The presiding officer are there any senators wishing to vote or wishing to change their vote . If not, the ayes are 57, the nays are 40. And the motion is agreed to. The clerk will report the motion to invoke cloture. The clerk cloture motion. We, the undersigned senators, in accordance with the provisions of rule 22 of the standing rules of the senate, hereby move to bring to a close the debate on the nomination of daniel d. Crabtree of kansas to be United States district judge for the district of kansas. Signed by 17 senators. The presiding officer by unanimous consent, the mandatory quorum call has been waived. The question is is it the sense of the senate that debate on the nomination of daniel d. Crabtree of kansas to be the United States district judge for the district of kansas, shall be brought to a close . The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule. The clerk will call the roll. Vote vote the presiding officer are there any senators wishing to vote or wishing to change the
As i mentioned, we have a 180 site network in the commonwealth of virginia and with technology it doesnt have to be a traditional referra referral arh is than the western half of the commonwealth of virginia. Ibos who with her preponderance of sites in Far Southwest virginia primarily because thats, lisa we start that was a rural area and a lot of the Grant Funding and our legislative partners were in southwest virginia. We have sites in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay and on easteron theeastern shore of vis well. So technology while this is not about technology it is really important to choose technologies that are interoperable. That has been our Guiding Force is to choose things that work with one another. Plugandplay. There is a team of health alliance, equipment manufacturers that have pledged to great interoperable devices. We have desktop videoconferencing, mobile videoconferencing carts, fixed via conferencing and even ipad and other tablet devices. Weve use Robotic Technologi
It ranks in the top 200 of Global Companies by revenue, according to the fortune global 500 list. It would be a great loss to our country to see it incorporated offshore. Still, its difficult to blame them for this decision. According to sources, a desire to escape the high u. S. Corporate tax is part of the motivation for this merger. This type of transaction where a u. S. Corporation merges with a foreign entity and incorporates elsewhere to escape the u. S. Tax net is sometimes referred to as an inversion. Inversions are a growing problem here in the United States. Indeed, Large Companies are leaving our country at an alarming rate. If you count the number of american corporations in the worldwide list of fortune 500 companies, youll see that the number has declined dramatically over the past decade, which is very unfortunate. This decline means less capital and less investment in the United States. It means a smaller u. S. Tax baste base and most importantly, it means more jobs tha
Week i hope this body can come together and reverse this provision which unfairly changes the terms of retirement for our veterans. Our veterans have stood up for us as a nation when theyre overseas and we must stand up for them here at home. The second, madam president , i want to express hope in the bipartisan spirit that just led to an agreement to debate the bill regarding restoring emergency unemployment. Ive had eight town halls over the weekend and i can tell you that it strikes people as fundamentally unfair that in states with high unemployment like the home state of oregon that these weeks of emergency unemployment which were a deal hammered out in a bipartisan fashion under a republican president , president bush, that this deal should be sent asunder. Indeed on december 28, 18,000 oregons families fought a lump of coal in their stocking. And in the course of this coming year another 58,000 oregon families will be thrown out in the cold, if you will, due to this action of fa
Department of Veterans Affairs. Robert Alan Mcdonald of ohio to be secretary. The presiding officer under the previous order, the time until 12 30 will be equally divided in the usual form. Mr. Sanders madam president . The presiding officer the senator from vermont. Mr. Sanders as the chairman of the Senate Committee on Veterans Affairs, i rise today in strong support of the nomination of Robert Mcdonald to serve as secretary of the Veterans Affairs administration. Madam president , i also want to thank majority leader reid for moving this important nomination forward as quickly as it has, and i hope very much that later this afternoon, with a very strong vote, the u. S. Senate will vote to confirm Robert Mcdonald as secretary of the v. A. Madam president , before i talk about mr. Mcmcdonalds qualifications, i did want to take a moment to express my sincere thanks to generic shinseki for his dedicated service to our nation, first as a soldier and then as head of the v. A. , working ti