Vote vote vote vote vote vote the presiding officer are there any senators in the chamber wishing to vote or change their vote . Hearing none, the yeas are 64, the nays are 24. The nomination is confirmed. Under the previous order, the motion to reconsider is considered made and laid upon the table, and the president will be immediately notified of the senates action. Mr. Thune madam president . The presiding officer the senator from south dakota. Mr. Thune i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to legislative session and be in a period of morning business with senators permitted to speak therein for up to ten minutes each. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Thune madam president , i have four requests for committees to meet during todays session of the senate. They have a approval of the majority and minority leaders. The presiding officer duly noted. Mr. Thune madam president , before i begin, i want to acknowledge the tremendous news released yesterday that early
Representative rick marsh, a democrat from washington joined book tv to discuss the books hes reading. Congressman rick larson of washington, whats on your reading list right now . My Summer Reading list hasnt been long but its coming into the middle of summer now. Im working on wrecked, its the third icu novel by joe day, hes a mission writer and iq is his character and rex is the third book in the series. Hes kind of a detective novel. Hes a private investigator and a lot of action, a lot of great relationships in that book so im working on that. Im also working on frederick douglass, a biography published recently. Working on that, its a fairly long book so im popping in and out of that. In and out of that book. Taking that in chunks. So the policy wonk in me, david dollar has at one of the think tanks in washington dc is the editor of a book called china 2049 where hes put together some reform minded chinese colleagues to look at what the chinese economy might look like, what its c
This big puckture of john lewis was just put up here, rest in power. You cant see from the tv but over here in the front row is a big bouquet of white flowers. Its in the place where john usually sat in the front row of a section that many of the members of the congressional ack caucus held forth, conspired sometimes, plotted, and made progress for the American People. Its appropriate that we have those flowers there. Where john sat. For so many years. John meacham who is writing a book on john lewis told us yesterday on a caucus call that when john was born he was born into a garden. He loved to be in the garden. He loved to be with the chicks, as we know, little chickens. And he loved to see things grow. Loved to see things grow. And he lived his life in that way. He loved to see progress grow, he loved to see love and peace grow. He loved to see ideas grow. And he loved to see a more Perfect Union grow. Many of our colleagues will have many things to say this evening and because of
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Person. Also those we come another 5 Million People file for unappointed. Altogether, 22 million americans have lost their jobs due to the coronarus. This weeksinfusion of cash from the government will help, several legislators such as our first guest this evening say americans need some sort of ongoing financial relief. Joining me now by skype from washington, dc islooking congress ermethank you so much for being with us. Things are havi me on. Three make you pointed to the bipartisan White House Advisory Council which just held its first call on thursday. Can you tell me about this councils makeup and at it is expected to actually do . Well it is bipartisan counsel, it has about 10 house democrats, 10 Senate Democrats including senator durbin. We are priding advice abou what we need to do. To rebuild our economy. I emphasized two planes, that we need testing, massive testing to be able to reopen our economy weand that need critical investment in advanced manufacturing of the industr