an indepth investigation into attempts by the russians to interfere with our election last fall. What we have found is the russians active measures preceded last fall and they continue to this very day. We have election coming up in november of this year and a major election next year and both senator heinrich and i believe that it is so important that we act to assist states in protecting the integrity of their Voting Systems. Our bi
Some republicans are calling manning a traitor. He says his motive for todays flurry of pardons, white house officials are telling us president obama wants to be known as the president of second chances. Just three days now until donald trump is sworn in as president. Theres another intrusion into the process by russian president Vladimir Putin. Putin denies that russia hacked the u. S. Election. Now he says that trump is a victim of people that putin called worse than prostitutes. Reporter barack obama had a chance here at the white house today to comment about trumps and putins latest move. Instead the outgoing president just walked away without saying a word about putin defending trump. The president elect got support from moscow as he tried to build with just 40 of americans now polling positive about a donald trump presidency, enter Vladimir Putin again. Led alleging a political struggle in the u. S. To undermine the president elect, calling the leaker of unverified reports about