Lead the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Eternal god, the author of unity, remind our lawmakers that people accomplish laudable goals more through unity than division. May our senators remember that all of us are more effective than any one of us. As our legislators pursue effectiveness in their work, give them the wisdom to forge alliances that make the difficult become easy and the impossible become probable. In their search for common purposes, inspire them with the conviction that nothing is impossible for those who believe. We pray in your omnipotent name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance i pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one 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 to speak in morning business for one minute. The pres
With a few Public Health data slides and then a little look t where were going. You have seen this before. It is updated. The gray are the cumulative cases that we have had in vermont. We are in the low 8507bs for cases. These 800s for cases. These are the new cases. It is coming into that more plateaued type of phase. This is called anepicurve. The new cases on a daytoday basis. We were pretty accustomed to an average of 3040 cases with occasional times where we peaked here in middle here. At 50 there. This is way back in early march. Started doing things like limits on mass gatherings, closing the restaurants and bars and eventually schools. And then in this time frame the actual stay home, Stay Safe Program began. Several weeks beyond that, we have come from a peak and generally below 10 cases over he last week on a daytoday basis and finally this is a graph of the number of tests we have done in verbatim. Vermont. You see they range from 300 to 00 or 700 over time. This is the perc
Will give some opening remarks and an update on where we are in the state with regards to ealth. Well start this morning with a few Public Health data slides and then a little look t where were going. You have seen this before. It is updated. The gray are the cumulative cases that we have had in vermont. We are in the low 8507bs for cases. These 800s for cases. These are the new cases. It is coming into that more plateaued type of phase. This is called anepicurve. The new cases on a daytoday basis. We were pretty accustomed to an average of 3040 cases with occasional times where we peaked here in middle here. At 50 there. This is way back in early march. Started doing things like limits on mass gatherings, closing the restaurants and bars and eventually schools. And then in this time frame the actual stay home, Stay Safe Program began. Several weeks beyond that, we have come from a peak and generally below 10 cases over he last week on a daytoday basis and finally this is a graph of th
Prosecution by the special counsels office and the u. S. Attorney for the district of columbia. These documents include a report that was done by the fbi actually closing out the file on general flynn by january 4, 2017. Finding no evidence of any wrongdoing or improper russian contacts or anything that would warrant further investigation in any way, shape or form. Then suddenly at the direction of the seventh floor, the tweets or Text Messages between strzok and page indicate that mr. Strzok reopened or made sure the file never got completely closed and started on an entirely different path. They reflect additional violations of protocol by all the people in the fbi that were involved in setting up general flynn. Elizabeth so it seems that peter struck was saying keep the case open against Michael Flynn, do not shut it. Later that day he texted lisa page, saying it is quote serendipitously good that basically were keeping the case open and then she texts back, quote, phew. This son th
Prosecution by the special counsels office and the u. S. Attorney for the district of columbia. These documents include a report that was done by the fbi actually closing out the file on general flynn by january 4, 2017. Finding no evidence of any wrongdoing or improper russian contacts or anything that would warrant further investigation in any way, shape or form. Then suddenly at the direction of the seventh floor, the tweets or Text Messages between strzok and page indicate that mr. Strzok reopened or made sure the file never got completely closed and started on an entirely different path. They reflect additional violations of protocol by all the people in the fbi that were involved in setting up general flynn. Elizabeth so it seems that peter struck was saying keep the case open against Michael Flynn, do not shut it. Later that day he texted lisa page, saying it is quote serendipitously good that basically were keeping the case open and then she texts back, quote, phew. This son th