2. 6 million federal grant to pursue Health Care Delivery innovations that would result in better care at lower costs for virginians. Just this past week the governors access plan begin processing applications ensuring that up to 20,000 virginians with serious Mental Illness could get medical and behavioral care that they need to lead healthy and Productive Lives that they deserve. Mr. Speaker the men and women of this General Assembly a healthy virginia is no substitute for Medicaid Expansion but it is creating real opportunities for thousands of virginians who desperately need it. I will be honest i cannot think of a better investment than that. [applause] as we strengthen our Human Capital by improving workforce training and access to health care we must also enhance the infrastructure upon which our economy is built. Transportation Energy Generation and transmission, ports, airports. These are the Building Blocks of our system and a new virginia economy they would be the envy of th
Vote the presiding officer are there any senators wishing to vote or change their vote . If not on this vote, the yeas are 75, the nays are 23. Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for the adoption of this amendment the amendment is agreed to. Ms. Murkowski move to reconsider. A senator move to lay on the table. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Mcconnell mr. President . The presiding officer the majority leader. Mr. Mcconnell could we have order in the senate. The presiding officer the senate will be in order. Mr. Mcconnell yeah, id like to remind everybody these are supposed to be 10minute roll call votes and to the extent that you dont make it in the 10 minutes, you inconvenience everybody else, and i would hope people would be respectful of their colleagues and stay close to the floor and vote during the 10 minutes. Weve actually reached a milestone here that i thinks noteworthy for the senate. We just cast our 15th roll call vote on an amendment on this bill whic
Time. The presiding officer without objection. Ms. Cantwell thank you mr. President. I thank the senator from north dakota. I know were going to be going back and forth on this issue and that we have speakers coming later this morning and were going to have time divided but i appreciate the senator of north dakota allowing us to join in the debate this morning and make a few mountains. And i do want to say i appreciate the senator from north dakotas hard work on the Energy Committee in general and i look forward to working with him on many Energy Policies. He and i have worked together on a couple of different agricultural issues, and i certainly appreciate his due diligence. But needless to say i dont agree with the process of moving forward with this motion to proceed to the Keystone Pipeline bill. Many of my colleagues here are going to be coming down, talking about the issues. Two of my colleagues including the senators from utah and arkansas along with the senator of north dakota,
Vote the presiding officer are there any senators in the chamber who wish to vote or to change their vote . The presiding officer if not on this vote, the yeas are 55, the nays are 44. Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for the adoption of this amendment the amendment is not agreed to. A senator move to reconsider. The presiding officer without objection. There will now be two minutes of debate equally divided prior to a vote in relation to amendment number 18 offered by the senator from nebraska, mrs. Fischer j mrs. Fischer. Ms. Murkowski mr. President mr. President. The presiding officer the senator from alaska. Ms. Murkowski the senate is not in order. Pyrite the presiding officer the senate will be in order. The senator from nebraska. Mrs. Fischer thank you mr. President. Our National Parks are facing 13 billion in maintenance needs. The entire federal land and state is looking at 22 billion in needs. We want to keep these resources and parks open for our children and gran
The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Markey thank you madam president. Madam president , when the new Congress Opens theres a choice as to which issues we should start to work on. Would it be infrastructure jobs, clean energy jobs, minimum wage increase for all of america . No. No, that is not what the new majority decides to bring up. No. Instead, it is a canadian oil export pipeline. So next week, i am going to offer an amendment that the senate will consider that asks whether we will put Americans First or Oil Companies first whether we will keep this oil and gasoline here for americans or send it to foreign nations to help them instead . If my amendment is defeated, it will make clear that this is not an energy plan that is all of the above. It is oil above all. My amendment says that if we build the keystone Keystone Pipeline, we keep that oil here, we keep that oil here. We keep the diesel, the jet fuel the heating oil we keep it all all here. Because if we send it abroad