Vote the presiding officer are there any senators in the chamber wishing to change their vote or wishing to vote . If not, the yeas are 57, the nays are 37. The nomination is agreed to. Is confirmed. Under the previous order, the motion to reconsider can considered made and laid upon the table and the president will be immediately notified of the senates action. The senator from missouri. Mr. Blunt i ask unanimous consent that the remaining votes in this series i ask unanimous consent that the remaining votes in this series be ten minutes in length. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Blunt madam president. The presiding officer the senator from missouri. Mr. Blunt i have two requests for committees to meet during todays session of the senate. They have the approval of the majority and minority leaders. The presiding officer duly noted. The clerk will report the motion to invoke cloture. The clerk cloture motion. We, the undersigned senators, in accordance with the provisions
america reports on this friday. white house getting good news on the jobs market but will a massive spending plan send the economy into another tailspin, making an already bad inflation problem even worse? hello, everyone. i am sandra smith in new york. jon: i am jon scott info john roberts. the labor department says the u.s. added 528,000 jobs last month. the on employment rate also falling slightly to 3.5%. both numbers beating expectations. wages are still largely out of step with the rising inflation. now more than 200 economists, 230 to be exact, warning democrats their social spending bill will make high prices in this country even worse. jon: senior economic advisor jared bernstein joins us. first, congressional correspondent chad pergram has the latest on the spending bill. good afternoon. democrats say this bill will help with inflation. more than 200 economists warn congressional leaders that the u.s. is in a dangerous crossroads. they argue the bill incre
All they will call you Woody Guthries lyrics. When the craney when the plane crashed in 1940 eight, Woody Guthrie was in new york at the time, and one of the great folk rebellious icons that he is, he heard the news reports and he really was upset at the omission of these names. He had traveled to the San Joaquin Valley in the 1930s and 40s and was familiar with the plight of migrant farm. He was upset by the omission of the names. He said that is no way to treat our brothers and sisters and he wrote a poem about it. And in this poem, he attempts to restore the dignity of those anonymous passengers by giving them fake names. Assigning them names. And he said, goodbye juan, wonte rosalita you have a name when you write that big airplane. All they will call you will be deportation all they will call you will be deportee. And that really caught my attention. ,s that all they will call us because i, matt because i come from a family of farmworkers. Who is they, and who is all, and what do
The house is getting ready to come in for the day, to gavel in. Live coverage begins in just a minute and we will see you tomorrow morning at 7 00 a. M. Eastern and 4 00 a. M. Pacific. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] order. The chair lays before the house a communication. The clerk the speakers rooms, washington, d. C. June 28, 2017. I hereby appoint the honorable mike bost to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, paul d. Ryan, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the house of january 3, 2017, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leader leaders for morning hour debate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties. All time shall be equally allotted allocated between the parties and in no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. Each member other than th
The commanding general determined that all japanese within the coastal areas should move inland. Notices were posted. All persons of japanese descent were required to register. We have to put ourselves in their shoes in 1942 and not think through the lens of 2017. Things were very different back then. We have to explain to people the environment people were in so they can understand how people endure that. We are at the special Collection Research center at California State University fresno. We are here to talk about the 75th anniversary of the executive order 9066 that Franklin Roosevelt signed on february 19, 1942. After the bombing of pearl harbor, the president Franklin Roosevelt decided that japanese americans need to be evacuated from all areas of the west coast because either they may not be loyal to the United States or just seem as some kind of threat, so they rounded up all the japaneseamericans, including children and elderly people, and send them to these 10 camps. Executi