Vote the presiding officer is there any senator in the chamber who wishes to vote or to change his or her vote . Seeing none, on this vote the yeas are 39. The nays are 60. Threefifths of the senators duly chosen and sworn not having voted in the affirmative, the motion is not agreed to. A senator mr. President. The presiding officer the senator from North Carolina. Mr. Tillis mr. President , i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to a period of morning business with senators permitted to speak for up to ten minutes each. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Tillis mr. President , i suggest the absence of a quorum. The presiding officer the clerk should call the roll. Quorum call quorum call quorum call quorum call mr. Mcconnell mr. President . The presiding officer the majority leader. Mr. Mcconnell i ask consent that further proceedings under the quorum call be dispensed with. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Mcconnell well, mr. President , i think its sa
Ladies and gentlemen, the president of the United States. [applause] mr. President , good to see you. I want to tell you a story about this wristband that i wear every day. On it are the words of the golden rule. Practice the golden rule every day. The golden rule is a statement made by jesus, recorded in the sermon on the mount and the gospel of matthew. It is translated in various ways because Something Like this do unto others as you would have done unto you. After a local event, a physician in my hometown of st. Petersburg, florida came up to me and handed me one of these. I put it on and i wear it every day. I do so to remind myself that even in this noisy, conflicted and acrimonious world of politics that we want to treat everybody the way we would like to be treated. I hope youll all will take this sentiment with you today when you leave. Jesus wanted all of us to live, fairly and compassionately. As i mentioned, it has been a privilege that we have enjoyed this last year to lea
Their own. First to greece where the government has met a midnight deadline and submitted new plan to creditors. Its design today save the country from financial collapse. The 13page document will be studied by e. U. Ministers and on sunday theyll decide if greece has finally done enough. The greek government is promising to race taxes and clamp down on tax evasion. It will discourage people from retiring early and also seek Higher Health contributions from pensioners. Greece will sell off its remaining shares in telecoms giants o. T. E and its going to privatize the. [ inaudible ] it also oftenerring to cut 300 million of eights military budget by next year. This is the scene ever familiar now in athens. Once again people queing to try to get their money out of the atms. Later on the greek mime perimeter could face opposition from some hard line members of his own party who reject any austerity. Lets go to athens and speak to john, who is there for us this morning. This plan, is there
First to greece where the government met a midnight deadline and submitted a new plan for creditors to save the country from financial collapse and the 13page document will be studied by the eu and ministers will meet on sunday to decide if greece has done enough the greek government promising to raise taxes and clamp down on tax evasion and discourage people from retiring early and seek contributions from pen pensioners and will sell out and prioritize the ports and offering to cut more than 300 million from the military budget by next year and scuffles outside the bank in athens with people cued to take out money and later today the Greek Parliament will be authorizing the plan and could face some opposition by hard line members of his own party to reject austerity and we will go where john is and john what are the chances of this passing parliament . Well, it contains of course all the austerity measures you mentioned which are the measures we have become familiar with since the wee
Wimbledon in the center stage as men pushed for a stage on the final but the womens final at the all england club and williams will be there and details coming up. Well, we begin this news hour in yemen where the countrys government in exile and Houthi Rebels agreed to a ceasefire, the weeklong truce was brokered by the u. N. And allow aid agencies to deliver humanitarian supplies and its the latest tackle of the crisis since houthis took control of the capitol sanaa forcing president hadi out of the city and a Saudiled Coalition of arab states launched air strikes against the houthis so with civil casualties mounting they warn that yemen is on the verge of total collapse. 21 Million People need humanitarian assistance. And the u. N. Backed negotiations to find a solution to the conflict have so far failed and the fiveday ceasefire in may was violated. Well the u. N. Say that both sides have now promised to respect this latest ceasefire. And we have the report. Reporter humanitarian ai