Quorum call mr. Merkley mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from oregon. Mr. Merkley i ask that the quorum call be lifted. Without objection. Mr. Merkley i ask that my intern sara finley be granted privileges of the floor for the balance of the day. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Merkley thank you very much. Mr. President , i am coming to the floor to talk about the challenge we have with forest fires that have been raging in the west, from montana and idaho and washington and oregon and california, and periodically we have devastating fires in colorado and new mexico, nevada. So we have to figure out how we do a better job in a multitude of ways. First, its very important that we quit treating terrible fire year, enormous fires as if theyre some ordinary event, because there is currently no femastyle reaction to terrible forest fires. We respond with fema for for neigh tows and for tornadoes and with floods and hurricanes and with earthquakes but not with f
A senator madam president . The presiding officer the senator from West Virginia. Mr. Manchin are we in a quorum call . The presiding officer the senate is not in a quorum call. Mr. Manchin id like to vitiate. The presiding officer were not in a quorum call. Mr. Manchin i ask to speak concerning we have a colloquy, speak on the protection act. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Manchin madam president , as you know very well, weve been asking for immediate passage of the miners protection act not just for our state of West Virginia but for all the miners across america and basically the retired miners who have done everything thats been asked of them. We have some of our colleagues today and im going to go, at this time, if i can, and my other colleagues will allow me, i would defer right now to senator brown from ohio, since he has other commitments. Hell be coming back and forth, if he could go ahead and get started at this time. And ill come back and go to our other senato
By the democrat of california, read all 7000 words of the rape victims letter on the floor. We begin to your reaction to that case and Sexual Assault on College Campuses. In the Eastern Central part of the country, 202 7488000. Mountain pacific, 202 7488001. College students, we want to hear from you, what it is like. N campus, 202 7488002 you can join the conversation on andter cspanwj facebook. Com cspan. Lets begin at the special order last evening read by a group of republicans and democrats. Katherine clark of massachusetts was one of the first to read a portion of the stanford rape victims letter. [video clip] on the way there i joked that undergrad guys would have braces. Teased me about wearing a beige cardigan. I called myself big mama because i knew i would be the oldest one there. I let my guard down and drink liquor too fast, not factoring in that my tolerance had significantly lowered since college. I remembered i was in a gurney in a hallway. I have dried blood and bandag
Phone pings and witness descriptions of squares vehicle, they believe the manchester couple was there at the time the 911 call came in. They were initially lying to the police and then theres going to be upgrading of charges to access after the fact, we may not be stopping there, but thats where were at right now. Reporter at 6 00, more on what led police to the squares. For now live in the studio, jennifer crompton, wmur news 9. Josh two women were trapped in their vehicles today after they hit head on, this shut down manners byron bridge, often referred to as the kelly street bridge. According to fire officials it left one woman with critical injuries. Wmurs Heather Hamel is live with details. Reporter the accident happened shortly before 11 00 right here on this bridge on kelly street. Even though emergency Officials Say initially nobody came forward to report they had had had seen how this happened, one aftermath was scary. She was just get me out of here, get me out of the here, m
Affordability, tax reform and health care. This is live coverage on cspan2. For those of you out there who want to comment on twitter the hashtag is sanders brookings, thats at, not the sign. I want to say at the outset before i do the formal part of the introduction that it is a pleasure to welcome a selfdescribed proud democratic socialist here to brookings. You know these days the word socialist is thrown around as an end that the, and the socialists i know are insulted when president obamas called a socialist because they argue he is too moderate to be a democratic socialist. But the thing we forget is the vibrancy of the democratic socialist tradition in the United States. And bear in mind were talking democratic, small d socialist ie scandinavia not the old soviet union. And in the american tradition were talking about people from eugene debs to Michael Thomas to people like Barbara Aaron right. This is a lively american tradition that has influenced policy in our country in a gr