Faithful as we anticipate a long and challenging day remind us that you call us not to success but to faithfulness. Give our senators and the members of their staffs wisdom to make the commitment to be true to you and to serve your purposes. Let not discordant notes destroy the melody of their labors as they seek your counsel and wisdom. Lord guide our great nation. Help it to be a lighthouse to a dark and turbulent world. Prosper the works of our hands until the kingdoms of this world become the spring board for your eternal reign. We pray in your holy name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in reciting 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 nation under god indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Mr. Mcconnell mr. President . The presiding officer majority leader. Mr. Mcconnell for years the democratled senate refused to pass a balanced budget. It usually fa
29 before 221 the George Butler bridge. We have an issue in the Santa Cruz Mountains northbound 17 at lexington reservoir a car is on the shoulder. Now the news. Ncaa hold as News Conference today as San Francisco police chief promises a swift investigation into to stunning revelation that several Police Officers allegedly sent racist and homo phobic text messages. Alyssa . Yes members of the San Francisco ncaa want the officers fired. They are calling on the mayor to do an independent investigation. The press conference happens later today on the steps of the hall of justice. Four officers are involved in the scandal. They were caught exchanging text memorials that messages that includes racist slurs revealed during a bail hearing for former San Francisco Police Sergeant who was convicted of steal money and drugs from suspects. The texts date to 2011 and 2012. The police chief suhr said the department is investigating and wants the officers fired. The attorney representing the veteran
Goes to her doctor, who orders a lung ct scan and a new blood test developed through research supported by the Precision Medicine initiative to look for dna and other biomarkers circulating in her blood. The ct scan detects a tiny spot that could be inflammation from bronchitis or cancer not clear, but the biomarker test clinches the diagnosis, revealing a genetic mutation that occurs only in patients with cancer. In 2015, today her prognosis from this cancer would be pretty grim. But in 2018 that could all change. Lily is treated with surgery to remove the tumor and the tumor dna undergoes molecular analysis. Based on those results, lily is treated with a targeted drug that was originally developed for skin cancer but has the right properties for her tumor. She also receives a course of immunotherapy designed to kill any tumor cells that may be lurking in her body. With this treatment a decade later, lily remains cancer free. Thats a hypothetical but quite realistic of what the cancer
Within ten years, but i dont think we can count on that. So lets plan for the worst, right . Yep. Thank you. Thank you, senator graham. Senator blumenthal. Thank you, mr. Chairman, and thank you both for being here today. Thank you both for your extraordinary service. To our nation. I would agree with my good friend, senator graham, in his assessment that we are on a path to repeal the very unfortunate and unwise cola cuts in retiree pensions that were a flaw in the bum agreement. I would disagree with him only on his reference to glide path which implies an ease and unimpeded track that is rarely pound in found in the congre. And i think it will take some doing to have of that path achieved, but i think the debate and discussion here this morning, and your testimonys been very helpful to reaching that path which i think we have an obligation to do. I voted for the budget agreement like so many of my colleagues. I did so with the understanding that that flaw would be corrected. And tha
Like you and me just yelling at each other. At talking. What draws an audience is when, in fact, we disagree. When, in fact, we get nasty with one another. What Rupert Murdochs demonstrated is that there really was a hunger in america for something that was less liberal than what the networks for putting on the air. So, fox news was born. Fox news has been hugely successful. It earns somewhere between 1. 10 0. 50 billion a year. 1 and 1. 5 billion a year. The folks at nbc took a look at what fox has been doing and figure out if they could make news skewing news to the right, if we could make half of that, lets ask you to the left. And so, you have on Cable Television news that caters to people who consider themselves progressives, news to people who consider themselves conservatives, you have the afternoon radio talk shows, the evening radio talk shows which cater largely to the conservative. You have the latenight comedy show, john stewart, stephen cole there, that tend to cater more