resumed combat operations in the gaza strip accusing hamas of violating the truce by firing rockets toward israel. there have been multiple rockets. they have been intercepted. which shows that hamas has moved back into an attacking position. amongst the israeli people, we intercepted the rockets thankfully. otherwise they could have fallen on communities, cities, kindergartens. again, we re just now getting back to life after the tragedies of the last 55 days. children are going back to school here. it is friday morning and once again we intercepted those and we ve resumed our combat missions against hamas in the gaza strip. hamas controlled ministry of health says 32 people have been killed since the fighting began five hours ago. the fighting resumed just minutes after midnight eastern time when a seven day truce between israel and hamas expired. thursday hamas released eight women and children hostages in exchange for 30 palestinians freed from jail by israel. scott m
things will get worse than they are right now. bottom line, it s going to get worse. we have the assessment that covid-19 can be characterized as a pandemic. we have already lost 24 of our citizens. . we re heading towards an epidemic in the united states. the question is what the scope is going to be. tom hanks and his wife rita wilson, have both tested positive for coronavirus. . to keep new cases from entering our shores, we will be suspending all travel from europe to the united states for the next 30 days. all right. exactly one year ago today when the country began to feel the full effects of the coronavirus. march 11th, 2020 was the day the world health organization declared the coronavirus a pandemic. and in the u.s., shutdowns kicked in, cities began limiting gatherings. schools began to close. and major sports leagues started to halt play. everything seemed to stop. can you believe it s been a year, joe? i know. willie, it seems so much longer than a y
The presiding officer duly noted. Mr. Lankford mr. President , i want to be able to address this body to talk about an issue that we dont talk about enough, the deficit. Its an issue for whatever reason weve stopped talking about in washington, d. C. Were talking about tax policy, as we should. Were talking about Disaster Relief areas, which we should. Talking about health policies, which we should. A lot of other things. We have stopped talking about debt and deficit. I think thats a mistake for us. See, as the trend has moved, since 2011, at a high point when the deficit spending that year was 1. 3 trillion in overspending in a single year. Since that point, deficits have gone down a little bit each year until 2015. In 2016, our deficit number, thats a single year overspending started going back up. It went up in 2016. It went up again in 2017. Turning the wrong direction. As you will recall and as many people in this body would recall, deficits were a major topic for us starting in
Democrats and republicans can hold their weekly party lunch meetings. The senate is back in session at 2 15 easter. The senate is considering a nominee to serve on the st. Louis base eighth Circuit Court of appeals. When they come back into session will have live coverage on cspan2. Ahead of that if senators speak to reporters coming out of those weekly meetings will bring you to it live on cspan2, as well. Until then some of the floor debate from earlier today on the gop tax bill. Mr. President , for more than two decades under both republican and democratic president s inat republican and Democratic Congress the United States pursued a bipartisan light touch approach to international regulations. The internet, as we know it today flourished under this light touch approach, much of the benefit for American Consumers in domestic economy. It also made america the world leader in Internet Technology and positioned us to continue that leadership in the years to come. In 2002, Broadband In
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