Quorum call a senator madam president . The presiding officer the senator from pennsylvania. Mr. Casey madam president , i ask consent to speak as if in morning business. The presiding officer the senate is in a quorum call. Mr. Casey i ask that the quorum call be vitiated. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Casey thank you very much. I rise to talk about some of the matters were working on today with regard to votes that will take place later today. We now are in a period in our economic history where weve had a significant recovery but we still have aways to go and still have families across the country that are living with economic uncertainty. We can take steps today and certainty until the next couple of days and we hope in 2016 to ease some of that uncertainty to create more economic certainty for our families, especially middleclass families. One of the most important steps we can take to address some of the challenges that our families face is to boost middleclass inc