For our nation and world. Help them to realize that the power of your providence will enable them to navigate through every challenge and tragedy. Trusting in your might, may they embrace your promise to do more for them than they can ask or imagine. Lord, inspite of difficulties, disappointments, as despair, reassure them that you are still in control. Remind us all that in everything, you are working for the good of those who love you who are the called according to your purposes. We pray in your loving name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in the pledge of allegiance to the flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one e nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Mr. Grassley madam president . The presiding officer the senator from iowa is recognized. Mr. Grassley i ask permission to speak for one minute in morning business. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Grassley
To 330 million folks, by land size as the United States the Biggest Country by land. We are close. The few times i have been to china the people are wonderful very interesting, smart, hardworking. Very aspirational and a say this because when i talked today about china i hope you understand mr. President and my colleagues to s understand not talking about the people of china. They are good people. The Chinese Communist party, not so much. I really regret having to say this, i would not turn my back on the Chinese Communist party if it were todays dead. I dont want to have a cold war with china i would rather see us together for the common good of planet earth and we tried but it hasnt worked out very well. We admitted china to wto december 11, 2001 you china would not have been admitted without our support. So we agreed and then they started cheating december 12th is still have intellectual property, not just ours but everyone else in the world they steal the intellectual property they
Folks. By land size, it is the same size as the United States. A lot of people think they are the Biggest Country by land. And canada is number 2 in china, number 3 by land, we are both close. I love visiting china. The people of china, they are wonderful people, very smart, very hardworking, very aspirational and i say this because when i talk about china i want you to understand i am not talking about the people of china. The people of china are good people. The Chinese Communist party not so much. I regret having to say this. I would not turn my back on the Chinese Communist party if they were two days ahead. I dont want to have a cold war with china. I would rather see us Work Together for the common good of the planet earth. We tried but that didnt work out very well. We admitted china to the World Trade Organization on december 11th, 2001. It wasnt just our decision, but you know better than i do china wouldnt have been admitted to the wto without our support. We agreed december
[inaudible] we choose to go to the moon not because they are easy, but because they are hard. We met its a confirmed go. President kennedy would not live to see his vision take flight. Two years after his call to action, he was assassinated in dallas texas. His Brother Robert became a u. S. Senator from new york and was hoping to follow in his president ial footsteps. My thanks to all of you and now its on to chicago. On his way to the democratic nomination he to. [inaudible] the last surviving kennedy brother was teddy. The entire week goes on the shoulders of ted kennedy he was not ready for that kind of responsibility. Teddy kennedy was a quarter million miles below as the astronauts headed to the moon, unaware that he would soon be competing for them for attention. Still mourning the loss of his brother he was preparing for the annual pilgrimage. The small party on the tiny island. The island of Marthas Vineyard was a perfect playground. His family arrived. [inaudible] in high scho
Will not take responsibility for any quote consequences that could take place from for the actions taken by people who are just roughing public order and they said that the only ones responsible for this would be those who who are who are carrying out these demonstrations and using Excessive Force they say and this is a double message merriam its basically 1st of all a way of saying that the armed forces remains strongly behind the president at this stage which is very significant because theres no way that the government in ecuador stay in power for very long unless the army in under these circumstances at least makes it clear that they support him and secondly it means that the army will probably be taking a larger role in putting down the demonstrations that weve been seeing in the capital and all over the country in fact and we saw today members of the army going right behind the police and riot the riot police and they seem to be ready to move in if necessary so it could get a lot