Objection. Mr. Toomey thank you, mr. President. Im here on the senate floor and with my colleague from maryland. Im here this morning in part to condemn Chinese Communist partys actions, their efforts to swallow hong kong into the mainland, and silence the dissent of the people of hong kong, but im also here to do something about that. You know, for decades, hong kong has been one of the most successful, thriving societies on the planet. An indispensable part of their success has been their freedom. Hong kong has enjoyed a vibrant free press, free speech, freedom to worship. They have had an independent judiciary and a partially Democratic Electoral representative system of government for a long time now. Hong kongs one of the freest places in asia, and because of these freedoms and the hong kong peoples natural entrepreneurial spirit, hong kong is just one of the most successful and vibrant cities there has ever been. And yet for years, maybe because of this, the Chinese Communist par
Nomination for the director of office of management and budget. Live coverage. Senate here on cspan2. The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Barry black, will lead the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. O god of light, as we approach independence day, we thank you for giving us the gift of true freedom. You have blessed us with freedom from sin, guilt, and shame. You have redeemed us. You have also given us freedom from fear, providing us with peace in the midst of the storms. Today, please guide our lawmakers so that they will fulfill your purposes as they face the challenges of these times. Lord, awaken them to your inescapable presence. Keep them from thinking that you are absent from our world or disinterested in it. Enable them to feel you in their midst, as they grapple with the problems of our time. We pray in your strong name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in the pledge. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United
These incidents to terrorism dont go anywhere americans were starts right now. Floodwaters in michigan last week and ended up maine galing with toxic chemicals from a dow Chemical Plant i have fair and cousins from drill our magazine to talk about it this is pretty disturbing article i mean if youre a resident or a farmer around that plant youre in big trouble right now but ill tell you the take on it was it was so odd to me the take on it was well the federal governments responsible no the federal governments not responsible for what happened here theyve allowed the infrastructure to fall apart and theyve allowed alchemical to do everything they wanted to do with their toxins in that Middle America that nobody to blame but them i really dont see anybody to blame but no right and this is a you know were suddenly dealing with this issue but these were failures that were set up for decades. As you mentioned the infrastructure the superfund site the dow chemical was running or or you know
Up the infrastructure there to protect it the walls around it needed to be higher because they had already predicted both the government in the company that this thing was susceptible to floodwaters that was a failure theyve known about it for years the infrastructure at the day i am that failed failed and caused the flood itself they knew that needed to be fixed and repaired and updated the company had actually already lost its license for failure to comply for years so were talking about catastrophic failures across the board state federal governments corporate you could not have had a more complete failure from every player all. I think that the detroit the water problem in detroit same kind of analysis infrastructure failure State Government does nothing about it but now this cat was named jacob carter scientist for a union concerned scientist. Comes out well this is a federal problem no its not a federal problem its partially a federal problem but when you are in the state and you
Floodwaters in michigan last week and ended up maine galing with toxic chemicals from a dow Chemical Plant i have fair and cousins from drill our magazine to talk about it this is pretty disturbing article i mean if youre a resident or a farmer around that plant youre in big trouble right now but ill tell you the take on it was it was so odd to me the take on it was well the federal governments responsible no the federal governments not responsible for what happened here theyve allowed the infrastructure to fall apart and theyve allowed dow chemical to do everything they wanted to do with their toxins in that Middle America that nobody to blame but them i really dont see anybody to blame but no right and this is a you know were suddenly dealing with this issue but these were failures that were set up for decades as you mentioned the infrastructure the superfund site the dow chemical was running or or you know not cleaning up basically they needed to clean up the infrastructure there to